Multiple world champion in synchronousswimming Alla Shishkina not so long ago completed her active sports career. It's hard to believe that the account of a young pretty girl has a whole collection of gold awards of absolutely all major international tournaments, two titles of the Olympic champion. She came to the pool for another seven-year-old crumb and stayed here for twenty years, falling in love with more than one sports fan.
Change the pack to a swimsuit
The future star synchronized swimming Alla Shishkinawas born in Moscow in 1989. Her parents were concerned that their daughter would develop comprehensively, from the age of five, Alla was engaged in music, ballet. However, at the age of seven in her life there was a decisive turning point. The little ballerina was watching TV and could not take her eyes off the synchronized swimming competitions.
The girl just admired this explosive combinationmusic, sports and dance, she was under the great impression for several more days and put an ultimatum to her parents to take her to the section on synchronized swimming. Alla Shishkina knew how to insist on her own, and soon found herself in the pool, where a completely new life began for her.
Serious sports are almost notleave time for usual children's fun, Alla barely had time to throw the school backpack home and flew to the training, where she worked hard until late evening.
First victories
Year by year, a staunch girl pulled up herskill, dreaming of becoming part of the "golden" band, winning at all major tournaments. The competition for a place in the Russian national team was very tough, the level of each pretender was very high. In 2008, Alla Shishkina experienced the strongest disappointment in her life, when she failed to get into the main team.
This was just the year of the Olympics, and the legendary coach Tatyana Pokrovskaya before the decisive start bet on the proven fighters, leaving behind promising juniors.
However, Alla did not lose heart and continued persistentlyprepare for new challenges, which helped her to deserve a challenge to the main team already in 2009. The World Cup in Rome was the first major tournament in the biography of Alla Shishkina. Here the Russian athletes were no equal, the squad of Tatyana Pokrovskaya confidently beat all her competitors in technical and free programs, and the Muscovite left Italy as a two-time world champion.
The most difficult task for any Russiansynchronic is becoming a part of the national team, a victory in a tough competition at the national level. After that, victories at the international level come in automatic mode. Before her first Olympics, the Russian national synchronized swimming team member Alla Shishkina managed to become a world champion three times again, participating in the team's victorious performances in all three kinds of competitions at the World Championships in Shanghai in 2011.
Olympic Games
Any athlete's dream is a victory forOlympiad, was no exception and Alla Shishkina. Together with the team, she prepared for her first major start in life in a real battle mode. Tatyana Pokrovskaya, the coach of the Russian national team, is the real perfectionist in her work and does not let her girls out of the pool until she achieves the perfect sharpness of all the technical elements and complete synchrony.
Synchronizing training before the start of the Olympics inLondon lasted for ten to twelve hours, the girls literally lived in the water, like mermaids. This was required by the status of unconditional tournament favorites, who must win in all hands.
According to Alla Shishkina, in London synchronizersmet with overwhelming psychological pressure from the rivals. The main competitors - Spaniards and Chinese women - sought out any shortcomings in the training runs of Russian programs and loudly described them in all interviews to numerous media outlets.
Nevertheless, Alla Shishkina and her team-mates performed perfectly, not giving reason to doubt its overwhelming advantage and won its first gold medal in the Olympic Games.
The Russian synchronizer managed to avoid seriousinjuries during his career and invariably helped his team dominate the world stage until 2016. Having won the second title of the Olympic champion, Alla Shishkina, with a sense of accomplishment, announced the completion of her glorious career.
Personal life
Having finished with the sport, the girl took up the device of her family life.
