Olga Alekseyevna Zaitseva (; born 16 May 1978) is a former Russian biathlon. She began her career in 1994. After not competing in the 2014–15 season, Zaitseva announced her retirement on 24 January 2015.
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.[ Full decision regarding Olga Zaytseva at International Olympic Committee] She appealed this decision to the Court of Arbitration for Sport in 2018.
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| 2002 Salt Lake City | 37th | — | — | — | — | rowspan=3 |
| 2006 Torino | — | 9th | 19th | 15th | Silver | 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.
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| 2003 Khanty-Mansiysk | 32nd | — | — | — | — | rowspan=2 |
| 2004 Oberhof | 49th | — | — | 20th | — |
| 2005 Hochfilzen | — | Bronze | 17th | Silver |
| 2009 Pyeongchang | 14th | Bronze | Gold | 5th |
| 2011 Khanty-Mansiysk | — | 4th | 12th | 6th | 8th | 6th |
| 2012 Ruhpolding, Germany | 6th | 16th | 7th | DSQ | 7th | 5th |
| 2013 Nové Město | 6th | 4th | 4th | 5th | 4th | 6th |
World Cup
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.
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| 42nd |
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| 10th |
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| 15th |
| Temporary retirement from the sport due to marriage and childbirth. |
| 2007–08 |
| 6th |
| 8th |
| 12th |
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- *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.
[ Olga Zaitseva. IBU Profile][ Cup Standings. biathlonresults.com]
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.
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Key:WCH—World Championships; OG—Olympic Games.
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2011–12 season in progress. Statistics as of 15 January 2012.
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).
- *Results in all IBU World Cup races. Statistics as of 15 January 2012.
Achievements and honours
Sport titles
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Winter Olympics
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2010 – Gold medal in the Relay, silver medal in the 12.5 km Mass Start
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2006 – Gold medal in the Relay
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World Championships
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2009 – Gold medal in the 12.5 km Mass Start and Relay, bronze in the 7.5 km Sprint and 10 km Pursuit
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2005 – Gold medal in the Relay, silver in the 7.5 km Sprint and Mixed Relay and bronze in the 10 km Pursuit.
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Mass Start World Cup winner — 2004–05
State Decorations and Awards
Other awards
Personal life
Zaitseva has two sisters: Elena (b. 1976) and Oksana (b. 1973), who was her coach.
[ Оксана Рочева: «Ольга Зайцева бережет всех своих зайцев». trud.ru. 21 January 2010]
On 30 September 2006, Zaitseva married Milan Augustin, a Slovakian biathlon coach; they had a son Aleksandr in 2007,[Babei, Vitold (18 March 2007) Сын чемпионки. gazeta.ru.] but divorced in 2013.[ Ольга Зайцева развелась с мужем. eurosport.ru. 4 August 2013] 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.[ Двукратная олимпийская чемпионка по биатлону Зайцева во второй раз стала матерью. tass.ru. 17 October 2015]
Notes
- a. The mixed relay, contested for the first time in the World Championships, was held in 2005.
- b. The mixed relay was held in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia.
- c. 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. 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. 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. Did not finish (DNF).
- g. Disqualified (DSQ).
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