Svetlana Alexejewna Gladysheva

Svetlana Gladysheva
Full name	Svetlana Alexejewna Gladysheva
nation	Russia
birthday	13th September 1971 (age 48)
place of birth	Ufa , Soviet Union
size	175 cm
job	PE teacher
Career
discipline	Downhill, Super G
society	Sukolovo Moscou Isekreis
status	resigned
End of career	1998
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 1 × 0 × World Cup medals 0 × 0 × 1 × JWM medals 1 × 1 × 0 ×
winter Olympics silver Lillehammer 1994 Super g  Alpine World Ski Championships bronze Saalbach 1991 Departure Junior World Championship gold Zinal 1990 Departure silver Zinal 1990 Super g
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
Individual World Cup debut January 14, 1990  Individual world cup victories 1  Overall World Cup 25. (1996/97)  Downhill World Cup 11. (1990/91, 1991/92)  Super G World Cup 8. (1996/97)  Combination World Cup 14th (1994/95)
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Departure 0 0 2  Super G 1 0 0

Svetlana Alexejewna Gladysheva ( Russian Светлана Алексеевна Гладышева ; born September 13, 1971 in Ufa ) is a former Russian ski racer .

Already in her first World Cup season she made at the Alpine Ski World Cup 1991 in Saalbach-Hinterglemm in the downhill for a surprise. She won the bronze medal behind Petra Kronberger and Nathalie Bouvier . At the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer , Gladyschewa unexpectedly finished second in the Super-G with starting number 35 and won the silver medal behind Diann Roffe-Steinrotter .

In the downhill she achieved two World Cup podiums, but then celebrated her only World Cup victory on December 7, 1996 in the Super-G in Vail , ahead of Pernilla Wiberg and Carole Montillet . She announced her retirement from racing in spring 1998.

Web links

• Svetlana Alexejewna Gladysheva in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Svetlana Alexejewna Gladysheva in the database of Ski-DB (English)
• Svetlana Alexejewna Gladysheva in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )