Anastasia Gorbenko

Anastasia Gorbenko was born in 2003 in Haifa

Gorbenko was born in Haifa in 2003 to parents who had immigrated from Ukraine. Her father Vladimir works with computers and her mother Larisa is a special education teacher. She grew up in Kiryat Yam and later moved with her family to Kiryat Bialik.

She began swimming at age 9 and also did rhythmic gymnastics, then chose to focus on swimming at 12. She trained with Maccabi Kiryat Bialik and, from September 2018, at the Wingate Institute. She finished high school at Hof HaSharon near Shefayim and in February 2025 began studying at the University of Louisville.

In 2018 she won the 200m individual medley at the Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires, Israel's first swimming gold at that level. At the Tokyo 2020 Olympics she reached the final of the 100m backstroke. In 2021 she won 2 world short course titles in Abu Dhabi.

She won European titles in the 200m individual medley in 2021, 2022 and 2024. In February 2024 she took silver in the 400m individual medley at the Doha World Championships. She competed at the 2024 Paris Olympics in several events.