The student of the famous fencing trainers Alexander Sergeyevich and Vitaly Alexandrovich Kislyunin fencer Olga Kochneva trained hard and long before getting the title of Honored Master of Sports of Russia and winning the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro in 2016.
This victory was a team, but Olga made a significant contribution to it.
Biography
Olga Kochneva was born in 1988 in the town of Dzerzhinsk in the Gorky region. As a child, she showed very diverse interests, but the beauty of fencing conquered the future athlete, and she chose the sword as her professional weapon.
From the very beginning, Olga took sports seriously: she studied at a sports school, then received the education of a sports organization manager. And trained selflessly and willingly. The first mentor of Olga in Dzerzhinsk was Elena Nikolaevna Futina - it was she who gave her student a ticket to the big sport and taught the first sword skills.
Olga herself also invested a lot of effort in moving from a small town to the capital and becoming noticeable among the many fencers who dream of conquering the peaks of professional sports.
Skewer career
First, Olga played for the Youth of Moscow club, and then she was invited to Dynamo Moscow. She stands for this club now.
Since 2009, Kochneva has repeatedly become the champion of Russia in the team of fencers. Twice her team was a silver medalist. As for personal success - twice she received bronze medals at the championship of Russia.
The most notable achievement of Olga Kochneva to date is the victory at the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro in 2016. This year was significant for her: she became a member of the Russian team and began to prepare seriously for the Olympics. Moreover, she had serious difficulties: she interrupted training due to pregnancy and childbirth, but she was able to pull herself together and continue preparing for an important sporting event.
It was “hot” at the Olympics: the gap in points with the opponents was very small, and at any moment they could win an advantage and win. It was Kochneva who went to the court who widened this gap in points, and the team captain still strengthened her success. The result is bronze, which can be considered an excellent result in the conditions of this Olympics.
For this victory, Olga Kochneva received the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", II degree. The plans of the athlete are preparing for the Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo.
Olga has other hobbies besides sports: she loves to study art history. This interest appeared in her as a child, and over the years did not pass. On the contrary, as a person who is used to doing business seriously, Olga decided to study art professionally as well, so she entered the Institute of Culture to study this interesting discipline. And who knows what occupation she will choose in the future when she has to leave professional sports: training young athletes or art history?
