| Native Name Lang: | ru | ||||||||||
| Office: | Member of the State Duma for Leningrad Oblast | ||||||||||
| Term Start: | 12 October 2021 | ||||||||||
| Predecessor: | Vladimir Drachev | ||||||||||
| Constituency: | Vsevolozhsk (No. 111) | ||||||||||
| Office1: | Member of the State Duma (Party List Seat) | ||||||||||
| Term Start1: | 6 March 2013 | ||||||||||
| Term End1: | 12 October 2021 | ||||||||||
| Predecessor1: | Ramazan Abdulatipov | ||||||||||
| Term Start2: | 24 December 2007 | ||||||||||
| Term End2: | 21 December 2011 | ||||||||||
| Birth Date: | 7 January 1972 | ||||||||||
| Birth Place: | Pavlov-on-Neva, Russian SFSR, USSR | ||||||||||
| Party: | United Russia | ||||||||||
| Children: | 2 sons (1 deceased) | ||||||||||
| Education: | Russian State Academy of Physical Education (M.Ed.) RANEPA | ||||||||||
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Svetlana Sergeyevna Zhurova (Russian: Светла́на Серге́евна Жу́рова; born 7 January 1972) is a speed skater from Russia and a deputy at the State Duma of the Russian Federation.[1]
Zhurova has been competing internationally since 1989,[2] 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.[3]
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.[4] Ten days later, Zhurova was placed on the Canadian sanctions list for the Ukrainian crisis.[5]
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:[6] [7]