Svetlana Zhurova

Svetlana Sergeyevna Zhurova (Russian: Светла́на Серге́евна Жу́рова; born 7 January 1972) is a speed skater from Russia. Deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation.[1]

Svetlana Zhurova
Personal information
Born (1972-01-07) 7 January 1972
Pavlov-on-the-Neva, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Height1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight64 kg (141 lb)
Sport
Country Russia
SportSpeed skating
Medal record
Olympic Games
2006 Turin 500 m
World Championships
2006 HeerenveenSprint
1996 Hamar500 m
1998 Calgary500 m
1999 Heerenveen500 m
2000 Nagano500 m
2001 Salt Lake City500 m

Career

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 mothering 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.

Canadian sanctions

On December 19, 2014, Zhurova was placed on the Canadian sanctions list for the Ukrainian crisis.[3]

gollark: If *evolution*... well, "attempts" would be anthropomorphizing it... to cross said chasm, all it can do is just throw broken ones at it repeatedly with no understanding, and select for better ones until one actually sticks.
gollark: If I want to cross a chasm with a bridge, or something, I can draw on my limited knowledge of physics and materials science and whatever and put together a somewhat sensible prototype, then make inferences from what happens to it, and get something working out.
gollark: No. We can reason about problems in various ways. So can some animals.
gollark: It doesn't have its own will. It's a giant non-agent mess driven by tons of interacting blind optimization processes.
gollark: Depends. There's not a general answer which isn't vaguely stupid somehow.

References
  1. http://www.duma.gov.ru/structure/deputies/242634/
  2. Skateresults.com
  3. "Sanctions List SOR/2014-316". gazette.gc.ca. 2014-12-19. Retrieved 2018-03-07.


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