Svetlana Radzivil Explained

Birth Date:	17 January 1987
Birth Place:	Tashkent, Uzbek SSR, Soviet Union (now Uzbekistan)
Sport:	Athletics
Event:	High jump

Svetlana Mikhaylovna Radzivil (Russian: Светлана Михайловна Радзивил; born 17 January 1987 in Tashkent, Uzbek SSR) is an Uzbek 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. She is a two-time champion at the Asian Indoor Athletics Championships (2006 and 2014). She is a four-time Olympian (2008, 2012, 2016 and 2021).

Career

She was born in Tashkent. 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,^[1] and finished seventh at the 2006 Asian Games. She jumped 1.91 again in 2007. In 2008, she competed at the Olympic Games.^[1] 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^[2] beating Nadiya Dusanova 1.94 m.

Her personal best jump is 1.97 metres, achieved in August 2012 in London and in April 2021 in Mersin.^[1]

On December 22, 2019, Svetlana Radzivil was elected to the Tashkent City Kengash of People's Deputies.^[3]

International competitions

Representing
2002	World Junior Championships	Kingston, Jamaica	19th (q)	1.70 m
	Asian Junior Championships	Bangkok, Thailand	4th	1.76 m
2003	World Youth Championships	Sherbrooke, Canada	9th	1.75 m
	Asian Championships	Manila, Philippines	6th	1.75 m
2004	Asian Junior Championships	Ipoh, Malaysia	bgcolor=silver	2nd	1.80 m
	World Junior Championships	Grosseto, Italy	13th	1.75 m
2006	Asian Indoor Championships	Pattaya, Thailand	bgcolor=gold	1st	1.91 m
	Asian Junior Championships	Macau	bgcolor=gold	1st	1.90 m
	World Junior Championships	Beijing, China	bgcolor=gold	1st	1.91 m
	Asian Games	Doha, Qatar	7th	1.84 m
2008	Olympic Games	Beijing, China	18th (q)	1.89 m
2009	World Championships	Berlin, Germany	21st (q)	1.89 m
	Asian Indoor Games	Hanoi, Vietnam	4th	1.87 m
	Asian Championships	Guangzhou, China	3rd	1.87 m
2010	Asian Games	Guangzhou, China	bgcolor=gold	1st	1.95 m
2011	Asian Championships	Kobe, Japan	bgcolor=silver	2nd	1.92 m
	World Championships	Daegu, South Korea	7th	1.93 m
2012	World Indoor Championships	Istanbul, Turkey	8th	1.92 m
	Olympic Games	London, United Kingdom	7th	1.97 m
2013	Asian Championships	Pune, India	bgcolor=silver	2nd	1.88 m
2014	Asian Indoor Championships	Hangzhou, China	bgcolor=gold	1st	1.96 m
	World Indoor Championships	Sopot, Poland	14th (q)	1.88 m
	Asian Games	Incheon, South Korea	bgcolor=gold	1st	1.94 m
2015	Asian Championships	Wuhan, China	bgcolor=gold	1st	1.91 m
	World Championships	Beijing, China	9th	1.88 m
2016	Asian Indoor Championships	Doha, Qatar	bgcolor=gold	1st	1.92 m
	Olympic Games	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	13th	1.88 m
2018	Asian Games	Jakarta-Palembang, Indonesia	bgcolor=gold	1st	1.96 m
2019	Asian Championships	Doha, Qatar	3rd	1.88 m
	World Championships	Doha, Qatar	12th	1.89 m
2021	Olympic Games	Tokyo, Japan	20th (q)	1.90 m
2022	World Indoor Championships	Belgrade, Serbia	10th	1.84 m
	Islamic Solidarity Games	Konya, Turkey	bgcolor=silver	2nd	1.87 m
2023	Asian Championships	Bangkok, Thailand	3rd	1.83 m
	Asian Games	Hangzhou, China	bgcolor=silver	2nd	1.86 m
2024	Asian Indoor Championships	Tehran, Iran	5th	1.80 m

Notes and References

1. . Retrieved on 4 April 2009.
2. Web site: Athletics - Women's High Jump Asian Games 2018 Jakarta Palembang. Asian Games 2018 Jakarta Palembang. en-GB. 2018-08-29.
3. Web site: 2021-07-25 . Халқ депутатлари Тошкент шаҳар Кенгаши депутатларини рўйхатга олиш тўғрисида . https://web.archive.org/web/20210725133821/https://www.tashkent.uz/uz/activity/registratsija-deputatov-tashkentskogo-gorodskogo-soveta-narodnyh-deputatov . 2021-07-25 . 2022-08-12 .