Viktoriya Zeynep Güneş
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Birth name | Viktoria Solnceva | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Poltava, Ukraine | 19 June 1998||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 182 cm (6 ft 0 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 68 kg (150 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Strokes | Breaststroke | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Energy Standard International Swim Club | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Viktoriya Zeynep Güneş or Viktoria Solntseva (Ukrainian: Вікторія Солнцева; born 19 June 1998) is a Ukraine-born Turkish (since 2014) swimmer. She currently represents Energy Standard in the International Swimming League.
Career
For Ukraine
Solnceva competed for Ukraine at the 2013 FINA World Junior Swimming Championships in Dubai and the 2013 World Aquatics Championships in Barcelona. Solnceva is the current Ukrainian record holder in 100m and 200m breaststroke.
For Turkey
Gunes competed in the 100m breaststroke in seniors at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships in Kazan, narrowly missing a semi-final birth as she placed 17th. She represented Turkey in the 2016 Rio Summer Olympics, where she reached the semi-finals (top 16) of the 100m breaststroke, placing 15th in the preliminary heats. She swam in the heats of 400m medley 4.41.79 and did not advance. In the 100m breaststroke heats, she qualified for the semifinals with 1.07.14, however in the semifinals swam 1.07.41 and did not advance.
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. She also broke the junior world record in the 200 meter individual medley. FINA named her "female swimmer of the meet".
At the Budapest meet of the 2021 FINA Swimming World Cup, she took the gold medal in the 200 m breaststroke event, and the bronze medal in the 200 m individual medley event. She won the gold medal in the 400 m individual medley event at the 2021 European Short Course Swimming Championships in Kazan, Russia. She so became the first Turkish swimmer to became a European champion. With her time of 4:30.45.4 she improved also her own Turkish record in this event.z
International Swimming League
In the Autumn of 2019, she was member of the inaugural International Swimming League swimming for the Energy Standard International Swim Club, who won the team title in Las Vegas, Nevada, in December.
Awards and honors
- FINA, Top 10 Moments: 2021 Swimming World Cup (#4)
- Living people
- 1998 births
- People from Poltava
- Turkish female breaststroke swimmers
- Turkish female medley swimmers
- Ukrainian female breaststroke swimmers
- Ukrainian emigrants to Turkey
- Naturalized citizens of Turkey
- Turkish female swimmers
- Swimmers at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Olympic swimmers of Turkey
- Swimmers at the 2018 Mediterranean Games
- Swimmers at the 2022 Mediterranean Games
- Mediterranean Games gold medalists for Turkey
- Mediterranean Games silver medalists for Turkey
- Mediterranean Games bronze medalists for Turkey
- Mediterranean Games medalists in swimming
- Enkaspor swimmers
- Swimmers at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Ukrainian female medley swimmers
- Turkish people of Ukrainian descent
- Islamic Solidarity Games competitors for Turkey
- Islamic Solidarity Games medalists in swimming