What is Evgenia Kanaeva doing now? Evgenia Kanaeva, biography, news, photos

The two-time Olympic champion told an SE correspondent about how she made the decision to retire and about her new job with young gymnasts

- They say that you are now Main coach youth team.

When I read this news, I thought: “Wow.” In fact, I became the coach of the Russian national team. We do not have any division by age. I work with young gymnasts and help the main athletes in creating programs. Irina Aleksandrovna Wiener connects me if she needs help.

- How did you end up in the coaching field?

All my life, rhythmic gymnastics has been my main thing. For me it is like creativity. I can't live without her. Some people want to go into show business, others want to become a TV presenter, but I like gymnastics. At the same time, I understand that I need to develop myself in a variety of areas. For this reason, I entered the university to get a second degree. higher education.

- You look wonderful. It must have been difficult to maintain your figure after retiring?

Would you know how quickly I started to gain weight after Olympic Games in London! I was seriously drying myself out in preparation for them. And after they ended, the body began to catch up. Everything stabilized only after the birth of the child. Now I don’t go on strict diets, but I restrain myself within reason.

- Some of the gymnasts of the 2012 Olympic team found themselves on television. You could probably do it too.

By the way, I was invited. But I believe that to engage in this activity you need to receive a special education and be a competent person in this environment. Go on television simply because you have a name and title Olympic champion, - it is not right.

- What about your teammates?

They are probably learning... And in general I shy person. I feel uncomfortable when I am filmed or even photographed. I'm very self-critical and weird. For example, I always loved to train. Even when it was hard. Maybe I'm a masochist (laughs).

- Is coaching serious and long-term?

Wait and see. At the moment I really like everything. I get great pleasure and want to help our country maintain its brand in rhythmic gymnastics.

- Do you work with someone individually?

Yes. But these girls are still young. There are some very promising ones.

- Are they listening?

Yes, in different ways. There are also very successful people who look straight into their mouths and hang on to every word. But there are very few of them. It's a different time now. It seems to me that the current generation is more talented, but this very “looking into the mouth” is lacking.

- How can a young athlete not do this if in front of him is a legend of his sport?

It happens. There was one striking example...

- If necessary, can you kick me out of training?

I've never been kicked out and I don't intend to do that. I don't think this method is correct. I can only say that the doors are always open, and if someone doesn’t want to study, they can leave. I didn’t come here to force an athlete to work against his will, but to help him achieve something in life.

- You yourself announced your retirement relatively recently. When did you make this decision internally?

No one touched me or pressed me. They gave me the opportunity to think calmly. We recently spoke with my first coach Vera Shtelmbaus, and she said: “But you could have continued. I saw fire and desire in you.” In general, she had hope until the last moment. But I still decided to switch to family life. Plus, my health was not all right. I just didn't talk about it. And everything has its time. I have achieved some success in gymnastics, now I need to move on.

How were the first days without gymnastics?

It was a terrible situation. Feeling like you are in emptiness. Before life was built according to a clear schedule, I always understood what would happen tomorrow, the day after tomorrow and even in six months. And then you wake up - and that’s it, the thread is cut. You need to look for yourself again. Everyone deals with the situation differently. I went to my family and gave birth to a child. I believe that this is the main event in life for any woman.

- By the way, about women. Rhythmic gymnastics is the only sport in which there are no men yet...

Apparently, we will soon cease to be an exception.

Evgenia Kanaeva-Musatova is an outstanding Russian athlete, the most titled “artist” on the planet. Born on April 2, 1990 in Omsk.

The wife is only 27 years old, and she - a true legend world sport with a huge number of records.

She won two consecutive Olympics (Beijing 2008 and London 2012) in the individual all-around, which has never been achieved in this sport, and is unlikely to happen in the future. In Beijing, Zhenya was the youngest finalist, and in London she became the oldest Olympic champion in the history of this sport.

She became the absolute world champion three times in a row, and in total she has 17 gold medals at the world championships. During her career, Evgenia won 59 different tournaments without losing a single (!!!) start. Several times she became second, but it was in certain types with the subject, she never lost the all-around.

The official website of the Olympic Games writes about her simply: the greatest athlete in history rhythmic gymnastics. Dot.

At one time, no less outstanding gymnasts competed with her: Anna Bessonova (Ukraine), Inna Zhukova (Belarus), Daria Kondakova (Russia), Olga Kapranova (Russia), Daria Dmitrieva (Russia), Aliya Garayeva (Azerbaijan) and many others. But it was she who, for the 8 years that her adult career lasted, was the absolute prima of rhythmic gymnastics.

