Svetlana Shkolina

Svetlana Shkolina

Shkolina at the 2013 World championships Athletics in Moscow.
Personal information
Born	(1986-03-09) March 9, 1986 Yartsevo, Smolensk, USSR
Height	1.87 m (6 ft 2 in)
Weight	66 kg (146 lb)
Medal record Women's athletics Representing  Russia Olympic Games 2012 London High jump World Championships 2013 Moscow High jump

Svetlana Vladimirovna Shkolina (Russian: Светлана Владимировна Школина; born 9 March 1986) is a Russian high jumper. She set her outdoor personal best of 2.03 metres to earn the bronze medal at the 2012 Olympic Games. She again cleared 2.03 metres to become World Champion at the 2013 World Championships in Moscow. Her indoor personal best is 2.00 metres, achieved in February 2010 in Arnstadt.

Early career

She was born in Yartsevo.^[1] As a teenager she won the silver medals at the 2003 World Youth Championships and the 2004 World Junior Championships and the gold medal at the 2005 European Junior Championships. Her personal bests were 1.88 metres in 2003 (Krasnodar, May), 1.91 metres in 2004 (Grosseto, WJC, July) and 1.92 metres in 2005 (Mannheim, June).^[2] In 2007 she won another gold medal, at the 2007 European U23 Championships, where both Shkolina and Adonia Steryiou cleared 1.92 metres but failed at 1.95 metres.^[3] She also improved her personal best to 1.96 metres in Tula in June 2007, having only managed to equal 1.92 metres the 2006 season.^[2]

Senior career

Svetlana Shkolina won the women's high jump in 2013 World Championships in Athletics

2008–2009

Her first major international senior championship was the 2008 Olympic Games, where she finished fourteenth with a jump of 1.93 metres. Her season's best was 1.98 metres, achieved in July in Kazan. In 2009 she equalled this height in January in Rijeka before finishing fourth at the 2009 European Indoor Championships. She finished fourth again at the 2009 European Team Championships, by equalling her personal best for the third time in the Super League competition in Leiria. At the 2009 World Championships and the 2009 World Athletics Final she finished sixth; with 1.96 and 1.94 metres respectively.^[2]

2010–2011

In early 2010 she broke the 2-metre barrier as she cleared 2.00 metres at the Hochsprung mit Musik event in Arnstadt in February.^[2] She contended with Blanka Vlašić who eventually set a world leading mark of 2.06 metres.^[4] In the next three international championships she ended on the unlucky 4th place: In March 2010 at the World Indoor Championships in Doha, Qatar (1.96 m), in August at the European Championships in Barcelona (1.97 m) and in March 2011 at the European Athletics Indoor Championships in Paris (1.92 m). In July she managed to beat Vlašić at the high jump meeting in Eberstadt, Germany. Shkolina managed 1.99 m, while Vlašić stopped at 1.97 m.

2012

Shkolina won a bronze medal at the high jump at the 2012 Summer Olympics with a height of 2.03 m.^[5]

2013

Shkolina won the gold medal at the high jump at the 2013 World Championships in Athletics in Moscow equalizing her personal best with a height of 2.03 m.

Achievements

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Notes
Representing  Russia
2003	World Youth Championships	Sherbrooke, Canada	2nd	1.84 m
	European Youth Olympics	Paris, France	2nd	1.84 m
2004	World Junior Championships	Grosseto, Italy	2nd	1.91 m
2005	European Junior Championships	Kaunas, Lithuania	1st	1.91 m
2007	European U23 Championships	Debrecen, Hungary	1st	1.92 m
2009	World Championships	Berlin, Germany	6th	1.96 m
2010	World Indoor Championships	Doha, Qatar	4th	1.96 m
	European Championships	Barcelona, Spain	4th	1.97 m
2011	European Indoor Championships	Paris, France	4th	1.92 m
	World Championships	Daegu, South Korea	5th	1.97 m
2012	Olympic Games	London, United Kingdom	3rd	2.03 m
	Diamond League		3rd	details
2013	World Championships	Moscow, Russia	1st	2.03 m
	Diamond League		1st	details

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