MANUCHARYAN Varsenik

World Championships

Year	Location	50Free	50Fly	4x100Free X	4x100Medley X
2019	Gwangju, KOR	H (27.54)	H (29.65)	H (3:44.07)	H (4:19.80)

European Championships

Year	Location	50Free	100Free	200Free	4x100Free X
2020	Budapest, HUN	H (27.59)	H (59.00)	H (2:11.71)	H (3:45.17)

World Championships Short Course

Year	Location	50Free	50Fly	4x50Free X	4x50Medley X
2018	Hangzhou, CHN	H (26.80)	H (29.09)	H (1:40.73)	H (1:53.39)

World Junior Championships

Year	Location	50Free	100Free	50Breast	50Fly	4x100Free X	4x100Medley X
2019	Budapest, HUN	H (27.45)	-	H (36.02)	H (30.09)	H (3:46.96)	H (4:18.59)
2017	Indianapolis, IN, USA	H (27.95)	H (59.69)	-	H (30.83)	-	-

Legend
Free - Freestyle, Back - Backstroke, Breast - Breaststroke, Fly - Butterfly, IndMed - Individual Medley, SF - Semifinal, H - Heats, DNS - Did Not Start, M - Men, W - Women, X - Mixed, DSQ - Disqualified, [Relay athlete without time] - Did not swim in final

Vika ["Victoria means victory, that's why I am always the first"]. (sport.mediamax.am, 15 Jul 2021)

Watching anime. (sport.mediamax.am, 15 Jul 2021)

Athlete, Student

State Sports College of Olympic Reserve , Armenia

Karen Barseghyan

"I have been swimming since I was nine years old, before that I had been playing volleyball for four years. I like team sports, but it was quite difficult and tiresome to combine the two. When I was supposed to take part in the European Championships, I decided to focus only on swimming." (sport.mediamax.am, 15 Jul 2021)

"It was not my decision [to take up swimming]. It was my grandmother. I was interested in tennis, but there was no free place in my age group. I came to swimming, and my first coach was Ayzhemnik Minasyan. When my grandmother and mother saw me swimming, they decided I must continue. I did not like it at first, because it was monotonous to go from one end of the pool to the other, I like competition. I took part in my first competition at age 11, and no one expected me to win. From that moment on, I started to love swimming, I became even more interested when I started to beat older swimmers and those who had beaten me before." (armenpress.am, 16 Jul 2021; sport.mediamax.am, 15 Jul 2021)

To compete at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. (sport.mediamax.am, 15 Jul 2021)

"I wake up at 06:30 in the morning to be in the pool at 07:00, and if I am at least a minute late, the coaches won't let me in the pool." (sport.mediamax.am, 15 Jul 2021)

Earning a place at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (sport.mediamax.am, 15 Jul 2021)

Armenian Greco-Roman wrestler Artur Aleksanyan. (sport.mediamax.am, 15 Jul 2021)

Her grandmother. "I have a hard time waking up early in the morning. She helps me, feeds me so that I can get to workouts in time, she is by my side in every situation." (sport.mediamax.am, 15 Jul 2021)

"My biggest fear is to disappoint my coaches. They work with me so much, they work hard and have expectations, I want to live up to them." (sport.mediamax.am, 15 Jul 2021)