Zhenya amazed with her refined technique and was unusually musical and expressive. In one and a half minutes she created an entire mini-performance. She was not afraid to take music that was difficult to interpret on the carpet: Stravinsky, Rachmaninov, Chopin, Glinka, Shchedrin. And most importantly, she did the most difficult things with incredible ease.

The former president of the International Gymnastics Federation, Italian Bruno Grandi, once called her exercises “cosmic” and compared them with the creations of Michelangelo.

Incendiary Carmen with clubs, crystal ballerina with a ribbon under “ Moscow Nights”, the frantic pagan from Stravinsky’s “Dances of the Goldfinch”, the Russian beauty in “Merry Quadrille”. Evgenia could master any image, she could do anything!

The secret of her success was her incredible work ethic, amazing modesty, constant desire to improve and great love and dedication to the sport. Perhaps genes also played a role: her father was a famous Omsk wrestler, Master of Sports of the USSR in classical wrestling, and her mother was a Master of Sports in rhythmic gymnastics.

My wife is also very lucky. She avoided serious injuries, excellent specialists worked with her - personal trainer Vera Efremovna Shtelbaums, and then Irina Viner herself, the outstanding choreographer Irina Zenovka, then you can list half of Novogorsk (the sports base where the Russian rhythmic gymnastics team trains), because almost everyone who works there is in one way or another involved in Zhenya’s great victories.

As a person who has been following rhythmic gymnastics for a long time, I think that simply performing at the Olympics is already a great achievement for a gymnast. The competition in Russia in this event is enormous; out of hundreds of thousands of aspiring gymnasts, only dozens will make it to the national team. Injuries can end your career at any time. It is also important to be noticed by the Russian national team coaches. And Zhenya was very lucky that everything worked out in her favor. But it seems to me that one must be prepared for such gifts of fate. And she was ready, thanks to her phenomenal hard work and dedication to the sport.

“There are no ideal gymnasts. Some are blessed with beauty, some with a gorgeous body, others with excellent technique. It’s rare to have everything at once.”

"...in general, I'm a shy person. I feel uncomfortable when I'm being filmed and even photographed. I'm very self-critical and strange. For example, I always loved to train. Even when it was hard. Maybe I'm a masochist (laughs)."

“Kanaeva is a symbol of overcoming. A girl with average abilities came into sports and made history.” Irina Viner

“I was a rather chubby child and had a club foot. I was actually sent to the gymnastics section at the age of six just so that I would lose weight and my legs would become straight and slender. No one would have thought that everything would turn out like this.”

"I dreamed of going to the Olympics [Beijing 2008], but I didn't expect it to happen. It seemed to me that everyone was much better than me. It was a shock for me."

“What is the most important thing for gymnastics? To be easy. First, this is the advantage of youth, then it is working on yourself and is synonymous with professionalism.”

“We have a cruel sport. You can’t lose a single start: if you don’t exist, there will be someone else.”

"When I started, they said so many things about me, ugly duckling called. But maybe thanks to this criticism I became stronger. Didn't finish the element, you say? Okay, I'll make sure there's nothing to complain about."

“She is a very modest and reserved girl and never talks about her life, especially since she had no personal life. She had no life outside of rhythmic gymnastics. Only before the Olympics in London did she meet her love, as it has now become known. She met She loved her in the clinic where she was being treated, and he was also being treated there." Irina Viner

“If we continue the theme of appearance, then my ideal is the actress Audrey Hepburn. Plus, when I was a child, I collected stickers with Princess Diana. I was sure that she was an angel!”

“I was invited to appear on television. But I believe that to engage in this activity you need to receive a special education and be a competent person in this environment. Going on television simply because you have the name and title of Olympic champion is wrong.”

“I can sacrifice a lot for the sake of the cause. Many were surprised that I won the Olympics right away, but Vera Efremovna and I trained a lot. At half past six in the morning we were already in the hall, so as not to wait later for the carpet to be free. Then the choreography , light breakfast, rest, second training, lunch, rest, third training..."

“I have a lot of shortcomings. For example, it would be nice to improve the jump, make it higher. The stretching is far from ideal. I definitely wouldn’t be accepted into ballet with such a foot.”

“Very talented girls trained next to me. Much more capable than me. They had better data, better figures, and more expressive faces. Together, they were amazing gymnasts.”

