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Vera Sobetova

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Vera Sobetova
Personal information
Full nameVera Valeryevna Sobetova
Nationality Russia
Born (1992-03-10) 10 March 1992 (age 32)
Lipetsk, Russia
Height1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight65 kg (143 lb)
Sport
SportCanoeing
EventSprint canoe
Medal record
European Championships
Silver medal – second place 2018 Belgrade K-2 200 m
Bronze medal – third place 2014 Brandenburg K-4 500 m
Bronze medal – third place 2018 Belgrade K-4 500 m

Vera Valeryevna Sobetova (Russian: Вера Валерьевна Собетова; born 10 March 1992) is a Russian sprint canoeist.[1][2] Sobetova represented Russia at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, where she competed only in sprint kayak doubles and four. For her first event, the women's K-4 500 metres, Sobetova and her teammates Yuliana Salakhova, Natalia Podolskaya, and Yulia Kachalova finished seventh in the final by six thousandths of a second (0.006) behind the Portuguese team (led by Teresa Portela), with a time of 1:33.459.[3] The following day, Sobetova and her partner Natalia Lobova paddled to a seventh-place finish and fifteenth overall in the B-final of the women's K-2 500 metres, by nineteen hundredths of a second (0.19) ahead of the Romanian pair Irina Lauric and Iuliana Paleu, posting their time of 1:52.277.[4]

References

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  1. ^ "Vera Sobetova". London 2012. Archived from the original on 1 May 2013. Retrieved 19 February 2013.
  2. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Vera Sobetova". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 19 February 2013.
  3. ^ "Women's Kayak Four (K4) 500m Final A". London 2012. Archived from the original on 1 April 2013. Retrieved 19 February 2013.
  4. ^ "Women's Kayak Double (K2) 500m Final B". London 2012. Archived from the original on 11 April 2013. Retrieved 19 February 2013.
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