Olga Zaitseva

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Olga Zaitseva
Zaika.JPG
Zaitseva at an awards ceremony in the Kremlin in 2010
Personal information
Full nameOlga Alekseyevna Zaitseva
Nickname"Bunny" (Russian: Зайка)
Born (1978-05-16) 16 May 1978 (age 46)
Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Height1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)
Weight66 kg (146 lb)
Website www.zajceva.ru
Professional information
Sport Biathlon
ClubDynamo Moscow, CSKA Moscow [1]
World Cup debut12 February 2000
Retired24 January 2015
Olympic Games
Teams4 (2002, 2006, 2010, 2014) [1]
Medals3 (2 gold)
World Championships
Teams8 (2003, 2004, 2005, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013)
Medals8 (3 gold)
World Cup
Seasons12 (1999/00,
2001/02–2005/06,
2008/09–2013/14)
Individual races174
All races208
Individual victories12
All victories26
Individual podiums37
All podiums60
Discipline titles1:
1 Mass start (2004–05)
Medal record
Women's biathlon
Representing Flag of Russia.svg  Russia
Olympic Games
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2006 Turin 4 × 6 km relay
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2010 Vancouver 4 × 6 km relay
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2010 Vancouver 12.5 km mass start
Disqualified 2014 Sochi 4 × 6 km relay
World Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2005 Hochfilzen 4 × 6 km relay
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2009 Pyeongchang 12.5 km mass start
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2009 Pyeongchang 4 × 6 km relay
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2005 Hochfilzen 7.5 km sprint
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2005 Khanty-Mansiysk Mixed relay
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2005 Hochfilzen 10 km pursuit
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2009 Pyeongchang 7.5 km sprint
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2009 Pyeongchang 10 km pursuit
Junior World Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 1998 Jericho/Valcartier Team
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg1998 Jericho/ValcartierIndividual

Olga Alekseyevna Zaitseva (Russian : Ольга Алексеевна Зайцева; born 16 May 1978) is a former Russian biathlete. She began her career in 1994. After not competing in the 2014–15 season, Zaitseva announced her retirement on 24 January 2015. [2] Shortly afterwards she announced that she had been appointed as caretaker head coach of the Russian biathlon team. [3]

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Record

Olympic Games

Zaitseva has won two gold medals and one silver medal at the Winter Olympic Games.

On 1 December 2017, she was disqualified from the 2014 Winter Olympics for doping offences. [4] She appealed this decision to the Court of Arbitration for Sport in 2018. [5] After a postponement that lasted until 2020, the Court of Arbitration for Sport upheld her disqualification; however, it lifted her lifetime ban from all Olympic Games. [6]

EventIndividualSprintPursuitMass StartRelayMixed Relay
Flag of the United States.svg 2002 Salt Lake City 37th—————
Flag of Italy.svg 2006 Torino —9th19th15thGold
Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg 2010 Vancouver 26th7th7thSilverGold
Flag of Russia.svg 2014 Sochi DSQ (15th)DSQ (28th)DSQ (11th)DSQ (23rd)DSQ (2nd)DSQ (4th)

World Championships

Zaitseva has won eight medals — three gold, two silver and three bronze. All her World Championship medals Zaitseva won in two Championships: 2005 Hochfilzen, Austria and 2009 Pyeongchang, South Korea.

EventIndividualSprintPursuitMass StartRelayMixed Relay
Flag of Russia.svg 2003 Khanty-Mansiysk 32nd—————
Flag of Germany.svg 2004 Oberhof 49th——20th—
Flag of Austria.svg 2005 Hochfilzen —SilverBronze17thGoldSilver [b]
Flag of South Korea.svg 2009 Pyeongchang 14thBronzeBronzeGoldGold5th
Flag of Russia.svg 2011 Khanty-Mansiysk —4th12th6th8th6th
Flag of Germany.svg 2012 Ruhpolding, Germany 6th16th7thDSQ7th5th
Flag of the Czech Republic.svg 2013 Nové Město 6th4th4th5th4th6th

World Cup

Olga Zaitseva Kontiolahti 2010 Olga Zaitseva Kontiolahti 2010.jpg
Olga Zaitseva Kontiolahti 2010

During her first 1999—2000 World Cup season, Zaitseva only appeared in one race, didn't scoring for the overall standings. Starting from the second half 2001—02 season, she became a regular in the Russian World Cup team. The best result is the 4th place in the 2004—05 season and winning the mass start discipline cup of the same season. All her results from the 2013-14 season after Sochi were voided due to doping offences. [7]

No.SeasonIndividualSprintPursuitMass StartOverall
RacesPointsPositionRacesPointsPositionRacesPointsPositionRacesPointsPositionRacesPointsPosition
1 2001–02 1/4––4/82444th4/93936th1/31631st10/247942nd
2 2002–03 2/35014th8/910323rd6/713312th3/41036th19/2329619th
3 2003–04 2/31430th8/1020811th7/92099th4/4 [c] 5519th21/2648910th
4 2004–05 2/42036th9/102923rd8/92903rd4/4 [c] 1361st23/277524th
5 2005–06 2/3668th8/1016515th6/813514th4/57714th20/2644315th
6 2006–07 Temporary retirement from the sport due to marriage and childbirth.
7 2007–08
8 2008–09 [d] 4/4 [c] 1135th10/10 [c] 3087th7/7 [c] 2197th5/5 [c] 1624th26/26 [e] 8346th
9 2009–10 [d] 3/45824th9/102817th5/62073rd5/5 [c] 1545th22/257198th
10 2010–11 [d] 3/41383rd8/1024213th5/713117th4/513111th20/2664212th
11 2011–12 [d] 2/3706th5/102282nd4/81802nd1/5434th12/265213rd
*Key:Races—number of entered races/all races; Points—won World Cup points; Position—World Cup season ranking.
**2011–12 season in progress. Statistics as of 15 January 2012. [8] [9]

World Cup wins

Over the course of her career, Zaitseva has reached twelve personal World Cup wins. In the history of the International Biathlon Union she is ranked twelfth for all-time career victories. In addition, she has won twelve relay races and two mixed relay events as part of the Russian World Cup team.