“I have my own trick [at competitions, when the fear of making a mistake appears]. I begin to think that my mother will not love me any less.”

"Advice to young gymnasts? We live once and we should enjoy it. Don’t be constrained, don’t be afraid of mistakes. They will happen in any case. Everyone goes through this. There are no victories without losses, so you shouldn’t be afraid to make mistakes. We should probably , be afraid of something else - repeated mistakes."

"In London, I already had a goal - to go through the entire cycle and reach the end. It was very difficult. You know, everything really coincided there. And it coincides once in a million."

“Thank God that sport opens up some opportunities. You know... thanks to sport, I saw the sea for the first time when I went to Sochi for a training camp. Thanks to sport, I got an apartment.”

“Irina Aleksandrovna “strives” to find Tatar roots in every gymnast. I don’t know, it’s quite possible that I have them, but I want to say that I have a lot of blood mixed together.”

“To perform at the Olympics is a great happiness and success.”

“I promised myself never to show my fatigue on the carpet, not to show it to the audience. We are actresses on the carpet, and everything we do should look easy and simple.”

“I clearly remember that the coaches called me “goosebumps”. At one time, some of them said about me: no, Zhenya will remain small, unnoticed. And she won’t grow up. I was very worried about this. But, Thank God I grew up."

“I don’t have the most ideal parameters for doing rhythmic gymnastics and I don’t have the most long legs. I just absolutely love what I do, and I don’t know what rest is. In my case, if you don’t work out for a month, the ligaments become ossified.”

“I will repeat for the hundredth time that the “Kanaeva phenomenon” is hard work. And talent. Not a single medal has fallen from the sky into her hands.” Elena Arais, first coach.

“The hardest thing in our sport is nerves. Sometimes learning the most difficult element is easier than controlling yourself. And I still have to work and work on this task.”

“I am sure of one thing: if you want to be better than others, work harder than everyone else. I can’t stand still, I need to progress and show something new. This is the only way to stay at the top."

“Chashchina and Kabaeva became a huge example for me. Alina turned the world of gymnastics upside down, opened it up from a different side. She was so emotional, artistic and sincere in her performances that it was impossible to tear herself away. For this, the entire sports world loves and respects her. And Ira captivated everyone with her plasticity. And no one owned and does not own the object like she does. In general, creatures from another planet."

As a child, Zhenya made a wish and wrote in her diary that she wanted to become an Olympic champion. She doesn’t remember this; her mother, Svetlana Kanaeva, showed her the recording years later.

She became the first gymnast in the history of rhythmic gymnastics who managed to get the highest score under a 30-point judging system.

On June 8, 2013, she married hockey player Igor Musatov. Wedding Dress Marina Gogua sewed for Zhenya, the one who dressed her in gymnastic leotards for the last 4-5 years.

In 2013 she graduated from NSU. them. P.F. Lesgaft in St. Petersburg.

Now Evgenia Kanaeva-Musatova works as a coach and educates young gymnasts.

About the second, historic victory in London:

“I would like to use this opportunity to thank everyone who helped me, who put part of their soul into this victory and not only this, but all previous ones. I am very grateful to my mentor Vera Efremovna Shtelbaums, the head coach of the national team Irina Alexandrovna Viner, her husband Alisher Burkhanovich for the enormous support of rhythmic gymnastics, my director Irina Borisovna Zenovka, the team’s choreographers, doctors, massage therapists and everyone, everyone who contributed part of their soul to this victory. I also want to thank my first coach Elena Arais for everything. , Amin Zaripova and Natalya Kukushkina, who trained me at the Olympic training center in Moscow. Thank you very much to all of them, I would not have been able to achieve what I have achieved. his support and for his love. Being loved is a great happiness.

And to you, the fans, thanks a lot. Special thanks to Zoya, as we call her, who flew to London from Taiwan to support me and cheer for our Russian team. I have always felt the support of loved ones and even those I don’t know... But this year it was especially strong. This was our common victory."

Kanaeva Evgenia Olegovna was born on April 2, 1990 in Omsk. Two-time Olympic champion in rhythmic gymnastics. Height is 168 centimeters, at the end of her sports career the athlete grew up a little, her height was 172 centimeters, her weight was 42 kilograms.

Start

Evgenia’s mother Svetlana Kanaeva was a rhythmic gymnast and master of sports. Maybe that’s why she didn’t send the girl to sports, knowing what difficulties awaited her and her parents. But her grandmother insisted that Zhenya do rhythmic gymnastics, who sent her granddaughter to a sports school at the age of six, and this is where Evgenia Kanaeva’s sports biography begins.

