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olga brusnikina in 2012 mgfso-dynamo , moscow moscow , russia 55 kg lb on 1.69 m ftin on synchronized swimming yes 9 november 1978 Ольга Брусникина.jpeg olga brusnikina
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olga brusnikina

olga aleksandrovna brusnikina -lrb- ; born 9 november 1978 -rrb- is a russian competitor in synchronized swimming and three times olympic champion .
she first attracted attention when , at the age of 14 , she performed a solo routine at the 1993 world junior synchro championships .
upon the addition of team synchronised swimming to the list of olympic events in 1996 , brusnikina was a member of the russian team which came fourth .
she won gold medal in `` duet '' with mariya kiselyova at the 2000 summer olympics in sydney .
she was part of the russian winning team in 2000 , and again at the 2004 summer olympics in athens .
in september 2001 brusnikina married sergey yevstigneyev , an olympic water polo player and national coach whom she first met in 1994 .
after marriage they lived for a few years in italy , where yevstigneyev played for a local team and brusnikina coached synchronized swimming .
brusnikina retired shortly after the 2004 olympics , and on 14 august 2006 gave birth to a son , iliya .
after that she coached synchronized swimming in moscow oblast and worked as an international referee .
currently she is a member of the government commission on physical education and sport and of the russian olympic committee .
in 2001 she was awarded the order of honour .
