YANITSAS Lea

Olympic Games

Rank	Event	Year	Location
6	Women	2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA

World Championship

Rank	Event	Year	Location
2	Women	2013	Barcelona, ESP
3	Women	2019	Gwangju, KOR
4	Women	2015	Kazan, RUS
8	Women	2017	Budapest, HUN

World League - Super Final

Rank	Event	Year	Location
7	Women	2017	Shanghai, CHN

Lea Barta

Athlete, Physiotherapist, Student

Physiotherapy - University of Sydney, Australia

Husband Andrew, son Constantine [2018]

English

UNSW Wests Killer Whales [Sydney, NSW, AUS]

Predrag Mihailovic [national], SRB

Goalkeeper (amazonaws.com, 28 Jul 2016)

Right (australianwaterpolo.com.au, 20 Dec 2011)

Her husband Andrew has coached water polo at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, NSW, Australia. (waterpoloaustralia.com.au, 06 Apr 2017)

2009 for Australia, in Canada (amazonaws.com, 28 Jul 2016)

She missed the 2014 international season because she broke her finger in five places. (aquaticsuperseries.com.au, 17 Dec 2014; galabid.com, 2015)

Australian Water Polo League (waterpoloaustralia.com.au, 04 Apr 2021)

She began competing in water polo at age 14 in Sydney, NSW, Australia. (waterpoloaustralia.com.au, 12 Feb 2014)

Former Australian water polo captain Debbie Watson was her school teacher. Her older sister also played the sport and she joined in to give someone for them to train against. "It was a random sport for me, but I was inspired and saw what Debbie had achieved. I was however not a water athlete. I played touch football and netball and mostly ran in high school, and I didn't know much about the sport at all. So when I went to the trials I was a poor swimmer, but my netball reflexes and leg strength from running made for a good goalie so that is where I ended up. I always dreamed of going to the Olympics but you can't do that with touch football or netball, so I thought it was a fantastic opportunity to give it my best and have a go." (education.olympics.com.au, 01 Jan 2017; dailytelegraph.com.au, 21 Nov 2016; dailytelegraph.com.au, 11 Jul 2016; amazonaws.com, 28 Jul 2016)

To compete at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (waterpoloaustralia.com.au, 18 Jul 2019)

Australian sprinter Cathy Freeman, Australian water polo player Alicia ­McCormack. (theaustralian.com.au, 25 Jun 2016; waterpoloaustralia.com.au, 01 Jul 2013)

"Many of life's failures are people who did not realise how close they were to success when they gave up." [Thomas Edison] (education.olympics.com.au, 10 Nov 2016)

She was named the Best Goalkeeper in the Australian Water Polo League in 2018. (randwick.nsw.gov.au, 07 Nov 2018)

She was named in the 2015 Australian Water Polo League All-Star team. (dailytelegraph.com.au, 11 May 2015)