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When <strong>Olga Sedakova<\/strong> was about nine-years-old, she and her twin sister came upon synchronized swimming by pure chance.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aMGaXnJ4YNA\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Olga\u2019s mother, an engineer, was working at one of the largest aquatic centers in Moscow and it was there that the girls discovered the sport. Olga and her sister were trained by their young coach,<strong> Elena Polianskaja<\/strong>. It was clear Olga had raw talent in the sport, but because synchronized swimming was so new to the Soviet Union, it would be years before she would be considered world class.<\/p>\n<p>When Olga was in her mid-teens, Soviet women\u2019s magazine, \u201cJournal Price\u201d, hosted an international competition to celebrate International Women\u2019s Day for Soviet Women, providing a great opportunity for young synchronized swimmers like Olga to see and learn from successful swimmers.<\/p>\n<p>She absorbed as much knowledge as she could and in 1988 at the European Junior Championships, Olga helped the Soviet Union win its first gold medal in the sport. This led to her selection on the national senior team.<\/p>\n<p>In 1992, at the Olympic Games in Barcelona, Olga finished fourth in both the solo and duet competition with partner <strong>Anna Kozlova<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>After the Olympics, Olga decided to make a change and moved to Zurich, Switzerland to begin training with Kozlova\u2019s coach, <strong>Svetlana Fursova<\/strong>. Together, they won Russia its first medal at the world level with a silver in the duet performance at a 1993 FINA World Cup meet in Lausanne. Then in 1994, Olga won her first international gold medal in the solo event at the Goodwill Games in St. Petersburg.<\/p>\n<p>After her success, Kozlova and Fursova moved to North America and she was left alone without a partner or coach. She decided to coach at her club in Zurich and train in her free time with the help of Swiss coach <strong>Susie Morger<\/strong>. She eventually moved back to Russia to train with the national team leading up to the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta where they placed fourth as a team, getting shut out of the medals for the second straight Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>After the Olympics, Olga returned to Russia and began training with new partner, ISHOF honoree <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ishof.org\/olga-brusnikina-(rus).html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Olga Brusnikina<\/a><\/strong> and was performing at the top of her game.<\/p>\n<p>Her career culminated in 1998 when Olga Sedakova won solo, duet and team at the World Championships in Perth, becoming just the fourth person to sweep every single event at Worlds.<\/p>\n<p>Feeling that she achieved everything she set out to do, Olga retired from synchronized swimming and decided to take on a new challenge in coaching. 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