Individual wins (13)
No.DateLocationDiscipline
15 December 2002 Östersund, Sweden Sprint
222 February 2003Östersund, SwedenIndividual
311 December 2004 Oslo – Holmenkollen, Norway Sprint
418 December 2004Östersund, SwedenPursuit
519 March 2005 Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia Mass Start
627 November 2005Östersund, SwedenPursuit
722 February 2009 Pyeongchang, South Korea (WCH) Mass Start
819 March 2009 Trondheim, Norway Sprint
913 January 2011 Ruhpolding, Germany Individual
1016 December 2011 Hochfilzen, Austria Sprint
1117 December 2011Hochfilzen, AustriaPursuit
1213 January 2012 Nove Mesto, Czech Republic Sprint
136 January 2013 Oberhof, Germany Pursuit
Relay wins (14)
No.DateLocationDiscipline
116 January 2003 Ruhpolding, Germany Mixed Relay
213 February 2003 Oslo – Holmenkollen, Norway Relay
35 December 2004 Beitostølen, Norway Relay
412 January 2005Ruhpolding, GermanyRelay
513 February 2005 Torino – Cesana San Sicario, Italy Relay
611 March 2005 Hochfilzen, Austria (WCH) Relay
711 January 2006Ruhpolding, GermanyRelay
823 February 2006Torino – Cesana San Sicario, Italy (OG) Relay
921 February 2009 Pyeongchang, South Korea (WCH) Relay
1013 December 2009Hochfilzen, AustriaRelay
1123 February 2010 Vancouver, Canada (OG) Relay
1222 January 2011 Antholz – Anterselva, Italy Relay
1318 December 2011Hochfilzen, AustriaMixed Relay
144 January 2012 Oberhof, Germany Relay
  • Key:WCH—World Championships; OG—Olympic Games.
    • 2011–12 season in progress. Statistics as of 15 January 2012. [8]

Overall record

As of January 2012, Zaitseva has competed in a total of 208 races at senior level, winning 26 of them (a 12.5 win percentage), including 174 races with 12 wins (a 6.9 win percentage) in individual events. She has claimed at least two wins in each discipline of biathlon. Zaitseva has reached a total of 60 World Cup podiums (28.8%): 37 in individual races (21.3%) and 23 in team events (67.6%). In addition, she has achieved 120 top ten finishes — 57.7% of all the races she has entered (including 88 top ten results (50.6%) in individual races). [8]

Olga Zaitseva strive for victory on 19 March 2009 OlgaZaitseva-Trondheim.jpg
Olga Zaitseva strive for victory on 19 March 2009
ResultIndividualSprintPursuitMass StartRelayMixed RelayTotal
Individual eventsTeam eventsAll events
1st Place2532122121426
2nd Place23425111617
3rd Place—7613—14317
Podiums415135203372360
Top 1093529152578832120
Points1661502925715632188
Other5922 [f] 2 [g] —18220
Starts2170523127717434208
*Results in all IBU World Cup races. Statistics as of 15 January 2012. [8]

Achievements and honours

Olga Zaitseva with the President of Russia Dmitriy Medvedev at the awards ceremony in the Kremlin in March 2010 Olga Zaiseva at Kremlin.jpg
Olga Zaitseva with the President of Russia Dmitriy Medvedev at the awards ceremony in the Kremlin in March 2010

Sport titles

State Decorations and Awards

Other Awards

Personal life

Zaitseva has two sisters: Elena (b. 1976) and Oksana (b. 1973), who was her coach. [14]

On 30 September 2006, Zaitseva married Milan Augustin, a Slovakian biathlon coach; they had a son Aleksandr in 2007, [15] but divorced in 2013. [16] In October 2015, Zaitseva gave birth to her second son Stepan. Around that time, she stopped coaching and was employed as a consultant for the Russian biathlon team. She was expected to return to coaching in 2016. [17]

Notes

a. 1 2 The mixed relay, contested for the first time in the World Championships, was held in 2005.
b. 1 The mixed relay was held in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia.
c. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Until 2010—11 season it was required to leave out the result of the worst discipline race for the final result of discipline world cup (if there were four discipline races or more during the season), so the points in respective columnes «Points» is represented after deduction of the result of the worst discipline race.
d. 1 2 3 4 Since 2008—09 season it was applied another points system in World Cup. Earlier biathlete got 50 points for win and top-30 was awarded. Now World Cup give 60 points and top-40 awarded.
e. 1 Until 2010—11 season it was required to leave out the results of the three worst races for the final result of overall world cup, so the points in respective column «Points» is represented after deduction of the results of the three worst discipline races.
f. 1 Did not finish (DNF).
g. 1 Disqualified (DSQ).

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