Svetlana Sleptsova

Svetlana Sleptsova

Sleptsova in March 2010.
Personal information
Full name	Svetlana Yuryevna Sleptsova
Born	(1986-07-31) 31 July 1986 Khanty-Mansiysk, RSFSR, Soviet Union
Residence	Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia
Height	1.62 m (5 ft 4 in)
Website	svetlana-sleptsova.ru
Professional information
Sport	Biathlon
Club	CSKA
Skis	Fischer
Rifle	Anschütz
World Cup debut	17 January 2007
Olympic Games
Teams	1 (2010)
Medals	1 (1 gold)
World Championships
Teams	4 (2008, 2009, 2011, 2012)
Medals	2 (1 gold)
World Cup
Seasons	8 (2006/07–2012/13, 2015/16–)
All races	147
Individual victories	5
All victories	11
Individual podiums	16
All podiums	32
Medal record Women's biathlon Representing  Russia Olympic Games 2010 Vancouver 4 × 6 km relay World Championships 2009 Pyeongchang 4 × 6 km relay 2008 Östersund Mixed relay
Updated on 3 December 2016.

Svetlana Yuryevna Sleptsova (Russian: Светлана Юрьевна Слепцова; born 31 July 1986 in Khanty Mansiysk) is a 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

Career

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.

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.

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.

Biathlon results

All results are sourced from the International Biathlon Union.^[1]

Olympic Games

• 1 medal (1 gold)

Event	Individual	Sprint	Pursuit	Mass start	Relay	Mixed relay
2010 Vancouver	—	13rd	18th	14th	Gold	N/A

*The mixed relay was added as an event in 2014.

World Championships

• 2 medals (1 gold, 1 bronze)

Event	Individual	Sprint	Pursuit	Mass start	Relay	Mixed relay
2008 Östersund	—	6th	8th	17th	4th	Bronze
2009 Pyeongchang	—	36th	28th	19th	Gold	5th
2011 Khanty-Mansiysk	—	—	—	—	8th	6th
2012 Ruhpolding	7th	7th	16th	24th	7th	—

*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)

Event	Individual	Sprint	Pursuit	Relay
2004 Haute-Maurienne	11st	42nd	16th	4th
2005 Kontiolahti	Gold	7th	Silver	Bronze
2006 Presque Isle	6th	18th	14th	Bronze
2007 Martell-Val Martello	5th	Gold	Gold	4th

World Cup podiums

* Statistics as of 17 March 2016.

Individual podiums

• 5 victories – (3 Sp, 2 Pu)
• 16 podiums – (7 Sp, 6 Pu, 2 MS, 1 In)

No.	Season	Date	Location	Discipline	Level	Place
1	2007/08	5 January 2008	Oberhof, Germany	7.5 km Sprint	World Cup	2nd
2		11 January 2008	Ruhpolding, Germany	7.5 km Sprint	World Cup	2nd
3		17 January 2008	Antholz, Italy	7.5 km Sprint	World Cup	3rd
4		19 January 2008	Antholz, Italy	10 km Pursuit	World Cup	2nd
5		9 March 2008	Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia	12.5 km Mass Start	World Cup	3rd
6		13 March 2008	Holmenkollen, Norway	7.5 km Sprint	World Cup	1st
7		15 March 2008	Holmenkollen, Norway	10 km Pursuit	World Cup	1st
8	2008/09	7 December 2008	Östersund, Sweden	10 km Pursuit	World Cup	2nd
9		12 December 2008	Hochfilzen, Austria	7.5 km Sprint	World Cup	2nd
10		13 December 2008	Hochfilzen, Austria	10 km Pursuit	World Cup	2nd
11		18 December 2008	Hochfilzen, Austria	15 km Individual	World Cup	2nd
12		29 December 2008	Hochfilzen, Austria	7.5 km Sprint	World Cup	1st
13	2009/10	12 December 2009	Hochfilzen, Austria	10 km Pursuit	World Cup	2nd
14		19 December 2009	Pokljuka, Slovenia	7.5 km Sprint	World Cup	1st
15		20 December 2009	Pokljuka, Slovenia	10 km Pursuit	World Cup	1st
16	2010/11	9 January 2011	Oberhof, Germany	12.5 km Mass Start	World Cup	3rd

*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 Relay)
• 16 podiums – (14 Relay, 2 Mixed Relay)

No.	Season	Date	Location	Discipline	Level	Place
1	2007/08	9 December 2007	Hochfilzen, Austria	4x6 km Relay	World Cup	2nd	(with Anisimova / Moiseeva / Iourieva)
2		16 December 2007	Pokljuka, Slovenia	4x6 km Relay	World Cup	2nd	(with Neupokoeva / Sorokina / Iourieva)
3		3 January 2008	Oberhof, Germany	4x6 km Relay	World Cup	3rd	(with Neupokoeva / Sorokina / Iourieva)
4		9 January 2008	Ruhpolding, Germany	4x6 km Relay	World Cup	3rd	(with Anisimova / Iourieva / Sorokina)
5		12 February 2008	Östersund, Sweden	Mixed 2x6+2x7.5 km Relay	World Championships	3rd	(with Neupokoeva / Kruglov / Yaroshenko)
6	2008/09	21 February 2009	Pyeongchang, South Korea	4x6 km Relay	World Championships	1st	(with Boulygina / Medvedtseva / Zaitseva)
7		14 March 2009	Vancouver, Canada	4x6 km Relay	World Cup	3rd	(with Boulygina / Medvedtseva / Zaitseva)
8	2009/10	6 December 2009	Östersund, Sweden	4x6 km Relay	World Cup	2nd	(with Boulygina / Medvedtseva / Zaitseva)
9		13 December 2009	Hochfilzen, Austria	4x6 km Relay	World Cup	1st	(with Boulygina / Romanova / Zaitseva)
10		10 January 2010	Oberhof, Germany	4x6 km Relay	World Cup	1st	(with Bogaliy-Titovets / Boulygina / Medvedtseva)
11		23 February 2010	Vancouver, Canada	4x6 km Relay	Olympic Games	1st	(with Bogaliy-Titovets / Medvedtseva / Zaitseva)
12	2010/11	22 January 2011	Antholz, Italy	4x6 km Relay	World Cup	1st	(with Bogaliy-Titovets / Sorokina / Zaitseva)
13		5 February 2011	Presque Isle, USA	Mixed 2x6+2x7.5 km Relay	World Cup	3rd	(with Sorokina / Tcherezov / Tchoudov)
14	2011/12	11 December 2011	Hochfilzen, Austria	4x6 km Relay	World Cup	3rd	(with Sorokina / Bogaliy-Titovets / Zaitseva)
15		4 January 2012	Oberhof, Germany	4x6 km Relay	World Cup	1st	(with Glazyrina / Bogaliy-Titovets / Vilukhina)
16		21 January 2012	Antholz, Italy	4x6 km Relay	World Cup	3rd	(with Glazyrina / Zaitseva / Vilukhina)

*Results are from UIPMB and IBU races which include the Biathlon World Cup, Biathlon World Championships and the Winter Olympic Games.

Shooting

* Results in all IBU World Cup races, Olympics and World Championships including relay events and disqualified races. Statistics as of 3 December 2016.^[1][12]

References

External links

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