Marina Zueva

Other sports	She has represented Belarus in roller speed skating, including in the road marathon at the 2018 World Championships in Arnhem, Netherlands. She has also competed in cycling at national level and won silver in the road race at the 2020 Belarusian Championships. (SportsDeskOnline, 20 Jan 2021; skating.by, 26 Jul 2020; Athlete, 30 Sep 2018; rollersport.net, 23 Aug 2015)
Awards and honours	She was named the 2020/21 Best Female Long Distance Speed Skater by the Skating Union of Belarus. (skating.by, 10 Apr 2021) She holds the title of Master of Sport of International Class in Belarus. (belfastmedia.by, 02 Mar 2021; Athlete, 18 Oct 2017)

Name of coach

Sergey Minin [national], BLR

Memorable sporting achievement

Finishing fourth in the 5000m at the 2019 World Single Distances Championships in Salt Lake City, UT, United States of America. (Athlete, 17 Jan 2021)

Reason for choosing this sport

She followed her older sister into the sport. "The group was close to the place I lived, and my parents liked it. I was active, restless, hardy, so apparently it was not chess or gymnastics that I needed."

Hero / Idol

Belarusian biathlete Darya Domracheva. (Athlete, 13 Nov 2019)

When and where did you begin this sport?

She took up the sport in 1999 in Minsk, Belarus.

Sporting philosophy / motto	"I need to learn how to rest. This has been my problem since childhood. I feel good when I feel bad, when I have to resist, work and suffer. It seems to me that this is the only way to improve the result. But this is not right, you need to rest. All problems are due to overtraining. Even when they tell me that for medical reasons I need to rest, I still drive myself forward." (news.pm.by, 14 Mar 2022)
Hobbies	Cycling, roller skating, running, cooking for her family, reading children's books, looking online for home renovation ideas. (Athlete, 17 Jan 2021)
Ambitions	To win a medal at the Olympic Winter Games. (news.pm.by, 14 Mar 2022)

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Other information	HIATUS At age 17 she gave up the sport and began coaching. Two years later, she took up roller skating and was spotted by Sergey Minin, the Belarusian national speed skating coach, who encouraged her to return to the sport. "He gave me back the pleasure and joy in speed skating I had lost before. I was used to the same very hard endurance training routine and Sergey showed me how training can be fun too." (isu.org, 07 Mar 2019; sb.by, 01 Mar 2018; kp.by, 02 Feb 2018)
Most influential person in career	Coach Sergey Minin. (Athlete, 13 Nov 2019)