The first coach was Elena Arais. As a child, Evgenia was considered plump and clubfooted - but you don’t need to pay attention to such comparisons, because these are the usual cliches that envious people give to successful gymnasts. Elena Arais supported the girl in her quest for sports results and together they filled the performance program with complex elements. Training continued late into the night, often in an almost empty school. The grandmother, who was worried that her granddaughter would have to get home at night, therefore patiently waited for the young athlete near the gym for many hours. After training, the gymnast showed her grandmother everything that she managed to learn during training.

But Zhenya also managed to do her homework, which once again proves that sports are not a hindrance to studying. She sat late at night studying textbooks, trying to be successful in school, although she was very tired after many hours of training.

In Moscow

At the age of 12, Evgenia Kanaeva went to Moscow for a training camp that was specially organized for gymnasts from Omsk. Thanks to the coach responsible for junior training, Amina Zaripova, who liked Zhenya’s preparation, she soon entered the Moscow Olympic Reserve School.

The athlete’s coach was Vera Shtelbaums, whose students included Russian champion, Olympic silver medalist Irina Chashchina, world champion Natalia Puusel, European champion Tatyana Reshetnikova. The teacher had a lot of experience - Vera Shtelbaums had worked as a coach since 1961, she knew the methodology of sports very well and calculated well what exercises and tricks could lead to victory.

In 2003, Evgenia won the Japanese championship between gymnastics clubs, where she went with Ira Chashchina and Alina Kabaeva. Thanks to this victory, at the invitation of Irina Viner (head coach of the Russian national team), she began training in Novogorsk, where other athletes of the Russian team trained. Novogorsk provided maximum conditions, maximum opportunities for revealing Evgenia’s sporting talent.

In the national team

Competition in rhythmic gymnastics is very strong. It's such a popular sport in Russian Federation, What sports schools there are in almost every big city. Zhenya trained among real champions - in 2004, the winners of the Olympics were Chashchina and Kabaeva. Vera Sesina and Olga Kapranova rose to the top of the sport. Bets were placed on these four in all competitions. Despite Kanaeva’s talent, she was not accepted into the national team.

But in 2007, at the European Championships in Baku, Evgenia was taken to the team instead of Alina Kabaeva, who was forced to undergo treatment after an injury. Zhenya had to perform with a ribbon. It was a small chance that the athlete used to express her talent. In a team with Kapranova and Sesina, the girl won, receiving gold medal. After some time, another team victory, but this time at a higher level - the world championship in Patras, Greece.

On the way to the Olympics

After the victories at the world championship, the next high bar was set in his sports career - performance at the Olympics. At this world tournament, competition should not just be a spectator sport. If everyone had this approach, all performances on the gymnastics mat would be quite the same. Competitions of this level must be based on details - music, tricks, costumes, training to the smallest detail, attention to new products in the sports world can bring a prize, and even victory. This is exactly how Kanaeva’s performances to the music of “Moscow Nights” were structured. It was psychologically difficult for Evgenia, because the judges’ attention was focused on the leaders of the Russian team - Sesina, Kapranova, as well as on the competitor from Ukraine Anna Bessonova.

On the way to the Olympics, Evgenia went on her own the hard way— her performances were built on complexity and at the same time thoughtfulness in terms of harmony of movements and music. She and her program win in all disciplines at various stages of the World Cup and Grand Prix, as well as at the Russian Championship, becoming the absolute champion of her homeland.

In 2008, at the Turin European Championships, she took first place in the individual all-around.

Thanks to such confident success, the gymnast was transferred from the reserve to the main team of the Russian team. At the European Championships, Kanaeva became the champion, defeating the Russian Kapranova and the Ukrainian Bessonova and became the main contender for participation in the Olympic team. The athlete went to the Beijing Olympics with Kapranova.

Records

Rhythmic gymnast Evgenia Kanaeva biography of records. Evgenia Olegovna Kanaeva set her first record in the Grand Prix final in Czech Brno, scoring 30 points out of 30 possible.

In Beijing in 2008, Evgenia became the youngest among the Olympic finalists, and Kanaeva had fewer recorded errors than her older competitors. Having successfully performed in the final, she confidently won the gold medal.

