Champion of Russia Spodarenko changed sports citizenship
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Swimmer Sofia Spodarenko announced the change of Russian sports citizenship to Kazakhstani.
“I am happy to announce that I now represent the Kazakhstan national team as a professional athlete,” she said in a video message on social networks. Plovicha called the decision not easy, but it is “a conscious and mature choice.”
Spodarenko thanked the All-Russian Swimming Federation, the system in which “it grew and showed good results”
The athlete is a native of Ust-Kamenogorsk (Kazakhstan). She is now 25 years old and won the 2018 Russian championship in the 50m butterfly.
Earlier it became known: over the past two years, 67 Russians have changed sports citizenship. Of these, 47 people are representatives of summer Olympic sports, 8 are representatives of winter Olympic sports. 12 people represent non-Olympic sports.
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