Russian athletes are one of the strongest on the planet. They regularly perform at world championships, receiving the highest awards and defending the honor of their country. But many of them, for various reasons, have to end their careers early. And today we will tell you what the famous domestic gymnasts who left the big sport do.
Laysan Utyasheva
The successful gymnast did not plan to leave professional sports before the Beijing Olympics. However, fate decreed otherwise, and in 2006, having received a serious knee injury, Laysan was forced to change her sphere of activity. Utyasheva built a television career. She was the host of Main Road and Fitness with the Stars, put on her own dance show and came up with several author programs. Now she is engaged in voice acting for cartoons and, together with her husband Pavel Volya, is raising two children.
Svetlana Khorkina
Having left the profession, the gymnast, in whose honor a star was opened on the Rosa Khutor resort Olympic Walk of Fame, defended her thesis and received the title of candidate of pedagogical sciences. In addition, Svetlana is a colonel in the reserve and is on the lists of the United Russia party. In 2005, her son Svyatoslav was born.
Alina Kabaeva
In 2007, the athlete finally said goodbye to the gymnastic platform. But after completing a career, they did not forget about her. For some time, Kabaeva worked on television as the leading weekly broadcast of Steps to Success. In addition, having left sports, she began political activity. In 2007, the former gymnast became a deputy in the lower house of parliament.
Irina Chashchina
After in 2001, the gymnast was convicted of using furosemide and deprived of all previously received titles and awards, she was forced to leave the profession. Leaving the sport, Chashchina changed several activities. She took part in the show “Circus with the Stars” and “Ice Dancing”, played the main role in the film “The Way” and even worked as the deputy prefect of the Northern District of Moscow for tourism and sports. After leaving the civil service, in 2013 she took the chair of the vice-president of the All-Russian Federation of Rhythmic Gymnastics and now runs her school in Barnaul.
Evgenia Kanaeva
Honored Master of Sports of the Russian Federation was forced to interrupt her career after her appointment as vice president of the All-Russian Federation of Rhythmic Gymnastics. Changing the scope of activity, Kanaeva began to actively appear in commercials. In June 2013, Eugene created a family with hockey player Igor Musatov, whom she had been dating for quite some time.