Biography
Yana Kunitskaya is a pretty young woman who loving experimenting with hairstyles, the fans have seen it and with pigtails, and with a chapel of pink color. And she is also a hard fighter MMA. The athlete is upset that in her native country - Russia - negatively relate to women's martial arts. Kunitskaya suggests: the reason for this is the predominance among Russian fighters and fans of immigrants from the Caucasus who believe that the place of a woman in the kitchen, and not in the ring.Childhood and youth
The champion of Russia on Taekwondo and Thai boxing was born on the 11th day of the 11th month of 1989 in Murmansk. Parents of Yana - Professional Athletes: Father specialized in skis, and mother on gymnastics. In early 2002, in the family of Joseph and Olga Kunitsky, another daughter of Vika was born, which is now engaged in ballroom dancing.
In martial arts, Yana came by chance - the section was the only one in the kindergarten, who attended the girl, and was engaged in general physical training of pupils. More serious classes began at school when Kunitskaya decided to specialize in Taekwondo.
Young athletes included training and competitions. During the fears of beginners, they tried to take out to the Black Sea, but children engaged in the section still often hurt: the lack of vitamins and the polar night were affected.
Father Yana opposed the hobbies of the hear of martial arts. And the mother supported the girl, knowing that the daughter would answer even more intense training.
At the age of 12, Kunitskaya began performing on hand-to-hand combat tournaments. At 16, the girl moved to the city on the Neva and entered the University of Physical Culture named after Peter Lesgafta at the Boxing Department.
Personal life
Athlete has a son Adam. The father of the child is Arab Hani, for whom Yana married in the capital of the UAE. According to the memoirs of Kunitskaya, the love between her and the future husband arose at first glance. Since she grew in Russia, the man moved to St. Petersburg, where he opened the crossfit gym.The first pregnancy Kunitsky ended with miscarriage. When Yana was pregnant Adam, he continued to maintain a fitness, and returned to active training a week after the son's appearance. An athlete with surprise stated that after she had given birth, no longer her knees stopped sick. Nevertheless, for the sake of family in 2013, the native of Murmansk reported the completion of the sports career and the transition to coaching work.
However, relationships with her husband were gradually smoldered, Yana bored and in 2016 returned to battles. Kunitskaya believes that pregnancy and childbirth make a woman stronger and collected. The problems were organizational in nature: while the child did not go to kindergarten, the boy had to take on training. Now the photo Adam often appears on the Mother's page in Vkontakte. Thanks to the genes and efforts of the grandmother, the boy comes to sports gymnastics.
In addition to the injuries of the knees, Kunitsky in the past was disturbed by the problems with the lymphatic system. Due to weakened immunity, the athlete picked up staphylococcal infection and spent half a year in the hospital, moved a number of operations and blood transfusions. Despite childbirth, disease and overload, Yana has an excellent figure, which is not ashamed to demonstrate in a swimsuit - with a height of 173 cm Woman weighs 61 kg.
In 2019, "Instagram" followers Kunitski learned about changes in her personal life. On the Jana page there appeared a photo of a kisser athletes with a fighter UFC Tiagu Santus on a nicknamed sledgehammer. In July 2019, in a duel with John Jones, Braziloles received breaks of several ligaments, damage to the meniscus and a crack of the bertovoy bone. The former Northerd was touchingly caught by the beloved and drove a man on a wheelchair.
Martial arts
The first battles in Mma Kunitskaya, who received the nickname Foxy (chanterelle), held in 2009 with the Magdalene Magdalen and Citizal of Ukraine owned by Yavorskaya. Both fights ended with victories of Russians. In 2010, Jan entered the top ten best fighters of his weight in the Women's MMA after convincing advantage over Belgicia Cindy Danda.
After returning to octave from "maternity leave", Yana lost to compatriot Zaire Dyshekova, and the victory over American Tona Evinger sailed from the hands of Kunitski. As it turned out after the fight, the Russian woman conducted forbidden reception.
2018 was marked for a native of Murmansk by the transition in a semi-easier weight and subsequent return to the easiest weight category. In March, Yana lost to Mma Christian Zhustin champion, and in October she defeated Lina Lensberg from Sweden. In March 2019, despite the nasal fracture, Kunitskaya defeated the veteran of mixed martial arts Marion Reno from the USA. In December, the defeat by technical knockout Yane caused a 24-year-old American Aspen Ladd.
Yana Kunitskaya now
In August 2020, Yana in the framework of Ultimate Fighting Championship held a fight with a native of Kaunas - 27-year-old Yulia Stolyarenko. The fight cost without knockouts. After three rounds, the arbitrators unanimously awarded the victory by Kunitsky.Achievements
- 2007 - World Cautte Champion
- 2007 - Champion of Russia in Taekwondo
- 2010 - world champion in female MMA BUSHIDO
- 2011 Russia for Thai Boxing
- 2017 - Champion INVICTA FC
- 2017 - participant of the best battle of the evening against Tony Evinger
- 2017 - Participant of the Best Battle of the Evening against the Palauma Ranel