TOMSK, Feb 7 – RIA Tomsk. Anastasia Kirillova, the graduate of the Tomsk children's and youth sports school "Svetlenskaya" will take part at the Olympics-2018 as part of the national team of the Republic of Belarus in skiing, the press service of the mayor's office of Tomsk reports on Wednesday.
Earlier it was reported that the XXIII Winter Olympic Games will be held from 9 to 25 February 2018 in the city of Pyeongchang (South Korea). Former resident of Tomsk freestyler Ekaterina Stolyarova was included in the list of participants of the Olympic Games. She will compete for the Krasnodar Krai. The skater from Seversk Alexandra Kachurkina, applying to participate at the Olympics, was not approved by the International Olympic Committee for the performance.
"Kirillova will take part at the Olympic Games-2018 as part of the Belarusian national team on cross-country skiing. The athlete was born in Tomsk and today has a dual citizenship - in Russia and Belarus. In the Tomsk children's and youth sports school "Svetlenskaya" was coached by the leading teacher Viktor Parfinenko", – is said in the report.
It is clarified that Kirillova has repeatedly won city and regional competitions in cross-country skiing and is the owner of a nominal scholarship of the administration of Tomsk in the nomination "Talented and Gifted Youth" in 2009-2012 and in the nomination "Olympic Hope" in 2013.Also Kirillova is a two-time winner of the Russian championship among girls, the winner of the Siberian and Far Eastern Federal District championship in cross-country skiing, a double prizewinner of the VI Games of Russia. In addition, she represented Russia at the "European Youth Olympic Festival" in Romania.
As previously reported by the federal media, at the Olympic Games in South Korea Russian athletes will compete under a neutral flag.