Svetlana Zhurova
Zhurova in 2013
Personal information
Born (1972-01-07) 7 January 1972
Pavlov-on-the-Neva, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Height1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight64 kg (141 lb)
Sport
Country Russia
SportSpeed skating
Medal record
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2006 Turin 500 m
World Championships
Gold medal – first place2006 HeerenveenSprint
Gold medal – first place1996 Hamar500 m
Silver medal – second place1998 Calgary500 m
Silver medal – second place1999 Heerenveen500 m
Silver medal – second place2000 Nagano500 m
Bronze medal – third place2001 Salt Lake City500 m

Svetlana Sergeyevna Zhurova (Russian: Светла́на Серге́евна Жу́рова; born 7 January 1972) is a speed skater from Russia and a deputy at the State Duma of the Russian Federation.[1]

Career

Zhurova has been competing internationally since 1989,[2] took part in four Olympics, but did not win her first Olympic medal until her fourth Olympics, winning Olympic gold in Turin in 2006, two years after mothering a child. She also became Sprint World Champion in 2006. After her sporting career she became a politician and became Vice Speaker of the fifth State Duma as part of the ruling United Russia party.[3]

Sanctions

On December 9, 2014, Zhurova was sanctioned by the United Kingdom after she voted in favor of a bill making the Republic of Crimea a federal subject of Russia earlier that year.[4] Ten days later, Zhurova was placed on the Canadian sanctions list for the Ukrainian crisis.[5]

In 2023, she criticized at the Canadian Olympic Committee after its CEO David Shoemaker proposed a requirement that Russian athletes must denounce the war in Ukraine before they can compete in Olympic events:[6][7]

This is not surprising, as the Ukrainian diaspora has a very large influence in Canada. Therefore, Canadians will be the last after Ukraine to recognize Russian athletes at the Olympics. They are asking our athletes to refuse to support their native country, which raised them as athletes. Our state has a very great influence on the development of sports, and in the West there is no such support. They want to destroy the interaction between the state and sports in our country, which our ancestors built over the years.

References

  1. ↑ Elena Semenova (2012). "Continuities in the Formation of Russian Political Elites". Historical Social Research. 37 (2): 74. doi:10.12759/hsr.37.2012.2.71-90.
  2. ↑ "Skateresults.com".
  3. ↑ "Журова Светлана Сергеевна".
  4. ↑ "CONSOLIDATED LIST OF FINANCIAL SANCTIONS TARGETS IN THE UK" (PDF). Retrieved 16 April 2023.
  5. ↑ "Sanctions List SOR/2014-316". gazette.gc.ca. 2014-12-19. Retrieved 2018-03-07.
  6. ↑ Strashin, Jamie (2023-02-24). "COC head says Russian, Belarusian athletes must oppose Ukraine war to participate in Olympics". CBC Sports. Retrieved 2023-08-31.
  7. ↑ Журова о словах главы НОК Канады: «Они хотят разрушить взаимодействие государства и спорта в России, которое наши предки выстраивали годами»
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