The carreir of a rhythmic gymnast is not a long one. As soon as you reach the top and win several tournaments, you are told that you should give the way to the young, the talented and the perspective...Only a few manage to cope with the  difficult competition against the youth, to conquer a peak after a peak. Ekaterina Serebrianskaya is just among these few, who earned everything that can be reached in their sports carreir.

She was born in Simpheropol on the 25^th of October 1977 in the family of the master of sports in football Oleg Vasilievich and the master of sports in artistic gymnastics Luibov Yevseevna. Her parents brought her to the gym when she was only 4 years old because there was nobody to sit with Katya at home...She was a little, plump, bow-legged girl, but already at the age of 6-7 years old Serebrianskaya became much taller, her legs were long and straight

Katya took up professional rhythmic gymnastics at the age of 8. While studying at school, she became master of sports, champion and medal winner of the Junior European championship. And then, training in the gym in Kiev, Serebrianskaya became European champion in team event, all-round World and European Championship, the holder of the European Cup. She has also achieved 8 titles of the World champion, 6 titles of the European Champion in the finals with different apparatus.

In 1996 in front of Olimpic Games in Atlanta the chances of the Ukrainian gymnasts were quite high because Serebrianskaya has been the leader of all competitions for the last 2 and a half years.

It is very difficult and demanding when the whole country is waiting only for a gold medal from you. Katya was completely worn out after the trainings, she was coming home and falling down from tireness, she tried to close her eyes, but could not sleep. The moments of her compositions were always in front of her. The competition was difficult because the gymnasts had to compete for 3 times. “Every performance takes away perharps 5 years of your life because of nerves. I think that the winner of the Olimpic Games is the one who wins mentally, because physically everybody is prepared perfectly.” – rememberes Ekaterina. And she coped with the pressure. Unusually long surname for the foreigners was at the top of the final ranking of the competition in Atlanta. “If you enter the big sports, you should be first, it is my opinion,” – Ekaterina says. And she became first.

Katya was competing on all competitions during 3 years after the Olimpic Games, missing only a few due to the injuries. She competed on European Championship and World Cup, but it was very difficult to hold a blow against young athletes that were moving to the top.

Unfortunately, time flies very quickly. And now in the Kiev Palace of Culture “Ukraine” the concert “New intention” took place deducated to the official retirement of the marvelous Ukrainian grace. She finished her carreir and a wonderful plethora of new opportunities, new aims opened around her...