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]
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 Russian invasion of 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
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Skateresults.com". Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2006-02-15.
- ^ "Журова Светлана Сергеевна".
- ^ "CONSOLIDATED LIST OF FINANCIAL SANCTIONS TARGETS IN THE UK" (PDF). Retrieved 16 April 2023.
- ^ "Sanctions List SOR/2014-316". gazette.gc.ca. 2014-12-19. Retrieved 2018-03-07.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Журова о словах главы НОК Канады: «Они хотят разрушить взаимодействие государства и спорта в России, которое наши предки выстраивали годами»
External links
- Svetlana Zhurova at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
- Svetlana Zhurova at SkateResults.com
- Svetlana Zhurova's athlete profile at cnnsi.com
- Photos of Svetlana Zhurova – At Lars Hagen's DESG Photo website
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