Svetlana Horkina

Svetlana Khorkina is a Russian gymnast, two-time Olympic champion in uneven bars. Honored Master of Sports of Russia. This woman is often called the queen of the uneven bars. Experts place the gymnast on a par with other prominent representatives of Russian sports who have glorified the country in the international sports arena. With her hard work and striving forward, Svetlana was able to achieve her goal, having won many prestigious titles and awards.

Svetlana Vasilievna Khorkina was born in Belgorod in January 1979. The athlete's parents are from Mordovia. They came to Belgorod to work, but stayed here for a long time. Dad worked as a builder, mom got a job as a nurse in a kindergarten.

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Strange, but Svetlana's future was influenced by a stranger - a roommate. A woman living next door advised Svetlana's mother to take her 4-year-old daughter to a sports school, recommending a gymnastics section. The woman liked the idea, and little Svetlana began to attend classes regularly.

It is noteworthy that, in terms of physical qualities, Khorkina was not suitable for practicing this sport. But coach Boris Pilkin, to whom the future sports legend was brought, nevertheless took Svetlana. The mentor liked the girl's hard work and persistence. The young gymnast could endlessly repeat the exercise, which was difficult to give. Khorkina, as they say, starved out the desired result.

The career takeoff of the young athlete was rapid, except for a slight hitch. For some time, Svetlana Khorkina did not want to be accepted into the USSR youth team, although the girl became the best in her age group.

The provincial athlete was looked down upon, finding fault with minor errors in technique. But even here Khorkina showed iron perseverance and achieved her goal: in 1992, Svetlana entered the Russian national artistic gymnastics team.

The sports biography of Svetlana Khorkina is a large number of victories, which were sometimes accompanied by annoying falls. But they, according to the famous gymnast, were needed, first of all, because they gave invaluable experience and even more tempered the already steel character.

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In 1995, 2 weeks before the most important performance at the World Championships in Sabae (Japan), the gymnast unsuccessfully jumped off the bars and injured her back. The pain was so severe that Khorkina found it difficult even to walk, let alone exercise. After an anesthetic injection, Sveta was taken to the hospital. There, the girl heard the verdict: she was facing serious treatment. The doctors advised to forget about the World Championship, for which Svetlana Khorkina had been preparing for years.

The 16-year-old athlete made a strong-willed decision: to be treated and continue training. A strong athlete with good physical characteristics (Svetlana's height is 165 cm, weight - 46 kg), she overcame this hardest test. The girl managed to take her will into a fist so much and concentrate on victory that she overcame the most severe pain. The Russian woman won the World Cup, bringing home several medals.

After recovery, the gymnast continued her rapid ascent to Olympus. Now in the literal sense of the word: in 1996, the Russian woman went to the Olympics in Atlanta. Here the gymnast won gold in the uneven bars and the 2nd place in the team championship. After this brilliant performance, Svetlana Khorkina began to be called the queen of the uneven bars. It was this type of exercise that became a favorite for the gymnast and always brought the highest points.

In 2000, Svetlana Khorkina, the undisputed leader of Russian gymnastics, went to the Sydney Olympics. At that time, she was 21 years old. The athlete was perfectly prepared and determined to win. But in Australia, Svetlana was in trouble. Due to an incorrectly installed apparatus, the gymnast injured her knees. Nevertheless, the performance of the Russian woman was successful. Svetlana Khorkina managed to reach the end of the competition and retain the title of Olympic champion on the uneven bars.

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In 2001, Khorkina became the absolute champion at the World Cup. From 1995 to 2001, Svetlana managed to win all the world championships and Olympic titles on her favorite apparatus - the uneven bars. After 2 years, the Russian athlete managed to snatch victory at the World Championship, which was held in Anaheim, and become the absolute champion for the third time. Before that, not a single woman could take such a height.

The 2004 Athens Olympics was the last for Svetlana. The Russian woman reached the final in two categories - in all-around and on uneven bars and was recognized as the favorite of the games. After Athens, the gymnast announced that she was starting a different life and ending her sports career. In 2007, a monument was erected to the athlete in her native Belgorod. Also in this city is the educational and sports complex of Svetlana Khorkina, where conditions have been created for conducting a full cycle of classes for students.