In 2009, Zhenya started the season very tired, she was tormented by injuries, but she continued to compete. The victories continued - gold medals in all disciplines at the Baku European Championships, nine gold medals at the Taiwan World Games and the Belgrade Universiade. At the Berlin Grand Prix final she received five gold medals. In 2009, Zhenya received the title of Honored Master of Sports of Russia. Also among the state awards are two orders - the Order of Friendship and For Services to the Fatherland.

At the World Championships in the Japanese city of Mye in 2009, she became the first, winning four golds in the individual competition and one in the team competition, thus repeating Oksana Kostina’s record, which had stood since 1992. The result of his performance at the World Championships was six gold medals, thus breaking the record for the number of medals at one world championship.

At the 2010 Moscow World Championships, Kanaeva received four gold medals in the all-around, team, and hoop and ball. In the same year, at the Bremen European Championship, she received first place in the all-around.

Evgenia Kanaeva at the world championship in 2011 in Montpellier, France, won all six medals out of a possible six in the individual competition. For the third year in a row, she single-handedly took first place at the world championships, this is another record. The athlete climbed to the first step of the podium 17 times only at the world championships in rhythmic gymnastics.

In 2011, she took first place at the Universiade in Shenzhen, China, and also received three gold medals at the Minsk European Championship for hoop, ribbon and in the team competition.

In 2012, Evgenia Kanaeva confirmed that her previous Olympic triumph was not a coincidence - at the London Olympics she received two gold medals, becoming the only two-time Olympic world champion in the individual all-around.

Success and personal life

Zhenya’s success has the following components:

• daily work, victories not for the feeling of euphoria, but for motivation;
• high-level sport involves risk, those who take risks can lose or achieve high results, although the risk in gymnastics is associated with injury;
• lesions are needed to analyze errors, not frustrations;
• cooperation with a coach should take into account your capabilities, you need to embody your ideas, take a creative approach to training and performances.

After the 2012 Olympic Games, Evgenia was emaciated, tired, and plagued by injuries. The first coach Vera Shtelbaums said that the gymnast could continue her triumphal march, but Zhenya understood that the tough world of sports would interfere with her personal life, she wanted to start a family and continue sports career, but this time as a coach. In 2012, Evgenia became vice-president of the All-Russian Rhythmic Gymnastics Federation.

After the athlete stopped going to training, she felt some emptiness - a common psychological condition, when you have lived for many years according to a clear schedule and are given freedom of action. But new activities have appeared in independent life— Evgenia graduated from the Siberian State University of Physical Education and Sports, loves to draw, her dreams were to learn to play the piano, to learn English language.

After the Beijing Olympics, the athlete signed advertising contracts and starred in several commercials; since 2009, she has been an official spokesperson for Longines watches for some time.

In 2013, she married Continental Hockey League hockey player Igor Musatov, whom she began dating before the London Olympics. They met by chance - in the emergency room, Igor Musatov was injured after falling on the ice, Zhenya arrived with a leg injury. After the Olympics, Igor Musatov proposed to Evgenia.

Soon there was a wedding for 160 people, Igor’s witness was his hockey colleague Alexei Morozov. Also at the wedding was the entire Russian rhythmic gymnastics team, led by Irina Viner. Wedding ceremony hosted by Anton Komolov and Olga Shelest. The newlyweds spent their honeymoon on a yacht cruise in Croatia. In 2014, Zhenya gave birth to a son, Vladimir.

Now working as a coach, she has been coaching the Russian national team since 2015. The first student was an athlete from St. Petersburg, Ekaterina Ayupova. Among her students is Eleonora Romanova, one of the best Ukrainian gymnasts who in 2016 changed her Ukrainian citizenship to Russian. Eleanor’s tragedy was that Krasnodon is located on the territory of the Luhansk region, not under the control of the Ukrainian authorities; a change of citizenship was necessary to continue the career of a promising athlete. As a coach, Evgeniya tries to understand the situation and never kicks athletes out of the gym for disciplinary reasons. She has extensive and difficult sports experience, she understands her little sports colleagues very well.

Although the “artist” does not perform, she remains in the sport, being a true symbol of perseverance and hard work. She is often invited to sporting events, for example, in 2015 she lit the flame of the Russian-Chinese youth games in Irkutsk.

The gymnast was lucky that in modern Russia rhythmic gymnastics is one of the leading sports. Of course, there are many who want to get on the podium in this sport, but those who are hardworking and ready to work tirelessly can count on success. After all, many girls want to perform in colorful, beautiful tights, but not everyone is ready to go through the real horrors of this wonderful sport - tears, pain, injuries, disappointments of defeat.

