Daria Domracheva was born on August 3, 1986 in a family of architects. The girl has a brother Nikita, who decided to follow in the footsteps of his parents and devote his life to this profession. When Daria was 4 years old, she and her family moved to live in Russia, and the Domrachevs settled in Siberia. For architects, this was a huge advantage for the reason that it opened up wide horizons for self-realization.
After some time, parents took part in the development of Nyagan - it was a new city. Thanks to productive activities, the mother of the future famous athlete was made the chief architect of the city. For this reason, the family did not live in the north for 5 years, as originally planned, but 3 times longer.
Education
Life in Siberia prompted Daria to visit the ski section. The climate and terrain contributed to the rapid development of skiing. However, at first it was more attractive to Nikita, and the girl herself was diligently involved in dancing and basketball. In 1999, Daria decided to try her hand at biathlon.
The girl received secondary education in a gymnasium with an economic bias. Then she entered Tyumen University and began to study at the faculty of sports management. In 2003, she transferred to the Belarusian State Economic University in her native city of Minsk, where she was listed at the Department of Tourism Management. In 2009, she defended her diploma on “Advertising in the Tourism Industry”.
Daria Domracheva became a famous biathlete in 2010. Then she presented to the public a documentary about her person. It was filmed as a video diary with the help of Maxim Subbotin, who at that time was her young man. The athlete was completely drawn into the sport of her life - biathlon.
Daria Domracheva and her achievements
At the beginning of her career, Daria represented Russia. However, there were so many achievements that she became a welcome candidate not only for the Russian team, but also for Belarus. Of course, the girl understood that she had received all her skills precisely thanks to the Russian trainers. But Daria still deep down always dreamed that she would represent her native Belarus.
For this reason, in 2004 she gladly accepted the invitation to join the women's biathlon team of Belarus. For the first time in international competitions, she took part in 2005 and then took 40th place in the individual race.
Other achievements:
- The debut in the World Cup took place in 2006, then the girl managed to achieve a better result, she took 16th place.
- In 2007, Daria became a member of the junior championship, where she took an honorable second place.
- In 2008-2009, the girl participated in many competitions and everywhere was in the top 10 best biathletes.
Despite the excellent skills, the girl’s career is full of not only ups, but also downs. Shooting cannot always be ideal, and the athlete understood this, tried to constantly improve herself. In Nove Mesto, the girl received a gold medal for an excellent mass start. However, then she still did not know that this was not the most important victory in her life.
Olympics in Sochi
In 2014, at the Olympics in Sochi, Daria Domracheva felt what a real triumph is. Even despite a small slip, she easily won the individual race at a distance of 15 km. It was then that she earned her first gold medal in Sochi.
The girl won the second gold in three days. She again beat all rivals in the individual race. On February 17, the third gold medal followed . Such an amazing result was not noted in the entire history of the Belarusian biathlon.
Daria Domracheva and Bjoerndalen
The girl’s personal life is full of rumors and gossip. Very often in the press there was information that Daria had an affair with Olympic champion Ole-Einar Bjoerndalen. The girl denied all the rumors. However, in 2012, a multiple champion divorced his wife, and it became clear that Daria Domracheva and Bjoerndalen could well be more than friends.
In April 2015, the news appeared in the media that a wedding was planned in the summer of the same year. Daria only laughed at the yellow press and said that at the moment there was no talk of marriage. Although the athlete herself notes that many of her relatives believed in what was written and simply bombarded her with questions. The girl does not want the press to intervene in her personal life, and stated that she will definitely inform about it herself when she decides to get married. The wedding of Daria Domracheva became a favorite topic of many publications, which seemed to want to marry her and the famous colleague of the athlete.
Life position
Daria loves excitement, passion and unpredictability. It is for this reason that she decided to devote herself to biathlon. The girl herself says that she was not used to build ambitious plans in advance. The main thing is to be friendly to people around and always believe only in the best.
Daria lives today, she is not upset because of defeats. The ups and downs are normal. There is no other way in sports. All life is ahead and in it many surprises await. Daria will certainly fulfill all her dreams and plans, and we will hear more than once about her next victories.