Mariya Kiseleva

Maria Kiseleva is a Russian athlete, master of sports in synchronized swimming, who has achieved considerable heights in her discipline. Three times she became the winner of the Olympic Games, three times - the world champion, 9 times she conquered the top of the podium of the European Championship. She is known to TV viewers as the host of the popular project "The Weakest Link", and also as an actress.

Maria Alexandrovna Kiseleva was born in Kuibyshev in September 1974. At that time, a 2-year-old son, Vladimir, was growing up in the family. In 1978, the Kiselevs moved to Leningrad, where they lived for 2 years in a military hostel. In 1980, he moved again, this time to the capital. In Moscow, Maria went to school. There, the mother took the children to the pool, where they were to learn to swim.

Volodya was accepted immediately, but Masha's relationship with sports developed later, when she was 10 years old. The fact is that the future Olympic champion from childhood was afraid of water. Kiseleva managed to overcome this fear only at the age of 10, when her mother took her to the section where the girl began to engage in the synchronized swimming group.

At that time, no one thought about great sports achievements. The goal was more mundane: to overcome the fear of water and to keep Mary busy. Synchronized swimming in those years was a new sport, beautiful and unusual. Water, gymnastics and music were present here. Young Kiseleva was carried away, and soon her coaches Natalia Kiriakidi and Marina Dmitrieva celebrated the first successes of the athlete.

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The synchronist recalled the initial period in sports as a time devoid of entertainment and children's fun. On the day, the girl had to pay up to 10 hours of physical training, of which she spent at least 7 hours in the water. Maria jokes that she almost felt like a mermaid.

After combining the two sections with Kiseleva, a new coach began to train: Tatyana Heitser, a former famous athlete, managed to significantly improve Masha's level of training. Under her leadership, Kiseleva becomes a candidate for master of sports, and a year later - a master.

In 1991, the synchronized swimmer became a student at the Lesgaft Institute of Physical Education.

In 1992, the sports biography of Kiseleva went on a new round: she had a new coach - Tatyana Danchenko. A year later, Masha is a member of the national team of the country and at the European Championship wins the first international award - a gold medal. In the same year, she becomes an international master of sports.

After the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, in which Kiseleva's group reached 4th place, Maria becomes a student at Moscow State University, where she chose journalism. The synchronized swimmer dropped out of the Institute of Physical Education after the 1st year.

During this period, she was unexpectedly offered to work in a duet with her former rival Olga Brusnikina. They were counted on as the first synchronized duet of the country. Kiseleva agreed, sacrificing her stationary studies at the university for the sake of training.

In 1997, a new stage began in Kiseleva's sports career. After intensive training under the supervision of Elena Nikolaevna Polyanskaya, at that time the Honored Coach of Russia, the duet of Kiseleva and Brusnikina was in the lead at the Synchronized Swimming World Cup in China. The girl won the second gold medal as part of the group.

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In the same year, rich in sporting successes, Maria Kiseleva and Olga Brusnikina won 2 more medals at the European Championship, which was held in Seville. It was a tremendous breakthrough for Russian simultaneous interpreters. At the end of 1997, the athlete becomes an honored master of sports.

1998 was also a triumphant year for Maria. In Australia, in a duet with Brusnikina and in Kiselev's group, she becomes a two-time world champion. Success awaits the athlete both in New York at the Goodwill Games, and in Prague, where the European Cup is played. The pre-Olympic 1999 and 2000 brought Maria 4 gold medals - in Istanbul and Seoul. The athlete also won the European Championship in Finland.

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The Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia, brought the Kiselev-Brusnikin duet a real triumph: the synchronized swimmers received the maximum number of points in the final games and went down in the history of Russian sports as the first Russian Olympic champions in synchronized swimming.

This victory was not easy for Maria. 2 months before the Olympics, the doping test taken from the athlete turned out to be positive. This happened because of a dietary supplement for weight loss, which she took on the advice of doctors. But the synchronized swimmer was disqualified for only one month. Thus, the Kiselev-Brusnikin duet managed to prepare and was allowed to participate in the games, having managed to go down in the history of Russian sports as the winners.

In 2003, the synchronized swimmer returned to sports and won her third Olympic medal in Athens.

