Women
BLR
Marina Zueva
BLR- Date of birth20 Mar 1992
- Height178 CM
- ProfessionAthlete
- HometownMinsk
- Place of birthMinsk
- Start skating Club She took up the sport in 1999 in Minsk, Belarus. Sergey Minin Roller School: Belarus
- HobbiesCycling, roller skating, running, cooking for her family, reading children's books, looking online for home renovation ideas. (Athlete, 17 Jan 2021)
- LanguagesEnglish, Russian
- CoachN/A
- ChoreographerN/A
- Former CoachN/A
- Practice low seasonN/A
- Practice high seasonN/A
- General Interest
- Sport Specific Information
She was named the 2020/21 Best Female Long Distance Speed Skater by the Skating Union of Belarus. (skating.by, 10 Apr 2021)
She holds the title of Master of Sport of International Class in Belarus. (belfastmedia.by, 02 Mar 2021; Athlete, 18 Oct 2017)
She holds the title of Master of Sport of International Class in Belarus. (belfastmedia.by, 02 Mar 2021; Athlete, 18 Oct 2017)
"I need to learn how to rest. This has been my problem since childhood. I feel good when I feel bad, when I have to resist, work and suffer. It seems to me that this is the only way to improve the result. But this is not right, you need to rest. All problems are due to overtraining. Even when they tell me that for medical reasons I need to rest, I still drive myself forward." (news.pm.by, 14 Mar 2022)
Belarusian biathlete Darya Domracheva. (Athlete, 13 Nov 2019)
Coach Sergey Minin. (Athlete, 13 Nov 2019)
To win a medal at the Olympic Winter Games. (news.pm.by, 14 Mar 2022)
Finishing fourth in the 5000m at the 2019 World Single Distances Championships in Salt Lake City, UT, United States of America. (Athlete, 17 Jan 2021)
HIATUS
At age 17 she gave up the sport and began coaching. Two years later, she took up roller skating and was spotted by Sergey Minin, the Belarusian national speed skating coach, who encouraged her to return to the sport. "He gave me back the pleasure and joy in speed skating I had lost before. I was used to the same very hard endurance training routine and Sergey showed me how training can be fun too." (isu.org, 07 Mar 2019; sb.by, 01 Mar 2018; kp.by, 02 Feb 2018)
At age 17 she gave up the sport and began coaching. Two years later, she took up roller skating and was spotted by Sergey Minin, the Belarusian national speed skating coach, who encouraged her to return to the sport. "He gave me back the pleasure and joy in speed skating I had lost before. I was used to the same very hard endurance training routine and Sergey showed me how training can be fun too." (isu.org, 07 Mar 2019; sb.by, 01 Mar 2018; kp.by, 02 Feb 2018)
She has represented Belarus in roller speed skating, including in the road marathon at the 2018 World Championships in Arnhem, Netherlands. She has also competed in cycling at national level and won silver in the road race at the 2020 Belarusian Championships. (SportsDeskOnline, 20 Jan 2021; skating.by, 26 Jul 2020; Athlete, 30 Sep 2018; rollersport.net, 23 Aug 2015)
She followed her older sister into the sport. "The group was close to the place I lived, and my parents liked it. I was active, restless, hardy, so apparently it was not chess or gymnastics that I needed."
