Anastasia Davydova


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Birth date
Age
02/02/1983 - Moscow (RUS) 
29
Height
Gender
170 cm / 5'7" 
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Sport
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RankEventYearLocationResult
Olympic Games
1Duets2008Beijing, CHN99.251
1Teams2008Beijing, CHN99.500
1Duets2004Athens, GRE99.334
1Teams2004Athens, GRE99.501
World Championships
1Teams Technical Routine2011Shanghai, CHN98.300
1Teams Free Routine2011Shanghai, CHN98.620
1Free Routine Combination2011Shanghai, CHN98.470
1Duets Technical Routine2009Rome, ITA98.667
1Teams Free Routine2009Rome, ITA99.167
1Duets Technical Routine2007Melbourne, VIC, AUS98.833
1Duets Free Routine2007Melbourne, VIC, AUS99.333
1Free Routine Combination2007Melbourne, VIC, AUS99.000
1Duets2005Montreal, QC, CAN99.084
1Free Routine Combination2005Montreal, QC, CAN99.333
1Duets2003Barcelona, ESP99.084
1Teams2003Barcelona, ESP98.750
1Teams2001Fukuoka, JPN98.917
2Duets2001Fukuoka, JPN98.390

Nickname

When she was born her parents wanted to name her Asya but there was no such name in the church calender. That is why she got the name of Anastasia. But since they she have called her Asya. (sport.rambler.ru, 18 Aug 2009)

Hobbies

Listening to music, reading books, sewing. (Athlete, 06 Apr 2000, 16 Mar 2007)

Occupation

Coach

Education

Moscow Institute of Economics, Politics and Law, Moscow, RUS

Language(s) spoken

English

Club name

SC Yunost Moskvy, Moscow, RUS

Coach

Tatyana Yevgenyevna Danchenko (RUS) from 1998 (Athlete, 16 Mar 2007, pda.gzt.ru, 16 Aug 2010)

Handedness

Right (Athlete, 16 Mar 2007)

Debut

2000 for Russia, against France, European Championships (Finland) (Athlete, 16 Mar 2007)

Additional information

Start of sporting career
She started the sport at the age of 12. (Athlete, 06 Apr 2000)

Reason for taking up this sport
She loved to swim and was such an energetic child that her mother took her to a swimming club. (Athlete, 06 Apr 2000, 16 Mar 2007, sport.rambler.ru, 18 Aug 2009)

Ambitions
To win a fifth gold medal at the Olympic Games in London. (gazeta.ru, 10 Sep 2009)

Training
She trains 10 hours per day six days a week. (news.sportbox.ru, 29 Mar 2011, sport.rambler.ru, 18 Aug 2009)

Most memorable sporting achievement
Winning gold at the Olympic Games in 2004. (Athlete, 16 Mar 2007)

Most influential person in career
Her mother and her coach. (Athlete, 06 Apr 2000, 16 Mar 2007)

Awards
She was decorated with the Order of Friendship, Order of Peter the Great and with the medal For Strengthening of Military Cooperation. (cska.ru, 24 Aug 2008)

In 2010 FINA named her The Best of the Decade in synchronised swimming. (teamunify.com, 23 Mar 2010)

General
TIME OFF
In 2009 she took a break and started working as a coach with young athletes in her home sports club Yunost Moskvy. Then in 2010 she announced she was having a break from competition to recover from fatigue and to take care of some personal issues. (FINA Aquatics World Magazine, 01 Feb 2010; sportsdaily.ru, 05 Aug 2010; gazeta.ru, 10 Sep 2009)

THREE IN A ROW
The gold medal won by her and duet partner Anastasia Ermakova at the 2006 European Championships in Budapest gave them the honour of being only the second pair to win three European titles in the duet event. Russian swimmers Olga Brusnikina and Maria Kiseleva were the other pair to have achieved the feat. (Word Press, 06 Jul 2006)

MISSED CALLS
At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece, she was handed her mobile phone during the press conference following her win [with Ermakova] in the duet event and noted that she'd missed 22 calls of congratulation. (IOL, 26 Aug 2004)

TATTOO
She has a tattoo on her back of 17 butterflies. Before a competition other girls help her to cover them with a toned cream. (v1.ru, 25 Aug 2008)

Previous Olympics

Beijing 2008, Athens 2004


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