Olympic handball champion Vladlena Bobrovnikova On , she called the day of the 2022/23 Russian Championship final a turning point in the fight against her cancer.
In mid-April, the athlete who played for Rostov-Don announced that, according to the requirements of doctors, she would end her playing career. On May 13, Bobrovnikova said on social media that doctors had discovered that she had Hodgkin’s lymphoma, an oncological disease of lymphoid tissues. In August, Bobrovnikova announced on social media that she had recovered from the illness.
– The day of my last match! It was a decisive match [с ЦСКА] in a playoff for gold at the Russian Championship. I was already being treated, I was already undergoing chemotherapy. And I simply asked the doctors, with tears in my eyes, to let me go to the match. Because it was my farewell match. It was at the age of 11 that I started playing handball. I believe that everything that has a beginning must have an end. A starting point and an ending point, and it had to be fixed on that day.
I actually asked to sit on the bench with the team. But that did not work. They were afraid because it was permanent. All they could do was put them side by side. I said, “Girls! It’s the final match! You have to give everything, just give everything! Don’t be afraid, just fight for every inch. Just like I do every day, fighting this disease, you too must go out into the field and eat away at this victory!
Super smart girls! They won and gave me, one might say, such a gift. It was a long day that I will remember for the rest of my life! That day, it seems to me, was a turning point, because I experienced so much happiness and positive emotions that I think that after that day I simply no longer had a tumor, the cancer went away. simply turned around and left! – said Bobrovnikova in the film from the series “Faces of the Country” on .
The second match of the final series of the Russian Championship, held in Rostov-on-Don at the end of May, ended with a score of 27:26 in favor of the home team.
Bobrovnikova turned 36 on October 24. As a member of the Russian national team, she became an Olympic champion (2016), an Olympic silver medalist (2020), and a bronze medalist at the 2019 World Championships. She is also a six-time Russian champion and seven time winner of the Russian Cup as part of the Rostov-Don team.
Source : MatchTV
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