Biography
Natalia Ischenko is a Russian athlete, one of the main stars of the National and Olympic team on synchronous swimming. For a career, the synchronist 19 times became the world champion, 12 times conquered the top of the European championship and rose five times to the upper step of the Olympic pedestal. She is the only athlete in the history of European championships, which won in all four kinds of competitions for one tournament.
Natalia was born in the city of Smolensk, but she believes Kaliningrad, where childhood and early youth of the future champion took place. The girl was five years old when Mom took the daughter to the sports complex "Youth", which issued a lot of professional athletes. First, Ishchenko was engaged in two disciplines - rhythmic gymnastics and synchronous swimming.
Then, at nineteenth age, after the divorce of the parents, she began in the pool and spend more time to spend more time than at home. Then it became clear that sport for her could not be just passion, but a future profession. Natasha had to make a difficult choice between the gymnastic carpet and the pool.
The girl stopped at synchronous swimming. First of all, Natasha has supported Honlana Ustyugov's honored Kaliningrad coaches, Lada Stepanovich and Lyudmila Mizina. In addition, it turned out that the body itself is ischenko as if it is intended for a water sport.
The volume of light girls is approximately 6.5 liters, which is almost three times more than that of the average person. Thanks to this, the synchronist is able to easily detain their breath under water at least 3.5 minutes.
When Natalia Ishchenko turned 14 years old, the girl was noticed by the heads of the Moscow Olympic Water Sport Center, which prepares future champions and in synchronous swimming, and in water jumps, and swimming for speed and other types of competitions. Later, Natalia arrived and graduated from In Kaliningrad, the Russian State University named after Immanuel Kant.
Sport
The first large competitions on which the Talent of Natalia Ishchenko revealed, the European Championship in Spanish Madrid was. There, a young synchronist won the first medal on an adult championship. A successful beginning led to the fact that today in the film athlete gathered 19 gold and 2 silver awards of the world championships, which she brought from Montreal and Melbourne, Rome and Shanghai, Iokohama, Changshi and Kazan.
Another girl won the European Championships in Budapest, Eindhoven and London. It stands out in Career Ishchenko 2010. She put a record, winning in all kinds of disciplines that are played in synchronous swimming - a combination, group, solo and duet. The girl herself believes that she is comfortable to speak alone in the solo program, as it is not necessary to follow the actions of the partner.
However, experts most highly appreciate the duet speeches athletes with a colleague in the Svetlana Romachine team. At the 2012 Olympic Games in London, the water dance of synchronist attacks this pair to the main step of sports Olympus. Moreover, Natalia demonstrated a victorious performance, being unhealthy: on the eve she was cold and entered the pool with a temperature of 38 degrees.
Fans of sports from Russia hoped that Ishchenko would contribute to the conquest of new awards of the Russian national team at the 2016 Olympic Games in Brazil. And the girls completed the program to the maximum, won gold in group and duet competitions. Natalia Ishchenko became the five-time champion of Oi.
Personal life
2010 in the life of Natalia Ishchenko became a sign not only because she put a record in Budapest, winning everything that was possible. Then she changed the family status, having married in mid-December. Sergey Anikin became the chosen character of the synchronist. He is also an athlete, a silver medalist of the European Championship in water jump. After completing the career engaged in entrepreneurship.
Together with his wife, Sergey opened school to prepare future champions "Start!".
Future spouses got acquainted in the 10th grade at school. Over time, the pair relationship moved to a new level and eventually grew into the family.
And three years after the wedding, Natalia and Sergey became parents: the son appeared on the world, which was called Semen. Surprisingly, Ishchenko until the last months of pregnancy was not interrupted by training in the pool. Perhaps it helped the young mother quickly restore the strength and return to a big sport. According to the synchronist, the girl with his spouse is planning to give a child to the sport, but in what, let the Semyon choose himself.
After the birth of the son Natasha won the next Olympic medal. The girl's husband at the competition did not go: a man by tradition watched a broadcast on TV.
Thousands of subscribers in the instagram social network are observed for the life and career of the synchronist. The girl is regularly divided with Follover's personal and working photos.
In his free time, the family loves to go on a journey or spend time with friends outside the city. Another Natalia is good culinary. The girl herself prepares casseroles, pancakes, yogurts. Four a synchronist is trying correctly, what the beloved son also tears.
Natalia Ishchenko in training days could only be seen in sports costumes. But later the champion admitted that it looks different at the weekend: the girl adores dresses and heels.
Natalia Ischenko now
In 2017, the career biography of the athlete made a new round. In April, the girl was appointed a post of temporarily acting Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Kaliningrad Region. Natalia began to oversee sports agencies and young people. So how to combine such a position and synchronous swimming is problematic, Ishchenko decided to complete the sports career.
Already in October of the same year, the Governor of the Kaliningrad region signed a decree on the appointment of Natalia Ishchenko to the post of Deputy Chairman of the Kaliningrad Region Government.
In April 2018, a total dictation took place. In Kaliningrad, the athlete tried herself as dictating.
From 2 to 4 June, Kaliningrad became one of the venues under the event called "MediaExpedition". The purpose of this international company is to combine young leaders involved in television, photo and radio journalistic. 10 bloggers from different countries became participants. Young people created a media guide for foreigners fans.
On June 3, Natalya Ishchenko met with the project participants and in an interview shared that he was glad to be the ambassador of the World Cup and part of this important event for the country.
Awards
- 2004 - European Championship in Madrid, Silver
- 2005 - World Montreal Championship, Gold
- 2006 - European Championship in Budapest, Gold
- 2007 - World Cup Melbourne, Gold
- 2008 - European Championship in Eindhoven, silver
- 2008 - Olympic Games in Beijing, Gold
- 2009 - World Championship in Rome, Gold
- 2010 - European Championship in Budapest, Gold
- 2011 - World Championship in Shanghai, Gold
- 2012 - European Championship in Eindhoven, Gold
- 2012 - Olympic Games in London, Gold
- 2015 - World Cup in Kazan, Gold
- 2016 - European Championship in London, Gold
- 2016 - Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Gold