Biography
In 2021, the young Veronica Stepanov became the owner of the first big award - the gold of the world youth championship. Ahead of the skier was not an easy transition to an adult sport, where coaches have read the athlete from Kamchatka a big future.Childhood and youth
Veronica Sergeevna Stepanova was born on January 4, 2001 in the city of Elizovo, Kamchatka Territory. Athlete has a younger sister Nadezhda (born in 2012). In 2018, Veronica graduated from high school number 8 in his hometown.
On Skis Nick got up at 7 years old. The training base on skiing was opposite the House of the Stepanov family, and when the girl had energy to overflow through the edge and she could no longer bother at home, the decision to choose the choice of sports discipline simply.
Yana Yakovleva became the first mentor of Veronica, and in a few years Stepanov moved to her father Peter Yakovlev in the sports school of the Olympic reserve for ski sports of the Elizovsky district.
The athlete's mentor told that from the first lessons, the young skier stand out in the forceful plan even at the level of guys, easily pulled up and had good coordination. The girl was stubborn, ambitious and fell in love with all my heart, from the young age dreaming about the conquest of the title of world champion. In turn, Veronika calls the coach of "Sports Father", challenged and invested the best qualities.
Ski race
The athlete debuted at competitions in Syktyvkar among the skiers of 15-16 years in March 2014. And in March 2017, on the same skiing Stepanov, for the first time she climbed onto the podium, becoming a silver medalist in the sprint and racing 5 km free style. In December, Veronica won the first gold medal of the national level, speaking already in the category 19-20 years at a distance of 10 km free style.Since 2017, Stepanova has been involved in the All-Russian competitions, trained at the Mentor Dmitry Borodina and the Senior Coach of the Kamchatka Territory of Alexander Smolyanov.
In February 2018, Stepanov became the winner of the race for 5 km with a free style and a bronze medalist in sprint on the championship of the Federal District in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk. The following year, the skier won two gold medals on the same distances by adding bronze into them in a 5 km classic style race. In December 2019, he first marked in the sprint on youth competitions in Tyumen and Kirovo-Chepetsk.
At the international level, Stepanova debuted at the age of 16 at the Cup of Eastern Europe. Veronica's first glasses earned on November 23, 2018 in the race 5 km in the top of the Töi.
In 2019, the skier spoke at the Scandinavian Cup in Vuokatti, where she took the 21st place in the sprint. After that, he entered the top ten world championship among juniors in Lakhti at a distance of 5 km free style, and with the national team of Russia became the owner of silver medals in the relay.
At the Russian Junior Championships of 2019, the best result of Stepanova was the 7th place in the race by 15 km.
In March 2020, an athlete participated in the next youth world championship in the German Obervisentale, which entered the top ten at a distance of 5 km by classic style.
Personal life
Personal life recently moved to St. Petersburg Veronika Stepanova Powder does not exhibit, but on the 20th birthday in her instagram profile there was a photo in bed with a huge bouquet of flowers. And this is no longer the first photo.
Possessing a bright exotic appearance and a sports figure skier is not shy to pose in a swimsuit on summer resorts. Sometimes an athlete unobtrusively advertises a sports nutrition brand, the brand ambassador she is. Also, the skier leads the second profile - the humorous page "Brother Kamchat".
Veronica Stepanova now
In the season 2020/2021, the Russian skier returned to participate in the Cup of Eastern Europe, where at the stage at the top of the Tya became the owner of bronze in the sprint. In December, Veronica also successfully drove in youth competitions in Tyumen, receiving 2 gold medals.At the World Youth Championships of 2021 (up to 20 years) in Finnish VOCATTI Stepanov won the first international gold, winning the race for 5 km free style. In the relay, Russian skiers (Stepanov, Anna Kozhinov, Evgenia Krupitskaya and Olga Zholudheva) received silver, and in the sprint Veronica became the 4th.
For the first time in history, Russian fans of sports could watch young people on live on the TV channel "Match TV".
The world champion itself told that the difficulties on the ski did not have experienced, being well ready for the start, and the distance of 5 km was one of the strongest species.
"I was not afraid and did not worry before the start. Just came out and made what I can. As a result - the best result, won the long-awaited gold medal. He dreamed of this since childhood and put the goal to succeed. "After a successful speech on the youth championship, the skier opened a new one - the adult page of his sports biography and first became part of the Russian national team at an adult world championship in German Oberstdorf. Among other participants, the two-time winner of the Olympic Games of Julia Stupak, Lily Vasilyeva and Alice Zhambalova, as well as a colleague Stepanova in the "youthler" Evgenia Krupitskaya. Now the new goal of the athlete is to get to the Olympic Games.
Achievements
- 2017 - Winner of the Russia Youth Championship in the race for 10 km
- 2018 - Winner of the Championship of the South Sakhalin Federal District in the race for 5 km
- 2018 - Bronze medalist of the championship of the South Sakhalin federal district in the sprint
- 2019 - Winner of the Championship of the South Sakhalin Federal District in the race for 5 km
- 2019 - winner of the championship of the South Sakhalin federal district in the sprint
- 2019 - Winner of the Junior World Cup in the relay
- 2020 - Bronze medalist of the Eastern European Cup in the sprint
- 2021 - The winner of the World Youth Championship in the race for 5 km
- 2021 - Silver winner of the world youth championship in the relay