Svetlana Krivelyova
| Medal record | ||
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| Women's Athletics | ||
| Olympic Games | ||
Representing  Unified Team |
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1992 Barcelona | Shot put |
Representing  Russia |
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| Disqualified | 2004 Athens | Shot put |
| World Championships | ||
| Representing Russia |
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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 |
Svetlana Vladimirovna Krivelyova (Russian: Светлана Владимировна Кривелёва; born June 13, 1969) is a track and field athlete who specialises in the shot put.
Life and career
Krivelyova was born in Bryansk, Russia. In a long and distinguished career Krivelyova's 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 was stripped of her title for failing a drugs 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 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece, Krivelyova could only manage to finish fourth to match her finish at the Sydney 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]
Major achievements (shot put)
- 1991
- World Championships - Tokyo, Japan.
- bronze medal
- World Student Games - Sheffield, England.
- gold medal
- World Championships - Tokyo, Japan.
- 1992
- Summer Olympics - Barcelona, Spain.
- gold medal
- Summer Olympics - Barcelona, Spain.
- 1993
- World Championships - Stuttgart, Germany.
- silver medal
- World Championships - Stuttgart, Germany.
- 1996
- European Cup - Villeneuve d'Ascq, France.
- bronze medal
- European Cup - Villeneuve d'Ascq, France.
- 1999
- World Championships - Seville, Spain.
- bronze medal
- European Cup - Paris, France.
- bronze medal
- World Championships - Seville, Spain.
- 2002
- 2003
- World Championships - Paris, France.
- gold medal
- 1st World Athletics Final - Monaco.
- second place
- European Cup - Florence, Italy.
- silver medal
- Russian national indoor championships
- gold medal
- Russian national championships
- gold medal
- World Championships - Paris, France.
- 2004
- 2004 Summer Olympics - Athens, Greece.
- disqualified (bronze medal)
- World Indoor Championships - Budapest, Hungary.
- gold medal
- Russian national championships
- silver medal
- Russian national indoor championships
- silver medal
- 2004 Summer Olympics - Athens, Greece.
References
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External links
- Svetlana Krivelyova profile at IAAF
- Sports Reference
- IAAF ID different in Wikidata
- 1969 births
- Living people
- Doping cases in athletics
- People from Bryansk
- Soviet shot putters
- Russian shot putters
- Female shot putters
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Olympic athletes of the Unified Team
- Olympic athletes of Russia
- Olympic gold medalists for the Unified Team
- Olympic bronze medalists for Russia
- Olympic medalists in athletics (track and field)
- World Championships in Athletics medalists
- Competitors stripped of Olympic medals
- European Athletics Championships medalists
- Russian sportspeople in doping cases
