1. Yana Oleksandrivna Klochkova is a Ukrainian swimmer, who has won five Olympic medals in her career, with four of them being gold.
15 Facts About Yana Klochkova
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Yana Klochkova is Merited Master of Sports, Hero of Ukraine.
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Yana Klochkova set 50 Ukrainian records in 25- and 50-meter swimming pools at distances of 100,200,400 meters with integrated swimming; 200,400 and 800 meters freestyle; 100 and 200 meters on the back; 200 meters butterfly and relay swimming.
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Yana Klochkova was born on 7 August 1982 in the city of Simferopol.
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Yana Klochkova moved from there to Kharkiv, then to Kyiv.
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Yana Klochkova has a son named Oleksandr born 21 June 2010.
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The relationship between Rostoshvili and Yana Klochkova lasted 18 months and Rostoshvili moved back to Georgia before their son was born and Yana Klochkova raised her son alone.
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In 2021 Yana Klochkova complained that she had not been invited to the celebration of the 30th anniversary of Ukrainian independence.
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On 16 September 2021 Yana Klochkova organised a swimming cross of the Dnipro river in Kyiv in honor of swimming day and the 30th anniversary of Ukrainian independence.
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Yana Klochkova has never publicly made a statement on the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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On 24 March 2009 in the Olympic swimming pool "Aquarena" in Kharkiv, during the first stage of the Ukrainian Swimming Cup, with completely filled stands, Yana Klochkova's official "parting with water" took place.
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Yana Klochkova, nicknamed "the goldfish" in Ukraine, was symbolically presented with an aquarium with a live goldfish.
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In 2011, Yana Klochkova headed the Kyiv branch of the National Olympic Committee of Ukraine, but in 2012, without waiting for support for her initiatives from the executive committee of the Olympic Committee, she left this post.
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Yana Klochkova has won ten titles at swimming's world championships, nineteen European championship titles.
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Yana Klochkova currently holds the short-course world record in the 400 meter individual medley.