A person who accidentally stumbles upon the broadcast of a curling match is likely to briefly focus his attention on it. Painfully at first glance, a non-dynamic and strange is a game.
However, the success of the women's team at internationaltournaments, broadcast matches from the Olympics have aroused some interest among fans in this sport. The main character is Anna Sidorova. The biography of this athlete could have been different, if she did not get an ankle injury in childhood.
From figure skating to curling
Anna Sidorova, a native Muscovite, was born in 1991. From the age of 6 she practiced figure skating, a sport more familiar to the Russian girl.
At the age of 14 she could not take more because of a leg injury.train hard Mom took the girl to the curling section. Anna Sidorova was at first depressed by such a change of activity and was not eager to continue training. The transition from bright and effective figure skating to such a seemingly boring and incomprehensible curling turned out to be too sharp.
However, soon she was involved in training and understood the essence of this mysterious game. In 2008, she begins to speak at international competitions.
Sports career and awards
Soon Anna Sidorova becomes skip youthRussian national team. Skip in curling is the main character, the brain center of the team. In one of the tournaments, young girls under the leadership of Anna beat the main team of the country. After that, Sidorov is immediately taken to the main team. So a girl who four years ago did not know about the existence of such a sport as curling goes to the Olympics in Vancouver as part of the national team.
In 2011, Anna Sidorova becomesthe winner of the Universiade in Erzurum, Turkey. A year later, the Russian team is making a qualitative leap in its development - a victory at the European Championship. At this tournament, Anna Sidorova is already a team skip, the main character.
Given the clear progress of the team, the fansexpected a successful performance at the home Olympics in 2014. However, the youngest team of the tournament, including Sidorov, did not withstand the tension and tritely “burned out”. Not showing everything that they were capable of, the Russians did not even leave the group.
Anna did not break the defeat in Moscow, and already in thisFor the first time in history, she and the team won medals at the World Championships. A year later, the girls will repeat their success, and in the interval they also take the silver medals of the European Championship.
Athlete's personal life
Appeared interest in curling lastthe queue is explained by the personality of the skip of the main women's team. Bright, spectacular appearance - what distinguishes Anna Sidorova. Photos with her images constantly flash in the ratings of the most beautiful athletes of the Olympics.
All this constantly raises questions for the athlete about her personal life, to which she succinctly replies that she is still not married.
However, in fact, Anna is a very seriouspurposeful girl. Being engaged in curling, she simultaneously receives a higher education. Moreover, he studies, unlike most athletes, not at the Institute of Physical Education, but at the Faculty of Political Science and Law.
Anna is in excellent shape, and all her personal fans can only wait for new victories from the national team, which leads a beautiful skip.
