Svetlana Vladimirovna Krivelyova

Svetlana Wladimirowna Kriweljowa ( Russian Светлана Владимировна Кривелёва , English transcription Svetlana Krivelyova ; born June 13, 1969 in Brjansk ) is a former Russian shot putter and Olympic champion .

Career

Kriweljowa entered the circle of the world elite already in the time of the Soviet Union , when she came fourth at the Junior World Championships in 1988. At the World Championships in 1991 she received the bronze medal behind Huang Zhihong (CHN) and Natalja Lissowskaja (RUS). The following year, at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona , she won the gold medal ahead of Huang and Kathrin Neimke (GER). In 1993 at the World Championships in Stuttgart , she won silver behind Huang and Neimke.

After a two-year hiatus, she failed at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta in qualifying. It was not until she won the title at the World Indoor Championships in Maebashi in 1999 that she moved back into the medal ranks. In the same year she was third behind the two Germans Astrid Kumbernuss and Nadine Kleinert at the World Championships in Seville . At the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney , she finished fourth. She won the bronze medal both at the 2001 World Indoor Championships in Lisbon and at the 2002 European Championships in Munich . The following year she won the World Championships in Paris ahead of Nadseja Astaptschuk (BLR) and Wita Pawlysch (UKR). In 2004 she became indoor world champion after Wita Pawlysch, the first at the indoor world championships in Budapest , was stripped of the title because of doping .

She also benefited from a subsequent doping disqualification at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens , where she moved up to bronze after Yumileidi Cumba (CUB) and Nadine Kleinert (GER) after the first-placed Irina Korschanenko had failed the doping test . Kriweljowa However the medal in December 2012 also disallowed after the IOC doping samples from Athens was re-test with improved methods. She was banned from the Russian Federation for two years. In their final season, Kriweljowa was fourth at the 2005 World Championships in Helsinki .

Svetlana Kriweljowa had a competition weight of 100 kg with a height of 1.82 m.

Web links

• Svetlana Krivelyova in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Swetlana Wladimirowna Kriweljowa in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Svetlana Krivelyova on sporting-heroes.net
• Photo from the 2005 World Cup in Helsinki

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kriweljowa wants to keep the medal. (No longer available online.) Die Zeit , November 27, 2012, archived from the original on April 20, 2018 ; accessed on April 21, 2018 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ Russian trio blocked for two years Handelsblatt April 2, 2013 ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.