In the last day, Israel's top swimmer, Anastasia Gorbenko, started working in the pool at Wingate, with the new national team coach Tom Rushton, who arrived in Israel at the beginning of the week to lead the Israeli national team to the campaign of the Paris 2024 Olympics.
Rashton arrived in Israel with a number of the best swimmers in the world such as Shivon Hohi from Hong Kong, the double silver medalist at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, the world champion in the 25 meter pool (in the 100 and 200 meter freestyle) and the world record holder in the 25 meter pool in the 200 meter freestyle.
"This is neither my first nor my second training with Tom," says Gorbenko about her acquaintance with Rashton, "I recently worked with him in training camps abroad, when it feels strange, but also exciting that the entire team I trained with came to training in Israel to train with him here for a long period of time and we will see What will".
What is it like to train with someone like Shivon?
"Shibon is an amazing person, an amazing personality, and as an athlete I appreciate and admire her, she is still at a higher level than me because it is difficult to deal with her in training, but we will get there someday, and she swims with the boys, but I always like to be in a challenging place and in a swimming team that challenges Me. A lot of quality people together is good."
Rushton and Gorbenko.
We know each other very well, photo: Oren Aharoni
How is Tom as a coach?
"Tom Rushton is a professional and serious trainer, training with him is a little different than what I would do. I always like to learn and take new things from new people, so it's fun."
What is going to happen until the Olympics?
"The year and a half ahead of me will be challenging and busy. I have two world championships and the Olympic Games ahead of me, so you have to see how I will deal with it, I'm looking forward to it. It's an exciting and challenging time with new beginnings."
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