Tatyana Navka was born in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine in 1975. Her parents encouraged her interest in sports and enrolled her in figure skating lessons at age five. She had some previous experience with roller skating. Navka began competing internationally in 1993 as part of the Soviet Union national team, paired with Samvel Gezalânom and later Roman Kostomarov. Over her career, Navka won two silver medals and a bronze medal at Russian Championships, as well as a bronze at the 2003 European Championships. She was named champion of Russia at the European and World Championships three times.

1. Tatyana Navka
by Goncharova Olga, Form 9,
School №1, village Topchikha.

2. Tatyana
Aleksandrovna Navka
was born in
Dnepropetrovsk on the
13-th of April,1975. Her
mother was an
economist and her
father worked as an
engineer. Her parents
were fond of spor ts and
instilled a love of spor t
to their daughter. It
might be any kind of
spor t. When the girl was
five years, her parents
took her to the skating
ring. She had an
experience in skating,
because she has roller
skates. Tatyana doesn’t
feel much dif ference
between the skates or

3. Little Tanya bought ice
skates when the girl saw
Lena Vodorezova’s skating
on T V. Soon figure skating
took one pf the leading
place in her life.

4. In 1993 Tatyana
Navka began to
storm spor ts
competitions. Her
first step on the
big ice were the
per formances for
the national team
of the Soviet
Union. Her
par tner was
Samvel
Gezalânom. Later
her par tner was
Roman
Kostomarov.

5. Tatyana Navka
has two silver and
a bronze medal on
Russian
Championships, a
bronze medal in
the European
Championship in
2003, Navka was
the champion of
Russia in
European and
World
Championships
three times.

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