Having left the big sport, Svetlana Khorkina was not lost. The former gymnast is often invited to participate in popular television projects. The audience saw the athlete in the shows "Circus with the Stars" and "Dancing with the Stars". She is also one of the few Russian athletes who agreed to appear for the Playboy edition.

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In December 2007, Svetlana Khorkina appears on the political arena. The celebrity is elected a deputy of the State Duma of the 5th convocation, as stated on the official website of the United Russia party, which Khorkina represents. In 2004, the champion took over as vice-president of the Artistic Gymnastics Federation. The former athlete believes that in this position she continues to help her country.

In 2014, Khorkina became the ambassador of the Winter Olympics, which took place in Sochi. In February 2016, Svetlana Vasilievna Khorkina, who by that time had already held the rank of lieutenant colonel, was appointed by the decision of the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation to the post of first deputy chief of CSKA.

In 2016, the second film from the Champions franchise (the full title of the tape is Champions: Faster. Higher. Stronger) appeared at the box office, telling about the successes of Svetlana Khorkina and other Russian athletes. The role of Svetlana is the giant actress Christina Asmus.

In March 2017, Khorkina commented on the doping scandal in Russian sports. She believes that the decision to disqualify the All-Russian Athletics Federation was unfair. The athlete called the scandal with WADA "the fight against windmills", which is doomed to failure, since, according to the Russian woman, this is a "manual" organization.

In her youth, all Svetlana's aspirations were aimed at a sports career. But after the Sydney Olympics, a person appeared in her environment who began to show special attention to her. The public learned that the champion had an affair only after Khorkina became pregnant. In July 2005, in Los Angeles, Svetlana gave birth to a son, Svyatoslav. The kid received American citizenship.

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Об этом событии заговорили все средства массовой информации. Некоторое время отцовство приписывали артисту Левану Учанейшвили. Но вскоре в прессу просочились слухи о том, что папой мальчика может быть муж актрисы Веры Глаголевой, бизнесмен Кирилл Шубский. Пользователи соцсетей, в том числе сервиса «Инстаграма», активно обсуждали подобные предположения прессы. Сами Хоркина и Шубский не комментировали эти слухи, а Вера Глаголева даже подавала на СМИ в суд за клевету.

Историю своего романа спортсменка описала в автобиографической книге под названием «Кульбиты на шпильках». В мемуарах чемпионка поведала, что после рождения мальчика отношения сошли на нет. Позднее Кирилл все-таки признал сына и даже начал общаться со Святославом и участвовать в его воспитании финансово.

In 2011, Svetlana Khorkina's personal life changed. According to media reports, Oleg Kochnev, a general of the Federal Security Service, became the athlete's husband. The husband is 23 years older than the champion, but the age difference did not interfere with family happiness.

In the fall of 2019, it became known that Svetlana experienced the joy of motherhood for the second time. She announced the birth of a baby to subscribers of her microblog. A joyful event in the family of the Queen of the Bars and the General took place on October 21st. Now the family lives in a mansion in Vatutinki. CSKA Vatutinki training and sports base is located near the champion's house.

Svetlana continues to successfully combine family life and career. In 2018, she was promoted to colonel and holds the post of first deputy head of the CSKA sports club. Khorkina pays much attention to the development of children's sports.

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In 2019, the year of her 40th birthday, the Queen of the Bars opened a new CSKA sports complex in her native Belgorod. The organization was named after Svetlana. Here, the athlete regularly conducts master classes for young gymnasts.

Khorkina is also a member of the council of founders of the military-patriotic movement Yunarmiya. The former athlete attends all the rallies of the youth movement with pleasure. She broadly covers public life in her personal account on Instagram, where she posts photos of special events. The former athlete plans to create a museum of sports glory and release her own gymnastic show.

Olympic victories:

1996 - Atlanta (USA), Bars 2000 - Sydney (Australia), Bars

World Championship victories:

1995 - Sabae (Japan), parallel bars 1996 - San Juan (Puerto Rico), parallel bars 1997 - Lausanne (Switzerland), parallel bars, all-around 1999 - Tianjin (China), parallel bars 2001 - Ghent (Belgium), parallel bars, all-around, support jump 2003 - Anaheim (USA), all-around

European Championship victories:

1998 - St. Petersburg (Russia), freestyle, all-around, parallel bars 2004 - Amsterdam (Netherlands), parallel bars

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