Parents, coaches, and the athletes themselves can’t stand it and leave the sport, or decide to “stand in line” for a master’s crust. But those who study with a warm heart and find understanding in the hearts of their parents and coaches can count on success, including dizzying ones, like Evgenia Kanaeva’s.

Evgenia was born on April 2, 1990 in Omsk. Her mother was a former athlete herself. For this reason, she did not want to send the girl to sports. But Evgenia’s grandmother insisted on this and independently took the child to the rhythmic gymnastics section at the age of six.

From birth, Kanaeva had unprecedented flexibility, plasticity and stretching. She immediately fell in love with the sport and began training hard. But it was impossible to achieve success in his hometown. Therefore, at the age of 12, Kanaeva goes to Moscow, where she participates in the training camp of the national team. She is noticed by the talented coach Amina Zaripova and invites her to study at the Olympic Reserve School.

Evgenia's first success came in 2003 at the Junior World Championships. She became a champion and attracted the attention of the coaches of the main Russian national team. So a few days later the girl was already training at the team’s base in Novogorsk. But Kanaeva did not manage to immediately break into the main team. At that time, Alina Kabaeva and Irina Chashchina were shining in the Russian national team.

The girl continued to work hard and was rewarded for her hard work. In 2007, Kabaeva was injured and Kanaeva went to the European Championships instead. She won several gold medals. Then the gymnast repeated her success at the World Championships. Even then it was clear that another rhythmic gymnastics star had appeared in Russia.

Kanaeva's first Olympic Games took place in 2008 in Beijing. She was very young then. But this did not stop the girl from becoming an all-around champion. Many gymnasts end their sports careers on a high after successful competitions. But Evgenia continued to train and repeated her success at the 2012 games in London. She again won gold and went down in the history of Russian and world sports as one of the most successful gymnasts.

After such stunning success, Evgenia decided to end her sports career. Moreover, she began to be constantly tormented by injuries. In total, during the performances at top level the girl became world champion 17 times and won gold at the European Championships 13 times.

After finishing her career, Kanaeva did not move far away from rhythmic gymnastics. She switched to coaching and is passing on her wealth of experience to little girls. Of course, for them Evgenia is a real idol.

In parallel with her performances at tournaments, Kanaeva managed to obtain a higher education. She graduated from the Siberian University of Physical Education and Sports.

Personal life of a gymnast

Evgenia met her future husband in the emergency room shortly before the 2012 Olympic Games. This is how she met hockey player Igor Muskatov. Before meeting Zhenya, the guy led a rather hectic lifestyle. But having fallen in love with Kanaeva, he changed a lot. The athletes got married in 2013, and then they had a child, a boy, Vladimir.

News about the divorce of spouses regularly appears in the media, but they do not find any confirmation. The couple still lives a happy marriage and has no plans to separate.

In 2009, Zhenya was awarded the title of “Honored Master of Sports of Russia,” and after 3 years she became vice-president of the All-Russian Rhythmic Gymnastics Federation. She compensated for the lack of constant and exhausting training with studies, her favorite painting activities and some advertising contracts. Having worked to the maximum of her capabilities and earned all acceptable awards, breaking records and setting new ones, Zhenya Kanaeva deservedly received the right to a measured personal life. To this day, Evgenia shows perseverance and hard work, now training Russian gymnasts and instilling in them the desire to win.

Success and personal life

Zhenya never showed off her personal life, rightly believing that only her sports achivments are the pride of the country, and the personal aspects belong only to it. In June 2013, everyone suddenly learned about Kanaeva’s marriage to hockey player Igor Musatov. The young couple met 2 years before the wedding, having received minor injuries during training and meeting in the emergency room. Immediately after Zhenya’s success at the London Olympics, Igor asked the girl to marry.

The young couple met 2 years before the wedding, having received minor injuries during training and meeting in the emergency room.

The wedding brought together Eugenia’s closest people, who were directly involved in her success. All the girls from the Russian team were here, as well as Irina Viner. Evgenia’s wedding dress was made by Marina Gogua, the designer of all the athlete’s swimsuits, in which she so successfully performed exercises with a ball and other equipment.

A year after the wedding, in March 2014, Vladimir Musatov was born, the long-awaited baby in the family of Evgenia Kanaeva. And although last news about Kanaeva they tried to hint at a possible divorce of the couple, the family continues to live happily. Having honestly earned every gram of her medals through hellish labor, Evgenia Kanaeva, more than anyone else, deserves measured and quiet happiness.