"Goldfish" Yana Klochkova of Ukraine: the facts that you were not aware of swimmer

Jan was born on August 7, 1982 in Simferopol. Since childhood, future swimmer fell in love with the sport, because she was born in a family of athletes.

I am very liked water. Parents joke that I learned to swim before going. At first they put in the yard of the bath - and I lapped hours. And when we went to the sea, swam, affecting the entire beach. After all, I was not there, and two years

- recalls his childhood as Ian.

The 4-year girl went to gymnastics, and at age 7 Jan went to the first training in swimming. And John says, from that moment her carefree childhood was over. Jan trained for 6 hours a day, and could afford to sleep only on Sundays.

Girl the first medal won at the 1996 Junior European Championships in Denmark. 14-year-old girl won the silver medal, and the following year, John received the gold.

In 1998, John became the winner of the World Cup among women. In 2000, the swimmer is sent to Hong Kong and returned world champion.

In 2003, Yana Klochkova became the world champion and is gaining tremendous popularity.

In 2004, Yana Klochkova travels to Athens to win the Olympics. But the athlete was lucky and she won 2 gold medals in the 200 and 400 meters, and has received the title of "world's best swimmer of the year."

For all time swimmer has established more than 50 records of Ukraine and was twice awarded the Order of Princess Olga, in 1999 and 2000.

He won 14 medals at the world championships, and to 28 at the European Championships (Jan 19-times champion of the continent), and so it was called "Goldfish".

In 2004, swimmer received the title of Hero of Ukraine, and in 2008, Yana Klochkova, made a statement on the completion of his boxing career.

In the life of every athlete comes time to think about retirement. The voyage is now a lot of competition: the Olympic Games in Beijing, the results speak for themselves. But life goes on after sport. I hope that in the future will be as successful as in sports.

Personal life Yana Klochkova

Ian struggled all his life for a victory in 20 years realized that he wanted true happiness.

Only to twenty years, I looked around and realized that many of my peers have already found their "half", have got families, have given birth to children. I came an epiphany: no rank, honors and awards are no substitute for love and ordinary women's happiness. And I began to dream about this beautiful and unattainable for me the world

First relationship Jana tied with sports journalist Alexei Mochanov. Parents were against such relationships, because Jana Aleeksey was older by 13 years.

But the couple lived together for a long time, and they parted. Ian is very experienced separation problem:

And yet I did not regret anything: first love should "recover" at least in order to experience nor the incomparable, poignant feeling.

To date, John brings 9-year-old son Alexander. With the boy's father Yang met in Kiev, they met a half years, but according to Jana, the baby's father - not the person with whom you can build a happy family.

The boy's name is Mom, playing sports: swimming is excellent, skiing and loves football.

Jan keeps himself in top form, and shares the results of their training in social networks:

Nothing in life comes easy. To achieve its goals it is necessary to make certain sacrifices - to spend their energy, time, limit yourself to something. Sometimes there are moments when you want to quit and give up the dream. At such times, remember how much you will get, if you go on and how much to lose if surrender. The price of success is usually less than the price of failure.

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