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Olga Zaitseva

This article is about biathlete. For the tennis player, see Olga Zaitseva (tennis). For the long jumper, see Olga Zaytseva.
In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Alekseyevna and the family name is Zaitseva.

Olga Alekseyevna Zaitseva (Russian: Ольга Алексеевна Зайцева; born 16 May 1978) is a former Russian biathlete. She began her career in 1994. After not competing in the 2014–15 season, Zaitseva announced her retirement on 24 January 2015.[2] Shortly afterwards she announced that she had been appointed as caretaker head coach of the Russian biathlon team.[3]

Olga Zaitseva
Zaitseva at an awards ceremony in the Kremlin in 2010
Personal information
Full nameOlga Alekseyevna Zaitseva
Nickname"Bunny" (Russian: Зайка)
Born (1978-05-16) 16 May 1978 (age 46)
Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Height1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)
Weight66 kg (146 lb)
Websitewww.zajceva.ru
Professional information
SportBiathlon
ClubDynamo Moscow, CSKA Moscow[1]
World Cup debut12 February 2000
Retired24 January 2015
Olympic Games
Teams4 (2002, 2006, 2010, 2014)[1]
Medals3 (2 gold)
World Championships
Teams8 (2003, 2004, 2005, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013)
Medals8 (3 gold)
World Cup
Seasons12 (1999/00,
2001/02–2005/06,
2008/09–2013/14)
Individual races174
All races208
Individual victories12
All victories26
Individual podiums37
All podiums60
Discipline titles1:
1 Mass start (2004–05)
Medal record
Women's biathlon
Representing  Russia
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2006 Turin 4 × 6 km relay
Gold medal – first place 2010 Vancouver 4 × 6 km relay
Silver medal – second place 2010 Vancouver12.5 km mass start
Disqualified 2014 Sochi 4 × 6 km relay
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2005 Hochfilzen 4 × 6 km relay
Gold medal – first place 2009 Pyeongchang 12.5 km mass start
Gold medal – first place 2009 Pyeongchang 4 × 6 km relay
Silver medal – second place 2005 Hochfilzen 7.5 km sprint
Silver medal – second place 2005 Khanty-Mansiysk Mixed relay
Bronze medal – third place 2005 Hochfilzen 10 km pursuit
Bronze medal – third place 2009 Pyeongchang 7.5 km sprint
Bronze medal – third place 2009 Pyeongchang 10 km pursuit
Junior World Championships
Gold medal – first place1998 Jericho/ValcartierTeam
Bronze medal – third place1998 Jericho/ValcartierIndividual

Record

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Olympic Games

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Zaitseva has won two gold medals and one silver medal at the Winter Olympic Games.

On 1 December 2017, she was disqualified from the 2014 Winter Olympics for doping offences.[4] She appealed this decision to the Court of Arbitration for Sport in 2018.[5] After a postponement that lasted until 2020, the Court of Arbitration for Sport upheld her disqualification; however, it lifted her lifetime ban from all Olympic Games.[6]

EventIndividualSprintPursuitMass StartRelayMixed Relay
2002 Salt Lake City37th—————
2006 Torino—9th19th15thGold
2010 Vancouver26th7th7thSilverGold
2014 SochiDSQ (15th)DSQ (28th)DSQ (11th)DSQ (23rd)DSQ (2nd)DSQ (4th)

World Championships

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Zaitseva has won eight medals — three gold, two silver and three bronze. All her World Championship medals Zaitseva won in two Championships: 2005 Hochfilzen, Austria and 2009 Pyeongchang, South Korea.

EventIndividualSprintPursuitMass StartRelayMixed Relay
2003 Khanty-Mansiysk32nd—————
2004 Oberhof49th——20th—
2005 Hochfilzen—SilverBronze17thGoldSilver[b]
2009 Pyeongchang14thBronzeBronzeGoldGold5th
2011 Khanty-Mansiysk—4th12th6th8th6th
2012 Ruhpolding, Germany6th16th7thDSQ7th5th
2013 Nové Město6th4th4th5th4th6th

World Cup

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Olga Zaitseva Kontiolahti 2010

During her first 1999—2000 World Cup season, Zaitseva only appeared in one race, didn't scoring for the overall standings. Starting from the second half 2001—02 season, she became a regular in the Russian World Cup team. The best result is the 4th place in the 2004—05 season and winning the mass start discipline cup of the same season. All her results from the 2013-14 season after Sochi were voided due to doping offences.[7]

