Before I started school – I was probably six or seven – we had a wonderful trainer called Elvira Tarasovna Romeyko.

It was thanks to her that I got into good physical shape – which is actually the foundation that I stand on to this day. But I didn’t spend much time with her before moving to another trainer… And then we moved to Kazakhstan, where I was trained by Larisa Nikitina. I’m grateful to her, too. She taught me well.