Olga Korobka is a Ukrainian famous athlete. The woman has the title of master of sports in weightlifting and is the owner of a silver medal at the 2008 Olympics. Despite the physical strength and external stamina, a romantic woman lives inside Olga.
Biography
The future Olympic champion was born in 1985 in a small district center. The population of the city totaled a little more than 10 thousand people. Olga's parents lived modestly. Mom was a housewife, and the head of the family worked as a security guard.
Olga has a large physique since birth. She was born weighing more than 4 kilograms. The family always believed that the girl went to grandfather. The girl studied at a regular school and at the age of 9 she began to do weightlifting. At first, she trained in the school basement.
After presenting the certificate, Olga submitted documents to an agricultural university. When the girl was 18 years old, she went to her first serious competition. In Vancouver, a young athlete won an honorary bronze medal.
Sports career
In 2006, Olga Korobka participated in sports in Santo Domingo. To successfully perform, the girl arrived there a little earlier and gave the body the opportunity to successfully acclimatize. She again took third place.
The first victory came to the Ukrainian athlete at the European Championship in the same year. She performed in the middle weight category and won a gold medal with a result of almost three hundred kilograms.
In 2007, Olga went to France for the championship. Ward SK Dynamo competed in the same weight category, but this time she improved her last year result and left her rivals far behind. At the next championship in Thailand, Box showed a worse result and lost prizes to the Chinese and Korean. But Olga did not leave the pedestal: she received a bronze medal.
2008 brought the athlete the title of three-time European champion. Her incredible success did not go unnoticed in her native country. Ukrainian women were inspired by the example of a compatriot and fell into weightlifting. Athletes were worshiped by fans, crowds of fans surrounded them with attention and support.
At the Beijing Olympics, a woman achieved the most deafening victory in her sports career. Olga Korobka received a silver medal, which became the only national weightlifting team.
Four years later, the Ukrainian athlete was at the center of the doping scandal. Her samples were positive, subsequent studies only confirmed the initial result. Because of this, she was disqualified on the eve of the Olympic Games.
