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Seasons
  
2007–

Role
  
Biathlete

Individual wins
  
6

Height
  
1.62 m


Indiv. podiums
  
16

Weight
  
54 kg

Name
  
Svetlana Sleptsova

Total podiums
  
16

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Full name
  
Svetlana Yuryevna Sleptsova

Born
  
July 31, 1986 (age 38) Khanty-Mansiysk, Soviet Union (
1986-07-31
)

Olympic medals
  
Biathlon at the 2010 Winter Olympics – Women's relay

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Svetlana Yuryevna Sleptsova (Russian: Светлана Юрьевна Слепцова; born 31 July 1986 in Khanty Mansiysk) is a retired Russian biathlete. She is a member of the club CSKA (Central Sports Club Of The Army). She is a three-time Junior World Champion and won the bronze medal in the mixed relay at the 2008 World Championships in Östersund. In 2009, she was part of the Gold medal winning Russian women's relay team at the World Championships in Pyeongchang. Sleptsova is an Olympic Champion in relay at the Vancouver.

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Svetlana Sleptsova was born in a sports family. At the age of ten, she started regular biathlon classes, when biathlon coach Alexander Korchak came to her school and invited her to engage in biathlon. In a chat of 17 January 2008 at Rasen-Antholz, Sleptsova recalls: "I started doing biathlon in third grade. There was nothing else but biathlon in Khanty-Mansiysk at that time. There was no alternative." Initially, the young athletes were shooting with air rifles, and the biathlon exercises were combined with ballet dancing, boxing, and karate.

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Sleptsova achieved her first success in 2001, when she won the A. Strepetova prize at the Russian Youth Championships. In 2005, under the direction of Mikhail Novikov, she won the individual competition at the Youth World Championships in Kontiolahti (Finland), 1:15 minutes ahead of Vita Semerenko. A few months later, she suffered a severe loss—the death of her father.

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Growing into the juniors' age group, Sleptsova became a member of the Yugra team of head coach Valery Zakharov. After two years, thanks to hard training under the sensitive guidance of an experienced coach, she advanced to one of the world's best junior athletes, and did her World Cup debut at Pokljuka in 2007. According to Sleptsova, this experience helped her to be better prepared for the Junior World Championships, and so she achieved two victories at Martell—in the sprint and pursuit competitions, respectively. The successful season for this young athlete was completed by the Senior Russian Championships, where she won three medals, and received a ticket to the country's main national team.

Sleptsova coped surprisingly quickly with senior biathlon, attaining several top-10 ranks before the start of the new year. Next, she finished the sprint at Oberhof, Germany as second, and repeated this result in the subsequent week at Ruhpolding. Later, after the disqualification of Kaisa Varis (Finland), she was awarded the victory of this competition. Sleptsova arrived at the 2008 World Championships in Östersund in good form, but an illness prevented her from demonstrating her maximum capability. However, she won the bronze medal in the mixed relay competition. At the end of the season, at Oslo-Holmenkollen, she achieved her first "real" victory, finally standing on top of the pedestal, and won the pursuit competition as well. She came up with similar results at the 2008 Russian Championships, winning three gold medals and the grand prize—a car. As of 2009, she has three world cup victories, excluding the one Varis retrieved after being cleared to compete again after IBU had broken test correction process.

Sleptsova's last competition was the 2017 Summer Biathlon World Championships in Chaykovskiy, Russia. There, she won on all three disciplines (sprint, pursuit and mixed). Following that, Sleptsova announced her retirement on 27 August 2017, as she will concentrate on family life.

Biathlon results

All results are sourced from the International Biathlon Union.

Olympic Games

  • 1 medal (1 gold)
  • * The mixed relay was added as an event in 2014.

    World Championships

  • 2 medals (1 gold, 1 bronze)
  • * During Olympic seasons competitions are only held for those events not included in the Olympic program.

    Junior/Youth World Championships

  • 6 medals (3 gold, 1 silver, 2 bronze)
  • Individual podiums

  • 5 victories – (3 Sp, 2 Pu)
  • 16 podiums – (7 Sp, 6 Pu, 2 MS, 1 In)
  • * Results are from UIPMB and IBU races which include the Biathlon World Cup, Biathlon World Championships and the Winter Olympic Games.

    Relay podiums

  • 6 victories – (6 RL)
  • 16 podiums – (14 RL, 2 MR)
  • * Results are from UIPMB and IBU races which include the Biathlon World Cup, Biathlon World Championships and the Winter Olympic Games.

    Overall record

    * Statistics as of 8 March 2017.

    Shooting

    * Results in all IBU World Cup races, Olympics and World Championships including relay events and disqualified races. Statistics as of 8 March 2017.

    References

    Svetlana Sleptsova Wikipedia


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