Svetlana Zhurova

Svetlana Sergeyevna Zhurova (Russian: Светла́на Серге́евна Жу́рова; born 7 January 1972) is a speed skater from Russia and a deputy at the State Duma of the Russian Federation.[1]

Svetlana Zhurova
Светлана Журова
Zhurova in 2013
Member of the State Duma for Leningrad Oblast
Assumed office
12 October 2021
Preceded byVladimir Drachev
ConstituencyVsevolozhsk (No. 111)
Member of the State Duma (Party List Seat)
In office
6 March 2013 – 12 October 2021
Preceded byRamazan Abdulatipov
In office
24 December 2007 – 21 December 2011
Personal details
Born (1972-01-07) 7 January 1972
Pavlov-on-Neva, Russian SFSR,
USSR
Political partyUnited Russia
Spouse
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(m. 1999; div. 2013)​
Children2 sons (1 deceased)
EducationRussian State Academy of Physical Education (M.Ed.)
RANEPA
Sports career
Height1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight64 kg (141 lb)
Country Russia
SportSpeed skating
Retired2007
Medal record
Olympic Games
2006 Turin 500 m
World Championships
2006 HeerenveenSprint
1996 Hamar500 m
1998 Calgary500 m
1999 Heerenveen500 m
2000 Nagano500 m
2001 Salt Lake City500 m

Career

Zhurova has been competing internationally since 1989,[2] took part in four Olympics, but did not win her first Olympic medal until her fourth Olympics, winning Olympic gold in Turin in 2006, two years after giving birth to a child. She also became Sprint World Champion in 2006. After her sporting career she became a politician and became Vice Speaker of the fifth State Duma as part of the ruling United Russia party.[3]

Sanctions

On December 9, 2014, Zhurova was sanctioned by the United Kingdom after she voted in favor of a bill making the Republic of Crimea a federal subject of Russia earlier that year.[4] Ten days later, Zhurova was placed on the Canadian sanctions list for the Ukrainian crisis.[5]

In 2023, she criticized the Canadian Olympic Committee after its CEO David Shoemaker proposed a requirement that Russian athletes must denounce the war in Ukraine before they can compete in Olympic events:[6][7]

This is not surprising, as the Ukrainian diaspora has a very large influence in Canada. Therefore, Canadians will be the last after Ukraine to recognize Russian athletes at the Olympics. They are asking our athletes to refuse to support their native country, which raised them as athletes. Our state has a very great influence on the development of sports, and in the West there is no such support. They want to destroy the interaction between the state and sports in our country, which our ancestors built over the years.

References
  1. Elena Semenova (2012). "Continuities in the Formation of Russian Political Elites". Historical Social Research. 37 (2): 74. doi:10.12759/hsr.37.2012.2.71-90.
  2. "Skateresults.com". Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2006-02-15.
  3. "Журова Светлана Сергеевна".
  4. "CONSOLIDATED LIST OF FINANCIAL SANCTIONS TARGETS IN THE UK" (PDF). Retrieved 16 April 2023.
  5. "Sanctions List SOR/2014-316". gazette.gc.ca. 2014-12-19. Retrieved 2018-03-07.
  6. Strashin, Jamie (2023-02-24). "COC head says Russian, Belarusian athletes must oppose Ukraine war to participate in Olympics". CBC Sports. Retrieved 2023-08-31.
  7. Журова о словах главы НОК Канады: «Они хотят разрушить взаимодействие государства и спорта в России, которое наши предки выстраивали годами»
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