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Olga Medvedtseva Personal information Full name Olga Valeryevna Medvedtseva Born July 7, 1975
Krasnoyarsk, Soviet UnionHeight 1.63 m (5 ft 4 in) World Cup Seasons 2000- Wins 10 Additional podiums 27 Total podiums 37 Updated on January 23, 2010. Medal record Women's biathlon Competitor for Russia Winter Olympics Gold 2002 Salt Lake City 10 km pursuit Gold 2010 Vancouver 4 x 6 km relay Bronze 2002 Salt Lake City 4 x 7.5 km relay Disqualified 2006 Turin 15 km individual World Championships Gold 2000 Oslo 4 × 7.5 km relay Gold 2001 Pokljuka 4 × 7.5 km relay Gold 2004 Oberhof 15 km individual Gold 2005 Hochfilzen 4 × 6 km relay Gold 2005 Khanty-Mansiysk mixed relay Gold 2009 Pyeongchang 4 × 6 km relay Silver 2002 Oslo 12.5 km mass start Silver 2004 Oberhof 4 × 6 km relay Bronze 2005 Hochfilzen 12.5 km mass start Olga Valeryevna Medvedtseva (Russian: Ольга Валерьевна Медведцева), former Pyleva (Russian: Пылёва), née Zamorozova (Russian: Заморозова), (born July 7, 1975 in Krasnoyarsk) is a retired Russian biathlete.
At the 2002 Winter Olympics she won an individual gold medal in the 10 km pursuit, as well as the bronze medal in the team relay.
Pyleva also won twice at the Holmenkollen ski festival biathlon competition during the 2004/05 season in the sprint and pursuit events.
Doping offense and disqualification in 2006
At the 2006 Winter Olympics she won the silver in the women's 15 km individual race, but on February 16, 2006, she was disqualified from further competition for failing a drug test [1] when she tested positive for the stimulant carphedon. The International Olympic Committee panel found her guilty, and she was expelled from the games and stripped of her medal. She was then banned for two years from competition, and the authorities in Turin started a criminal investigation into the matter [2]. The head of the Russian Anti-Doping Committee said that Pyleva took an over-the-counter medication for an ankle injury prescribed by her personal doctor who is not a team doctor, which contained carphedon [3]. It was the only time when Pyleva was injured and took any healing medication while training for a major competition. According to its label, the medication is not forbidden and is officially recommended by its manufacturer for treating sporting related injuries. But the Russian manufacturer did not include the complete compound list for the medication, which is what allegedly led to this catastrophic mistake [4]. The manufacturer has been officially warned by the Russian government, while the doctor in question has been banned for two years as well, and has said that she in turn is planning to sue the drug manufacturer [5]. Several days after the incident, the IBU president Anders Besseberg said in an interview that "Pyleva may and must defend her good name in law proceeding against the plant", but ruled out any reduction of the two year disqualification from competition [6].
See also
- Russia at the 2006 Winter Olympics
- List of sportspeople sanctioned for doping offences
External links
Olympic champions in women's biathlon – 10 km pursuit 2002: Olga Pyleva (RUS) · 2006: Kati Wilhelm (GER) · 2010: Magdalena Neuner (GER)
Olympic champions in women's biathlon – 4×6 km relay 3×7.5 km 1992: France (Corinne Niogret, Véronique Claudel & Anne Briand)
4×7.5 km 1994: Russia (Nadezhda Talanova, Nataliya Snytina, Luiza Noskova & Anfisa Reztsova) · 1998: Germany (Uschi Disl, Martina Zellner, Katrin Apel & Petra Behle) · 2002: Germany (Katrin Apel, Uschi Disl, Andrea Henkel & Kati Wilhelm)
4×6 km 2006: Russia (Anna Bogaliy-Titovets, Svetlana Ishmouratova, Olga Zaitseva & Albina Akhatova) · 2010: Russia (Svetlana Sleptsova, Anna Bogaliy-Titovets, Olga Medvedtseva & Olga Zaitseva)
Categories:- 1975 births
- Biathletes at the 2002 Winter Olympics
- Biathletes at the 2006 Winter Olympics
- Biathletes at the 2010 Winter Olympics
- Doping cases in winter sports
- Holmenkollen winners
- Living people
- Russian biathletes
- Olympic biathletes of Russia
- Olympic gold medalists for Russia
- Olympic bronze medalists for Russia
- People from Krasnoyarsk
- Olympic medalists in biathlon
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