Viktoriya Zeynep Güneş

Viktoria Zeynep Güneş (born Viktoria Solntseva, , 19 June 1998) is a Ukraine-born Turkish (since 2014) swimmer. She represents Energy Standard in the International Swimming League.

Güneş is currently serving a 24-month competition ban due to expire in May 2026 for an anti-doping rule violation for missing three tests in a 12-month period.

Career For Ukraine 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.

For Turkey 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.

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. She also broke the junior world record in the 200 meter individual medley. FINA named her "female swimmer of the meet".

At the Budapest meet of the 2021 FINA Swimming World Cup, she took the gold medal in the 200 m breaststroke event,

Awards and honors FINA, Top 10 Moments: 2021 Swimming World Cup (#4)