Maria made the decision to end her sports career after the Olympics in Australia. Her second profession was journalism. In 2001, the athlete becomes a freelance employee, and after a couple of months - a full-time correspondent on the NTV channel, where she conducts sports news.

In this capacity, she was noticed by Sergei Cordo, the producer of the project "Weak Link". Soon Kiseleva became the host of a popular program on Channel One. A bright start to her television career helped her become a laureate of two awards in the nominations "Most Stylish TV Presenter" and "Debut of the Year".

In addition to the main project, the TV presenter tried her hand at carrying out one-off issues of the programs "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" and "Field of Miracles". As a sports broadcaster, she has participated in the coverage of the 2002 European Aquatics Championships, the Olympic Games in Turin and Rio de Janeiro. In 2006, she appeared in the entertainment show "Stars on Ice", where figure skater Maxim Marinin became her partner.

Vladimir Bortko drew attention to Maria. The director was just picking up the cast for the new film "The Idiot" based on the novel of the same name by Dostoevsky. Seeing the TV presenter in "Weak Link", the master "recognized" in her Varya Ivolgina. The athlete accepted the offer to play in this role with joy - since childhood she dreamed of appearing in the cinema. So in the biography of Kiseleva, the first acting work appeared.

On October 3, 2015, Maria appeared as a TV presenter at the premiere of the new Channel One show "Together with Dolphins". Valdis Pelsh becomes the co-host of Kiseleva. In this project, 13 famous movie and pop stars mastered a new profession for themselves - a dolphin trainer.

Since 2010, Maria has been involved in organizing New Year's family performances on the water, in which Olympic synchronized champions, diving athletes, flyboard and aquabike champions, circus performers and masters of choreography become performers. In 2017, the premiere of new productions took place in major cities of Russia. Moscow hosted the "Tale of Tsar Saltan", St. Petersburg - "Recipe for Magic", Kazan - the fairy tale "Save the Northern Lights".

The personal life of Maria Kiseleva seemed cloudless to all outsiders. In 2001, she married a former swimmer and international master of sports, Vladimir Kirsanov. The acquaintance of young people took place 2 years before the wedding. The athletes took part in the interuniversity competition together. After the Olympics in Sydney, Maria and Vladimir began to live together.

They were considered a strong and beautiful couple. A surprise for everyone is the news that at the end of 2012, Kiseleva decided to divorce her husband. The couple did not comment on the event, although many of their friends regretted their breakup.

In this marriage, two daughters were born - Daria and Alexandra. From an early age, Maria decided to teach girls to swim. At first it was classes in the bathroom with an instructor, then my mother began to take them with her to the pool. The elder Dasha has already followed in the footsteps of Maria - she trains at the synchronized swimming school and received the category of candidate for master of sports. Photos of a synchronized swimmer with children often appear on the Web, including on Instagram.

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The synchronized swimming star still adheres to a strict daily routine: after getting up at 6 in the morning, she does exercises without fail and visits the pool three times a week. According to Maria, she does not adhere to a diet, but uses only healthy food in her diet. Thanks to this approach, all the extra pounds that appeared during her pregnancy were easily gone after giving birth. Therefore, it was not difficult for the champion to reappear in front of the cameras in a swimsuit.

Now Maria is mainly engaged in social work. She oversees the synchronized swimming school in the capital, goes to youth competitions in water sports, and appears on television.

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In February 2019, Maria became a guest of the TV show Today. The Day Begins ”dedicated to the 5th anniversary of the opening of the Olympic Games in Sochi. In addition to Kiseleva, the studio was visited by Vladislav Tretyak, Arina Sharapova, athletes Alexander Legkov and Alena Zavarzina.

And at the beginning of 2020 it became known that the legendary project "The Smartest" is returning to the screens. Now the program will be broadcasted on the Mir channel. Maria Kiseleva remained the host of this show. According to the general producer of the TV channel, the audience is waiting for a season full of intrigue: after all, the participants often use not only intellect, but also cunning to get rid of rivals.

2001-present time. - "Weak Link" 2003 - "Idiot" 2005 - "Day Watch" 2007 - "Paragraph 78" 2011 - "All Inclusive!" 2015 - Together with the Dolphins

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