Svetlana Mikhaylovna Radzivil (russian: Светлана Михайловна Радзивил; born 17 January 1987 in
Tashkent
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,
Uzbek SSR
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) is an
Uzbekistan
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high jumper. She is among Asia's top female high jumpers. She won the
Asian Games title three times running (2010 to 2018) and was the Asian champion in
2015. She has also won two silver and one bronze medal at the
Asian Athletics Championships
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History
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. She is a two-time champion at the
Asian Indoor Athletics Championships
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Tashkent (, uz, Toshkent, Тошкент/, ) (from russian: Ташкент), or Toshkent (; ), also historically known as Chach is the capital and largest city of Uzbekistan. It is the most populous city in Central Asia, with a population of 2 ...
. She finished ninth at the
2003 World Youth Championships and thirteenth at the
2004 World Junior Championships. In 2006, she won the
2006 World Junior Championships, in a new personal best jump of 1.91 metres,
[. Retrieved on 4 April 2009.] and finished seventh at the
2006 Asian Games
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. She jumped 1.91 again in 2007. In 2008, she competed at the
Olympic Games
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[ She won the gold medal at the 17th Asian Games with a jump of 1.94 metres ahead of China's Xingjuan Zheng who claimed silver with her season's best jump of 1.92 m and Uzbekistan's Nadiya Dusanova who took home the bronze with a best leap of 1.89 m. She won gold medal in Asian Games 2018, with games record of 1.96 meters beating Nadiya Dusanova 1.94 m.
Her personal best jump is 1.97 metres, achieved in August 2012 in ]London
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and in April 2021 in Mersin.[
On December 22, 2019, Svetlana Radzivil was elected to the Tashkent City Kengash of People's Deputies.]
International competitions
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1987 births
Living people
Uzbekistani female high jumpers
Athletes from Tashkent
Olympic athletes for Uzbekistan
Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Athletes (track and field) at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Asian Games gold medalists for Uzbekistan
Asian Games medalists in athletics (track and field)
Athletes (track and field) at the 2006 Asian Games
Athletes (track and field) at the 2010 Asian Games
Athletes (track and field) at the 2014 Asian Games
Athletes (track and field) at the 2018 Asian Games
World Athletics Championships athletes for Uzbekistan
Svetlana
Soviet people of Polish descent
Uzbekistani people of Polish descent
Medalists at the 2010 Asian Games
Medalists at the 2014 Asian Games
Medalists at the 2018 Asian Games
Asian Games gold medalists in athletics (track and field)
Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics
20th-century Uzbekistani women
21st-century Uzbekistani women
Islamic Solidarity Games medalists in athletics