Viktoriya Zeynep Güneş or Viktoria Solntseva ( uk, Вікторія Солнцева; born 19 June 1998) is a

Ukraine Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers approximately . Prior to the ongoing Russian inv ...

-born Turkish (since 2014) swimmer. She currently represents Energy Standard in the

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Career

For Ukraine

Solnceva competed for Ukraine at the

2013 FINA World Junior Swimming Championships The 4th FINA World Junior Swimming Championships, were held on August 26–31, 2013, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates The United Arab Emirates (UAE; ar, اَلْإِمَارَات الْعَرَبِيَة الْمُتَحِدَة ), or simpl ...

in Dubai and the 2013 World Aquatics Championships in Barcelona. Solnceva is the current Ukrainian record holder in 100m and 200m breaststroke.

For Turkey

Gunes competed in the 100m breaststroke in seniors at the

2015 World Aquatics Championships The 16th FINA World Championships (russian: Чемпионат мира по водным видам спорта 2015), also Aquatics 2015, were held in Kazan, Russia from 24 July to 9 August 2015. Russia hosted this event for the first time. T ...

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, narrowly missing a semi-final birth as she placed 17th. She represented Turkey in the 2016 Rio Summer Olympics, where she reached the semi-finals (top 16) of the 100m breaststroke, placing 15th in the preliminary heats. She swam in the heats of 400m medley 4.41.79 and did not advance. In the 100m breaststroke heats, she qualified for the semifinals with 1.07.14, however in the semifinals swam 1.07.41 and did not advance. At the

2015 FINA World Junior Swimming Championships The 5th FINA World Junior Swimming Championships, were held on August 25–30, 2015, in Singapore Singapore (), officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia. It lies abou ...

in Singapore, she represented Turkey, and won four gold medals. In the 200 meter breaststroke she broke the junior world record with a time of 2:19.64, just 0.53 off the senior world record. She also broke the junior world record in the 200 meter individual medley.

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named her "female swimmer of the meet". At the

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meet of the 2021 FINA Swimming World Cup, she took the gold medal in the 200 m breaststroke event, and the bronze medal in the 200 m individual medley event. She won the gold medal in the 400 m individual medley event at the

2021 European Short Course Swimming Championships The 2021 European Short Course Swimming Championships (25 m) were held in Kazan, Russia from 2 to 7 November 2021 at the Palace of Water Sports The Palace of Water Sports (; tt-Cyrl, Су спорт төрләре сара) is an indoor aquatics ...

, Russia. She so became the first Turkish swimmer to became a European champion. With her time of 4:30.45.4 she improved also her own Turkish record in this event.z

International Swimming League

In the Autumn of 2019, she was member of the inaugural

swimming for the Energy Standard International Swim Club, who won the team title in Las Vegas, Nevada, in December.

Awards and honors

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Güneş, Viktoria Zeynep Living people 1998 births Sportspeople from Poltava Turkish female breaststroke swimmers Turkish female medley swimmers Ukrainian female breaststroke swimmers Ukrainian emigrants to Turkey Naturalized citizens of Turkey Turkish female swimmers Swimmers at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic swimmers of Turkey Swimmers at the 2018 Mediterranean Games Swimmers at the 2022 Mediterranean Games Mediterranean Games gold medalists for Turkey Mediterranean Games silver medalists for Turkey Mediterranean Games bronze medalists for Turkey Mediterranean Games medalists in swimming Enkaspor swimmers Swimmers at the 2020 Summer Olympics Ukrainian female medley swimmers Turkish people of Ukrainian descent Islamic Solidarity Games competitors for Turkey Islamic Solidarity Games medalists in swimming 21st-century Turkish women