Svetlana Vladimirovna Krivelyova (Russian: Светлана Владимировна Кривелёва; born 13 June 1969) is a former Russian track and field athlete who specialised in the shot put.
| Medal record | ||
|---|---|---|
| Women's athletics | ||
Representing  Unified Team
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| Olympic Games | ||
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1992 Barcelona | Shot put |
Representing  Russia
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| Olympic Games | ||
| Disqualified | 2004 Athens | Shot put |
| World Championships | ||
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2003 Paris | Shot put |
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1993 Stuttgart | Shot put |
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1991 Tokyo | Shot put |
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1999 Seville | 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.[1]
International competitions
editNational titles
editSee also
edit- 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
References
edit- ^ Fyodorov, Gennady (2 April 2012). "Kuzenkova and Krivelyova get two-year bans for doping". Reuters. Retrieved 2 April 2013.
- ^ Russian Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved 9 January 2021.
- ^ Russian Indoor Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved 9 January 2021.
- ^ Soviet Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved 9 January 2021.
- ^ Soviet Indoor Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved 9 January 2021.
