Viktoriya Zeynep Güneş
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| Nickname(s) | Vika | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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19 June 1998 Poltava, Ukraine | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Breaststroke | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Viktoria Güneş or Viktoria Solnceva (Ukrainian: Вікторія Солнцева; born 19 June 1998) is a Ukrainian (until 2014) and Turkish (since 2014)[1] swimmer.[2]
Career
Solnceva competed at the 2013 FINA World Junior Swimming Championships in Dubai and the 2013 World Aquatics Championships in Barcelona for Ukraine. Solnceva is the current Ukrainian record holder in 100m and 200m breaststroke.
Representing Turkey
Gunes competed in seniors at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships in Kazan, however she did not reach the finals in the event she competed.
At the 2015 FINA World Junior Swimming Championships in Singapore, she represented Turkey, and won four gold medals. In the 200 meter breaststroke she broke the junior world record with a time of 2:19.64, just 0.53 off the senior world record.[3] She also broke the junior world record in the 200 meter individual medley. FINA named her female swimmer of the meet.[4]
References
- ↑ "Türkiye, Hürrem'den çok beni tanıyacak"
- ↑ "Victoria Solntseva - the child prodigy of Ukraine" (in Bulgarian). Retrieved 2013-09-29.
- ↑ "Women's 200m Breaststroke Final Results". Omega Timing. August 30, 2015. Retrieved August 31, 2015.
- ↑ "Swimming World Juniors, Day 6, Singapore: Gunes’s blast would have earned her the title in Kazan as well!". FINA. August 30, 2015. Retrieved August 31, 2015.