Impressive Zarudneva completes season with World Cup title
06.09.2010
A sickly child Yuliya Zarudneva used to regularly catch colds and flu viruses, so in an effort to combat the problem her father came up with an interesting solution.
He insisted she take more exercise and asked her to run daily the 2km round trip from their home in the southern Russian city of Volgograd to the River Volga.
Zarudneva carried out the request and the illnesses disappeared and now a little under two decades later the Russian steeplechaser has celebrated her finest ever season, landing the European crown in Barcelona and the IAAF VTB/Bank Continental Cup title here in Split.
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