Svetlana Jurjewna Slepzowa

Svetlana Slepzowa
Full name	Svetlana Jurjewna Slepzowa
Association	Russia
birthday	31st July 1986 (age 34)
place of birth	Khanty-Mansiysk ,  Soviet Union
Career
society	Biathlon Club Khanty-Mansiysk
Trainer	Valery Pavlovich Sakharov
Admission to the national team	2005
Debut in the European Cup / IBU Cup	2006
Debut in the World Cup	2007
World Cup victories	10 (6 individual wins)
status	resigned
Medal table
Olympic games 1 × 0 × 0 × World Cup medals 1 × 0 × 1 × EM medals 1 × 2 × 1 × JWM medals 3 × 1 × 2 × JEM medals 2 × 1 × 1 ×
winter Olympics gold Vancouver 2010 Season  Biathlon world championships bronze 2008 Östersund Mixed relay gold 2009 Pyeongchang Season  European biathlon championships gold 2017 Duszniki-Zdrój Mixed relay silver 2017 Duszniki-Zdrój singles silver 2017 Duszniki-Zdrój sprint bronze 2017 Duszniki-Zdrój persecution  Biathlon Junior World Championships gold 2005 Kontiolahti singles silver 2005 Kontiolahti persecution bronze 2005 Kontiolahti Season bronze 2006 Presque Isle Season gold 2007 Martell sprint gold 2007 Martell persecution  Biathlon Junior European Championships gold 2007 Bansko sprint gold 2007 Bansko Season silver 2007 Bansko persecution bronze 2007 Bansko singles
World Cup balance
Overall World Cup	8. ( 2007/08 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3. singles 0 1 0 sprint 4th 2 1 persecution 2 4th 0 Mass start 0 0 1 Season 2 3 4th
last change: December 13, 2019

Svetlana Jurjewna Slepzowa ( Russian Светлана Юрьевна Слепцова , scientific transliteration Svetlana Jur'evna Slepcova ; born July 31, 1986 in Khanty-Mansiysk ) is a former Russian biathlete and Olympic champion.

Career

Svetlana Slepzowa was born into a sporty family. At the age of ten she started taking biathlon courses regularly after the biathlon trainer Alexander Kortschak came to her school and invited her to take part in biathlon. Slepzowa remembered it on January 17th, 2008 in a chat in Antholz (Italy) with the words: “I started biathlon in third grade. At that time there was nothing else but biathlon in Khanty-Mansiysk. There was no alternative. ” Initially, the young athletes shot with air rifles and the biathlon exercises were combined with ballet, boxing and karate.

The 1.62 m tall Slepzowa celebrated her first success in 2001 when she won the A. Strepetova Prize at the Russian Youth Championships. She made her international debut at the 2004 Junior World Championships in Haute-Maurienne, France . The best results here were an eleventh place in the individual and fourth in the relay. In 2005, under the guidance of Mikhail Novikov , she won gold in the individual race at the World Youth Championships in Kontiolahti (Finland), 1:15 minutes ahead of Ukrainian Wita Semerenko , silver behind Darja Domratschawa in the pursuit and bronze with the relay. A few months later, she experienced a grave personal loss - the death of her father. In 2006 she expanded her collection of medals in Presque Isle to include relay bronze.

After the transition to the age group of the juniors Slepzowa became a member of the Ugra team of head coach Valery Sakharov . After two years of hard training under the sensitive guidance of an experienced coach, she moved up into the ranks of the world's best juniors. At the beginning of the 2006/07 season she was first used in senior women. First she started in the European Cup , in which she made her debut with a ninth place in the sprint and in the subsequent pursuit race to second place behind the German Juliane Döll . In 2007 she made her World Cup debut in Pokljuka . In the sprint, she finished 35th here. Slepzowa remarks about this World Cup outing that this new experience helped her to be better prepared for the following Junior World Championships in Martell . There she won gold in the sprint and in the pursuit, and was fourth and fifth in the individual season.

The subsequent Junior European Championships were even more successful for Slepzowa, where she won medals in all four competitions: gold in the sprint and with the relay, silver behind Austrian Iris Waldhuber in the pursuit and bronze in the individual. Then she returned to the World Cup. In Lahti she was able to collect World Cup points for the first time as 20th in the pursuit. At the World Cup final in her Russian homeland Khanty-Mansiysk, she improved again and reached a 16th place in the pursuit. She scored points in four of her eight World Cup races and finished her first season as 55th of the overall World Cup. The successful season of the young athlete was rounded off at the Russian Elite Championships, where she won three medals and thus earned her ticket for the national team.