No.SeasonIndividualSprintPursuitMass StartOverall
RacesPointsPositionRacesPointsPositionRacesPointsPositionRacesPointsPositionRacesPointsPosition
12001–021/4––4/82444th4/93936th1/31631st10/247942nd
22002–032/35014th8/910323rd6/713312th3/41036th19/2329619th
32003–042/31430th8/1020811th7/92099th4/4[c]5519th21/2648910th
42004–052/42036th9/102923rd8/92903rd4/4[c]1361st23/277524th
52005–062/3668th8/1016515th6/813514th4/57714th20/2644315th
62006–07Temporary retirement from the sport due to marriage and childbirth.
72007–08
82008–09[d]4/4[c]1135th10/10[c]3087th7/7[c]2197th5/5[c]1624th26/26[e]8346th
92009–10[d]3/45824th9/102817th5/62073rd5/5[c]1545th22/257198th
102010–11[d]3/41383rd8/1024213th5/713117th4/513111th20/2664212th
112011–12[d]2/3706th5/102282nd4/81802nd1/5434th12/265213rd
*Key:Races—number of entered races/all races; Points—won World Cup points; Position—World Cup season ranking.
**2011–12 season in progress. Statistics as of 15 January 2012.[8][9]

World Cup wins

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Over the course of her career, Zaitseva has reached twelve personal World Cup wins. In the history of the International Biathlon Union she is ranked twelfth for all-time career victories. In addition, she has won twelve relay races and two mixed relay events as part of the Russian World Cup team.

Individual wins (13)
No.DateLocationDiscipline
15 December 2002Östersund, SwedenSprint
222 February 2003Östersund, SwedenIndividual
311 December 2004Oslo – Holmenkollen, NorwaySprint
418 December 2004Östersund, SwedenPursuit
519 March 2005Khanty-Mansiysk, RussiaMass Start
627 November 2005Östersund, SwedenPursuit
722 February 2009Pyeongchang, South Korea (WCH)Mass Start
819 March 2009Trondheim, NorwaySprint
913 January 2011Ruhpolding, GermanyIndividual
1016 December 2011Hochfilzen, AustriaSprint
1117 December 2011Hochfilzen, AustriaPursuit
1213 January 2012Nove Mesto, Czech RepublicSprint
136 January 2013Oberhof, GermanyPursuit
Relay wins (14)
No.DateLocationDiscipline
116 January 2003Ruhpolding, GermanyMixed Relay
213 February 2003Oslo – Holmenkollen, NorwayRelay
35 December 2004Beitostølen, NorwayRelay
412 January 2005Ruhpolding, GermanyRelay
513 February 2005Torino – Cesana San Sicario, ItalyRelay
611 March 2005Hochfilzen, Austria (WCH)Relay
711 January 2006Ruhpolding, GermanyRelay
823 February 2006Torino – Cesana San Sicario, Italy (OG)Relay
921 February 2009Pyeongchang, South Korea (WCH)Relay
1013 December 2009Hochfilzen, AustriaRelay
1123 February 2010Vancouver, Canada (OG)Relay
1222 January 2011Antholz – Anterselva, ItalyRelay
1318 December 2011Hochfilzen, AustriaMixed Relay
144 January 2012Oberhof, GermanyRelay
  • Key:WCH—World Championships; OG—Olympic Games.
    • 2011–12 season in progress. Statistics as of 15 January 2012.[8]

Overall record

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As of January 2012, Zaitseva has competed in a total of 208 races at senior level, winning 26 of them (a 12.5 win percentage), including 174 races with 12 wins (a 6.9 win percentage) in individual events. She has claimed at least two wins in each discipline of biathlon. Zaitseva has reached a total of 60 World Cup podiums (28.8%): 37 in individual races (21.3%) and 23 in team events (67.6%). In addition, she has achieved 120 top ten finishes — 57.7% of all the races she has entered (including 88 top ten results (50.6%) in individual races).[8]

Olga Zaitseva strive for victory on 19 March 2009
ResultIndividualSprintPursuitMass StartRelayMixed RelayTotal
Individual eventsTeam eventsAll events
1st Place2532122121426
2nd Place23425111617
3rd Place—7613—14317
Podiums415135203372360
Top 1093529152578832120
Points1661502925715632188
Other5922[f]2[g]—18220
Starts2170523127717434208
*Results in all IBU World Cup races. Statistics as of 15 January 2012.[8]

