Russia is rich in sports talents. This is confirmed by the results of most Olympic games. The good news is that in our country there are more and more young athletes every year. This suggests that young people strive for success and health, and devote their youth not to the street and drugs, but to sports. Among the young athletes of our country, Victoria Komova deserves special respect (photo). This young gymnast has already managed to conquer the world with her talent.
Family of a young athlete
Komova Victoria Alexandrovna was born in Voronezh (in 1995, January 30) in a gymnastic family. Alexander Komov, the girl’s father, was awarded the title of master of sports in gymnastics, Vera Kolesnikova, Victoria’s mother, the world champion in the team championship (Canada, Montreal, 1985). Vika can also be proud that her mother has the title of Honored Master of Sports in Gymnastics and is the winner of the Goodwill Games in 1986. Victoria has an older brother Sasha, who also did gymnastics in childhood, but did not begin to build a career as an athlete.
The beginning of a sports career
The first lessons of gymnastics five-year-old Vika gave her mother. And when the girl turned seven, she brought her to a serious training session in the Sports School named after Shtukman Yuri. Outstanding trainers were engaged with Vika - Olga Mitrofanovna Bulgakova and Gennady Borisovich Elfimov, who are her mentors to this day. They already saw the great athlete in the girl, and they were not mistaken. By the age of sixteen, Victoria Komova became one of the most titled gymnasts in Russia of the 21st century. Parents can rightfully be proud of their talented daughter!
Debut
For the first time, gymnast Victoria Komova performed at the M. Voronin Cup, which took place in 2007. Then she confidently won the floor gymnastics exercises and vault. The following year, Victoria Komova won bronze in America at the WOGA Classic-2008 championship. A little later she visited France, where she fought in the Russian national team for the Massilia Cup. In the same 2008, Victoria showed the best result in vault and floor exercises at the M. Voronin Cup.
Rapid career
Vika has always been different from her peers. From the very beginning of playing sports, she wanted to plunge into the atmosphere of the real Olympic Games, to see other athletes from around the world. Victoria Komova first saw her rivals in the arena in Finland, in the city of Tampere, in 2009 - at the European Youth Olympic Festival. And immediately wiped their nose, defeating all-around. In the same year, Victoria Komova won the Youth International Cup of Japan. The young athlete finished 2009 with another victory in the Mikhail Voronin Cup, which has already become her native Cup .
Pinnacle of fame
Even more rapidly, the career of a young gymnast went up the next year, 2010. Victoria was waiting for success at the Russian Championship, then she showed unprecedented results in the women's team at the European Championships in Birmingham, winning a gold medal in the all-around. So successfully completed her performance on a log and vault. Together with her colleagues Anastasia Sidorova,
Maria Paseka, Violetta Malikova and Anastasia Grishina, Victoria Komova also celebrated the victory in the team championship. In
exercises on the parallel bars, Vika was second, losing the lead to her friend Grishina Anastasia. The tremendous success at the European Championships allowed the young gymnast to participate in the First Summer Youth Olympic Games.
The Youth Olympic Games in Singapore brought Victoria Komova the title of the undisputed champion - she received gold in the all-around, on the parallel bars and in the vault! Unfortunately, fatigue and enormous competition did not allow the young gymnast to win in the floor exercises - she finished third. Coach Victoria Elfimov Gennady explains this result also by the fact that on the last day of the competition, his ward was pretty tormented by doping procedures, which weary the athlete before the start of the competition.
Sports season 2011
In October 2011, Victoria Komova, gymnastics for which has already become the meaning of life, first performed at the world championship in the capital of Japan. The Russian team received silver in the team championship. Before participating in the finals of the absolute championship, Vika was the leader in all respects, but during the decisive competition she lost 0.033 points to American athlete Jordin Weber. In Tokyo, the Russian gymnast became the world champion in log exercises.
In April 2011, Victoria Komova became a master of sports of the Russian Federation of international class.
Injuries
In 2010, Victoria Komova at one of the performances received an ankle injury. After a rehabilitation course, the athlete went to the Championship of the Russian Federation, where she injured her leg again. The coaches decided to send Vika to Germany for examination, where she underwent arthroscopic surgery. For the first time after recovery, Victoria performed at the Cup of Russia, where she became a winner in exercises on a log and uneven bars, and also received silver in a vault and floor exercises.
In 2013, the gymnast pretty much suffered from health problems. For a long time she was tormented by back pain, which was caused by heavy loads during the period of active growth. Victoria Komova was also treated for viral meningitis, which came from nowhere. Last year ended for the athlete with an ankle injury (the same leg (right) was injured as in 2010).
Despite all the obstacles and health problems, already on January 18, 2014 Victoria ran along Leninsky Prospekt with an Olympic torch in her hand. And no one realized that taking each new step, Vika struggled with pain, because the plaster was removed from her just the day before, on January 17, and she still had no time to fully recover.
Free time
The country's young sports talent devotes his free time to drawing and embroidery. Vika also loves her Shih Tzu puppy named Kutya, who was presented to her after participating in the European Championship in 2010. She spends most of her leisure time with him.