The 2007/2008 season , in which Slepzowa now appeared as a member of the Russian World Cup core team, started with mixed results between 7th and 27th place. A first podium place (2nd place) came from the relay in Hochfilzen , where she was the starting runner participated. Further top 3 results with the relay followed in Pokljuka (2nd place) and Oberhof (3rd place). Slepzowa also achieved a first podium placement in an individual classification in Oberhof with second place in the sprint. This was followed by another second place in the sprint in Ruhpolding , which after the positive doping results of the Finnish winner Kaisa Varis was subsequently considered a victory. This series of successes continued in Antholz: third place in the sprint, second place in the pursuit.

The World Championships in Östersund , Sweden , were less successful due to illness. After all, Slepzowa was able to secure a bronze medal in the mixed relay with Oksana Neupokojewa , Nikolai Kruglow and Dmitri Yaroshenko . The World Cup in her hometown of Khanty-Mansiysk started disappointingly with a 34th place in the sprint, due to which she skipped the pursuit. At the mass start, she managed a podium place with third place. Slepzowa's greatest success of the season was the double victory in sprint and pursuit at the final World Cup at Holmenkollen in Oslo, Norway .

At the Russian Winter Championships 2008 in Uwat , Slepzowa again underlined the top form she had shown in Oslo with three gold medals in the sprint, pursuit and relay races at the end of the season. The Russian summer biathlon championships in Ufa from 23 to 28 September 2008 were no less successful with two gold medals: In the individual race over 15 km, which rewards good shooting performance by imposing a penalty minute for each mistake, she did not miss a shot and came with a lead of around 4 minutes before Albina Achatowa and Olga Saizewa . In the 7.5 km sprint, she distanced Oksana Neupokoyeva and Nadezhda Tjagunskaya by more than half a minute, despite a penalty loop .

Slepzowa after crossing the finish line in the sprint race at the 2017 European Championships

When she first participated in the Vancouver Olympics in 2010 , Slepzowa was used in sprint, pursuit and mass start as well as in the relay. With places 13, 18 and 14, she achieved good placements in the individual races. The greatest success of her career up to now she achieved together with Anna Bogali-Titowez , Olga Medwedzewa and Olga Saizewa in the relay competition. As the starting runner, after faultless shooting, almost two seconds behind France, she handed over to Bogali-Titowez in second place, and Medvedzewa took the lead on the third section. With a one-and-a-half minute lead, Saizewa secured first place on the final lap and thus the Olympic victory of the Russian relay.

At the beginning of November 2018 it became known that the International Biathlon Union had opened doping proceedings against Slepzowa and Yevgeny Ustyugov , Alexander Pechonkin and Alexander Tschernyschow based on suspicious samples from 2012 to 2015. In December 2019, investigators from the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) re-investigated Slepzowa and the Russian biathlete Yevgeny Romanowitsch Ustjugow .

Sporting successes

Individual world cup victories

date	place	country	discipline
January 11, 2008	Ruhpolding	Germany	7.5 km sprint
March 13, 2008	Oslo	Norway	7.5 km sprint
March 15, 2008	Oslo	Norway	10 km pursuit
December 20, 2008	Hochfilzen	Austria	7.5 km sprint
December 19, 2009	Pokljuka	Slovenia	7.5 km sprint
December 20, 2009	Pokljuka	Slovenia	10 km pursuit

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		3	2		6th	11
2nd place	1	3	4th		3	11
3rd place		1		2	7th	10
Top 10	7th	19th	15th	6th	25th	72
Scoring	11	40	29	19th	25th	124
Starts	12	52	30th	19th	28	141
As of February 28, 2015

Web links

Commons : Svetlana Jurjewna Slepzowa  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Swetlana Jurjewna Slepzowa in the IBU database (English)
• Swetlana Jurjewna Slepzowa at biathlon.xc-ski.de
• Swetlana Jurjewna Slepzowa in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Official Homepage (Russian)
• Profile at the Russian Biathlon Federation (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ International Biathlon Union Charges Four Russian Athletes
2. ↑ After Russia ban: biathletes threatened with loss of Olympic gold due to doping (December 13, 2019)