My sport idol Yuliya Andreyevna Yefimova презентация

a Russian competitive swimmer. A three-time Olympian, she made her Olympic debut in 2008, before going on to win the bronze medal in the 200 metres breaststroke in 2012, and silver medals in the 100 metres and 200 metres breaststroke in 2016. In 2013, she failed a drug test and was suspended from competition for 16 months.

2013 World Championships in Barcelona, Spain. She won the gold in the 200m breaststroke as well as the 50m breaststroke, breaking the World Record in the 50m distance. In the 100m breaststroke, she won a silver medal behind Meilutyte, who is her biggest competition.
December 2013 she broke Rebecca Soni’s World Record in the 200m breaststroke at the European Short Course Championships. In comparing the two great swimmers, Efimova’s third 50 is what made all the difference.
After her 16-month suspension, Efimova competed at the 2015 Russian National Championships. Almost instantly her performances in the 50m and 100m breaststroke put her on top of the world rankings in the events. At the 2015 Santa Clara Grand Prix where she went 3-for-3 in the breaststroke events representing Club Trojan.

of Volgodonsk (since 2008)
-Medal of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" (2012)
-Order of Friendship (2016)

Kazan in her signature breaststroke events. Coming out of the semi-finals in the 50-meter breaststroke, Efimova finished third in a dead-heat of breaststroke talent – only one second divided the final eight swimmers. In the final Efimova swam nearly an identical time to grab a bronze medal in the 50-meter distance. Efimova also competed in the 100 breast, an event that she’s been ranked high in the world rankings as of recent. Coming out of the semi-finals, she finished on top of the field just .04 seconds ahead of rival, Ruta Meilutyte. In the final of the 100-meter distance, Meilutyte decided to take the first 50 meters out fast, leaving Efimova behind by about half-a-second. That eased first 50 proved to be effective for Effimova though as Meilutyte began to drop off, and Efimova took the gold medal by nearly a second

in light of an ongoing scandal of doping within the Russian Olympic Team She was initially banned from participation due to her previous doping suspension, but this ban was overturned by the Court of Arbitration for Sport, allowing her to compete. During the Games, she was booed by spectators during each of her races. Yefimova was also criticized by other swimmers, including Lilly King, who won the gold medal in the 100 m breaststroke. Yefimova won the silver, and during the news conference afterwards, she was "on the verge of tears from the opening question about the boos directed at.

War her family moved to Volgodonsk. There she took up swimming aged six, coached by her father Andrey Yefimov. Until 2011, she lived in Taganrog, where she trained under Irina Vyatchanina and studied at the Southern Federal University. In March that year, she moved to California, United States, where she is coached by Dave Salo, the head coach of the University of Southern California swimming team.

Efimova and Lilly King in the women’s 100m breaststroke final did not disappoint. King was out fast, splitting 29.80 at the 50. Efimova, a great closer, was expected to gain ground on the second 50, but King surged with the fastest back half of the field, splitting a 34.33 on the way home to clip the World Record with a 1:04.13. (The former record stood at a 1:04.35 done by Ruta Meilutyte in 2012.) USA teammate, Katie Meili was second, 1:05.03. Efimova got on the podium with a bronze in 1:05.05.