Olga Valeryevna Medvedzewa

Olga Medvedzewa
Full name	Olga Valeryevna Medvedzewa (Pyljowa)
Association	Russia
birthday	7th July 1975 (age 45)
place of birth	Borodino ,  Soviet Union
Career
job	PE teacher
society	Krasnoyarsk Biathlon Academy
Trainer	Valery Medvedzew
Admission to the national team	2000
Debut in the European Cup / IBU Cup	2004
Debut in the World Cup	2000
World Cup victories	24 (10 individual wins)
status	resigned
End of career	2010
Medal table
Olympic medals 2 × 0 × 1 × World Cup medals 6 × 2 × 1 × JWM medals 2 × 1 × 2 ×
winter Olympics gold 2002 Salt Lake City persecution bronze 2002 Salt Lake City Season gold 2010 Vancouver Season  Biathlon world championships gold 2000 Oslo Season gold 2001 Pokljuka Season silver 2002 Oslo Mass start gold 2004 Oberhof singles silver 2004 Oberhof Season bronze 2005 Hochfilzen Mass start gold 2005 Hochfilzen Season gold 2005 Khanty-Mansiysk Mixed relay gold 2009 Pyeongchang Season  Nordic Junior Ski World Championships gold 1993 Harrachov Season silver 1994 Breitenwang 15 km freestyle bronze 1994 Breitenwang 5 km classic gold 1995 Gällivare Season bronze 1995 Gällivare 5 km classic
World Cup balance
Overall World Cup	2nd  ( 2003/04 ) 3rd  ( 2004/05 )
Individual World Cup	1st  ( 2003/04 , 2004/05 ) 3rd  ( 2001/02 )
Sprint World Cup	3rd  ( 2003/04 )
Pursuit World Cup	2.  ( 2003/04 , 2004/05 )
Mass start world cup	2.  ( 2001/02 , 2004/05 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3. singles 1 1 3 sprint 4th 7th 3 persecution 4th 3 4th Mass start 1 5 1 Season 14th 14th 6th
last change: April 16, 2019

Olga Medvedtseva ( Russian Ольга Валерьевна Медведцева ., Scientific transliteration Ol'ga Valer'evna Medvedceva , born Заморозова / Samorosowa * 7. July 1975 in Borodino ), formerly married Pyljowa ( Russian Пылёва ), is a former Russian biathlete .

Career

Only in 1998 did Medwedzewa, who had become world champion at the Junior World Championships in 1993 in Harrachov, Czech Republic, and in 1995 in Gällivare, Sweden, with the Russian cross-country skiing relay and also won three individual medals at junior world championships, switched from cross-country skiing to biathlon and continuously worked her way up to the top of the world above.

successes

At world championships she won gold over 15 km in 2004 and bronze in the mass start in 2005 , with the relay she won four gold ( 2000 , 2001 , 2005 and 2009 ) and one silver (2004). She was able to achieve a total of ten World Cup victories, the second place in the overall World Cup of the 2003/04 season was her best placement in this competition. In the 2004/05 season she was third in the overall World Cup.

At the 2002 Olympic Games in Salt Lake City , the physical education teacher won the gold medal in the 10 km pursuit and bronze in the relay.

2006 doping case in Turin

At the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin , Medvedzewa won silver over 15 km . The medal was her but shortly thereafter deprived because they of doping with the stimulant phenylpiracetam was transferred. She was then excluded from the games and banned from all biathlon races by the International Biathlon Union for two years. Subsequently, Olga Medwedzewa initially announced her retirement from active competitive sport.

New start after the lock

In February 2008 - after the end of her doping ban - she took part in international races for the first time at the European Championships. At the 2009 Biathlon World Championships in Korea, she was world champion with the Russian relay. In the individual disciplines she achieved second place in the mass start at the World Cup in Oberhof in the 2008/2009 season and a second place in the sprint in Ruhpolding in the 2009/2010 season.

Together with Svetlana Slepzowa , Anna Bogali-Titowez and Olga Saizewa , Medwedzewa succeeded in winning the relay competition at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.

Private life

Medvedzewa lives in Borodino with her husband Valery Medvedzew , the 1992 Olympic biathlon champion who was also her trainer, as well as their daughter and son .

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

placement	singles	sprint	persecution	Mass start	Season	total
1st place	1	4th	4th	1	14th	24
2nd place	1	7th	3	5	14th	30th
3rd place	3	3	4th	1	6th	17th
Top 10	15th	33	33	17th	38	136
Scoring	22nd	66	52	31	38	209
Starts	28	73	54	31	41	227

Web links

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

• Olga Valeryevna Medwedzewa in the IBU database (English)
• Portrait on www.biathlon2b.com (German)
• Official website of Olga Medvedtseva (Russian, English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Russian Pylewa doped - silver for Glagow. Hamburger Abendblatt , February 17, 2006, accessed on April 21, 2018 .