(ANSA) - SAN BENEDETTO DEL TRONTO, MAY 24 - She escaped the war, was welcomed in San Benedetto del Tronto (Ascoli Piceno) and triumphed at the European Pole Sport Championships after also winning the World Cup.
It is the story of Yeva Korystova, a twelve-year-old Ukrainian, a pupil of the "Curzi" secondary school in the Marche city, where she arrived after leaving her country due to the Russian invasion.
The girl won the European Championships in Valladolid, Spain, getting the first place in the Junior category with a score of 132,499, with a big advantage over the second classified.
Her success repeats that obtained at the world championships in Bologna.
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The 12-year-old, together with her mother, was welcomed by a family of compatriots in San Benedetto and found the institution's willingness to allow her to continue her school path, trying to help her overcome the difficulty of the language and, above all, the trauma of war.
A situation that did not prevent Yeva from continuing to practice Polesport, a discipline that combines gymnastics and dance through the execution of acrobatic figures, which require considerable strength, fluency, coordination, agility and endurance.
You are an activity that in a few years has established itself, involving an ever-increasing number of practitioners, so much so that they aspire to enter the Olympics.
And precisely the five circles today represent Yeva's dream, that she began to practice this sport at the age of 7,
training up to 14 hours per week.
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