Vorobyova Natalya Vitalievna - Honored Master of Sports and 2012 Olympic champion in freestyle wrestling. A monument is erected in her honor in St. Petersburg, and a tournament in her name is being held in Irkutsk. And while Natalia is only 27 years old, and recently she became a mother.
Biography
Vorobyova Natalya Vitalievna was born in the Irkutsk region, in the small Siberian town of Tulun in May 1991. Her family has mixed many traditions and roots. The father is Lezgin, but there are Dagestanis, Ossetians and other Caucasian nationalities in his family. And the mother is Russian.
Natalia began to engage in "completely unfeminine" sports during her school years, with the famous Dzhiganchin. And it happened quite by accident - the girl and her friends went to a nearby school to admire the small museum of free-style wrestling. Medals, cups, certificates, photographs. There the coach noticed them and invited them to try their hand. Under the guidance of her mentor, Kamil Dzhiganchin, the talented and stubborn Natasha was able to defeat the champion of Russia at the freestyle wrestling tournament among girls.
And then the family moved to St. Petersburg, where the athlete continued training under the supervision of another coach, Dmitry Gercheglo. But Natalia did not forget the one who gave her a "ticket to big sport" - and gave him a car after receiving the Olympic title.
Career
The athlete became a member of the St. Petersburg sports club "Dynamo". The first major success of Natalia Vorobyova was the bronze medal at the European Championship in Belgrade in 2012. And in the same year, having performed at the London Olympics, the athlete, the youngest of all the participants, becomes a gold medalist. And having won ahead of schedule, having laid the 2008 champion in the semifinals on the carpet in just 17 seconds, and in the final easily dealt with the five-time world champion Stanka Zlateva. This is the first ever Russian victory in freestyle wrestling among women.
In 2013, the sports community of St. Petersburg erected a monument to the girl, and in Irkutsk, in 2014, a tournament in her name was established, and Natalya herself allocates money for the prizes. However, Vorobyova always generously shares her income for the development of children's and teenage sports in Russia.
Several times the athlete took part in television programs, delighting her fans with her versatility. She became a real star of the program "Big Races-2014", appeared several times in the morning program "Good morning". Natalia does not leave her sports career, performs in competitions in various states and is an acting instructor in the National Guard, having the rank of senior lieutenant.
Personal life
Natalia always emphasizes that even hard sports should not prevent a woman from remaining beautiful and desirable, which she successfully demonstrates outside the sports fields, sometimes taking part in various fashion shows and photo shoots. In 2017, Vorobyova got married, finally finding her love in the person of a simple Ossetian guy. And in July 2018, Natalya had a son, Timur.
