| Viktoria Zeynep Güneş | |
| Birth Name: | Viktoria Solnceva |
| Birth Date: | 1998 6, df=yes |
| Birth Place: | Poltava, Ukraine |
| Height: | 182 cm |
| Weight: | 68 kg |
| Strokes: | Breaststroke |
| Show-Medals: | yes |
Viktoria Zeynep Güneş[1] (born Viktoria Solntseva, Ukrainian: Вікторія Солнцева, 19 June 1998) is a Ukraine-born Turkish (since 2014)[2] swimmer.[3] She currently represents Energy Standard in the International Swimming League.
Solnceva competed for Ukraine at the 2013 FINA World Junior Swimming Championships in Dubai and the 2013 World Aquatics Championships in Barcelona. Solnceva is the current Ukrainian record holder in 100m and 200m breaststroke.
Gunes competed in the 100m breaststroke in seniors at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships in Kazan, narrowly missing a semi-final birth as she placed 17th. She represented Turkey in the 2016 Rio Summer Olympics, where she reached the semi-finals (top 16) of the 100m breaststroke, placing 15th in the preliminary heats. She swam in the heats of 400m medley 4.41.79 and did not advance. In the 100m breaststroke heats, she qualified for the semifinals with 1.07.14, however in the semifinals swam 1.07.41 and did not advance.[4]
At the 2015 FINA World Junior Swimming Championships in Singapore, she represented Turkey, and won four gold medals. In the 200 meter breaststroke she broke the junior world record with a time of 2:19.64, just 0.53 off the senior world record.[5] She also broke the junior world record in the 200 meter individual medley. FINA named her "female swimmer of the meet".[6]
At the Budapest meet of the 2021 FINA Swimming World Cup, she took the gold medal in the 200 m breaststroke event, and the bronze medal in the 200 m individual medley event. She won the gold medal in the 400 m individual medley event at the 2021 European Short Course Swimming Championships in Kazan, Russia, becoming the first Turkish swimmer to be a European champion. With her time of 4:30.45.4 she also improved her own Turkish record in this event.
In the Autumn of 2019, she was member of the inaugural International Swimming League swimming for the Energy Standard International Swim Club, who won the team title in Las Vegas, Nevada, in December.[7]