Vera Andreeva

Vera Andreeva

Personal information
Full name	Vera Sergeyevna Andreyeva
Born	(1988-05-10) 10 May 1988 (age 36) Cheboksary, Russian SFSR
Height	1.67 m (5 ft 5+1⁄2 in)
Weight	64 kg (141 lb)
Team information
Current team	Dynamo Cheboksary
Discipline	Mountain biking
Role	Rider
Rider type	Cross-country

Vera Sergeyevna Andreyeva (also Vera Andreeva, Russian: Вера Сергеевна Андреева; born May 10, 1988, in Cheboksary) is a Russian amateur mountain biker.[1] She represented her nation Russia, as a 20-year-old junior, at the 2008 Summer Olympics, and later finished second in the women's elite cross-country race at the 2012 Russian Mountain Biking Championships.

Andreeva qualified for the Russian squad, along with her teammate and top medal contender Irina Kalentieva, in the women's cross-country race at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing by receiving one of the nation's two available berths based on her top-ten performance from the UCI Mountain Biking World Rankings.[2] With two laps left to complete the race, Andreeva suffered a heat-related fatigue under Beijing's hot and humid weather, and instead decided to pull off from the course, finishing only in twenty-third place.[3][4]

References

1. Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Vera Andreeva". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 25 October 2013.
2. В олимпийскую сборную вошла шестая спортсменка из Чувашии - маунтинбайкер Вера Андреева [In the Olympic team came sixth athlete from Chuvashia – mountain biker Vera Andreeva] (in Russian). REGNUM News Agency. 18 June 2008. Retrieved 25 October 2013.
3. "Women's Cross-Country Race". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Archived from the original on 19 August 2012. Retrieved 21 December 2012.
4. "Spitz wins scorcher in Beijing". Velo News. 22 August 2008. Retrieved 24 October 2013.

External links

• NBC Olympics Profile
• Vera Andreeva at Cycling Archives (archived)