Svetlana Sleptsova

Svetlana Yuryevna Sleptsova, born on 31 July 1986 in Khanty-Mansiysk, is a retired Russian biathlete who was a member of the army sports club CSKA and a three-time Junior World Champion. She won bronze in the mixed relay at the 2008 World Championships in östersund, was part of the Russian women's relay team that won gold at the 2009 World Championships in Pyeongchang, and is an Olympic champion in the relay from Vancouver. After a first World Cup victory at Oslo-Holmenkollen in 2008 she added a pursuit win the same weekend. In February 2020 she was found guilty of an anti-doping violation and her results from 2013-14 were disqualified, and the whistleblower Grigory Rodchenkov alleged she was a protected athlete in the Russian state doping programme.