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08.02.2023
Konstantin Belov
The most titled athlete in the history of Russia, Svetlana Romashina has completed her career.
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On February 6, Svetlana Romashina announced the end of her sports career. List of awards for the whole career:
Olympics — 7 gold medals.
European Championship — 13 gold medals.
World Championship — 21 gold medals.
Olympics — 7 gold medals.
European Championship — 13 gold medals.
World Championship — 21 gold medals.
Romashina said in an interview with Match TV.Probably, some part of me understood: where already, I won so much, I need to go home to my family. But sport is a drug that is very difficult to give up, given that you understand that you can be the best in the world. After the Tokyo Games, I needed time to rest, recover, and that's when I finally realized that as an athlete I had done absolutely everything. And now there is a place to move, there is a direction in which to develop. Naturally, this is connected with sports and synchronized swimming,
As a child, I got to the pool after 10 transfers, and at the first lesson I cried
Svetlana Romashina did not immediately get a swimming pool and synchronized swimming. In an interview, he said that he got to the pool for an hour and a half with ten transfers and returned back as well. At first, she didn't like synchronized swimming, and her parents weren't happy either. But at the same time, Svetlana liked going to the pool and practicing swimming. When there was a choice between synchronized swimming and ballroom dancing, the future seven-time Olympic champion chose synchronized swimming. I thought it was a beautiful sport, with music. At first I assumed that I would swim alone, it would only be solo.
I held my breath underwater for almost five minutes
An ordinary person can spend about a minute underwater without breathing. Svetlana experimented at the beginning of her career and exceeded this standard maximum by almost five times.
Svetlana Romashina did not immediately get a swimming pool and synchronized swimming. In an interview, he said that he got to the pool for an hour and a half with ten transfers and returned back as well. At first, she didn't like synchronized swimming, and her parents weren't happy either. But at the same time, Svetlana liked going to the pool and practicing swimming. When there was a choice between synchronized swimming and ballroom dancing, the future seven-time Olympic champion chose synchronized swimming. I thought it was a beautiful sport, with music. At first I assumed that I would swim alone, it would only be solo.
I held my breath underwater for almost five minutes
An ordinary person can spend about a minute underwater without breathing. Svetlana experimented at the beginning of her career and exceeded this standard maximum by almost five times.
Romashina said in an interview with the publication "All Sports".When I was young, full of strength and energy, we conducted experiments — tested breath retention, then breathed mountain air for a while, and checked the delay again. As a result, my performance improved by a minute, and I really held my breath for 4.5 minutes,
The image of Marilyn Monroe inspired even the daughter of the legendary Kiselyova
In synchronized swimming, it is not so easy to be remembered in an original way. But Romashina managed it. The athlete gave out one of the brightest performances in the role of the fatal beauty Marilyn Monroe.
recalled Romashina.I understand perfectly well that since childhood I have not had any superpowers. I am an athlete who has made himself. I have never had stretching, any grace, plasticity. All this was given by hard work. When I started my solo career, I realized that after Natasha Ishchenko it would be hard for me — I would be compared. Together with Tatiana Danchenko, I had to look for something that was not like anyone else, different from the rest. And we found a really perfect option — the image of Marilyn Monroe,
The athlete admitted that it was quite easy for her to embody the image — after all, she also has a difficult character. But the solo performance was given to the synchronist with great excitement — Svetlana was nervous and even felt insecure. But the water version of Monroe eventually impressed even the synchro legend, TV presenter Maria Kiseleva.
When the debut took place at the Universiade in Kazan in 2013, the performance was appreciated by both the audience and the judges. It was something different, different. I accepted myself as a soloist. For me, the revealing moment was that Masha Kiselyova came up and said that it was super: "It really didn't look like anyone, it was you in the image of Marilyn Monroe." As Masha told me, after this performance at the Universiade, her daughter wanted to do synchronized swimming.
Could miss the Olympics in 2016 due to otitis media
On the eve of her third Olympics, Svetlana fell ill with otitis media. The ears were heavily blocked and hurt. But it was impossible to stop training three weeks before the Olympics. As the athlete herself told, she plugged her ears with cotton wool with medicine, taped them and put on two hats so that water would not get into her ears. As a result, Romashina won two Olympic medals in Rio de Janeiro. As the athlete herself joked, she wanted as many gold medals as rings on the Olympic flank.
Svetlana Romashina is a legendary athlete. For many other synchronized swimmers, it will be examples. She and her partners have never conceded to anyone in competitions, taking only gold medals for 13 years.
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