Yulia Anatolyevna Chepalova (russian: Ю́лия Анато́льевна Чепа́лова; born 23 December 1976 in
Komsomolsk-on-Amur
Komsomolsk-on-Amur ( rus, Комсомольск-на-Амуре, r=Komsomolsk-na-Amure, p=kəmsɐˈmolʲsk nɐɐˈmurʲə) is a city in Khabarovsk Krai, Russia, located on the west bank of the Amur River in the Russian Far East. It is located ...
,
Russian SFSR
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) is a former
Russia
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cross-country skier.
Early and current personal life
Daughter of a cross-country skiing coach, Chepalova started to ski as soon as she began to walk. Coached by her father, Anatoly Chepalov, Yulia made her debut in 1986 and continued to move upward through the old
Soviet
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system (and later Russian, following the collapse of the Soviet Union in late 1991). Chepalov, a coach of the Russian junior national team, reportedly sold off all of his assets to help finance his daughter's career. Chepalova is currently affiliated with
Dynamo Moscow
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, lives in
Syktyvkar
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with her second husband,
Vasily Rochev, and her daughter Olesya, and their daughter Vaselina who was born in February 2007; works as a sports instructor, and speaks, besides her native
Russian
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, also some
German
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.
Skiing career
Debuting on the
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cross-country circuit in the 1995–1996 season, Chepalova has continually ranked in the Top 15 throughout her career (the lone exception is the 2002–2003 season, where she took maternity leave to have her daughter Olesya), finishing #1 overall in 2000–2001 (#3 in 2005–2006 with #1 in the distance category (greater than 5 km)). This includes success at the
FIS Nordic World Ski Championships
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, with golds in the 4 × 5 km relay (2001) and 7.5 km + 7.5 km double pursuit (2005), silvers in the 4 × 5 km relay and 10 km freestyle (both 2005), and bronzes in the Individual sprint (2001) and Team sprint (2005). Additionally, Chepalova has won the women's 30 km at the
Holmenkollen ski festival
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History
It takes place in March ...
three times (1999, 2004, and 2006), joining fellow Russian cross-country skier
Larisa Lazutina
Larisa Yevgenyevna Lazutina (russian: Лариса Евгеньевна Лазутина; née Ptitsyna, born 1 June 1965) is a Russian former professional cross-country skier.
Career
Lazutina was awarded the Holmenkollen medal in 1998 (shared ...
as the only three-time winners of the event. She earned the
Holmenkollen medal in 2004.
At the
1998 Winter Olympics
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, Chepalova won the women's 30 km freestyle event in her Olympic debut, becoming the youngest winner of that event (and in women's cross-country skiing). Four years later at the
2002 Winter Olympics
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, Chepalova won a complete set of medals with gold in the Individual sprint, silver in the 10 km classical, and bronze in the 15 km freestyle. At the Winter Olympics in
Turin
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, Chepalova would win two more medals with a gold in the 4 × 5 km relay and a silver in the 30 km freestyle mass start.
Chepalova was absent from the cross-country skiing World Cup for the 2006–2007 season to pregnancy.
She tested positive for
Erythropoietin
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(EPO) during an in-competition doping control on 3 January 2009 in
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, Italy. She was banned from competition for two years after this.
Immediately after the EPO test results went public her father and coach Anatoly Chepalov officially announced her retirement. On 29 November 2009, Chepalova addressed
IOC President
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Jacques Rogge
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where she came down hard on the
World Anti-Doping Agency
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, accusing the organisation of being biased and unscrupulous in general, of unlawful ruling of her case in particular, and of "severing the career" of many good athletes but all the efforts to restore her good name were of no avail. Following this, in December 2009, Chepalova ostracised
Russian Olympic Committee
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President Leonid Tyagachyov and Ski Federation of Russia President Vladimir Loginov for "their inaction in matters of defending the sportsmen whose guilt is not yet proven".
Cross-country skiing results
All results are sourced from the
International Ski Federation (FIS).
Olympic Games
* 6 medals – (3 gold, 2 silver, 1 bronze)
:a.
Larisa Lazutina
Larisa Yevgenyevna Lazutina (russian: Лариса Евгеньевна Лазутина; née Ptitsyna, born 1 June 1965) is a Russian former professional cross-country skier.
Career
Lazutina was awarded the Holmenkollen medal in 1998 (shared ...
and
Olga Danilova
Olga Valeryevna Danilova (Russian: Ольга Валерьевна Данилова; born 10 June 1970 in Bugulma, Tatar ASSR) is a Russian cross-country skier who competed from 1991 until she was banned for using performance-enhancing drugs in 2 ...
tested positive in the drug test which was taken an hour before the relay race, after their names were submitted for the race. Russia couldn't replace them because according to the rules, replacement must have been done at least two hours before the starting time.
World Championships
* 6 medals – (2 gold, 2 silver, 2 bronze)
:a. Cancelled due to extremely cold weather.
World Cup
Season titles
* 2 titles – (1 overall, 1 distance)
Season standings
Individual podiums
* 18 victories
* 33 podiums
Team podiums
* 13 victories – (11 , 2 )
* 25 podiums – (22 , 3 )
Overall record
:a. Classification is made according to FIS classification.
:b. Includes individual and mass start races.
:c. Includes pursuit and double pursuit races.
See also
*
Cross-country skiing at the 1998 Winter Olympics
The 1998 Winter Olympic Games cross-country skiing competition results were as follows.
Medal summary Medal table
Men's events
Women's events
Participating NOCs
Thirty-six nations competed in the cross-country skiing events at Nagano.
...
*
Cross-country skiing at the 2002 Winter Olympics
The cross-country skiing events at the 2002 Winter Olympics were marred by drug problems. The winners of three races were disqualified after blood tests showed that three skiers had overly high red blood cell counts indicating the use of d ...
*
Cross-country skiing at the 2006 Winter Olympics
The cross-country skiing events at the 2006 Winter Olympics featured 12 events, from 11 to 26 February 2006 at Pragelato in Turin.
Medal summary
Medal table
Men's events
Women's events
Participating nations
Fifty-three nations contribu ...
References
External links
"FIS Doping Panel delivers two decisions".– FIS 23 December 2009 article accessed 25 December 2009.
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* – click Holmenkollmedaljen for downloadable pdf file
* – click Vinnere for downloadable pdf file
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1976 births
Living people
People from Komsomolsk-on-Amur
Doping cases in cross-country skiing
Russian sportspeople in doping cases
Cross-country skiers at the 1998 Winter Olympics
Cross-country skiers at the 2002 Winter Olympics
Cross-country skiers at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Olympic cross-country skiers of Russia
Holmenkollen medalists
Holmenkollen Ski Festival winners
Olympic gold medalists for Russia
Olympic silver medalists for Russia
Olympic bronze medalists for Russia
Russian female cross-country skiers
Olympic medalists in cross-country skiing
FIS Nordic World Ski Championships medalists in cross-country skiing
FIS Cross-Country World Cup champions
Medalists at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Medalists at the 2002 Winter Olympics
Medalists at the 1998 Winter Olympics
Sportspeople from Khabarovsk Krai
21st-century Russian women