Svetlana Radzivil

Svetlana Radzivil
Full name	Svetlana Mixaylovna Radzivil (Uzbek) Svetlana Michailowna Radsivil (Russian)
nation	Uzbekistan
birthday	17th January 1987 (age 33)
place of birth	Tashkent ,  Soviet Union
size	186 cm
Weight	60 kg
Career
discipline	high jump
Best performance	1.98 m
Trainer	Alim Akhmedzhanov
status	active
Medal table
Asian Games 3 × 0 × 0 × Asian Championships 1 × 2 × 2 × Indoor Asian Championships 2 × 1 × 0 × U20 world championships 1 × 0 × 0 × U20 Asian Championships 1 × 1 × 0 ×
Asian Games gold Guangzhou 2010 1.95 m gold Incheon 2014 1.94 m gold Jakarta 2018 1.96 m Asian Championships bronze Guangzhou 2009 1.87 m silver Kobe 2011 1.92 m silver Pune 2013 1.88 m gold Wuhan 2015 1.91 m bronze Doha 2019 1.88 m Indoor Asian Championships gold Pattaya 2006 1.91 m gold Hangzhou 2014 1.96 m gold Doha 2016 1.92 m  Junior World Championships gold Beijing 2006 1.91 m Junior Asian Championships silver Ipoh 2004 1.80 m gold Macau 2006 1.90 m
last change: November 17, 2019

Svetlana Mixaylovna Radzivil ( Russian Светлана Михайловна Радзивил , Svetlana Mikhailovna Radsiwil ; Uzbek Svetlana Mixaylovna Radzivil ;. English transcription Svetlana Mikhaylovna Radzivil * 17th January 1987 in Tashkent , Uzbek SSR , Soviet Union ) is an Uzbek high jumper .

Athletic career

Already at the age of 15 Radzivil took part in the Junior World Championships in Kingston in 2002 , but could not qualify for the final. At the Junior Asian Championships in Bangkok in the same year she was fourth with 1.76 m. In 2003 she was ninth at the Youth World Championships in Sherbrooke, Canada, and was sixth at the Asian Championships in Manila . In 2004 she won the silver medal at the Junior Asian Championships in Ipoh with 1.80 m and finished 13th at the Junior World Championships in Grosseto . At the Junior World Championships in Beijing in 2006 , she won the gold medal with skipped 1.91 m. She also won gold and silver at the Junior Asian Championships in Macau and the Indoor Asian Championships in Pattaya . At the Asian Games in Doha , she was seventh with 1.84 m.

Radzivil took part in the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing and the 2009 World Championships in Berlin , but was eliminated with each 1.89 m in the qualifying rounds. She celebrated her first medal success in the adult division at the Asian Championships in Guangzhou , when her 1.87 m was enough for third place. At the Indoor Asian Games in Hanoi in 2009 , she was fourth with the same height. In 2010 she celebrated her greatest success to date by winning the gold medal at the Asian Games in Guangzhou. In 2011 she won the silver medal at the Asian Championships in Kobe behind the Chinese Zheng Xingjuan with 1.92 m . At the World Championships in Daegu , she finished eighth with 1.93 m. In 2012, Radzivil qualified for the World Indoor Championships in Istanbul and also came in eighth there. At the Olympic Games in London , she qualified for the final and finished seventh with a skipped 1.97 m.

In 2013 she won the silver medal again at the Asian Championships in Pune , this time behind her compatriot Nadiya Dusanova . In 2014 she won the Asian Indoor Championships in Hangzhou and qualified again for the World Indoor Championships in Sopot , where she was eliminated with 1.88 m in the qualification. At the Asian Games in Incheon , South Korea , she repeated her success four years earlier and won the gold medal with 1.94 m. In 2015 she was the first Asian champion at the Asian Championships in Wuhan and qualified for the World Championships in Beijing, where she finished ninth in the final with 1.88 m. In 2016 she won again at the Indoor Asian Championships in Doha and qualified in the summer for the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , where she finished 13th in the final with 1.88 m. After she did not play any competitions in 2017, she again took part in the Asian Games in Jakarta in 2018, where she improved her own championship record to 1.96 m, beating Dusanova and Kazakhstani Nadezhda Dubovitskaya . At the beginning of September she took second place behind the Russian Marija Lassizkene at the Athletics Continental Cup in Ostrava with 1.95 m .

In 2019 she won the bronze medal behind Dusanova and Dubowizkaja at the Asian Championships in Doha with a jump of 1.88 m. But she qualified for the World Championships there in October, where she finished twelfth with 1.89 m in the final .

In 2003 and 2019, Radzivil became Uzbek champion in the heptathlon and in 2004 in the indoor pentathlon. She graduated from Tashkent State University of Economics with a degree in information technology and management .

Personal best

• High jump: 1.98 m, May 22, 2008 in Tashkent ( Uzbek record )
  • Hall: 1.96 m, February 16, 2014 in Hangzhou ( Uzbek record )
• Heptathlon: 3935 points, September 30, 2004 in Tashkent
  • Pentathlon (hall): 2990 points, January 9, 2004 in Tashkent

Web links

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

• Svetlana Radzivil in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Svetlana Radzivil in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )