Olga Zaitseva

"All-Russian Bunny" - this is the nickname Olga Zaitseva received at the peak of her career from dedicated biathlon fans. The champion, who has long closed the doors to big sports, admits that until now, when random meetings, fans turn to her in this way. Olga was able to get two gold medals for Russia at the Olympics, she won world championships three times.

Olga Zaitseva was born into a family of Muscovites - a pilot and a kindergarten teacher. Older sisters Elena and Oksana in their teens already could boast of some achievements in skiing. Following the example of the girls, Olya also wanted to ride and in the third grade she joined the ranks of the ski section of the sports school. The future champion was taken under the guardianship of the coach Svetlana Nesterova, who was soon replaced by Elena Chukedova.

The school's program was supplemented by another "snow" sport - biathlon, but the pupils were in no hurry to change skiing for it, there were sorely lack of girls in the team. Olga became interested in this area, so she happily agreed to the offer to prepare for the competition.

Only two weeks were given for learning the basics of shooting. Zaitseva, under the guidance of Viktor Izotov, managed to master the basics and went to competitions in Krasnogorsk, and from there to the All-Russian Winter Sports Games in Perm. Since then, the girl has decided to seriously engage in biathlon. However, she did not abandon skiing.

After grade 8, Olga entered a sports college, managed to combine her studies with two sports. The biathlete remembers while one of the most difficult in life. But she did not give up and even became a master of sports in biathlon, after which she said goodbye to cross-country skiing, finally deciding on a career path.

Zaitseva did not stop at the red diploma of the college, she entered the Academy of Physical Culture, which she successfully graduated from. At the end of the 90s, the girl managed to serve her native state in the form of a policeman, in the 2000s she worked in the tax police, then with the rank of captain she was listed in the federal drug control service.

Athletic talent, backed by persistence in training, did not go unnoticed. Soon Olga got into the junior national team of Russia and won the first silver medal at the championship in Kontiolahti. A year later, she brought from Italy the champion title, obtained from the results of team races. In 1999, Zaitseva was admitted to the adult team.

The new millennium began with training under the guidance of his sister Oksana Rocheva. Olga Zaitseva made her debut at CS Dynamo, having added up the title of master of sports of international class. And in 2001, her sports biography reached international proportions - the biathlete won silver at the European Championships. A year later, she successfully debuted in the World Cup and received a pass to the 2002 Olympics.

The athlete delighted biathlon fans at the 2005 World Championships, where she collected the entire set of medals and received the honorary title of Honored Master of Sports. The next season, the list of Olga Alekseevna Zaitseva's awards was decorated with the first Olympic gold won in Turin.

The woman had to take a break from her sports career. Olga got married and gave birth to a child, for a long time she regained her lost form - she did not please with success in performances. Experts did not pin their hopes on the athlete nominated for the 2009 championship after a doping scandal that deprived the Russian team of the color of biathlon: Dmitry Yaroshenko, Albina Akhatova and Ekaterina Yuryeva did not participate.

But the biathlete surprised by snatching two gold and the same bronze medals from her rivals. The following year, she replenished the asset with several World Cups, as well as gold and silver (relay and mass start) in the Vancouver Olympics.

In 2011, the champion was going to put an end to professional sports. The impetus was the negative results of the women's team at the World Cup, which was held in Russia. But, publicly announcing the end of her career, Olga Zaitseva soon changed her mind and stayed for another three years - until the next Olympics.

During this period, the athlete has collected a rich harvest of Cups and other awards. She won the performances in Finland, in Austria took the second and third places, and also led the sprint and pursuit races. At the beginning of 2012, she won the third winning position at the World Cup in Germany, in the first place was in the competitions held in the Czech Republic.

In 2014, Olga Zaitseva graced the Winter Olympics in Sochi. The titled athlete finished her career with dignity - with a silver medal. But the sport did not let the skier just go: Olga Alekseevna took over as the acting head coach of the Russian women's biathlon team.

In the fall of 2006, the athlete celebrated her wedding. Olga Zaitseva's husband was a colleague in the shop, a biathlete from Slovakia Milan Augustin, who ended his career back in the 90s due to a back injury.

The couple even got married, the ceremony took place in the homeland of the chosen one. The celebration was held modestly, in the circle of the closest people. And the newly-made couple spent their honeymoon in Brussels.

Soon Olga and Milan had a son, who was named Alexander. The girl's mother approved the decision to return to sports, taking on the main chores of raising her grandson.

In 2013, fans of the athlete learned the news about the divorce of a pair of biathletes. Zaitseva did not voice the reasons for parting, moreover, on the official website she asked fans not to ask unnecessary questions.

A couple of years later, Sasha's 8-year-old son had a brother, Olga Zaitseva named her second heir Stepan. The child's father is the ski team servant Pyotr Trifonov.

After saying goodbye to biathlon, Zaitseva devoted her life to raising children and social activities. The woman was a member of the Athletes' Commission of the Russian Olympic Committee, participated in the construction of a sports complex for young skiers and biathletes in the capital of the country.

At the end of 2017, by the decision of the IOC, the authoritative athlete was deprived of the silver medal won at the 2014 Games. In pursuit, Olga Zaitseva received a lifelong ban on participation in the Olympics. The biathlete got into the lists of athletes "suspicious" in terms of doping by accident. In the course of a total check of the samples, scratches were found on the test tubes - they were allegedly opened to replace the "dirty" biomaterial with a "clean" one.

Together with Zaitseva, biathletes Olga Vilukhina and Yana Romanova lost their awards and the opportunity to perform at the Olympics. In February 2018, the athletes filed an appeal against the IOC's decision to the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne (USA). In early March, it became known that the date for the consideration of the claim had not yet been set.

Now Olga is on maternity leave, in an interview she notes:

The woman receives another education - she is studying by correspondence at Moscow State University, specializing in sports management. She often becomes a guest and organizer of competitions, helps her sister Oksana to develop sports school № 102.

Most recently, the biathlete started a page on Instagram, while she managed to share only a dozen photos with her subscribers.

2001 - silver at the European Championship 2005 - bronze, silver and gold at the World Cup in Hochfilzen 2006 - gold at the Olympics in Turin 2009 - two bronze and two gold medals at the World Cup in Pyeongchang 2010 - gold at the Vancouver Olympics 2010 - silver at the Vancouver Olympics 2014 - silver at the Sochi Olympics

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