ROMASHINA Svetlana

General
RETIREMENT PLANS
She plans to retire from competitive artistic swimming after the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. "Tokyo will be my fourth Games, and I pretty well realise that they should be the last one in my athlete's career. It's very likely to be my final performance. My family is waiting for me. I would very much like to have a second baby. There are a lot of thoughts in my head, where to go. Maybe coaching, maybe international sport relations. I'd also love to become a part of the FINA family, and work for the benefit of the artistic swimming movement." (fina.org, 21 Apr 2021)

CAREER BREAK
After the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, she took a break from competing and became a coach with the Russian junior artistic swimming team, as well as assistant coach of the senior national team. She did not compete at the 2017 World Championships in Budapest, Hungary, as she was pregnant with her first child. In September 2018 she resumed training. (gq.ru, 27 May 2020; tass.ru, 08 Aug 2018; rsport.ria.ru, 12 Jul 2017)

ATHLETE REPRESENTATIVE
She has served as a member of the Athletes' Commission of the Russian Olympic Committee [ROC]. (olympic.ru, 21 Nov 2019)

FURTHER EDUCATION
In 2015 she graduated from the Moscow State University in the Russian Federation, where she had studied sports management. In 2017 she started a post-graduate degree in coaching at the Volga Region State Academy of Physical Education, Sport and Tourism in Kazan, Russian Federation. (sport.business-gazeta.ru, 01 Oct 2017; Athlete, 27 Feb 2015)

When she and teammate Natalia Ischchenko won gold as part of the team event at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, they equalled the record for the most Olympic gold medals [five] won by an athlete representing the Russian Federation in any sport. The record was first set by another artistic swimmer, Anastasia Davydova, at the 2012 Games in London. (SportsDeskOnline, 11 May 2021)