Olga Zaitseva

Record

Olympic Games Zaitseva has won two gold medals and one silver medal at the Winter Olympic Games.

On 1 December 2017, she was disqualified from the 2014 Winter Olympics for doping offences. She appealed this decision to the Court of Arbitration for Sport in 2018. After a postponement that lasted until 2020, the Court of Arbitration for Sport upheld her disqualification; however, it lifted her lifetime ban from all Olympic Games.

World Championships Zaitseva has won eight medals — three gold, two silver and three bronze. All her World Championship medals Zaitseva won in two Championships: 2005 Hochfilzen, Austria and 2009 Pyeongchang, South Korea.

World Cup

During her first 1999—2000 World Cup season, Zaitseva only appeared in one race, didn't scoring for the overall standings. Starting from the second half 2001—02 season, she became a regular in the Russian World Cup team. The best result is the 4th place in the 2004—05 season and winning the mass start discipline cup of the same season. All her results from the 2013-14 season after Sochi were voided due to doping offences.

No. Season Individual Sprint Pursuit Mass Start Overall 1 2001–02 1/4 – – 4/8 24 44th 4/9 39 36th 1/3 16 31st 10/24 79 42nd 2 2002–03 2/3 50 14th 8/9 103 23rd 6/7 133 12th 3/4 10 36th 19/23 296 19th 3 2003–04 2/3 14 30th 8/10 208 11th 7/9 209 9th 4/4 55 19th 21/26 489 10th 4 2004–05 2/4 20 36th 9/10 292 3rd 8/9 290 3rd 4/4 136 1st 23/27 752 4th 5 2005–06 2/3 66 8th 8/10 165 15th 6/8 135 14th 4/5 77 14th 20/26 443 15th 6 2006–07Temporary retirement from the sport due to marriage and childbirth. 7 2007–08 8 2008–09 4/4 113 5th 10/10 308 7th 7/7 219 7th 5/5 162 4th 26/26 834 6th 9 2009–10 3/4 58 24th 9/10 281 7th 5/6 207 3rd 5/5 154 5th 22/25 719 8th 10 2010–11 3/4 138 3rd 8/10 242 13th 5/7 131 17th 4/5 131 11th 20/26 642 12th 11 2011–12 2/3 70 6th 5/10 228 2nd 4/8 180 2nd 1/5 43 4th 12/26 521 3rd Key:Races—number of entered races/all races; Points—won World Cup points; Position—World Cup season ranking. 2011–12 season in progress. Statistics as of 15 January 2012.

World Cup wins Over the course of her career, Zaitseva has reached twelve personal World Cup wins. In the history of the International Biathlon Union she is ranked twelfth for all-time career victories. In addition, she has won twelve relay races and two mixed relay events as part of the Russian World Cup team.

+ Individual wins (13) No. Date Location Discipline 1 5 December 2002 Östersund, Sweden Sprint 2 22 February 2003 Östersund, Sweden Individual 3 11 December 2004 Oslo – Holmenkollen, Norway Sprint 4 18 December 2004 Östersund, Sweden Pursuit 5 19 March 2005 Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia Mass Start 6 27 November 2005 Östersund, Sweden Pursuit 7 22 February 2009 Pyeongchang, South Korea (WCH) Mass Start 8 19 March 2009 Trondheim, Norway Sprint 9 13 January 2011 Ruhpolding, Germany Individual 10 16 December 2011 Hochfilzen, Austria Sprint 11 17 December 2011 Hochfilzen, Austria Pursuit 12 13 January 2012 Nove Mesto, Czech Republic Sprint 13 6 January 2013 Oberhof, Germany Pursuit+ Relay wins (14) No. Date Location Discipline 1 16 January 2003 Ruhpolding, Germany Mixed Relay 2 13 February 2003 Oslo – Holmenkollen, Norway Relay 3 5 December 2004 Beitostølen, Norway Relay 4 12 January 2005 Ruhpolding, Germany Relay 5 13 February 2005 Torino – Cesana San Sicario, Italy Relay 6 11 March 2005 Hochfilzen, Austria (WCH) Relay 7 11 January 2006 Ruhpolding, Germany Relay 8 23 February 2006 Torino – Cesana San Sicario, Italy (OG) Relay 9 21 February 2009 Pyeongchang, South Korea (WCH) Relay 10 13 December 2009 Hochfilzen, Austria Relay 11 23 February 2010 Vancouver, Canada (OG) Relay 12 22 January 2011 Antholz – Anterselva, Italy Relay 13 18 December 2011 Hochfilzen, Austria Mixed Relay 14 4 January 2012 Oberhof, Germany Relay

Key:WCH—World Championships; OG—Olympic Games. 2011–12 season in progress. Statistics as of 15 January 2012. Medal of the Order "For Merits to the Fatherland" 2nd Class (22 February 2007). Medal of the Order "For Merits to the Fatherland" 2nd Class (17 January 2003). Honoured Master of Sports (2005).

Other awards The Best Russian Athlete of the Year according to the vote at Sportbox.ru — 2011.

Personal life Zaitseva has two sisters: Elena (b. 1976) and Oksana (b. 1973), who was her coach.

On 30 September 2006, Zaitseva married Milan Augustin, a Slovak biathlon coach; they had a son Aleksandr in 2007, but divorced in 2013. In October 2015, Zaitseva gave birth to her second son Stepan. Around that time, she stopped coaching and was employed as a consultant for the Russian biathlon team. She was expected to return to coaching in 2016.