Inna Stepanova: biography of Russian archer

2024 Author: Henry Conors | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-12 02:55

The name of Inna Stepanova is known to all lovers of archery. At the age of 28, she achieved high results in sports. Her biggest success is a silver medal at the 2016 Olympics in Brazil. The girl dedicated this award to her mother, who alone raised Inna and her two brothers. We will tell about the career and personal life of the famous archer in the article.

Biography

Inna Stepanova was born on April 17, 1990 in Buryatia, in Ulan-Ude. Her mother, Valentina Tsyrempilovna, was a simple working person, she worked at a construction site for most of her life, then worked at the treatment facilities of the Ulan-Ude Fine Cloth Manufactory. The woman is now retired.

Inna was a late child, Valentina Tsyrempilovna gave birth to her at the age of 37 and raised her without a husband. By that time, the girl's two older brothers, Albert and Alexander, had already grown up and lived separately. When my mother was at work, Inna stayed at home alone, cleaned herself and cooked breakfast for herself, and she was six or seven years old at that time. In such conditions, the girl quickly became independent, besides, she was verycurious, she attended various circles.

Archery Inna Stepanova got carried away by chance. A classmate called her to the section. The girl agreed to go along with her friend, although at that time she was more attracted to drawing than sports. As a result, Inna liked the classes and stayed.

Over time, the young archer began to show good results, but she did not immediately get to her debut competitions, since her mother did not have money to send her daughter to the Russian championship. Only a year later, Valentina Tsyrempilovna was able to accumulate the required amount.

After school, Inna Stepanova entered the Buryat University at the Faculty of Physical Education, which she graduated in 2013

Career start

In 2009, the athlete has already competed at the stages of the World Cup in archery and has not once become a winner in the individual and team championships.

In 2010, at the Italian European Championship, Inna Stepanova and her teammates won a gold medal. Our team beat the hosts of the tournament in the final. In the individual championship, the archer took silver, and in the mixed doubles she became fifth.

In 2011, at the Asian Grand Prix in Thailand, Inna Stepanova's shooting was the best: she won the individual and mixed events, and also became third in the team championship.

In 2012, the athlete took third place in the individual discipline and won in the national team.

2013-2016

In July 2013, Inna Stepanova won the World Cup inColombia.

In 2015, at the Summer Universiade, she won two bronze medals: in the team and mixed doubles. At the world championship held in the same year, our team was the best. On December 15, 2015, the athlete became the Honored Master of Sports of Russia.

The key year in Inna Stepanova's career is 2016, when she, along with Tuyana Dashidorzhiyeva and Ksenia Perova, managed to win the Olympic silver in the team championship. Up to this point, the shooters from the national team have not achieved such high results.

Private life

After the Olympics, in the fall of 2016, Inna Stepanova got married. Timur Batorov, master of sports in wrestling, became her chosen one. According to the archer, her lover proposed to her in the spring of 2016, but the girl asked to postpone the event until the fall, as she had to prepare for the games.

2017-24-05 the couple had a daughter, Victoria. In connection with this event, Inna Stepanova did not train for a year and a half, and then returned to sports.

In January 2018, at the competitions in Orel, the archer won the silver award of the Cup of Russia. And already in August 2018, she won bronze in the mixed team championship at the European Championship in Poland.

After a long break, these are excellent results. But the main victories of Inna Stepanova are yet to come!