Svetlana Krivelyova

Svetlana Vladimirovna Krivelyova (Template:Langx; born 13 June 1969) is a former Russian track and field athlete who specialised in the shot put.

Krivelyova was born in Bryansk, Russia. Her career highlights were the Summer Olympics gold medal in 1992 whilst representing the Unified Team, where she beat the reigning world champion Huang Zhihong of China, and her World Championship victory in 2003.

Her most unlikely victory came at the 2004 World Indoor Championships. She was awarded the gold medal after Ukraine's Vita Pavlysh (Krivelyova's former Unified Team teammate) was stripped of her title for failing a drug test. This was the second time Pavlysh was found to have taken anabolic steroids and lost a World indoor title; she was subsequently banned from athletics for life.

Despite being world ranked number 1 in the run up to the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, Krivelyova could only manage to finish fourth to match her finish at the 2000 Summer Olympics. However the winner, compatriot Irina Korzhanenko, tested positive for Stanozolol and was stripped of her title, promoting Krivelyova to the bronze medal position.

The IOC retested the samples from the 2004 Olympics and diagnosed a positive test. Krivelyova lost her third place to Nadzeya Ostapchuk (the bronze medal was not awarded). In April 2013, she was banned from competitions for two years.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

International competitions

1986	World Junior Championships	Athens, Greece	6th	Shot put	16.41 m
1987	European Junior Championships	Birmingham, United Kingdom	3rd	Shot put	16.64 m
1988	World Junior Championships	Sudbury, Canada	4th	Shot put	16.91 m
1991	World Indoor Championships	Seville, Spain	8th	Shot put	18.58 m
	Universiade	Sheffield, United Kingdom	2nd	Shot put	19.62 m
	World Championships	Tokyo, Japan	3rd	Shot put	20.16 m
1992	Olympic Games	Barcelona, Spain	1st	Shot put	21.06 m
1993	World Indoor Championships	Toronto, Canada	1st	Shot put	19.57 m
	World Championships	Stuttgart, Germany	2nd	Shot put	19.97 m
1996	European Cup	Madrid, Spain	3rd	Shot put	17.70 m
	Olympic Games	Atlanta, United States	15th (q)	Shot put	18.23 m
1997	World Indoor Championships	Paris, France	—	Shot put	Template:AthAbbr
	World Championships	Athens, Greece	10th	Shot put	17.38 m
1998	European Championships	Budapest, Hungary	4th	Shot put	19.08 m
1999	World Indoor Championships	Maebashi, Japan	1st	Shot put	19.08 m
	European Cup	Paris, France	3rd	Shot put	18.36 m
	World Championships	Seville, Spain	3rd	Shot put	19.43 m
2000	European Indoor Championships	Ghent, Belgium	4th	Shot put	18.96 m
	Olympic Games	Sydney, Australia	4th	Shot put	19.37 m
2001	World Indoor Championships	Lisbon, Portugal	3rd	Shot put	19.18 m
	World Championships	Edmonton, Canada	9th	Shot put	18.70 m
	Goodwill Games	Brisbane, Australia	6th	Shot put	17.73 m
2002	European Cup	Annecy, France	1st	Shot put	19.63 m
	European Championships	Munich, Germany	3rd	Shot put	19.56 m
2003	World Indoor Championships	Birmingham, United Kingdom	5th	Shot put	19.57 m
	European Cup	Florence, Italy	2nd	Shot put	18.98 m
	World Championships	Paris, France	1st	Shot put	20.63 m
2004	World Indoor Championships	Budapest, Hungary	1st	Shot put	19.90 m
	Olympic Games	Olympia, Greece	Template:AthAbbr 4th	Shot put	19.49 m	Doping
2005	World Championships	Helsinki, Finland	Template:AthAbbr 4th	Shot put	19.16 m	Doping

National titles

• Russian Athletics Championships
  • Shot put: 1992, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003<ref>Russian Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved 9 January 2021.</ref>
• Russian Indoor Athletics Championships
  • Shot put: 1993, 2003<ref>Russian Indoor Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved 9 January 2021.</ref>
• Soviet Athletics Championships
  • Shot put: 1991<ref>Soviet Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved 9 January 2021.</ref>
• Soviet Indoor Athletics Championships
  • Shot put: 1991<ref>Soviet Indoor Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved 9 January 2021.</ref>

See also

• List of doping cases in athletics
• List of Olympic medalists in athletics (women)
• List of 1992 Summer Olympics medal winners
• List of 2004 Summer Olympics medal winners
• List of stripped Olympic medals
• List of World Athletics Championships medalists (women)
• List of IAAF World Indoor Championships medalists (women)
• List of European Athletics Championships medalists (women)
• List of Russian sportspeople
• List of Russian people
• Doping in Russia
• Doping at the World Athletics Championships
• Doping at the Olympic Games
• Russia at the World Athletics Championships

External links

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