Personal information | |
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Full name | Vera Sergeyevna Andreyeva |
Born | Cheboksary, Russian SFSR | 10 May 1988
Height | 1.67 m (5 ft 5+1⁄2 in) |
Weight | 64 kg (141 lb) |
Team information | |
Current team | Dynamo Cheboksary |
Discipline | Mountain biking |
Role | Rider |
Rider type | Cross-country |
Vera Sergeyevna Andreyeva (also Vera Andreeva, Russian: Вера Сергеевна Андреева; born May 10, 1988, in Cheboksary) is a Russian amateur mountain biker. [1] She represented her nation Russia, as a 20-year-old junior, at the 2008 Summer Olympics, and later finished second in the women's elite cross-country race at the 2012 Russian Mountain Biking Championships.
Andreeva qualified for the Russian squad, along with her teammate and top medal contender Irina Kalentieva, in the women's cross-country race at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing by receiving one of the nation's two available berths based on her top-ten performance from the UCI Mountain Biking World Rankings. [2] With two laps left to complete the race, Andreeva suffered a heat-related fatigue under Beijing's hot and humid weather, and instead decided to pull off from the course, finishing only in twenty-third place. [3] [4]
Personal information | |
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Full name | Vera Sergeyevna Andreyeva |
Born | Cheboksary, Russian SFSR | 10 May 1988
Height | 1.67 m (5 ft 5+1⁄2 in) |
Weight | 64 kg (141 lb) |
Team information | |
Current team | Dynamo Cheboksary |
Discipline | Mountain biking |
Role | Rider |
Rider type | Cross-country |
Vera Sergeyevna Andreyeva (also Vera Andreeva, Russian: Вера Сергеевна Андреева; born May 10, 1988, in Cheboksary) is a Russian amateur mountain biker. [1] She represented her nation Russia, as a 20-year-old junior, at the 2008 Summer Olympics, and later finished second in the women's elite cross-country race at the 2012 Russian Mountain Biking Championships.
Andreeva qualified for the Russian squad, along with her teammate and top medal contender Irina Kalentieva, in the women's cross-country race at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing by receiving one of the nation's two available berths based on her top-ten performance from the UCI Mountain Biking World Rankings. [2] With two laps left to complete the race, Andreeva suffered a heat-related fatigue under Beijing's hot and humid weather, and instead decided to pull off from the course, finishing only in twenty-third place. [3] [4]