Svetlana Grankovskaya (also spelt ''Svetlana Grankovskaia'', born 22 February 1976) is a

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track

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from

Kharkiv Kharkiv ( uk, wikt:Харків, Ха́рків, ), also known as Kharkov (russian: Харькoв, ), is the second-largest List of cities in Ukraine, city and List of hromadas of Ukraine, municipality in Ukraine.Ukraine Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers approximately . Prior to the ongoing Russian inv ...

, independent since 1991, she has represented

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and

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events. She missed a bronze medal at the

2004 Summer Olympics The 2004 Summer Olympics ( el, Θερινοί Ολυμπιακοί Αγώνες 2004, ), officially the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad ( el, Αγώνες της 28ης Ολυμπιάδας, ) and also known as Athens 2004 ( el, Αθήνα 2004), ...

, losing the sprint in the final against

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Palmarès

;2001 :1st Sprint, Track World Championships ;2002 :2nd Sprint, 2002 Track World Cup, Monterrey :3rd Keirin, 2002 Track World Cup, Monterrey :2nd Sprint, 2002 Track World Cup, Moscow ;2003 :1st Sprint, Track World Championships :1st Keirin, Track World Championships ;2004 :1st Sprint, Track World Championships :1st Sprint, 2004 Track World Cup, Moscow :1st Team Sprint, 2004 Track World Cup, Moscow (with Oksana Grichina) :4th

;2008 :3rd Team Sprint, Round 1, 2008–2009 Track World Cup, Manchester

References

1976 births Living people Russian female cyclists Cyclists at the 2004 Summer Olympics Cyclists at the 2008 Summer Olympics Olympic cyclists for Russia Sportspeople from Kharkiv UCI Track Cycling World Champions (women) Russian track cyclists 21st-century Russian women {{Russia-cycling-bio-stub