FESIKOVA Anastasiia

Olympic Games

Year	Location	100Back	200Back	4x100Medley W
2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	SF (59.68)	SF (2:09.12)	6th (3:55.66)
2012	London, GBR	4th (59.00)	2nd (2:05.92)	4th (3:56.03)
2008	Beijing, CHN	5th (59.40)	4th (2:07.88)	5th (3:57.84)

World Championships

Year	Location	50Back	100Back	200Back	4x100Medley W	4x100Medley X
2019	Gwangju, KOR	SF (28.01)	SF (1:00.33)	-	-	-
2017	Budapest, HUN	SF (27.65)	5th (58.83)	-	2nd (3:53.38)	-
2015	Kazan, RUS	SF (28.11)	6th (59.66)	-	-	5th (3:44.83)
2011	Shanghai, CHN	1st (27.79)	2nd (59.06)	H (2:11.23)	4th (3:57.38)	-
2009	Rome, ITA	4th (27.31)	2nd (58.18)	2nd (2:04.94)	-	-
2007	Melbourne, VIC, AUS	SF (28.85)	7th (1:01.38)	H (2:13.54)	5th (4:03.32)	-

European Championships

Year	Location	50Back	100Back	4x100Medley W
2020	Budapest, HUN	5th (27.90)	7th (1:00.33)	2nd
2018	Glasgow, GBR	2nd (27.31)	1st (59.19)	1st (3:54.22)

Champions Swim Series overview - Three best ranks per season and event since 2019

Year	50Back	100Back	200Back	4x100Medley
2020	1 x 2nd	1 x 2nd	-	1 x 3rd
2019	1 x 1st, 1 x 2nd	1 x 2nd, 1 x 3rd	1 x 4th	1 x 1st

Champions Swim Series - Ten best performances since 2019

Rank	Year	Event	Location	Result
1	2019	Women's 50m Backstroke	Budapest, HUN	27.58
1	2019	4 x 100m Medley Relay	Budapest, HUN	3:47.40
2	2020	Women's 50m Backstroke	Beijing, CHN	27.90
2	2020	100m Backstroke	Beijing, CHN	1:00.52
2	2019	Women's 50m Backstroke	Indianapolis, IN, USA	28.20
2	2019	100m Backstroke	Budapest, HUN	59.73
3	2020	4 x 100m Medley Relay	Beijing, CHN	3:53.05
3	2019	100m Backstroke	Indianapolis, IN, USA	1:00.68
4	2019	200m Backstroke	Indianapolis, IN, USA	2:12.41

World Championships Short Course

Year	Location	50Back	100Back	4x50Medley W	4x100Medley
2018	Hangzhou, CHN	SF (26.76)	SF (57.88)	6th	5th (3:53.73)

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

Nastya (rsport.ria.ru, 06 Apr 2021)

Anastasia Zueva

Spending time with family. (russian.rt.com, 14 Apr 2021)

Athlete

Physical Education - Penza State Pedagogical University, Russian Federation

Husband Sergey Fesikov, son Maxim [2014]

Russian

Kaluga Regional Olymp Sports School of Olympic Reserve [RUS] / COP YANAO [RUS]

Natalia Kozlova [personal], RUS, from 2005

Her husband Sergey Fesikov has represented the Russian Federation in swimming. He won bronze in the men's 4x100m freestyle relay at the 2012 Olympic Games in London and competed at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. He also won gold medals in the men's 4x50m freestyle relay, the men's 4x50m medley relay and the 4x50m mixed medley relay at the 2019 European Short Course Championships in Glasgow, Scotland. (SportsDeskOnline, 17 May 2021; ngregion.ru, 28 Nov 2017)

2006 for Russian Federation, in Palma de Mallorca, Spain (russwimming.ru, 15 May 2013)

In 2020 she suffered ligament and tendon damage in her shoulder but decided to refrain from surgery in order to compete at the Russian national championships in 2021, where she won a qualifying place for the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (rsport.ria.ru, 06 Apr 2021)

While doing a step test in training in early 2013, she broke the fifth metatarsal bone in her right foot which hampered her training and forced her to miss the 2013 World Championships in Barcelona, Spain. (sportbox.ru, 17 Nov 2013; rg.ru, 13 Nov 2013, 26 Feb 2013)

She aggravated an existing back injury at the 2009 World Championships in Rome, Italy and had to withdraw from the 2010 European Championships in Budapest, Hungary. Russian doctors at the time advised she quit the sport but she found a German doctor who altered her training regime and she returned to the pool in time to compete at the 2011 World Championships in Shanghai, People's Republic of China. (arenainternational.com, 21 Oct 2011; FINA Aquatics World Magazine, 14 Aug 2011; sportcom.ru, 09 Aug 2010; sport-express.ru, 03 Nov 2010)

She took up the sport at age six in Voskresensk, Russian Federation. (russwimming.ru, 20 Nov 2013)

Her mother took her to the swimming pool. (russwimming.ru, 20 Nov 2013)

To compete at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (rsport.ria.ru, 05 Apr 2021)

Winning silver in the 200m backstroke at the 2012 Olympic Games in London. (SportsDeskOnline, 17 May 2021; olympics.com, 09 May 2021)

"Hard work comes first. Secondly, I do not like to live with resentment and remember bad things and, thirdly, I am obstinate." (olympics.com, 09 May 2021)

For her performance at the 2012 Olympic Games in London, she received the Order for Merit to the Fatherland [first grade] of the Russian Federation. (kremlin.ru, 13 Aug 2012)

In 2009 she received the title of Honoured Master of Sport in the Russian Federation. (minsport.gov.ru, 27 Dec 2019)