Biography
Maria Kiseleva is a Russian athlete, a master of sports in synchronous swimming, which has achieved consipient of considerable heights in its discipline. Three times became the winner of the Olympic Games, three times - the champion of the world, the top of the European Championship pedestal was submitted 9 times. It is known to the viewers as the leading popular project "weak link", as well as as an actress.Childhood and youth
Maria Alexandrovna Kiseleva was born in Kuibyshev in September 1974. At that time, the family was adjusted by the 2-year-old son Vladimir. In 1978, Kiselev was moved to Leningrad, where 2 years lived in a military hostel. In the 1980s - again moving, this time in the capital. In Moscow, Maria went to school. In the same place, Mom took the children to the pool, where they had to go swimming.
Volodya was accepted immediately, but the Masha relationship with sports was later when she turned 10 years old. The fact is that the future Olympic champion since childhood was afraid of water. This fear of Kiseleva managed to overcome only at the age of 10, when mom took her into a section where the girl began to study in the synchronous swimming group.
No one thought about big sporting achievements at that time. The goal was more landed: overcome the fear of water and take Maria with a useful business. Simultaneous swimming in those years was a new sport, beautiful and unusual. There were also water and gymnastics, and music. Young Kiseleva got carried away, and soon her coaches Natalia Kiriakidy and Marina Dmitriev celebrated the first success of the athlete.
Synchronist recalled the initial period in sports as time, devoid of entertainment and children's fun. On the day, the girl had to pay physical preparation to 10 hours, of which it spent at least 7 hours in the water. Maria is joking that he felt almost a mermaid.
After the unification of two sections with Kiselevoe, the new coach began to study: Tatyana Heatizer, in the past, the famous athlete, managed to significantly increase the level of preparation of Masha. Under her leadership Kiselev becomes a candidate in the master of sports, and in a year - a master.
In 1991, the synchronist is becoming a student of the Fiscultural Institute named after LESGAFTA.
Synchronized swimming
In 1992, the sports biography of Kiselev went to a new round: she had a new coach - Tatiana Danchenko. After a year, Masha is part of the national team and at the European Championship wins the first international award - a gold medal. In the same year, she becomes a master of sports of international class.After the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, on which the Kiselev group came out on the 4th place, Maria becomes a student MSU, where he chose journalism. Institute of Physical Culture Synchronist threw after the 1st year.
During this period, she unexpectedly proposed to work in a duet with a former rival of Olga Barusnikina. They made a bet as the first duet of the country synchronist. Kiseleva agreed, sacrificing the sake of training in steady training at the university.
In 1997, a new stage began in Kiselev's sports career. After enhanced training under the supervision of Elena Nikolaevna Polyanskaya, at that time - the well-deserved coach of Russia, the duet of Kiselev and Barbnishchnaya was leading at the World Cup in synchronous swimming in China. The second gold medal girl won in the group.
In the same sporting success year, Maria Kiselev and Olga Brusnikna won at the European Championship, which was held in Seville, 2 more medals. It was a grandiose breakthrough of Russian synchronists. At the end of 1997, an athlete becomes a well-deserved master of sports.
Triumphal for Mary was 1998. In Australia in a duet with a line and in the Kiselev group becomes two-time world champion. Success awaits athlete and in New York at the Games of Goodwill, and in Prague, where the European Cup is played. The pre-Polympic 1999th and 2000s brought Maria 4 gold medals in Istanbul and Seoul. Won an athlete and the European Championship in Finland.
Olympic Games in Australian Sydney brought a real triumph duet: synchronistus received the maximum number of points in the final games and entered the history of domestic sports as the first Olympic champion in Russia in synchronous seating.
This victory was given to Mary not easy. 2 months before the Doping Sample Olympics, taken from the athlete, turned out to be positive. It happened due to the food additive to reduce the weight, which it used on the recommendation of doctors. But the synchronist was disqualified only for one month. Thus, Duet Kiseleva-BroSniknikina managed to prepare and was admitted to participate in games, faithful to enter the history of Russian sports by the winners.
In 2003, the synchronist returned to a big sport and won the third Olympic medal in Athens.
