37 Facts About Anastasia Gorbenko

Anastasia "Nastiya" Gorbenko is an Israeli competitive swimmer.

Anastasia Gorbenko competes in the backstroke, breaststroke, freestyle, and medley.

Anastasia Gorbenko has won 8 World and European championships gold medals, competed at 2 Olympic finals, broken most of the Israeli national records for women and mixed relays, and is considered to be Israel's greatest swimmer of all time.

In February 2024, Gorbenko won a silver medal at the Doha World Championships in the women's 400 meters individual medley.

Anastasia Gorbenko represented Israel at the 2024 Summer Olympics in swimming in the 100m backstroke, 200m backstroke, 100m breaststroke, 200m individual medley, 400m individual medley, 4x200m freestyle relay, and mixed 4x100m medley relay.

Anastasia Gorbenko grew up in Kiryat Yam, Israel, and later moved with her family to Kiryat Bialik, Israel.

Anastasia Gorbenko has an older sister and a younger sister.

Anastasia Gorbenko trained at the Wingate Institute in Netanya, and attended Hof HaSharon High School in Kibbutz Shefayim, where she majored in biology.

Anastasia Gorbenko competes in the 100m backstroke, 100m breaststroke, 100m freestyle, 200m backstroke, 200m breaststroke, 200m medley, 50m backstroke, freestyle, medley, freestyle mixed, and freestyle.

Anastasia Gorbenko won the gold medal in the girls' 200m individual medley at the 2018 Youth Olympic Games.

In May 2021, Anastasia Gorbenko won the gold medal in the 200m medley at the 2020 European Championships in Budapest.

In November 2021, Anastasia Gorbenko won the gold medal in the 200m medley at the 2020 European Championships in Kazan.

In July 2018 Anastasia Gorbenko set a new Israeli record in the 200m breaststroke, at 2:29.17, at the 2018 European Junior Swimming Championships; Long Course in Helsinki, Finland.

Anastasia Gorbenko set a new Israeli record, breaking that achieved by Amit Ivry in the 2012 London Olympics.

In May 2019, at the 2019 Speedo Grand Challenge in Irvine, California, Anastasia Gorbenko established a new Israeli national record in the 200m individual medley with a time of 2:11.98, and established a new Israeli national record in the 200m breaststroke with a time of 2:28.78 to win the event by over a second.

Anastasia Gorbenko placed second in the 100m breaststroke with a time of 1:10.04, just short of her personal best of 1:09.74.

Anastasia Gorbenko competed in the women's 200m individual medley at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships.

In October 2019 Anastasia Gorbenko set an Israeli record in the women's 400m individual medley with a time of 4:37.68.

Anastasia Gorbenko led off the 400m freestyle relay to an Israeli record in the 100m free, swimming a 52.87.

Anastasia Gorbenko set a new Israeli junior record in the 50m breaststroke with a 31.01.

Anastasia Gorbenko set a new Israeli junior record with a time of 55.36 in the 100m free.

Anastasia Gorbenko set Israeli junior records in the 200m breast and 100m fly.

Anastasia Gorbenko set an Israeli record and European junior record in the 100 free with a time of 52.39.

Anastasia Gorbenko represented Israel at the 2020 Summer Olympics in five different events: She finished 10th in the women's 200m individual medley event's semifinals.

Anastasia Gorbenko competed in the women's 100m backstroke event, where she qualified for the final in the competition, finishing 8th overall.

In May 2021, at the age of 17, Anastasia Gorbenko won the gold medal in the 200 individual medley at the 2020 European Championships in Budapest, with a new Israeli record time of 2:09.99, and set a new Israeli record in the 100 meter backstroke, with a time of 59.96.

Anastasia Gorbenko held records in every stroke other than the butterfly.

In October 2021 Anastasia Gorbenko won the gold medal in the 50m breaststroke, and the gold medal in the 100m breaststroke, as well as the gold medal in the 100m individual medley at the 2021 Swimming World Cup in Berlin.

Anastasia Gorbenko set an Israeli national record in the 50m back, with a time of 26.63.

In November 2021, Anastasia Gorbenko won the gold medal in the 200m individual medley at the 2020 European Championships in Kazan, Russia, with a time of 2 minutes and 5.17 seconds, beating Maria Ugolkova of Switzerland.

Anastasia Gorbenko finished 2021 ranked in the world's top 10 in five different SCM events.

At the time, Anastasia Gorbenko held Israel's national record in the event, and a total of eight Israeli LCM national records.

Anastasia Gorbenko dedicated her medal to her childhood friend Matan Angrest, who was among the 130 kidnapped hostages being held captive by Hamas in Gaza.

Anastasia Gorbenko won a silver medal as she broke her own 400m IM Israeli record, swimming a 4:40.76.

In June 2023 at the 2023 Israeli Championships, Anastasia Gorbenko won a gold medal in the 200m fly in 26.54, and a silver medal in the 200m free in 1:58.82.

In February 2024, the 20-year-old Anastasia Gorbenko won a silver medal at the Doha World Championships in Qatar in the women's 400m individual medley in a new Israeli record time of 4:37:36,0.22 of a second behind gold medal winner Briton Freya Colbert.

Anastasia Gorbenko represented Israel at the 2024 Paris Olympics in swimming in the 100m backstroke, 200m backstroke, 100m breaststroke, 200m individual medley, 400m individual medley, 4x200m freestyle relay, and mixed 4x100m medley relay.