Olga Alexejewna Saizewa

Olga Saizewa
Association	Russia
birthday	16th May 1978 (age 42)
place of birth	Moscow ,  Soviet Union
Career
job	soldier
society	CSKA Moscow
Trainer	Oxana Rotschewa
Admission to the national team	1994
Debut in the World Cup	2002
World Cup victories	28 (13 individual wins)
status	resigned
End of career	2015
Medal table
Olympic games 2 × 1 × 0 × World championships 3 × 2 × 3 ×
winter Olympics gold 2006 Turin Season silver 2010 Vancouver Mass start gold 2010 Vancouver Season  Biathlon world championships gold 2005 Hochfilzen Season silver 2005 Hochfilzen sprint bronze 2005 Hochfilzen persecution silver 2005 Khanty-Mansiysk Mixed relay bronze 2009 Pyeongchang sprint bronze 2009 Pyeongchang persecution gold 2009 Pyeongchang Mass start gold 2009 Pyeongchang Season
World Cup balance
Overall World Cup	4th ( 2004/05 )
Individual World Cup	3rd ( 2010/11 )
Sprint World Cup	3rd ( 2004/05 )
Pursuit World Cup	3. ( 2004/05 ), ( 2009/10 )
Mass start world cup	1 . ( 2004/05 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3. singles 2 3 0 sprint 5 4th 8th persecution 4th 5 6th Mass start 2 2 2 Season 15th 9 5
last change: January 8, 2014

Olga Alexejewna Saizewa-Augustin ( Russian Ольга Алексеевна Зайцева-Аугустин , English Olga Zaitseva ; born May 16, 1978 in Moscow , USSR ) is a former Russian biathlete .

Career

Olga Saizewa started cross-country skiing in 1988 and switched to biathlon in 1994. She is taken care of by her sister Oxana Rotschewa, nee. Saizewa, trained. In the 2000/2001 season she took part in a World Cup for the first time. In the 2004/05 season she was fourth in the overall World Cup.

Her most successful year so far was 2005, where she won a complete set of medals at the Biathlon World Championships 2005 in Hochfilzen and also won another silver medal at the Biathlon Mixed Relay World Championship 2005 in Khanty-Mansiysk with the Russia II team . At the 2006 Winter Olympics , she won the gold medal with the relay.

Olga Saizewa has been married to the former Slovak summer biathlete Milan Augustin since September 30, 2006 and since then has both Russian and Slovak citizenship. On March 17, 2007, their son Alexander was born in Moscow. Due to her pregnancy, she skipped the 2006/07 season and started again in the World Cup from the 2008/09 season.

At the 2009 Biathlon World Championships in Pyeongchang, she won two gold medals (mass start, relay) and two bronze medals (sprint, pursuit). Together with Swetlana Slepzowa , Anna Bogali-Titowez and Olga Medwedzewa , Saizewa won the relay competition of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. After she did not contest a race in the 2014/15 season , she announced on January 24, 2015 that she was retiring from her career.

The at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi relay silver medal was won in 2017 disallowed because they were drugged herself and two of her fellow squadron.

World Cup victories

The columns can be sorted by clicking the symbol in the table header.

Single race

No. date place discipline 1. 0Dec 5, 2002  Ostersund sprint 2. Feb 22, 2003  Ostersund singles 3. Dec 11, 2004  Oslo sprint 4th Dec 17, 2004  Ostersund persecution 5. 19 Mar 2005  Khanty-Mansiysk Mass start 6th Nov 27, 2005  Ostersund persecution 7th Feb 22, 2009  Pyeongchang Mass start 8th. 19 Mar 2009  Trondheim sprint 9. Jan. 13, 2011  Ruhpolding singles 10. Dec 16, 2011  Hochfilzen sprint 11. Dec 17, 2011  Hochfilzen persecution 12. Jan. 13, 2012  Nove Mesto sprint 13. 0Jan. 6, 2013  Oberhof persecution

Biathlon World Cup placements

The table shows all placements (depending on the year, including the Olympic Games and World Championships).

• 1st - 3rd Place: Number of podium placements
• Top 10: Number of placements in the top ten (including podium)
• Points ranks: Number of placements within the point ranks (including podium and top 10)
• Starts: Number of races run in the respective discipline
• Relay: including mixed relays

placement	singles	sprint	persecution	Mass start	Season	total
1st place	2	5	3	2	15th	27
2nd place	3	4th	4th	2	6th	19th
3rd place		8th	6th	2	5	21st
Top 10	12	42	24	18th	37	133
Scoring	21st	71	59	34	37	222
Starts	27	81	62	36	39	245
As of January 18, 2014

Web links

Commons : Olga Saizewa  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Official website of Olga Saizewa
• Olga Alexejewna Saizewa in the IBU database (English)
• German-language information about Olga Saizewa
• Profile at the Russian Biathlon Federation (English)
• Olga Alexejewna Saizewa in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Olga Alexejewna Saizewa-Augustin at biathlon.xc-ski.de
• Video with Olga Saizewa at the Olympic Winter Games in Sochi

Individual evidence

1. ^ IOC sanctions five Russian athletes and publishes first full decision as part of the Oswald Commission findings. International Olympic Committee , November 27, 2017, accessed April 22, 2018 . 
2. ^ IOC sanctions three Russian athletes as part of Oswald Commission findings. International Olympic Committee , December 1, 2017, accessed April 21, 2018 .