Television and films
The decision to complete the sports career Maria took another after the Olympics in Australia. Her second profession was journalism. In 2001, the athlete becomes a freelance officer, and after a couple of months - a regular correspondent on the NTV channel, where sports news leads.
In this capacity, Sergey Cordo noted - the producer of the project "Weak link". Soon Kiseleva - the leading of the popular transfer on the first channel. The bright start of the telilerter helped her to become a laureate of two premiums in the "most stylish TV presenter" nominations and the Debut of the Year.
In addition to the main project, the TV host tried his strength in conducting one-time issues "Who wants to become a millionaire?" And the "field of miracles". As a sports telecommunicator, he participated in the coverage of the European Aquarification Championships of 2002, the Olympic Games in Turin and Rio de Janeiro. In 2006, it was lit up in the entertainment show "Stars on Ice", where her partner became a skater Maxim Marinin.
Vladimir Bortko drew attention to Maria. The director just picked up the cast in the new picture "Idiot" based on the novel of Dostoevsky's novel. Seeing the TV presenter in the "weak link", the Master "found out" in her I ware Ivolgin. The offer to be held in this role an athlete was happy - she since childhood dreamed to appear in the movies. So in the biography of Kiselev, the first acting work appeared.
On October 3, 2015, Maria appeared as a TV host on the premiere of the new show of the Channel One with Dolphins. Valdis Pelsh is becoming co-supported Kiselev. In this project, 13 famous star and pop stars mastered a new profession for themselves - dolphins coach.
Since 2010, Maria participates in the organization of family New Year's performances on the water, in which the executors are the Olympic champions of synchronists, athletes in water jumps, champions on the flyboard and aquabiki, circus artists and master choreography. In 2017, the premiere of new productions in large cities of Russia took place. In Moscow, a "tale of Tsar Saltan" was held, in St. Petersburg - "Magic Recipe", in Kazan - a fairy tale "Save the Northern Lights".
Personal life
Personal life of Maria Kiselie to all third-party seemed cloudless. In 2001, she married the former swimmer and the master of sports of international class Vladimir Kirsanov. The acquaintance of young people took place 2 years before the wedding. Athletes together participated in the Inter-University Competition. After the Olympiad in Sydney Maria and Vladimir began to live together.They were considered a strong and beautiful pair. The surprise for all becomes the news that at the end of 2012 Kiselev decided to divorce her husband. The couple did not comment on this event, although many friends sorry about their parting.
In this marriage, two daughters appeared on the world - Daria and Alexander. From an early age, Maria decided to teach girls to swimming. At first it was classes in the bathroom with an instructor, then Mom began to take them with him to the pool. The eldest Dasha has already gone in the footsteps of Mary - she trains at the School of Synchronous Swimming and received the discharge of a candidate in the Master of Sports. Photo synchronist with children often appear on the network, including in "Instagram".
The synchronous sailing star is still holding a strict routine of the day: after lifting at 6 am, it is compulsory doing charging, the pool visits three times a week. According to Mary, it does not adhere to diet food, but uses only healthy food in the diet. Thanks to this approach, all the extra kilograms that appeared from her during pregnancy easily left after childbirth. Therefore, the champion was not difficult to reappear before the cameras in the swimsuit.
Maria Kiseleva now
Now Maria is mainly engaged in public operation. She oversees the school of synchronous swimming in the capital, leaves for adolescent water sports, appears on television.
In February 2019, Maria became the guest of the telecast release "today. The day begins ", dedicated to the 5th anniversary of the opening of the Olympiad in Sochi. In the studio, in addition to the Kiselev, Vladislav Tretyak, Arina Sharapova, athletes Alexander Lungy and Alena Zavarzina visited.
And at the beginning of the 2020, it became known that the legendary project "the smartest" returns to the screens. Now the program will go out on the World Channel. Kiseleva remained the leading show. As a recognition of the general producer of the TV channel, the spectators are waiting for the season, full of intrigue: after all, participants to get rid of rivals, often use not only intellect, but also cunning. In December of the same year, the Evening Urgant show, Maria announced the new season of the program "weak link".
TV projects and filmography
- 2001- BP. - "Weak link"
- 2003 - "Idiot"
- 2005 - "Day Watch"
- 2007 - "Paragraph 78"
- 2011 - "All Included!"
- 2015 - "Together with Dolphins"