Hanna Shcherba

Who is Hanna Shcherba?

Hanna Vyacheslavovna Shcherba-Lorgeril 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.

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.