Anastasia Yurievna Prokopenko (born May 17, 1986 ) - Russian badminton player , participant in the 2012 Summer Olympic Games in women's singles, silver medalist in the European Team Championship 2012. She played for the club TsSP Izmailovo.
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| Citizenship |  Russia | ||||||||||
| Date of Birth | May 17, 1986 (33 years old) | ||||||||||
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| Height | 171 cm | ||||||||||
| The weight | 58 kg | ||||||||||
| Working hand | right | ||||||||||
| Highest position | 29 (August 25, 2011) | ||||||||||
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Content
- 1 Sports biography
- 2 Personal life
- 3 References
- 4 notes
Sports Biography
She started to play badminton in 1995 in the sports section in Moscow. Initially, Anastasia began to study there, since the section was located next to her school. In 2005, Prokopenko, paired with Anatoly Kudinova, became the bronze medalist of the European Junior Championship. In 2010, Prokopenko as part of the Russian national team took part in the Uber Cup . At the tournament, Russians were able to break into the quarter finals, where they lost to future winners of the South Korean national team competitions. Within the framework of the Cup, Prokopenko played one match - at the group stage, the Russian woman defeated the German Fabianna Deprec 2: 1.
In 2012, Anastasia Prokopenko performed at the Summer Olympics in London . At the group stage, the athlete, who ranked 39th in the world ranking, got Danes Tine Bown and Polish badminton player Camilla Augustin as rivals. In the first match, Anastasia won Augustin 2-0 and in order to continue the fight for medals she needed to defeat the Danish woman, who at the time of the Games was one of the ten strongest badminton players in the world. The first batch of the decisive match remained with Prokopenko (21:19), but losing in the next two sets (15:21, 16:21), Anastasia took 2nd place in her group and dropped out of the tournament. Prokopenko held her last matches in the international arena in November 2012.
Personal life
- Graduated from MATI-RSTU named after K.E. Tsiolkovsky .
- He works as a leading economist at Svyaztransneft.
Links
- Anastasia Prokopenko - Olympic statistics at Sports-Reference.com
- Profile at bwfbadminton.org
- Anastasia Prokopenko (Russian) on Instagram