Svetlana Vasilyevna Pakhomova (russian: Светла́на Васи́льевна Пахо́мова; born 20 June 1965) is a Russian

wheelchair curler Wheelchair curling is an adaptation of curling for athletes with a disability affecting their lower limbs or gait. Wheelchair curling is governed by the World Curling Federation, and is one of the sports in the Paralympic Games, Winter Paralympic ...

playing as second for the Russian wheelchair curling team. She and her team won the silver medal at the

2014 Paralympic Games The 2014 Winter Paralympics (russian: Зимние Паралимпийские игры 2014, Zimniye Paralimpiyskiye igry 2014), the 11th Paralympic Winter Games, and also more generally known as the Sochi 2014 Paralympic Winter Games, were a ...

and gold medals at the

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and 2016 World Championships.

Biography

In 1994, Pakhomova and her whole family were in a car accident, the future curler injured her spine. She won the Junior National Swimming Championships. Pakhomova started her curling career in September 2007. She was national champion of 2011/2012 as a member of the club "Stolitsa". During the 2012/2013 season she became third at the nationals, now playing for Moscow Oblast. She is a graduate of the

Moscow Institute of Electronics and Mathematics Moscow Institute of Electronics and Mathematics, MIEM (russian: Московский институт электроники и математики НИУ ВШЭ, МИЭМ; also occasionally referred to as ''Moscow Institute of Electronic Enginee ...

Personal life

Being married, she has two sons, Dmitry and Nikita, with her husband Aleksandr.

Awards

* Medal of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" I class (17 March 2014) – ''for the huge contribution to the development of physical culture and sports, and for the high athletic performances at the 2014 Paralympic Winter Games in Sochi'' * Merited Master of Sports of Russia (2013)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Pakhomova, Svetlana 1965 births Living people Russian female curlers Russian wheelchair curlers Paralympic wheelchair curlers for Russia Paralympic medalists in wheelchair curling Paralympic silver medalists for Russia Wheelchair curlers at the 2014 Winter Paralympics Medalists at the 2014 Winter Paralympics World wheelchair curling champions People from Dolgoprudny Recipients of the Medal of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" I class Sportspeople from Moscow Oblast 21st-century Russian women