Anna Aleksandrovna Makarova is a famous Russian athlete, volleyball player. Played as a striker. Winner of the title "Master of Sports of Russia".
Biography
The future volleyball player was born in April 1984 on the second day in the small Ukrainian city of Zaporozhye. From early childhood, Anya was a very active girl and always wanted to play sports. In middle school, parents decided to enroll their daughter in the local volleyball section. Her first trainer was the honored athlete Lyubov Nikolaevna Perebynis.
In the late nineties, when Anna was barely fifteen years old, she was accepted into the local volleyball team "Orbit-ZTMK-ZNU". The team played in the Super League of Ukraine and in fact this was the first Makarova experience on a professional level.
Career
In 2002, Makarova moved to Krug, a volleyball club from the city of Cherkasy. The team steadily occupied the third place over two seasons, and in the 04/05 season Makarova as a member of the team won the gold medal. She also won the Ukrainian Cup as part of the Circle.
At the beginning of her career, a talented volleyball player was regularly attracted to participate in various youth teams of the country. In 2002, she as part of the national team won a silver medal at the European Championships. After this success, she was transferred to the main national team of Ukraine, in which she played until 2005.
In 2005, Anna Makarova received an offer from the Samorodok Russian volleyball club and moved to Khabarovsk. During the year, she issued all the necessary documents and issued Russian citizenship. Having played four seasons for the Khabarovsk club, Anna switched to Dynamo Krasnodar, where she spent only one season. From that moment, Makarova did not stay in any club for more than one season, regularly changing teams. In total, during her playing career, the famous athlete changed ten volleyball clubs.
Despite such instability, Anna managed to win many awards, including the championship in Russian and Ukrainian tournaments, two cups of Russia and one of Ukraine, as well as many silver and bronze medals. At the international level, the volleyball player achieved success with the Russian national team, in 2009 she became the silver medalist at the Grand Prix.
