Olga Zaitseva

Olga Zaitseva, born on 16 May 1978, is a former Russian biathlete who began her career in 1994. She won two gold medals and one silver medal at the Winter Olympic Games, taking relay gold in 2006 and relay gold with mass start silver in 2010, and eight medals at the World Championships, three of them gold, all won at the 2005 Hochfilzen and 2009 Pyeongchang championships. She won the mass start discipline cup in 2004-05 and reached twelve personal World Cup wins. In December 2017 she was disqualified from the 2014 Winter Olympics for doping offences, and the Court of Arbitration for Sport upheld that disqualification while lifting her lifetime ban from the Olympic Games. After retiring in January 2015 she became caretaker head coach of the Russian biathlon team.