Anastasia Gorbenko

Anastasia Gorbenko (אנסטסיה גורבנקו; born 7 August 2003) is an Israeli swimmer.[1] She competes in the 100 m backstroke, 100 m breaststroke, 100 m freestyle, 200 m backstroke, 200 m breaststroke, 200 m medley, 50 m backstroke, 4x100 m freestyle, 4x100 m medley, 4x100m freestyle mixed, and 4x200m freestyle.

Anastasia Gorbenko
אנסטסיה גורבנקו

Personal information
Nationality	Israeli
Born	(2003-08-07) 7 August 2003 Haifa, Israel
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Strokes	Backstroke, breaststroke, and freestyle
Club	Maccabi Kiryat Bialik
Medal record Swimming Representing  Israel Summer Youth Olympics 2018 Buenos Aires 200 m medley European Junior Swimming Championships 2019 Kazan 50 m backstroke 2019 Kazan 200 m individual medley European Youth Summer Olympic Festival 2017 Győr 4 × 100 m Medley Mixed Maccabiah Games 2017 Israel girls' 100 m freestyle 2017 Israel girls' 4x100 m free relay

Gorbenko won the gold medal in the girls' 200 m individual medley at the 2018 Youth Olympic Games. In 2019, at the Barcelona Open she won the women’s 200 m individual medley, and later in the year she established new Israeli national records in the 200 m individual medley and 200 m breaststroke. As of November 2019, she held open Israeli national records in the 50 back, 100 back, 200 breast, 200 IM, and 400 IM in long course, and the 200 IM in short course, and shared four national relay records. She has met the 2020 Olympics qualifying time for the women's 200 m individual medley, and will represent Israel at the 2020 Summer Olympics.

Early life

Gorbenko was born in Haifa, Israel, and was raised in Haifa and in Kiryat Bialik, Israel.[2][3] Her father is Vladimir Gorbenko.[2][3] In 2017 she went to Wingate Institute to study and train.[3][4]

Swimming career

She competes in the 100 m backstroke, 100 m breaststroke, 100 m freestyle, 200 m backstroke, 200 m breaststroke, 200 m medley, 50 m backstroke, 4x100 m freestyle, 4x100 m medley, 4x100m freestyle mixed, and 4x200m freestyle.[5] Gorbenko “slightly” prefers breaststroke.[6] Gorbenko's club is Maccabi Kiryat Bialik.[7]

2016-17; Maccabiah Games gold medals

In April 2016 Gorbenko set an Israeli age 13 record in the 100 m breaststroke, at 1:15.43.[8]

In April 2017 she set an Israeli age 14 record in the 100 m backstroke, at 1:04.21, and in the 200 m individual medley, at 2:19.15, and in June 2017 Gorbenko set an Israeli age 14 record in the 200 m breaststroke, at 2:35.94.[8] In July 2017 at the 2017 Maccabiah Games, Gorbenko won gold medals in the girl's 100 m junior freestyle, as well as the girl's 4x100 m freestyle relay.[8]

2018; Youth Olympics gold medal

In July 2018 Gorbenko set a new Israeli record in the 200 m breaststroke, at 2:29.17, at the 2018 European Junior Swimming Championships; Long Course (50 m) in Helsinki, Finland.[9] In August 2018 she set a new Israeli record in the 100 m breaststroke, at 1:09.44, at the 2018 European Aquatics Championships; Long Course (50 m) in Glasgow, Scotland.[9]

In October 2018, having just turned 15 years of age and competing against girls two to three years older, she won the girls' 200 m individual medley at the 2018 Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires, Argentina.[5][10] It was Israel's first gold medal in swimming at this level of international competition.[6] Gorbenko swam a 2:12.88 – with splits of 29.31 (after butterfly), 1:03.43 (after backstroke), and 1:41.49 (after breaststroke), beating Anja Crevar of Serbia by more than a second.[6][10] She set a new Israeli record, breaking that achieved by Amit Ivry in the 2012 London Olympics (2:13.29).[10]

2019; Barcelona Open gold medal

In January 2019, at the age of 15, at the Barcelona Open in the women’s 200 m individual medley Gorbenko swam a 2:13.56 to win by over 4 seconds.[11] She swam the fastest fly, back, and breaststroke splits in the field, at 28.60, 34.60, and 38.36 respectively.[11]

In March 2019 at the French Golden Tour meet she set three new Israeli records; in the 100 m backstroke (1:01.03), in the 200 m IM (2:12.54), and in the 400 m IM (4:47.58).[12]

In May 2019, at the 2019 Speedo Grand Challenge in Irvine, California, Gorbenko established a new Israeli national record in the 200 m individual medley with a time of 2:11.98, and established a new Israeli national record in the 200 m breaststroke with a time of 2:28.78 (breaking the prior record of 2:29.03 set by Julia Banach in 2009) to win the event by over a second.[13] Gorbenko also placed second in the 100 m breaststroke with a time of 1:10.04, just short of her personal best of 1:09.74.[13] In addition she swam a personal best in the 200 m freestyle (2:00.83).[13]

In July 2019, at the 2019 European Junior Swimming Championships in Kazan, Russia, she won silver medals in both the women's 50 m backstroke (setting a new Israeli national record with a time of 28.21), behind Daria Vaskina of Russia, and in the women's 200 m individual medley behind Zoe Vogelmann of Germany.[5][14][15]

Gorbenko competed in the women's 200 m individual medley at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships.[16]

In August 2019 at the 7th FINA World Junior Swimming Championships she set a new national record in the women’s 100 m backstroke with a time of 1:00.58.[15]

In October 2019 Gorbenko set an Israeli record in the women’s 400 m individual medley with a time of 4:37.68.[17] That month she also set a national record when she swam a 2:07.64 in the 200 m individual medley for LA Current in Budapest, Hungary.[18] In doing so she also set a new European junior short course 200 m individual medley record.[19] She also led off the 400 m freestyle relay to an Israeli record in the 100 m free, swimming a 52.87.[19]

In November 2019, she broke her own Israeli record in the women’s 400 individual medley at the Kiryat Bialik pool as part of the Millennium meet, swimming a 4:35.82.[17] Gorbenko also set a new Israeli junior record in the 50 m breaststroke with a 31.01.[17] As of that month, she held open Israeli national records in the 50 back, 100 back, 200 breast, 200 IM, and 400 IM in long course, and the 200 IM in short course, and shared four national relay records.[17]

Gorbenko has met the 2020 Olympics qualifying time for the women's 200 m individual medley, and will represent Israel at the 2020 Summer Olympics.[19]

See also

• List of Israeli records in swimming
• Israel at the Youth Olympics

References

1. "15 Year-Old Anastasia Gorbenko Sets Another Israeli National Record". SwimSwam. Retrieved 21 July 2019.
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