Vera Andreeva

Vera Sergeyevna Andreyeva is a Russian amateur mountain biker. She represented her nation Russia, as a 20-year-old junior, at the 2008 [Summer Olympics], and later finished second in the women's elite cross-country race at the 2012 Russian Mountain Biking Championships.
Andreeva qualified for the Russian squad, along with her teammate and top medal contender Irina Kalentieva, in the Cycling at the [2008 Summer Olympics – Women's cross-country|women's cross-country] race at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing by receiving one of the nation's two available berths based on her top-ten performance from the UCI Mountain Biking World Rankings. With two laps left to complete the race, Andreeva suffered a heat-related fatigue under Beijing's hot and humid weather, and instead decided to pull off from the course, finishing only in twenty-third place.