Additional Information
Highlights
| Rank | Event | Year | Location |
|---|
| Olympic Winter Games |
| 6 | Women | 2010 | Vancouver, BC, CAN |
| World Championship |
| 3 | Women | 2013 | Canada |
| 4 | Women | 2011 | Switzerland |
| 6 | Women | 2012 | United States |
| World Championship Under 18 |
| 8 | Women | 2010 | United States |
- Nickname: Anya, Anechka (mk.ru, 18 Feb 2010)
- Occupation: Athlete
- Club Name: Tornado , Dmitrov, RUS
- Position Style: Goaltender (dmitrov.bezformata.ru, 29 Mar 2013)
- Previous Olympics: Vancouver 2010
- Hobbies: Studying, reading. (op-media.ru, 18 Feb 2010)
- Languages Spoken: Russian
- Coach: Aleksey Chistyakov [club], RUS; Mikhail Chekanov [national], RUS (tornadoclub.ru, 07 Jun 2013; World Championships Media Guide, 09 Apr 2013)
- Hand: Shoots left (eurohockey.com, 11 Jun 2013)
Additional Information
National League
Russian Women's Hockey League (fhr.ru, 01 Feb 2014)
Start of sporting career
She began training at age 11 in Khabarovsk, Russia. (mk.ru, 18 Feb 2010)
Reason for taking up this sport
Her mother gave her and her father tickets to a men's hockey match, and she was instantly drawn to the game. "I was literally bewitched by the play of the goaltender." (mk.ru, 18 Feb 2010; tornadoclub.ru, 10 Mar 2013)
Most memorable sporting achievement
Being named Best Goaltender at the 2007 Spartakiada in Russia, where her Far East team won, as well as winning three Russian national championships in a row with Tornado, and the Cup of European Champions three out of four years. (tornadoclub.ru, 10 Mar 2013)
Sporting philosophy / motto
"Patience and hard work always triumph" (tornadoclub.ru, 10 Mar 2013)
Awards
She holds the title of Master of Sport of International Class in Russia. (livetv.ru, 11 Apr 2013)
She was named Female Athlete of the Month for December 2012 on the Russian website 'sportbox.ru'. (sportbox.ru, 28 Dec 2012)
General
CALENDAR GIRL
She posed in lingerie for a photo shoot by a Russian television channel to raise awareness of women's ice hockey team in the lead-up to the 2014 Olympic Winter Games in Sochi. (iihf.com, 15 Feb 2014)