Yana Klochkova biography


At 15, she moved to Kharkov, and then to Kyiv. In the year, Yana graduated from the School of Physical Culture and Sports in Kharkov, and three years later - the metropolitan university of physical education and sports. The family of the future champion was a builder, mother worked in a grocery store. In addition, Klochkova's parents were engaged in athletics. Yana has the youngest sister Anna for three years.

She works in the hotel business. For some time, Klochkova lived in a civil marriage with the racer Alexei Mochanov. In the year, Plovchikha gave birth to a son Alexander bears the name of her mother. He lives and studies in the Crimea. The father of the child is an entrepreneur from Georgia Levan Rostoshvili. Yana and Levan did not apply for a marriage and parted when Klochkova was in the third month of pregnancy.

The couple does not communicate since the year. According to the athlete, her former lover was in prison for the distribution of drugs. Career from a young age Klochkova was playing sports. At first, parents dreamed that Yana would become a gymnast. However, soon a section of rhythmic gymnastics in Simferopol was closed. At seven, Klochkova took up swimming. According to Yana's parents, the girl learned to swim earlier than walking.

In the basin Klochkov had to spend six hours a day, resting only on Sundays. Soon regular training began to bear fruit. At the age of fourteen, the athlete was the second at the European championship among juniors. A year later, Yana won continental gold. In the year, Klochkova won the World Cup, becoming his younger champion. In the year, Yana won four gold medals in four days of the European championship.

After these victories after the Ukrainian, the nickname "Golden Fish" entrenched. In the year, Klochkova went to Sydney to the Olympic Games. At the age of eighteen years, Klochkova won two gold and m complex and one silver mobile style at once. At a distance of meters, Yana not only came to the finish line first, but also broke the Olympic record, which lasted twenty years. By the age of years, the athlete began to complain that she was difficult to live in a frantic regime of constant training and competitions.

Before the Athenian Olympics, she made herself a promise to take a timeout if she won gold medals. At the Olympics in Athens in the year, the Ukrainian swimmer took two more gold medals at the same distances - and meters with complex swimming. Yana became the first and so far the only Ukrainian athlete who climbed four times to the highest step of the podium at the Olympic Games.

For successes at the Olympic competitions in August, Plovchikha was awarded the title Hero of Ukraine. Twice - in the years - Klochkova became the "man of the year" in the nomination "Athlete". After the Olympics, Yana was awarded the title of best swimmer of the year in the world. In addition to victories in Sydney and Athens, Klochkova became the world champion ten times and won silver at the world championships four more times.

Yana Klochkova biography

At the European Championships, the Ukrainian won 16 times. Five times she was awarded silver and three times bronze awards. In her homeland, she set fifty records at various distances -,,, meters with comprehensive swimming, and meters free -style, and meters on the back, meters of butterfly and in relay swimming. In the year, she still went to Beijing to her third Olympics.

At the opening ceremony of swimmer games, she was honored to carry the Ukrainian flag. However, Klochkov never went to the start of Klochkov. According to Yana coaches, she could compete for prizes. But secular life absorbed her. The Golden Fish finally tied with sports at the age of 26. The ceremony of farewell to Klochkova with swimming was held in the spring of the year in the Kharkiv Waterfish basin.

Yana trained in the Dynamo sports society. Has the title of Major of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. For some time, Klochkova served as vice president of the Youth and Olympic voyage support fund. In the year, the former athlete headed the metropolitan branch of the NOK of Ukraine. But in this post she spent two years. At the end of the year, Yana left with a scandal. According to Klochkova herself, she was used as a model.

As a sports official, Yana had not only her own office, but even a chair. Even in the year, Yana was elected a deputy of the Kharkov City Council from the Party of Regions. She was a member of the deputy group "Young Regions". The Olympic champion since the mid -x began to lead a secular lifestyle. Yana attended various social events, presentations, took part in advertising campaigns, television shows “And Love will come”, “Dance for you” and even in the video “If you want me to be with you” by the singer Irina Bilyk.

Klochkova was an individual entrepreneur. The main activity from for a year is advertising activities and with the rental and operation of own or leased real estate. Klochkova had a charitable fund jointly with the swimmer Denis Silantiev. She also has several charitable projects with entrepreneur Timothy Nagorno.Yana conducts swimming workshops for pupils of orphaned shelters.

In dreams of the Olympic champion, the opening of their own swimming school. The incident with the robbery in August of the year Yana's apartment was robbed. According to a friend of swimmers Timofei Nagorny, thieves robbed an athlete’s apartment on her birthday. Attackers stole a laptop, wristwatch, jewelry and other things totaling about thousands of hryvnias. On suspicion of robbery, law enforcement officers put on the wanted list of a summer citizen of Georgia.

The police discovered his fingerprints in the robbed apartment of the champion. The scandal in the fall of the year Klochkova scanned with one of the Ukrainian tour operators because of her vacation in Turkey. The Olympic champion in social networks wrote that she decided for five days to go with her friend to the Turkish resort. However, the hotel that the tour operator booked turned out to be terrible.

According to her, the hotel was in a deaf village. The building was a dilapidated complex. Homeless dogs wandered around its territory. The room was dirty and not removed. One towel for two adults, and soap was not at all. When Klochkova asked to change the hotel, they demanded additional payments from her. True, she deleted later the message. The tour operator responded to accusations of fraud.

They stated that Klochkova herself chose a budget vacation option. Therefore, she and her friend picked up the appropriate option. According to the employees of the tour operator, previously Yana took expensive tours. Therefore, it is not surprising that the budget option disappointed it. When Plovchikha asked for a new hotel, she was removed from her for the fact that the hotel could not fully annul her exit.

Klochkova did not agree that she was guilty of a spoiled rest. She accused the tour operator of lies, demanding a refutation of this statement. Representatives of the tour operator invited the athlete to submit to the legal department their complaint. The condition of Yana Klochkov does not reveal information about his income. It is known that at the peak of a career as prizes for her victories, she received hundreds of thousands of dollars.

So, in the year Klochkova submitted a declaration to the tax authorities. In the reporting, Yana indicated that her annual income amounted to more than a million hryvnias. According to the swimmer, she gave almost all the money earned to her parents. For the victory at the Olympiad Klochkova, a Suzuki car was presented. Then she had no right yet. Therefore, the athlete's father traveled to him.

Four years later, gold awards brought Yana not only another car, but also an apartment in Kyiv. Now the athlete has a four -room apartment in Kyiv in the LCD “Seasons”. She also owned the apartment in Gurzuf.