Svetlana Yuryevna Sleptsova (; born 31 July 1986 in Khanty Mansiysk) is a retired 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 Vancouver.
In February 2020, Sleptsova was found guilty of an anti-doping violation and had her results from 2013-14 disqualified. She was further identified as being a protected athlete as part of the Russian state doping program by whistleblower Grigory Rodchenkov, in which he alleges that her positive drug test from an in-competition test result was attributed to another athlete through state intervention.
Career
Sleptsova achieved her first success in 2001, when she won the A. Strepetova prize at the Russian Youth Championships. In 2005 she won the individual competition at the Youth World Championships in Kontiolahti (Finland), 1:15 minutes ahead of Vita Semerenko. She did her World Cup debut at Pokljuka in 2007. She achieved two victories at Martell—in the sprint and pursuit competitions, respectively. At the Senior Russian Championships she won three medals, and received a ticket to the country's main national team.
Sleptsova 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 and 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.
Sleptsova's last competition was the 2017 Summer Biathlon World Championships in Chaykovskiy, Russia. There, she won on all three disciplines (sprint, pursuit and mixed). Following that, Sleptsova announced her retirement on 27 August 2017, to instead focus on family life.
Biathlon results All results are sourced from the International Biathlon Union.International Biathlon Union.Svetlana Sleptsova. IBU Datacenter. Retrieved 2 December 2008.
Olympic Games 1 medal (1 gold) EventIndividualSprintPursuitRelay 2010 Vancouver — 13th 18th 14th Gold * The mixed relay was added as an event in 2014.
World Championships 2 medals (1 gold, 1 bronze) EventIndividualSprintPursuitRelay 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 — 2017 Hochfilzen 71st 33rd 24th — 10th — * 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) EventIndividualSprintPursuitRelay 2004 Haute-Maurienne 11th 42nd 16th 4th 2005 Kontiolahti Gold 7th Silver Bronze 2006 Presque Isle 6th 18th 14th Bronze 2007 Martell-Val Martello 5th Gold Gold 4th
Individual podiums 5 victories – (3 Sp, 2 Pu) 16 podiums – (7 Sp, 6 Pu, 2 MS, 1 In) No. Season Date Location Discipline Level Place1 2007/08 5 January 2008 Oberhof, Germany 7.5 km Sprint World Cup 2nd2 11 January 2008 Ruhpolding, Germany 7.5 km Sprint World Cup 2nd3 17 January 2008 Antholz, Italy 7.5 km Sprint World Cup 3rd4 19 January 2008 Antholz, Italy 10 km Pursuit World Cup 2nd5 9 March 2008 Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia 12.5 km Mass Start World Cup 3rd6 13 March 2008 Holmenkollen, Norway 7.5 km Sprint World Cup 1st7 15 March 2008 Holmenkollen, Norway 10 km Pursuit World Cup 1st8 2008/09 7 December 2008 Östersund, Sweden 10 km Pursuit World Cup 2nd9 12 December 2008 Hochfilzen, Austria 7.5 km Sprint World Cup 2nd10 13 December 2008 Hochfilzen, Austria 10 km Pursuit World Cup 2nd11 18 December 2008 Hochfilzen, Austria 15 km Individual World Cup 2nd12 29 December 2008 Hochfilzen, Austria 7.5 km Sprint World Cup 1st13 2009/10 12 December 2009 Hochfilzen, Austria 10 km Pursuit World Cup 2nd14 19 December 2009 Pokljuka, Slovenia 7.5 km Sprint World Cup 1st15 20 December 2009 Pokljuka, Slovenia 10 km Pursuit World Cup 1st16 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 RL) 16 podiums – (14 RL, 2 MR) No. Season Date Location Discipline Level Place Teammates1 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.
Overall record ResultIndividualSprintPursuitMass StartRelayMixedRelayTotalIndividual eventsTeam eventsAll events1st place – 3 2 – 6 – 5 6 112nd place 1 3 4 – 3 – 8 3 113rd place – 1 – 2 5 2 3 7 10 Podiums 1 7 6 2 14 2 16 16 32 Top 10 7 19 15 6 22 6 47 28 75 Points 12 46 32 19 22 6 109 28 137 Other 2 13 1 – 3 – 16 3 19 Starts 14 59 33 19 25 6 125 31 156
a. Includes mixed relay and single mixed relay, the event involves one male and one female biathlete each completing two legs consisting of one prone and one standing shoot. b. Disqualified (DSQ).
* Statistics as of 8 March 2017.
Shooting Shooting2006–07 season2006-07 Season World Cup Shooting Percentages. realbiathlon.com. Accessed 18 March 2016.2007–08 season2007-08 Season World Cup Shooting Percentages. realbiathlon.com. Accessed 18 March 2016.2008–09 season2008-09 Season World Cup Shooting Percentages. realbiathlon.com. Accessed 18 March 2016.2009–10 season2009-10 Season World Cup Shooting Percentages. realbiathlon.com. Accessed 18 March 2016.2010–11 season2010-11 Season World Cup Shooting Percentages. realbiathlon.com. Accessed 18 March 2016.2011–12 season2011-12 Season World Cup Shooting Percentages. realbiathlon.com. Accessed 18 March 2016. Prone position 52 / 60 86.7% 163 / 179 91.1% 158 / 183 86.3% 143 / 170 84.1% 169 / 204 82.8% 179 / 213 84.0% Standing position 45 / 60 75.0% 148 / 181 81.8% 134 / 183 73.2% 140 / 168 83.3% 164 / 205 80.0% 170 / 208 81.7% Total 97 / 120 80.8% 311 / 360 86.4% 292 / 366 79.8% 283 / 338 83.7% 333 / 409 81.4% 349 / 421 82.9% Shooting2012–13 season2012-13 Season World Cup Shooting Percentages. realbiathlon.com. Accessed 18 March 2016.2013–14 season2013-14 Season World Cup Shooting Percentages. realbiathlon.com. Accessed 18 March 2016.2014–15 season2014-15 Season World Cup Shooting Percentages. realbiathlon.com. Accessed 18 March 2016.2015–16 season2015-16 Season World Cup Shooting Percentages. realbiathlon.com. Accessed 18 March 2016.2016–17 seasonBiathlon Federation of Ukraine. Svetlana Sleptsova. biathlon.com.ua. Accessed 30 November 2016.Career Prone position 21 / 30 70.0% 5 / 7 71.4% — — 4 / 5 80.0% 83 / 97 85.6% 977 / 1148 85.1% Standing position 27 / 31 87.1% 5 / 6 83.3% — — 4 / 5 80.0% 81 / 103 78.6% 918 / 1150 79.8% Total 48 / 61 78.7% 10 / 13 76.9% — — 8 / 10 80.0% 164 / 200 82.0% 1895 / 2298 82.5% * Results in all IBU World Cup races, Olympics and World Championships including relay events and disqualified races. Statistics as of 8 March 2017.
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