Russian athlete Anna Chicherova is not only a member of the national athletics team. The Honored Master of Sports in high jumping won the national championship eight times, was the champion of Europe and the world.
Anna Vladimirovna won prizes at the highest level competitions five times in a row.
Way to success
The biography of the future celebrity began in 1982. The child was born in the city of Belaya Kalitva on July 22 in a sports family. My father became famous as a high jumper, my mother played basketball. Together with their daughter, a month after her birth, the Chicherovs moved to Yerevan. From the age of seven, her father taught the baby his sport.
When the girl turned 10, her parents returned to Belaya Kalitva. His father's sports career ended, and he began to work at the railway station. The daughter went to school. She did not leave sports. Alexey Bondarenko began to train the future champion.
Seventeen-year-old Anna moved to the capital to continue her education at the Institute of Physical Education. During the training, the student's mentor was Alexander Fetisov. The first achievement of the athlete was the victory at the youth championship in 1999 in Poland. Then there was the fourth place in Chile at the junior world championship. However, after notable successes, a break soon came.
The girl's results until 2003 improved by only 3 centimeters. The athlete did not see any prospects for herself. She decided to leave the sport, but Yevgeny Zagorulko, a former well-known coach, prevented such an outcome at the end of the year. In his group, the girl received a detailed training plan. One of its conditions was weight loss, outlining changes in the diet.
New achievements
Anna got down to a busy schedule. It also included exercises with a barbell. The results were amazing. Chicherova improved her previous achievement by 12 cm by 2003. Her figure became a new country record for the halls. At the same time, the first adult medal for victory in international competitions appeared in the athlete's piggy bank.
In Birmingham, she finished third in the world championship. Training had to be cut back in 2004 for health reasons. Only swimming and strength training were allowed. She started jumping only half a month before the start of the qualifying round for the Olympic Games. Chicherova showed the sixth result. In 2005 she won the European Championship in Madrid. The break started again in 2006.
There were no further victories, as well as new achievements in indicators. In 2007, she climbed to the third step of the podium. The athlete missed the 2008 winter world championship, but again she was third at the Olympic Games.
Then there was a long recovery after a difficult operation with the skipping of the winter competition. Chicherova returned to sports only in 2011, in the spring. She was able to quickly restore her former shape. She showed the best results in the world at the winter championship. In the summer, she again set the country's record.
In Daegu, Anna climbed to the highest step of the podium. In 2012 in Germany, the athlete again set the country's record for the halls, becoming the best. The real surprise was her defeat in Istanbul. Again she won a victory in Eugene in the competition of the Diamond League.
Ups and downs
The victory in 2011 at the world championship helped to miss the qualifying round. The high jumper considered her chance to be the last opportunity to become an Olympic champion. Even a serious injury did not prevent the implementation of the plan in London. The athlete's rest continued until the end of the year.
Only after resting, Anna was able to start training again. After the triumph in Tokyo 2013, Chicherova was called the best in the world. In Beijing, her achievement was the 2, 02 cm bar. In the Moscow stage of the championship. She came in third.
Due to a positive sample in 2016, the athlete was disqualified for two years, depriving the won bronze. The appeal did not give results, and the athlete was able to return to the sport only after June 30, 2018.
She participated in the national championship in July, becoming the second. The athlete did not finish her career. She decided to participate in the 2020 Olympics. The champion's personal life was also happy. Sprinter Gennady Chernovol became her chosen one.
Anna's husband was a member of the national team of Kazakhstan. He left the sport because of an injury. Young people trained together, corresponded at a distance. After the injury, the girl helped Gennady to recover.
Family and sports
After the official ceremony, the young people became husband and wife, and in 2010 they had a daughter, Nika. During this period, the athlete left training to fully engage in the baby. The happy event had a positive impact on the athlete's achievements. A year after the birth of Nicky, her mother triumphantly returned to the sport, winning every competition. It was then that she won Olympic gold.
Chicherova spends little time at home. She is almost always at training or training camps. But Anna admits that she became interested in theatrical creativity only thanks to her daughter, she fell in love with reading and creating home comfort.
The champion is endowed not only with sports talents. She sings beautifully. Professionals recommend that she take vocal lessons to develop her abilities. However, the high jumper herself does not see singing as a further activity.
A spectacular and stylish athlete is often invited to participate in fashion shows as a model. Together with her mother, Nika also attends the event. The daughter became Anna's main cheerleader, does not miss a single performance.
The champion was awarded the Order of Friendship, the Medal of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland for her contribution to the development of sports and personal achievements in athletics.