Achievements and honours

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Olga Zaitseva with the President of Russia Dmitriy Medvedev at the awards ceremony in the Kremlin in March 2010

Sport titles

  • Winter Olympics
    • 2010 – Gold medal in the Relay, silver medal in the 12.5 km Mass Start
    • 2006 – Gold medal in the Relay
  • World Championships
    • 2009 – Gold medal in the 12.5 km Mass Start and Relay, bronze in the 7.5 km Sprint and 10 km Pursuit
    • 2005 – Gold medal in the Relay, silver in the 7.5 km Sprint and Mixed Relay and bronze in the 10 km Pursuit.
  • Mass Start World Cup winner — 2004–05

State Decorations and Awards

Other Awards

  • The Best Russian Athlete of the Year according to the vote at Sportbox.ru — 2011.[13]

Personal life

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Zaitseva has two sisters: Elena (b. 1976) and Oksana (b. 1973), who was her coach.[14]

On 30 September 2006, Zaitseva married Milan Augustin, a Slovakian biathlon coach; they had a son Aleksandr in 2007,[15] but divorced in 2013.[16] In October 2015, Zaitseva gave birth to her second son Stepan. Around that time, she stopped coaching and was employed as a consultant for the Russian biathlon team. She was expected to return to coaching in 2016.[17]

Notes

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a. 1 2 The mixed relay, contested for the first time in the World Championships, was held in 2005.
b. 1 The mixed relay was held in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia.
c. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Until 2010—11 season it was required to leave out the result of the worst discipline race for the final result of discipline world cup (if there were four discipline races or more during the season), so the points in respective columnes «Points» is represented after deduction of the result of the worst discipline race.
d. 1 2 3 4 Since 2008—09 season it was applied another points system in World Cup. Earlier biathlete got 50 points for win and top-30 was awarded. Now World Cup give 60 points and top-40 awarded.
e. 1 Until 2010—11 season it was required to leave out the results of the three worst races for the final result of overall world cup, so the points in respective column «Points» is represented after deduction of the results of the three worst discipline races.
f. 1 Did not finish (DNF).
g. 1 Disqualified (DSQ).

References

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  1. ^ a b Olga Zaytseva. sports-reference.com
  2. ^ Paone, Francesco (24 January 2015). "Olga Zaitseva back on his feet and decides to retire". Snowalps. Neve Italia. Retrieved 25 January 2015.
  3. ^ Rogovitskiy, Dmitriy (30 January 2015). Grohmann, Karolos (ed.). "Olympic champion Zaitseva named Russia caretaker coach". reuters.com. Retrieved 23 March 2015.
  4. ^ Full decision regarding Olga Zaytseva at International Olympic Committee
  5. ^ "Meet the Russian Winter Olympians fighting to clear their names". CNN. 22 January 2018. Retrieved 3 February 2018.
  6. ^ "Anti-Doping – Biathlon – Olympic Games Sochi 2014" (PDF). Court of Arbitration for Sport. 24 September 2020. Retrieved 28 January 2021.
  7. ^ "Berger and Mäkäräinen both get 2013-2014 Biathlon World Cup crystal globes after doping ban changed points total". Inside the games. 22 December 2021. Retrieved 22 December 2021.
  8. ^ a b c d Olga Zaitseva. IBU Profile
  9. ^ Cup Standings. biathlonresults.com
  10. ^ Указ Президента Российской Федерации от 5 марта 2010 года № 278 «О награждении государственными наградами Российской Федерации» Archived 26 April 2013 at the Wayback Machine (in Russian)
  11. ^ Указ Президента Российской Федерации от 22 февраля 2007 года № 204 (in Russian)
  12. ^ Указ Президента Российской Федерации от 17 января 2003 года № 43 (in Russian)
  13. ^ «Золотой пьедестал»: Зайцева – лучший спортсмен России 2011 года! – SportBox.ru (in Russian)
  14. ^ Оксана Рочева: «Ольга Зайцева бережет всех своих зайцев». trud.ru. 21 January 2010
  15. ^ Babei, Vitold (18 March 2007) Сын чемпионки. gazeta.ru.
  16. ^ Ольга Зайцева развелась с мужем. eurosport.ru. 4 August 2013
  17. ^ Двукратная олимпийская чемпионка по биатлону Зайцева во второй раз стала матерью. tass.ru. 17 October 2015
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