Nationality Russia Role Olympic athlete Sport Canoeing Height 1.75 m | Event(s) Sprint canoe Weight 65 kg Name Vera Sobetova | |
Full name Vera Valeryevna Sobetova Born 10 March 1992 (age 32) ( 1992-03-10 ) Lipetsk, Russia | ||
Vera Valeryevna Sobetova (Russian: Вера Валерьевна Собетова; born 10 March 1992) is a Russian sprint canoeist. Sobetova represented Russia at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, where she competed only in sprint kayak doubles and four. For her first event, the women's K-4 500 metres, Sobetova and her teammates Yuliana Salakhova, Natalia Podolskaya, and Yulia Kachalova finished seventh in the final by six thousandths of a second (0.006) behind the Portuguese team (led by Teresa Portela), with a time of 1:33.459. The following day, Sobetova and her partner Natalia Lobova paddled to a seventh-place finish and fifteenth overall in the B-final of the women's K-2 500 metres, by nineteen hundredths of a second (0.19) ahead of the Romanian pair Irina Lauric and Iuliana Paleu, posting their time of 1:52.277.