Svetlana Khorkina is a great athlete who, thanks to her willpower, proved that the impossible is possible in sports. In addition, Svetlana is a politician who helps many people with her work.
Childhood
Svetlana Khorkina was born in 1979 in Belgorod. Her parents came to Belgorod to earn money, her father worked as a builder, and her mother worked as a nurse. At the age of four, my mother took her daughter to the gymnastics section, and the girl began to engage with enthusiasm.
Svetlana has a younger sister, Yulia, who is now an international master of sports in artistic gymnastics.
First successes in sports
The path of Svetlana Khorkina in sports was not easy. To begin with, I must say that Sveta was not suitable for this sport in terms of physical data, she was too high. But the coach allowed her to practice, because he saw the girl's perseverance and her desire to do everything perfectly. These qualities helped Svetlana more than once in the future.
When the time came to play for the youth national team of the USSR, they did not want to take Svetlana either, considering her a provincial and overly harshly evaluating her performances. But due to persistence and talent, Sveta achieved her goal.
Queen of the Bars
Svetlana Khorkina is a two-time Olympic champion, a nine-time world champion and a thirteen-time European champion.
Svetlana won most of the medals on her favorite uneven bars. No one in the world could repeat her achievements on this projectile.
Political career
Having left the big sport, Svetlana Khorkina was not lost. She completed her education, defended her Ph. D. thesis and began to work diligently.
In 2004, Svetlana was appointed vice-president of the Russian Artistic Gymnastics Federation, and in 2007 Svetlana Khorkina became a deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation of the fifth convocation.
In 2014, Svetlana works at the Sochi Olympics, and soon she was appointed to the post of first deputy head of CSKA.
Svetlana Khorkina is a reserve colonel, third class acting state adviser of the Russian Federation.
Svetlana spoke quite sharply about the doping scandal involving Russian athletes. She believes that the Russian national athletics team was not allowed to the Olympics unfairly. Svetlana is against doping, but she believes that everyone should be tested under the same conditions, and not with an addiction to one particular team.
Personal life
There have been rumors about the athlete's personal life for a long time. It all started with the fact that in 2005 Svetlana gave birth to a son, Svyatoslav. Paternity was attributed to many men, but Khorkina herself did not comment on the rumors in any way. Later Svetlana wrote a book about her life called "Stiletto heels". This book mentions the name of the child's father - Cyril. The ubiquitous journalists immediately suggested that the father of the child is businessman Kirill Shubsky, the husband of actress Vera Glagoleva.
In 2011, Svetlana got married. FSB General Oleg Kochnov became her husband.
