Elena Levchenko Biography

In the post on Instagram, the athlete mentioned the difficult path along which she went through the performances of the operation, life far from the family, the change of continents, but called it "the most amazing experience that she could ever dream of." Below is the main thing from the biography of the native of Gomel. Elena Levchenko with a cup for the championship in Greece.

Photo: Instagram account of the athletes Titles and exotic, the last club in Levchenko’s career was Panatinaikos, with which the Belarusian became the Greece champion in m. Then it was a year and a half without professional performances. Elena trained and, apparently, until the last wanted to find a new team, but this desire was not satisfied. And the basketball player decided to put an end.

In the rich career of the summer center from Gomel there were clubs with three continents. Three times she was a bronze medalist of the Euroleague, spent several seasons in China, where she sometimes got it tightly from her rivals, and got to an exotic Lebanon. The final and struggle is perhaps the main event at the club level in Elena’s biography happened in the year. She participated in the Wnba final - the female analogue of the strongest basketball league of the world.

The central acted in the form of Atlanta.

Levchenko graduated from college in the state of West Virginia. In the year, the last team from this list with the Belorussian as part was released to the final, where she lost in three matches “Seatlu”, there were no such finals in the women's NBA. All three games. And, of course, even the very fact that I became the champion of the conference, the very fact that I played in the female NBA was already an achievement for me.

Well, it was not enough for us a little, ”Elena recalled in March GO. The team and sensation of the year are generally a mansion for the Belarusian. Fortunately, she knew the requirements of Anatoly Buyalsky well and quickly fit into the team. Our team was very close to the medals, but in the semifinals lost to the householders of the tournament in overtime, and in the match for bronze - the Spanishks Levchenko was recognized as the best center championship.

She scored on average for the match of 14.8 points and made 8.8 selection. With Elena, the team of Belarus has achieved other most significant successes. In the year she won the bronze of the European Championship. Twice twice, I was on the fourth euro. She played twice at the Olympics why the women's basketball team is the best that happened in Belarusian sports and surroundings, but no less than her career, Levchenko will probably be remembered by many civil positions.

She participated in the marches of free athletes and spoke for the changes after August, served 15 days at the surroundings after detention at the airport. We began to talk about what was happening in the country, she made it clear that she did not support us, “backabash”. But how Elena reacted to the beginning of the war in Ukraine: - I devoted 28 years to sports and yes, for many years I was an apolitical athlete.

Up to a year. This year changed my mind: I sided with good, I did not even have a drop of doubt that I was doing the right thing. The athlete immediately begins to reproach: “Sports outside of politics”, “Where are you climbing” - they simply depreciate as a person and as a citizen. As if you are an athlete, then you are just a piece of meat without rights, without intelligence and without your position.

She called on Russian athletes not to stay away and talk about what is happening in Ukraine. Belarusian team in basketball at the Beijing Olympics. Photo: Reuters injuries and perseverance of the Belarusian basketball Federation did not say a word about the arrest of an athlete. However, Levchenko long before the elections fell into disgrace of the BFB. She was deprived of a bet in the national team, and personally no one informed the long -term leader of the national team.

Naturally, Levchenko did not forget this. I was fired. Without warning. It was still in the fall of the year. After the injury, I could not go to the European Championship and I was simply removed. And when I was arrested, my federation, one might say, my native federation, did not even support me morally and psychologically, not a word of support. She does not like to talk too much about injuries, operations.

But, despite the day for the surroundings and a long recovery, in M ​​Elena managed to return to basketball and once again become a champion. Many put a cross on me. Probably, my ability to work, my perseverance, love of basketball played a role, ”Levchenko admitted. Read also.