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Russian basketball player

Katerina Keyru

Keyru in 2013
Personal information
Native name Катерина Кейру
Birth name Katerina Johnovna Keyru
Born (1988-12-04) 4 December 1988 (age 35)Rostov-on-Don, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Height 182 cm (6 ft 0 in)
Weight 70 kg (154 lb)
Sport
Sport Basketball
Club Dynamo Moscow (2008–10)WBC Spartak Saint Petersburg (2010–11)Chevakata Vologda (2011–12)Nadezhda Orenburg (2012–13)Chevakata Vologda (2013–14)Dynamo Moscow (2014–)

Katerina Johnovna Keyru (Russian: Катерина Джоновна Кейру; later Novoseltseva, Russian: Новосельцева; born 4 December 1988) is a Russian basketball shooting guard. She was part of the Russian team that won the 2008 European junior championships.[1]

Keyru was born to John Carew, an Olympic sprint runner from Sierra Leone, who in 1976 came to study in Rostov and married there. She has three brothers: Olah, Willy and Victor. Olah is an actor, Willy is a singer, and Victor is an international basketball player. Katerina took up basketball aged 7 following her brothers.[2] In 2015, she married the Russian football player Ivan Novoseltsev, who proposed her after an official football match, in front of the crowd.[3]

  1. ^ Katerina Keyru. fibaeurope.com
  2. ^ Abarenov, Dmitry (14 June 2011) Сладкие сны Кати Кейру. Баскетболистка сборной России мечтает о победе на Евро, море клубники и Поездке в сьерра-Леоне. sovsport.ru
  3. ^ Dzyuba, Andrey (25 October 2015) На зависть Тинто Брассу. Лав-стори года российского спорта. championat.com