European Diving Champion Anna Konanykhina in an interview with , she said that she quit gymnastics due to problems with the trainer and her weight.
At the age of 16, in 2021, Konanykhina won gold at the European Diving Championships, which she has been doing since she was 12.
Why did you leave gymnastics?
– Rather for personal reasons: problems with the coach, the weight, I didn’t want to make everything worse. The desire to train was lost because of the coach.
In gymnastics, there is this: they constantly tell you that you are fat, they forbid you to eat baked goods and all that. But I am very grateful to my first coach – Alena Borisovna Cherentsova, we see each other, we communicate. She laid the groundwork for me. And then it turns out that I was transferred to another coach. We had a very good year then, I won, there were medals, but they didn’t let me go beyond city competitions – I only played in St. Petersburg . I was hurt. I wanted to show off, not just play city starts, Konanykhina told .
Source : MatchTV
