Yana Klochkova

Yana Oleksandrivna Klochkova (Ukrainian: Яна Олександрівна Клочкова; born 7 August 1982) is a Ukrainian swimmer, who has won five Olympic medals in her career, with four of them being gold. She is Merited Master of Sports (1998),[1] Hero of Ukraine (2004)[1] and the most awarded Olympian from Ukraine.[2]

Yana Klochkova
Personal information
Full nameYana Oleksandrivna Klochkova
Nickname(s)The Goldfish
Nationality Ukraine
Born (1982-08-07) 7 August 1982
Simferopol, Crimean Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Height1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight70 kg (154 lb)
Sport
SportSwimming
StrokesFreestyle, Individual medley
ClubDynamo (Ukraine)
CoachNina Kozhukh
Oleksandr Kozhukh
Medal record
Women's swimming
Representing  Ukraine
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place2000 Sydney200 m medley
Gold medal – first place2000 Sydney400 m medley
Gold medal – first place2004 Athens200 m medley
Gold medal – first place2004 Athens400 m medley
Silver medal – second place2000 Sydney800 m freestyle
World Championships (LC)
Gold medal – first place2001 Fukuoka400 m medley
Gold medal – first place2001 Fukuoka400 m freestyle
Gold medal – first place2003 Barcelona200 m medley
Gold medal – first place2003 Barcelona400 m medley
Silver medal – second place1998 Perth400 m medley
Silver medal – second place2001 Fukuoka200 m medley
World Championships (SC)
Gold medal – first place1999 Hong Kong400 m medley
Gold medal – first place2000 Athens200 m medley
Gold medal – first place2000 Athens400 m medley
Gold medal – first place2002 Moscow400 m freestyle
Gold medal – first place2002 Moscow200 m medley
Gold medal – first place2002 Moscow400 m medley
Silver medal – second place1999 Hong Kong200 m medley
Silver medal – second place2000 Athens400 m freestyle
European Championships (LC)
Gold medal – first place1999 Istanbul200 m medley
Gold medal – first place1999 Istanbul400 m medley
Gold medal – first place2000 Helsinki400 m freestyle
Gold medal – first place2000 Helsinki200 m medley
Gold medal – first place2000 Helsinki400 m medley
Gold medal – first place2002 Berlin400 m freestyle
Gold medal – first place2002 Berlin200 m medley
Gold medal – first place2002 Berlin400 m medley
Gold medal – first place2004 Madrid200 m medley
Gold medal – first place2004 Madrid400 m medley
Silver medal – second place1997 Sevilla400 m medley
Silver medal – second place2004 Madrid4×100 m medley
Bronze medal – third place1997 Sevilla200 m medley
Bronze medal – third place1999 Istanbul400 m freestyle
Bronze medal – third place2002 Berlin4×100 m medley
Bronze medal – third place2004 Madrid400 m freestyle
European Championships (SC)
Gold medal – first place1999 Lisbon400 m freestyle
Gold medal – first place1999 Lisbon800 m freestyle
Gold medal – first place1999 Lisbon200 m medley
Gold medal – first place1999 Lisbon400 m medley
Gold medal – first place2000 Valencia200 m medley
Gold medal – first place2000 Valencia400 m medley
Gold medal – first place2001 Antwerp200 m medley
Gold medal – first place2002 Riesa200 m medley
Gold medal – first place2002 Riesa400 m medley
Silver medal – second place2001 Antwerp400 m freestyle
Silver medal – second place2001 Antwerp400 m medley
Silver medal – second place2002 Riesa400 m freestyle
Summer Universiade
Gold medal – first place2001 Beijing800 m freestyle
Gold medal – first place2001 Beijing200 m medley
Gold medal – first place2003 Daegu200 m freestyle
Gold medal – first place2003 Daegu200 m butterfly
Gold medal – first place2003 Daegu200 m medley
Gold medal – first place2003 Daegu400 m medley
Gold medal – first place2007 Bangkok400 m medley
Silver medal – second place2007 Bangkok200 m medley

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. At the Olympic Games in Sydney, she set a world record in a 400-meter medley swimming and a European record in a 200-meter medley swimming.

Biography

She was born on 7 August 1982 in the city of Simferopol. She moved from there to Kharkiv, then to Kyiv.

Sports Society — "Dynamo", Major of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine.

Coaches⁣ — Honored Trainer of Ukraine, Honored Worker of Physical Culture of Ukraine Nina Kozhukh and Honored Trainer of the USSR, Honored Worker of Physical Culture of Ukraine Alexander Kozhukh.

She retired in 2009 at the age of 26.[3]

As of 2018, Yana has an 8-year-old son named Alex.[4]

In 2022, Yana Klochkova left to live in occupied Crimea. The athlete has never commented on the full-scale war of Russia against Ukraine.[5]

Farewell to the track

In January 2008, Klochkova announced her retirement from sports.

On 24 March 2009 in the Olympic swimming pool "Aquarena" in Kharkov on Klochkovskaya street, during the first stage of the Ukrainian Swimming Cup, with completely filled stands, Yana Klochkova's official "parting with water" took place. Officials (Mayor Mikhail Dobkin, Vice Governor Sergei Storozhenko, Head of the Ukrainian Swimming Federation Oleg Dyomin, two-time Olympic champion volleyball player Yuriy Poyarkov and many others) spoke about the swimmers, followed by the presentation of flowers and gifts from everyone. Klochkova, nicknamed "the goldfish" in Ukraine, was symbolically presented with an aquarium with a live goldfish.

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.

