Svetlana Zhurova

Svetlana Sergeyevna Zhurova (; born 7 January 1972) is a speed skater from Russia and a deputy at the State Duma of the Russian Federation.

Career Zhurova has been competing internationally since 1989, took part in four Olympics, but did not win her first Olympic medal until her fourth Olympics, winning Olympic gold in Turin in 2006, two years after giving birth to a child. She also became Sprint World Champion in 2006. After her sporting career she became a politician and became Vice Speaker of the fifth State Duma as part of the ruling United Russia party.

Sanctions On December 9, 2014, Zhurova was sanctioned by the United Kingdom after she voted in favor of a bill making the Republic of Crimea a federal subject of Russia earlier that year. Ten days later, Zhurova was placed on the Canadian sanctions list for the Russo-Ukrainian war.

In 2023, she criticized the Canadian Olympic Committee after its CEO David Shoemaker proposed a requirement that Russian athletes must denounce the Russian invasion of Ukraine before they can compete in Olympic events: