Biography
Veronica Yoko PLEBANI
 FEDERAZIONE ITALIANA CANOA KAYAK FICK
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| 01/03/1996 | |
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| HOBBIES: | Dancing, music and cooking | |
| PREFERRED POSITION / STANCE / STYLE / TECHNIQUE: | sitting on my kayak | |
| OTHER SPORTS: | She competed in Para triathlon at the 2017 European Championships in Kitzbuhel, Austria, and participated in snowboarding at the 2014 Paralympic Winter Games in Sochi. | |
| FACEBOOK: | https://www.facebook.com/veronicayokoplebani | |
| TWITTER: | https://twitter.com/Veronicay12 | |
| INSTAGRAM: | https://instagram.com/veronicayoko/ | |
| PLACE OF RESIDENCE: | Palazzolo sull'Oglio | |
| OCCUPATION: | Athlete | |
| LANGUAGES: | Italian, English, German | |
| WHEN/WHERE DID YOU START CANOEING/ KAYAKING?: | I started kayaking in 2012 at 16 years old at the Kayak Canoa Club Palazzolo in Palazzolo sull'Oglio, Italy. | |
| REASON FOR TAKING UP THE SPORT: |
I started paddling to recover from my illness. Canoeing allows me to be an athlete, in idea conditions to give the best of me, and when I'm sitting on my kayak I feel like I'm in the place to be, to be myself. After her illness she took up canoeing as she lived only 200 metres from a club on the river Oglio in Palazzolo sull'Oglio, Italy.
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| MOST INFLUENTIAL PERSON IN CAREER: | my father | |
| TRAINING PARTNER(S): | Mathilde Rosa | |
| HERO/IDOL: | New Zealander paddler Lisa Carrington | |
| SUPERSTITIONS/ RITUALS/ BELIEFS: | I hate when someone before the race tells me that I will win. | |
| SPORTING PHILOSOPHY/ MOTTO: | "Replace words with actions." | |
| FAVOURITE PADDLING COURSE: | Szeged (Hungary) | |
| FAVOURITE FOOD: | every kind of vegetables | |
| FAVOURITE MUSIC: | R&B or old school hip hop | |
| AMBITIONS : | To win a medal in snowboarding at the 2018 Paralympic Winter Games in Pyeongchang. | |
| AWARDS AND HONORS: | I became the first Italian woman to ever participate at a Paralympic Games in Snowboard, and I will also be the first woman to represent Italy at the paralympics in Paracanoe. | |
| CLUB: | Kayak Canoa Club Palazzolo | |
| NAME OF COACH: | Stefano Porcu [national] | |
| NATIONALITY OF YOUR COACH: | Italy | |
| SINCE WHEN HAVE YOU BEEN COACHED BY HIM/ HER?: | She took up Para canoeing in 2012 | |
| TRAINING REGIME: | I use to train two times a day, in the morning I go out with my kayak and my trainer for the first session, then I do some stretching then I go to eat and to get some rest before the second session in the afternoon. In the afternoon, I do gym and paddling, but it depends on the day... sometimes I take a bike ride for warm-up or something similar. | |
| SENIOR INTERNATIONAL DEBUT YEAR: | 2013 | |
| SENIOR INTERNATIONAL DEBUT COUNTRY: | Germany | |
| SENIOR INTERNATIONAL DEBUT COMPETITION: | Paracanoe World Chamionship | |
| SENIOR INTERNATIONAL DEBUT LOCATION: | Duisburg | |
| MEMORABLE SPORTING ACHIEVEMENT: | Since now, my qualification for the Rio 2016 Paralympic Summer Games. Winning a gold medal at the 2014 European Championships in Brandenburg, Germany. | |
| CLASSIFICATION: | KL3 |
2016 ICF PARACANOE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS (INCLUDING PARALYMPIC GAMES QUALIFICATION)
Results
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May 16 15:30 |
Women's 200m KL3 SENIOR HEAT 2 |
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2
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00:52.957
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May 18 11:30 |
Women's 200m KL3 SENIOR Final A |
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4
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00:52.569
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