Svetlana Masterkova

The Russian queen of track and field athletics Svetlana Masterkova is known for her phenomenal achievements in running at distances of 800 and 1500 meters, demonstrated at the peak of her career in 1996. Two-time Olympic champion in Atlanta and multiple winner of prestigious international tournaments, at the end of her career, she became a talented commentator, writer, politician and activist of public institutions and organizations.

Svetlana Aleksandrovna Masterkova was born in the Siberian city of Achinsk on January 17, 1968 in a family that had nothing to do with athletics and other sports.

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The childhood biography of the future champion is associated with the divorce of her parents and the move to the house of her grandparents, where at that time my mother’s 3 sisters lived. Despite the fact that the girl was surrounded by many people, there was no one to take care of her upbringing: the young aunts went on dates, and her mother worked as a cook in a local canteen from morning till night.

During her school years, Sveta did not think about the future and did not dream of any champion career. She got into the athletics section by chance at the invitation of the coach Natalya Nikolaevna Shakurova, who was selecting among the students of the elementary grades.

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Masterkova came to the first lesson completely unprepared, since her relatives did not have money for sports shoes and a tracksuit. This circumstance upset the girl, and she did not show up for the next training session. The visionary mentor did not want to give up the potentially talented ward and persuaded her grandmother to provide the necessary funds.

Years later, in an interview, the runner said that at her debut competition she only fell a little short of the finish line and, having missed the victory, was jealous of her rival, who received a beautiful doll as an award.

The long-awaited toy was never presented, and the third youth category in athletics and the respect of peers and teachers became an incentive to stay in sports. In addition, the relationship at the stadium developed successfully, and soon Svetlana became the heroine of local newspapers.

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New achievements appeared after the transition to the section of Anatoly Volkov, who recommended Masterkova to take up jogging professionally and continue training in one of the Moscow schools. This decision was supported by another mentor of the athlete Arkady Rosenberg, who worked with her in 1986-1987.

Parting with her family was difficult, since Sveta saw her mother, who had moved to Krasnoyarsk, only during the competition. However, concern for the future fate of the daughter and granddaughter forced the family to follow the advice of the mentor and send the young athlete to the capital.

When Masterkova arrived in Moscow, her assets were a victory at the All-Union Youth Games at the 800-meter distance and the title of three-time USSR champion among girls under 18 years old. With such results, the girl began to train under the guidance of honored specialists Svetlana Pleskach-Styrkina and Yakov Emelyanov and soon reached the first summit, winning the 800-meter distance at the last national championship of the USSR in 1991.

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Then there was the unsuccessful world championship in Tokyo, where Masterkova finished eighth, losing to Lilia Nurutdinova, Ana Fidelia Kirot, Ella Kovacs and other eminent rivals.

In her youth, in parallel with her professional performances, Svetlana worked as a physical education instructor in the capital's council of the Trudovye Rezervy society and was involved in monitoring the conduct of classes for children in various sports in educational institutions in Moscow.

Official duties did not prevent the runner from improving her own standards and preparing for national and international competitions. True, after the 1993 Russian Championship, Masterkova was forced to interrupt her training due to injury, and the World Championship in the German city of Stuttgart was held without her.

After recovering, which took 3 years, Svetlana demonstrated a number of successful races at prestigious athletics tournaments and entered the history of world sports as a multiple winner of gold, silver and bronze medals.

The most successful year of the athlete's career was 1996, which began with a double victory at distances of 800 and 1500 meters at the Russian Championship in St. Petersburg. Then Svetlana climbed three times to the honorary pedestal of the championship and the European Cup in the long sprint, and as a result, by the end of July, she reached the peak of her physical form, which allowed her to fight for high positions in the main tournament of the 4th anniversary.

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As a result, Masterkova easily overcame the qualifying rounds at competitions in the American Atlanta and became a two-time Olympic champion in athletics in the crown disciplines of 800 and 1500 meters.

In the same year, the Russian woman, who set the world record in 1 km running, covering the distance in 2 minutes 28.29 seconds and demonstrating an unsurpassed result at a mile distance, was recognized as the best athlete of the year and was nicknamed the Queen of Athletics.

Of course, Svetlana was not going to stop there, but in the following seasons she had to miss several international starts due to Achilles tendon injuries and, for the same reason, refuse to participate in qualifying races at the 2000 Olympics.

After completing her professional career in 2003, Masterkova could not part with sports and became a television commentator for broadcasts in the Russian company "NTV-Plus". In addition, the Olympic champion took up education: she received a diploma from the Moscow Humanitarian University named after M. A. Sholokhov and defended her Ph.D. thesis in history at the state pedagogical university of the capital.

In 2011, Svetlana was invited to the post of head of the Children's Sports Palace, where a conflict soon erupted over the closure of one of the largest climbing walls in the capital. Without explaining the reasons, the athlete fired the staff of the training base of climbers and deprived the athletes of the only 15-meter track in Russia located on the territory of the complex entrusted to her.

The Climbing Federation criticized Masterkova and recalled her participation in questionable television shows and candid photos in a swimsuit. This did not help to "reach out" to Svetlana, who left her post to join the United Russia party and run for parliament in Moscow's local government bodies.

The first and only husband of Masterkova in 1994 was the cyclist Asyat Saitov. The lovers settled in Spain and a year later became the parents of their daughter Anastasia.

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Recalling the lack of maternal attention in her own personal life, Svetlana tries to spend as much time as possible with loved ones, and, judging by Instagram, she does it well.

Now the world record holder in middle distance running regularly appears on the television programs of the central channels of Russia. In recent years, her archive has been replenished with participation in talk shows, among which was a special issue of "Live" dedicated to the deceased singer Yulia Nachalova. On the program, Masterkova told the story of a long-term friendship with a pop star and expressed condolences to the family and friends of the deceased.

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Svetlana's social activities also did not remain behind the scenes of Russian reality. In 2019, the athlete became the ambassador of the World Winter Universiade in Krasnoyarsk and brilliantly coped with the organization of one of the country's main sports events.

And in 2020, viewers again saw their favorite athlete on television: this time Svetlana took part in the popular show "Mask".

1991 - USSR champion in athletics (800 m) 1993 - Silver medal at the World Athletics Championships (800 m) 1996 - Bronze medal at the European Athletics Indoor Championships (800 m) 1996 - Olympic champion in athletics (800 m) 1996 - Olympic champion in track and field athletics (1500 m) 1996 - The best athlete in the world according to the IAAF 1996 - Order of Merit for the Fatherland, III degree 1998 - European champion in track and field athletics (800 m) 1999 - Bronze medal at the World Championships in track and field (800 m) 1999 - World champion in athletics (1500 m)

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