Katerina Keyru
Russian basketball player
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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]
4 December 1988
Keyru in 2013 | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Native name | Катерина Кейру |
| Born | Katerina Johnovna Keyru 4 December 1988 |
| 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–) |
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]
