How the master of the crushing factory became an icon of Belarusian bodybuilding

You can often hear that big sports require full dedication. To become a champion, you need to leave everything mundane and devote yourself completely to training. A resident of Belarus, Valentina Korotchenya, refuted this stereotype. She combined her brilliant career in bodybuilding with difficult and harmful work in the crushing shop of the Belaruskali mine.

Valentina Korotchenya began her path to sporting success in 2019. She combined her training with the hard, not at all feminine work of a crushing master.

This fact does not mean anything to an inexperienced person in mining. But the production workers know well what kind of work it is. This is how the champion herself describes her regime:

Valentina has been doing sports since school. However, it was not bodybuilding, but athletics. But the injury put an end to this sport and the girl went to the gym. In the spring of 2019, Korotchenya began to prepare for competitions and in the autumn of the same year her debut took place.

It was the Cup of the Republic of Belarus, where the girl showed a modest result. But the failure did not break her and Korotchenya continued to train without leaving the work of the crushing master. And the result was not long in coming. Just a year later, Valentina first became the national champion, and then won the absolute championship, becoming the absolute champion of Belarus.

The champion says that Avseiko's coach Anton Antonovich played a big role in her career. She started studying with him after failing at her first competitions. In just a year, they were able to make an incredible breakthrough and become the first of the last. Valentina also showed herself at international championships. In 2020 , she performed in Riga and Prague, taking 3rd and 2nd place respectively.

The year 2021 brought victories again and the athlete again became the best in Belarus, and then took first place at the championship in Latvia and the absolute champion of the IFBB Georgia Grand Prix 2021 international tournament. In the same year, the girl finally broke up with Belaruskali and completely devoted herself to bodybuilding.

Now Valentina Korotchenya trains and works as a coach. She helps girls and guys get rid of excess weight and find the figure of their dreams. The champion herself trains daily.

Preparation for competitions for her is not only great physical exertion, but also careful control of nutrition.

Now Valentina is 26 years old and she has many ambitious plans. The girl says that there are no age restrictions in her sport and the main thing is the form and state of health. So for now she has no plans to retire and continues her journey to the sports Olympus.