- Olesya Forsheva
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Medal record 
Olesya ForshevaWomen's athletics Competitor for 
RussiaOlympic Games Silver 2004 Athens 4x400 m relay World Championships Gold 2005 Helsinki 4x400 m relay World Indoor Championships Gold 2004 Budapest 4x400 m relay Gold 2006 Moscow 400m Gold 2006 Moscow 4x400 m relay Silver 2004 Budapest 400m European Indoor Championships Gold 2011 Paris 4x400 m relay Silver 2011 Paris 400m Olesya Aleksandrovna Forsheva (Russian: Олеся Александровна Форшева, born July 8, 1979 in Nizhny Tagil, Russian SFSR) (née Krasnomovets Russian: Красномовец) is a Russian athlete.
She was born in Nizhny Tagil and is married to Dmitriy Forshev.
Specializing in the 400 metres, she won a silver medal at the 2004 IAAF World Indoor Championships. In addition, she won the silver medal in 4 x 400 metres relay at the 2004 Olympics and a gold medal in the same event at the 2005 World Championships. At the IAAF World Indoor Championships 2006 in Moscow she won the Gold Medal for 400 metres women with a winning time of 50.04 seconds. In addition she again won the relay with the Russian team.
Personal bests
- 500 metres - 66.31 (2006)- indoors, world record
- 400 metres - 50.04 (2006)- indoors, 50.19 - outdoors
- 200 metres - 23.09 (2005)
External links
- IAAF profile for Olesya Forsheva
- Profile on sports-reference.com
1985: Diane Dixon (USA) • 1987: Sabine Busch (GDR) • 1989: Helga Arendt (GDR) • 1991: Diane Dixon (USA) • 1993: Sandie Richards (JAM) • 1995: Irina Privalova (RUS) • 1997: Jearl Miles Clark (USA) • 1999: Grit Breuer (GER) • 2001: Sandie Richards (JAM) • 2003 – 2004: Natalya Nazarova (RUS) • 2006: Olesya Forsheva (RUS) • 2008: Olesya Zykina (RUS) • 2010: Debbie Dunn (USA)
World Indoor Champions in Women's 4×400 m Relay 1991: Germany (Seuser, Schreiter, Hesselbarth, Breuer) • 1993: Jamaica (Hemmings, Grant, Rattray-Williams, Richards) • 1995: Russia (Chebykina, Ruzina, Kulikova, Goncharenko) • 1997: Russia (Chebykina, Goncharenko, Kotlyarova, Alekseyeva) • 1999: Russia (Chebykina, Goncharenko, Kotlyarova, Nazarova) • 2001: Russia (Nosova, Zykina, Sotnikova, Kotlyarova) • 2003: Russia (Antyukh, Pechonkina, Zykina, Nazarova) • 2004: Russia (Krasnomovets, Kotlyarova, Levina, Nazarova) • 2006: Russia (Levina, Nazarova, Krasnomovets, Antyukh) • 2008: Russia (Gushchina, Levina, Nazarova, Zykina) • 2010: United States (Dunn, Trotter, Hastings, Felix)
Categories:- 1979 births
- Living people
- People from Nizhny Tagil
- Russian sprinters
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Olympic athletes of Russia
- Olympic silver medalists for Russia
- Olympic medalists in athletics (track and field)
- Russian athletics biography stubs
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