Mikhaltsova, Alyona Dimitrievna

In childhood, she was involved in athletics, was a silver and bronze medalist of the Russian championship ^[7] . Back in 2011, Vladimir Nikolaevich Demonov, the manager of the Yenisei-STM club, suggested that she compete in the Siberian Federal District in Omsk, but she refused. In March 2013, after graduating from an Olympic reserve school, she moved to Krasnoyarsk and started training: she began to receive calls from the Yenisei-STM club and from the club's coach Maxim Zaltsman. May 1, 2013 became a player of the Krasnoyarsk team ^[4] .

She was first invited to the Russian national rugby-7 team at the end of 2013 before the stage of the World rugby-7 series in Dubai, but did not go due to a foot injury. In January 2014, she arrived for the first time to gather a national team and, quickly adapting to the conditions, fell into an application for the World Series and debuted at the next stage ^[4] . As part of the Russian team, she won the European Rugby 7 Championship four times: in 2014, Alena played both stages without substitutions and won her first European “gold” ^[4] . Due to an injury, she did not play at the Dublin qualifying tournament for the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, in which the Russian team failed, losing a decisive match to the Spaniards.

In 2017, she was nominated for the prize of the Most Useful Player (MVP) of the World Rugby 7 Series, but did not receive it ^[8] . By the end of the 2017/2018 season, Alyona had 84 matches for the Russian national team and 366 points (thanks to 70 attempts) in the World rugby-7 series ^[9] ; in the season 2018/2019 this number increased to 120 games and 451 points (87 attempts and 8 implementations) ^[3] .

He considers team play in every match to be important and prefers to give a pass than to run by himself during the attack. She calls Elena Zdrokova her best friend and partner, whom Mikhaltsova herself brought to rugby. In defense, at first she played on the edge and made a minimum of captures, now she is playing in the center and realizing captures. Sometimes wins back the balls in the fight ^[4] .

The first marriage was rugby player Alexei Mikhaltsov , a wing club Yenisei-STM , and also a track and field athlete in the past ^[10] . He is currently meeting with the player of the Moscow Torpedo and video analyst of the Russian national team Ilya Tyrone . Alena is distinguished on the field by her bright appearance, especially with her multi-colored braids ^{[11] [8]} .

He is a member of the editorial board of Rugby Magazine ^[12] .

Athletics

• Russian Championship 2012 : silver (Relay 400 + 300 + 200 + 100 m) and bronze (Relay 800 + 400 + 200 + 100 m)

Rugby

Domestic Tournaments

• Russian Championship bronze medalist: 2013
• Silver medalist of the Russian Championship: 2015, 2016
• Finalist of the Cup of Russia: 2015
• The best player of YRIS Yenisei-STM: 2015

Russian national teams

• European Rugby Champion 7: 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018
• Silver medalist of the European Championship: 2015
• Member of the symbolic world team of the first stage of the World Series of the season 2015/2016
• Twice winner of the prize of the most valuable player in the stages of the 2017/2018 World Series (stage in Dubai and stage in Kitakyushu) ^{[13] [14] [15]}
• Bronze medalist of the European Rugby Championship-15: 2016
• MVP World Rugby 7 Series 2018/2019 ^[16]

• Alyona Mikhaltsova on Instagram
• The official page of Alena Mikhaltsova on the VKontakte social network