Awards

Her gold medals came in the 200 meter individual medley and the 400 meter individual medley at the 2000 and 2004 Summer Olympics;[6] her silver medal came in the 800 meter freestyle at the 2000 Summer Olympics. She has also won ten titles at swimming's world championships, nineteen European championship titles. She currently holds the short-course world record in the 400 meter individual medley.[7] Her 400 m individual medley world record was broken by American Katie Hoff at the 2007 World Championships in Melbourne.[8]

On 28 July 2001, she won a silver medal by defeating Qi Hui of China in the women's 200-meter individual medley at the 2001 World Aquatics Championships in Fukuoka, Japan. The same year, she won gold medal for 400-meter individual medley at the same event and on two days later won another gold in the 400-meter freestyle.[9] In 2003, she won four golds at the Summer Universiade in South Korea.[10] In 2004, she was named by Swimming World magazine as the World Female Swimmer of the Year[11] and the same year was awarded Hero of Ukraine medal by President Viktor Yanukovich.[12]

Titles

Yana Klochkova's titles include:

Olympic Champion

World Champion, Long Course

World Champion, Short Course
  • 1999, Hong Kong: 400 m individual medley
  • 2000, Athens: 200 m individual medley
  • 2000, Athens: 400 m individual medley
  • 2002, Moscow: 400 m freestyle
  • 2002, Moscow: 200 m individual medley
  • 2002, Moscow: 400 m individual medley

European Champion, Long Course
  • 1999, Istanbul: 200 m individual medley
  • 1999, Istanbul: 400 m individual medley
  • 2000, Helsinki: 400 m freestyle
  • 2000, Helsinki: 200 m individual medley
  • 2000, Helsinki: 400 m individual medley
  • 2002, Berlin: 400 m freestyle
  • 2002, Berlin: 200 m individual medley
  • 2002, Berlin: 400 m individual medley
  • 2004, Madrid: 200 m individual medley
  • 2004, Madrid: 400 m individual medley

European Champion, Short Course
  • 1999, Lisbon: 400 m freestyle
  • 1999, Lisbon: 800 m freestyle
  • 1999, Lisbon: 200 m individual medley
  • 1999, Lisbon: 400 m individual medley
  • 2000, Valencia: 200 m individual medley
  • 2000, Valencia: 400 m individual medley
  • 2001, Antwerp: 200 m individual medley
  • 2002, Riesa: 200 m individual medley
  • 2002, Riesa: 400 m individual medley

Universiade Champion, Long Course
  • 2003, Daegu: 200 m freestyle
  • 2003, Daegu: 200 m butterfly
  • 2003, Daegu: 200 m individual medley
  • 2003, Daegu: 400 m individual medley
  • 2007, Bangkok: 400 m individual medley

Honorary titles

"Person of the Year 2000" in the nomination "Sportsman of the Year".

"Person of the Year 2003" in the nomination "Sportsman of the Year".

Honorary Citizen of Kharkiv and Donetsk.

International championships (50 m)
Meet 400 free 800 free 200 fly 200 medley 400 medley 4×100 free 4×100 medley
EC 199723rd3rd place, bronze medalist(s)2nd place, silver medalist(s)
WC 19984th2nd place, silver medalist(s)
EC 19993rd place, bronze medalist(s)1st place, gold medalist(s)1st place, gold medalist(s)
EC 20001st place, gold medalist(s)1st place, gold medalist(s)1st place, gold medalist(s)
OG 20002nd place, silver medalist(s)1st place, gold medalist(s)1st place, gold medalist(s)
WC 20011st place, gold medalist(s)2nd place, silver medalist(s)1st place, gold medalist(s)
EC 20021st place, gold medalist(s)1st place, gold medalist(s)1st place, gold medalist(s)3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
WC 2003heats[a]1st place, gold medalist(s)1st place, gold medalist(s)
EC 20043rd place, bronze medalist(s)1st place, gold medalist(s)1st place, gold medalist(s)2nd place, silver medalist(s)
OG 20041st place, gold medalist(s)1st place, gold medalist(s)10th
WC 2005
EC 20064th9th4th
WC 2007
EC 20088th12th5th
a Klochkova qualified from the heats, but scratched the semi-finals

See also

References
  1. Vlaskov, A. Yana Klochkova. Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine. 2013
  2. "Битва статей: хто приніс Україні більше олімпійського "золота"". sport.segodnya.ua (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 22 January 2021.
  3. "Former Olympic medalist Yana Klochkova announces retirement". Reuters. 19 March 2009. Retrieved 1 January 2019.
  4. ""Я очень добрая мама": олимпийская чемпионка Яна Клочкова рассказала, как воспитывает сына" ["I'm a very nice mom": Olympic champion Yana Klochkova told how to educate your child]. Segodnya. 5 June 2018. Retrieved 1 January 2019.
  5. ""Золота рибка" плавчиня Яна Клочкова зрадила Україну: стало відомо де знаходиться спортсменка". myukraine.in.ua (in Ukrainian). 25 May 2023. Retrieved 26 May 2023.
  6. Abrams, Jonathan (19 June 2005). "Ukraine's Klochkova Is Back From Break". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 1 January 2019.
  7. "Olympic champion: Yana Klochkova, the swimmer". Welcome to Ukraine.
  8. "Flash! World Championships: World Record for Katie Hoff in 400 m individual medley". Swimming World. 1 April 2007. Retrieved 1 January 2019.
  9. "2001: Year in Review" (PDF). The Ukrainian Weekly. 6 January 2002. Retrieved 31 December 2018.
  10. "Best-ever Daegu Universiade Conclude with Long-last Happy Memories". China Radio International. 31 August 2003. Retrieved 1 January 2019.
  11. "Who's the Greatest Female All-around Swimmer of All Time?". Swimming World. 7 September 2010. Retrieved 1 January 2019.
  12. "Medley queen Klochkova given top honour". Eurosport/Reuters. 18 August 2004. Retrieved 1 January 2019.
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