Hanna Shcherba

Hanna Shcherba

Personal information
Born	(1982-01-11) 11 January 1982 Baranovichi, Byelorussian SSR, Soviet Union
Height	1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)
Weight	62 kg (137 lb)
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Club	RTsFVS Baranovichi; CS Clichy 92
Medal record Women's swimming Representing Belarus European Championships (LC) 2002 Berlin 200 m medley 2004 Madrid 200 m medley European Championships (SC) 2002 Riesa 4×50 m freestyle 2002 Riesa 200 m medley 2003 Dublin 200 m medley 2003 Dublin 100 m medley

Hanna (Anna) Vyachaslavauna Shcherba (Belarusian: Ганна Вячаславаўна Шчэрба; born 11 January 1982) is a Belarusian-French swimmer who won six medals, mostly in medley events, at the European Championships of 2002–2004. She competed in four events at the 2004 and 2008 Summer Olympics with the best achievement of sixth place in the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay in 2008.

Biography

Shcherba was born in Baranovichi, Belarus. She has a younger sister Mariya Shcherba who is also an Olympic swimmer. In October 2001 Hanna moved to France where she first competed for the club Melun, but then changed to CS Clichy. In 2005, she married Arnaud Lorgeril, a French competitive swimmer whom she knew from 2002, and changed her name and nationality; thus at the 2008 Olympics she competed for France as Shcherba-Lorgeril. She speaks Russian and French and works as a swimming coach at CS Clichy.