KOBLOVA Valeria

General
MOTHER AND COACH
In 2019 she began training children in her hometown Yegoryevsk in the Moscow region of the Russian Federation. "I started working as a coach, I have three groups. It is almost 30 people, and all this between training and feeding Floriana [her daughter]. This requires a lot of discipline. During this time, I have grown significantly. Being a mother is hard, but nature gives us hormones to endure all the difficulties. So now I have many children, and it turns out that I belong to all of them. I realised that I want to popularise of women's wrestling, and it seems to me that I have succeeded. I try very hard. I want to show the young by my actions that much is possible if there is desire." (mosregtoday.ru, 06 Oct 2020; wrestrus.ru, 27 Sep 2020)

HIATUS
After undergoing surgery on her knee in 2017, she took a break from the sport and gave birth to her daughter Floriana in 2019. She did not compete for three years before returning to wrestling at the 2020 National Championships in Kazan, Russian Federation. "In spite of what happened [knee injury in 2017], I still wanted to return to the sport, and this desire never left me. I have recovered, my daughter has grown up, and if my physical form did not allow me to participate in competitions before, now everything has led to the fact that such a decision has been made. The postponement of the Games in Tokyo for a year also contributed to this to some extent." (tass.ru, 19 Sep 2020)