Vera Sobetova

Vera Sobetova
Personal information
Full name Vera Valeryevna Sobetova
Nationality  Russia
Born (1992-03-10) 10 March 1992
Lipetsk, Russia
Height 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight 65 kg (143 lb)
Sport
Sport Canoeing
Event(s) Sprint canoe

Vera Valeryevna Sobetova (Russian: Вера Валерьевна Собетова; born 10 March 1992) is a Russian sprint canoeist.[1][2] Sobetova represented Russia at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, where she competed only in sprint kayak doubles and four. For her first event, the women's K-4 500 metres, Sobetova and her teammates Yuliana Salakhova, Natalia Podolskaya, and Yulia Kachalova finished seventh in the final by six thousandths of a second (0.006) behind the Portuguese team (led by Teresa Portela), with a time of 1:33.459.[3] The following day, Sobetova and her partner Natalia Lobova paddled to a seventh-place finish and fifteenth overall in the B-final of the women's K-2 500 metres, by nineteen hundredths of a second (0.19) ahead of the Romanian pair Irina Lauric and Iuliana Paleu, posting their time of 1:52.277.[4]

References

  1. "Vera Sobetova". London 2012. Retrieved 19 February 2013.
  2. "Vera Sobetova". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 19 February 2013.
  3. "Women's Kayak Four (K4) 500m Final A". London 2012. Retrieved 19 February 2013.
  4. "Women's Kayak Double (K2) 500m Final B". London 2012. Retrieved 19 February 2013.

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