Viktoriya Zeynep Güneş

Viktoria Güneş / Viktoria Solnceva

Personal information
Nickname(s)	Vika
Born	19 June 1998 Poltava, Ukraine
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Strokes	Breaststroke
Medal record Women's swimming Competitor for  Turkey European Championships (SC) 2015 Netanya 100 m breaststroke 2015 Netanya 200 m breaststroke World Junior Championships 2015 Singapore 50 m breaststroke 2015 Singapore 100 m breaststroke 2015 Singapore 200 m breaststroke 2015 Singapore 200 m medley Competitor for  Ukraine World Junior Championships 2013 Dubai 200 m breaststroke 2013 Dubai 50 m breaststroke 2013 Dubai 100 m breaststroke European Junior Championships Poznan 2013 50 m breaststroke Poznan 2013 200 m breaststroke Poznan 2013 100 m breaststroke

Viktoria Güneş or Viktoria Solnceva (Ukrainian: Вікторія Солнцева; born 19 June 1998) is a Ukrainian (until 2014) and Turkish (since 2014)^[1] swimmer.^[2]

Career

Solnceva competed at the 2013 FINA World Junior Swimming Championships in Dubai and the 2013 World Aquatics Championships in Barcelona for Ukraine. Solnceva is the current Ukrainian record holder in 100m and 200m breaststroke.

Representing Turkey

Gunes competed in seniors at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships in Kazan, however she did not reach the finals in the event she competed.

At the 2015 FINA World Junior Swimming Championships in Singapore, she represented Turkey, and won four gold medals. In the 200 meter breaststroke she broke the junior world record with a time of 2:19.64, just 0.53 off the senior world record.^[3] She also broke the junior world record in the 200 meter individual medley. FINA named her female swimmer of the meet.^[4]

References

1. "Türkiye, Hürrem'den çok beni tanıyacak"
2. "Victoria Solntseva - the child prodigy of Ukraine" (in Bulgarian). Retrieved 2013-09-29.
3. "Women's 200m Breaststroke Final Results". Omega Timing. August 30, 2015. Retrieved August 31, 2015.
4. "Swimming World Juniors, Day 6, Singapore: Gunes’s blast would have earned her the title in Kazan as well!". FINA. August 30, 2015. Retrieved August 31, 2015.