The world’s leading synchronized swimmer retired

The outstanding Russian synchronized swimmer Svetlana Romashina announced, speaking on Match TV, that she is ending her career. “I’m leaving, but not far from sports. I remain in our sports family,” said Romashina, who in 2021 was nominated by the Russian Olympic Committee as a candidate for inclusion in the commission of athletes of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA). The athlete said that she headed the sports school for synchronized swimming “Youth of Moscow”: “So far, I’m trying to get into all the paperwork, which is extremely difficult and very different from the work in the water that I had before. But still I try to pass on my experience and skills to the girls attending this school.” “I’m already all at work and, of course, I’m thinking about the possible restoration of our positions in the international community, about the need to build diplomatic relations,” Romashina added.

Svetlana Romashina, 33, has an exceptional track record for her sport. She is his record holder for the number of titles won, including the most prestigious ones. Romashina is a seven-time Olympic champion. And for the first time at the Olympics, she performed back in 2008 in Beijing. Then she competed only in the group, and at the next three Olympic Games – in London in 2012, in Rio de Janeiro in 2016 and Tokyo in 2021, becoming the leader of the domestic synchronized swimming, also in a duet. At first, Romashina’s partner was Natalia Ishchenko, and in Brazil and Japan – Svetlana Kolesnichenko.

Arnold Kabanov