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Katerina Keyru

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Katerina Keyru
Keyru in 2013
Personal information
Native nameКатерина Кейру
Birth nameKaterina Johnovna Keyru
Born (1988-12-04) 4 December 1988 (age 35)
Rostov-on-Don, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Height182 cm (6 ft 0 in)
Weight70 kg (154 lb)
Sport
SportBasketball
ClubDynamo 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]

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