Stanislava Stanislavovna Komarova (; born 12 June 1986 in

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) is a retired

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n swimmer. She won the silver medal in the 200 m backstroke at the

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. Komarova was one of the few modern swimmers who competed without

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. In 2006, having parted with her long-time coach Alexey Krasikov, she moved to

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, where for a while she trained with Guennadi Touretski. She retired in 2008, aged 22, after a conflict with the Russian Swimming Federation.Звезда плавания Стася Комарова: Тупых спортсменов не бывает!
interview for the Moscow-based Life magazine In 2012-2015 she worked as a sports commentator for

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and hosted the programme "Football Haute Couture". As of 2018 she works as a trainer, for her own Stanislava Komarova Swimming Group (SKSG) which she started in 2014 in Moscow.Секция Плавания Станиславы Комаровой
/ref> Komarova is the recipient of the

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(2005). She is decorated with the title Meritorious Master of Sports in Russia. In 2009 she married the volleyball player Aleksey Ostapenko, they divorced in 2011. Her second husband Andrey is a grandson of the tennis player and later commentator Anna Dmitrieva.

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Profile on sports-reference.com
1986 births Living people Swimmers from Moscow Russian female swimmers Russian female backstroke swimmers Swimmers at the 2004 Summer Olympics Swimmers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Olympic swimmers for Russia Olympic silver medalists for Russia World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming European Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists in swimming Recipients of the Medal of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 2nd class 21st-century Russian sportswomen {{Russia-swimming-bio-stub