Alexandra Grishina is a Belarusian athlete, a kayaker. She became the silver medalist of the World Cup, the winner of the national and youth regattas.
Childhood, youth
Alexandra Grishina was born on July 31, 1993 in the village of Zhodino (Minsk region, Belarus). The parents of the girl were not related to the sport, but wanted their daughter to do something healthy. At that time, they did not think that these activities would bring their daughter to the big sport.
From an early age, Grishina studied at the youth sports school. She showed good results. The girl had everything in order to become successful, to build a career. She was involved in various sports, but in the end she was interested in kayaking. In his native Zhodino, there was no way to train. But the Grishina family after some time moved to Minsk. In the capital, Alexandra attended the Minsk Regional Specialized Children and Youth School of the Olympic Reserve. She trained with such distinguished trainers as L. A. Kozlovskaya and V. A. Romysh. A few years after the start of active rowing classes, she began to show serious results.
Career
In 2012, Grishina won several medals at European and world junior championships. A talented athlete was noticed and already in 2013 she was invited to participate in competitions at the adult level among professionals. After a series of successful performances, she was awarded the right to join the national team of Belarus and represent the country at the European Championships in the Portuguese city of Montemor-o-Velho.
Alexandra with a four-seater crew, which also included rowers Olga Khudenko, Nadezhda Popok and Margarita Tishkevich, won a bronze medal at a distance of 500 meters. In those competitions, the national teams of Hungary and Germany were ahead. Grishina visited the youth world and European championships, but could not take the prize. She took part in the standings of the summer Universiade in Kazan. In the program of four-seater crews at 500 meters, she won a gold medal.
Alexandra Grishina is a talented athlete. She was always very hardy and strove to win, despite all the obstacles that arose on the way. For rowers, these qualities are important. Physical data is no less important. Athletes must have a certain physique, developed muscles. Alexandra is not deprived of all this. Grishina took part in competitions in single kayaks, kayaks-two and kayaks-fours. She managed to achieve the best results in team competitions, held on kayaks, fours for short distances.
Coaches characterize Grishin as an athlete who knows how to work together in a team. This is another component of her success.
Alexandra Grishina had many awards. She won prizes at world championships several times:
- gold medal at the world championship among students (Minsk, 2014);
- silver medal (Moscow, 2014);
- silver medal (Milan, 2015).
In 2014, Grishina, together with Sofia Yurchenko, became the European champion, beating all rivals in the kilometer classification at competitions in the German city of Brandenburg. This victory has become very significant in her career. Then she successfully performed at the world championship in Moscow, in the same discipline, she and Yurchenko finished second, leaving only the crew from Denmark ahead.
There are several medals won at the European Championships in the piggy bank of the Grishina awards:
- bronze medal (Montemor-o-Velho, Portugal, 2013);
- gold medal (Brandenburg, Germany, 2014);
- Gold medal (Racice, Czech Republic, 2015).
Alexandra has a university degree. After graduation, she had to train a lot, so she did not enter the university right away. But a few years later she nevertheless became a student at the Belarusian University of Physical Culture and Sports and successfully graduated from it.
For her outstanding achievements, she was awarded the title of international master of sports of the highest class. Alexandra dreams of participating in the Olympic Games and believes that she may well take one of the prizes. In the future, she plans to engage in coaching. The athlete admits that she always dreamed of working with children and would like to train this age group.
