Biography
Olga Vasyukova is the Russian Olympic champion, a master of sports on synchronous swimming, TV presenter of sports transmission channels "Russia 2" and "Match TV".
Olga Vasyukova was born on May 8, 1980 in the colonel family in the capital of Hungary, where the father was then served. Olga has an older brother. At the insistence of the Father at the six-year-old age, Olga began to engage in sports swimming. At first, it was passion for the girl, but soon turned into a professional business. Olga graduated from the Russian State Academy of Physical Culture, later - also the Faculty of Journalism of the Moscow State University.
Olga Vasyukova achieved the highest achievements in the sports field.
Sport
Olga Vasyukov's first mentor in sports was the Honored Coach of Russia Elena Polyanskaya. In competitions, the girl was represented by the Moscow State Physical Association. In 1997 he won the Gold Medal at the World Junior Championships, taking first place in group exercises. From this point on, a professional synchronist career began, which lasted four years.
Since 1998, he acted in the Russian national team for synchronous swimming. In the same year, Olga became the owner of the European Cup in group exercises, and a year later she became the first at the World Cup. Twice, the Russian athlete rose to the highest step pedestal of the European Championship in water sports, showing the best result in group exercises.
For the first time in the 1999 competitions in Istanbul, where the Russian national team in a general medal standings, won 10 gold medals, lost only by the German team. A year later, on speeches in Helsinki, the Russians brought the country the maximum number of gold medals - 15 - and became the first in the medal standings. This time the second place was taken by athletes from Germany. Each time a favorite in the category was becoming a colleague Olga Vasyukova - Olga Brusnikna. Mary Kiselev, Elena Azarov, Olga Novochenova, Irina Perch, Elena Soy, were also included in the synchronist Russian Russian team.
Olympic medal became the greatest achievement and subject of pride in the sports biography of Olga Vasyukov. On September 29, 2000, in Australian Sydney, the girl won gold in group exercises of synchronous swimming.
After successful at the Olympics, the athlete decided to move away from swimming at the time, but then he took a difficult decision and announced that he was completing a professional career. Nevertheless, Olga did not refuse Sport - I tried myself in coaching.
Vasyukov awarded the title of Honored Master of Sports of Russia, as well as the Master of International Class Sports. On April 19, 2001, Olga became the Kavaler of the Order of Friendship - State Award of the Russian Federation.
TV
In addition to the sports career, Olga Vasyukova built a television. Since 2003, the leading news heading in the Vesti-Sport program worked on the Federal TV Channel "Russia 2". 10 years later he entered the number of TV presenters "Big Sport" headings. In 2014, the program was recognized as the best sports television broadcasting of the year at the Sportiv Russia Prize Ceremony. The leading programs included reporters Dmitry Guberniev, Andrei Zhuurankov, Alexey Popov, Taras Tymoshenko, Mikhail Semin, Anna Casterova, Ekaterina Kirilchev, only 18 people.
As part of a special project "All Inclusive" was recognized as a "girl of the month", decoring the cover of October 2013. In the same year, among the sexiest TV presenters, Russia 2, Olga Vasyukova, was filmed for the calendar. On the pages of the publication also got a photo of Catherine Tarasova, Irina Sadrina, Natalia Clark, Mary Gorban. In September, the girl participated in the relay of the Olympic Fire timed to the Olympics in Sochi. Olga Vasyukova carried a torch around the city of Ivanovo. The report was lit on the broadcast "Big Sport" heading.
In 2016, Vasyukova led the program "Everything for the match!" On the TV channel "Match TV". TV presenter participated in Shares # Dapaasnamatch - along with other famous people recorded video in support of the Russian national team at the 2016 Football Championships.
Personal life
Olga Vasyukova lives and works in Moscow. About the personal life of the Olympic championship is known little - in an interview TV presenter avoids questions about this topic. It is known that in 2007 a athlete gave birth to daughter - Daria Olegovna Shishkov. In the media there are no reliable information about whether Olga Vasyukovka husband has. During the television career, the girl did not even start his own page in "Instagram", and in the open access number of photos Olga Vasyukova is limited.
Despite the fact that the sports career in Olga Vasyukov's synchronous swimming has completed, the girl regularly visits the pool. In the list of hobbies - sports dancing, rhythmic gymnastics, figure skating, yoga classes, and painting.
Olga Vasyukova now
Now TV presenter Olga Vasyukova with colleagues from the TV channel "Match TV" is preparing for coverage of the events of the World Cup, which will be held in Russia in the summer of 2018.Awards
- 2000 - Gold Medal at the Sydney Olympics
- 1999 - Gold Medal at the European Championships in Istanbul
- 2000 - Gold Medal at the European Championships in Helsinki