Stulneva, Olga Olegovna

Athletics

In athletics, Fedorova's main specialization was a distance of 100 meters . The first trainer - Vladimir Valeryevich Samylov ^[1] , was also Viktor Gusarenko ’s ward ^[2] . Olga achieved the main successes in the relay race: in August 2003, at the World Championships in Paris, Russians (Fedorova, Julia Tabakova , Marina Kislova and Larisa Kruglova ) won bronze, losing to the French and American in the final. A year later, at the Olympic Games in Athens, Russians (Fedorova, Tabakova, Irina Khabarova and Kruglova) already won silver, losing 0.54 seconds only to runners from Jamaica.

Personal records of Fedorova: 100 meters - 11.21 (2005), 200 meters - 23.19 (2004).

Bobsleigh

In 2005, she completed her athletics career and moved to bobsledding, starting her career as an accelerator ^[3] in the crew of Victoria Tokova . The debut in the World Cup took place in December 2006. In 2006-2008, the Tokovaya / Fedorov crew regularly fell into the top ten at the World Cup stages (9th place in the overall World Cup standings in the 2006/07 season). At the 2007 World Championships in St. Moritz, Fyodorova was dispersing Alevtina Kovalenko - the Russians took 9th place. In February 2008, at the Eagles Youth World Championship, the crew of Anastasia Tambovtseva / Olga Fedorova won the bronze, losing to the beans from Switzerland and Germany and only 0.01 seconds ahead of the Americans. At the 2008 World Championship, Tokova / Fedorova performed unsuccessfully, taking only 14th place.

Before the 2008/2009 season, Fedorova received a pilot license. In January 2009, already as a pilot with overclocking Lyudmila Udobkina, Fedorova again won the bronze of the youth world championship.

In 2010, at the Olympic Games in Vancouver, she acted as a pilot along with experienced overclocking Julia Timofeeva (born 1972). The first three races were relatively good for Fedorova’s crew, for example, in the third she showed the 13th time among 21 crews. Overclocking was especially successful: according to this indicator, Russians were in the top five. But in the 4th race, despite a good acceleration again, a serious mistake was made, and the Russians' bean turned over on its side, but they still managed to get to the finish line. This failure threw Fedorova and Timofeeva to the last place among 18 crews who completed all the races.

At the 2011 World Cup, Fedorova and Timofeeva took 12th place, and became fifth in the mixed skeleton-bobsleigh team.

Some progress in the results of Fedorova and Timofeeva was outlined in the 2011/2012 season : if in the previous 2 seasons Olga was never able to get into the top ten at the World Cup stages, then in the first three stages of the 2011/2012 season, the Russians were three times in the top eight, twice in a row, taking sixth place. At the fifth stage, Olga was again in the top ten. Having taken the ninth place in the last two stages, Fedorova’s crew took the eighth place in the World Cup following the 2011/12 season.

In the 2012/13 season, the results in the World Cup fell: only once a year the crew of Stulneva (from this year Olga began to act under the name of her husband) managed to get into the top ten at the stages of the World Cup, taking seventh place at the last stage of the season in Sochi. As a result, Stulneva finished the season in 13th place. Timofeeva, Nadezhda Sergeeva , Margarita Izmailova acted as accelerators with Stulneva. Nevertheless, in the final standings of the World Cup, Stulneva became the best of the Russian pilots, ahead of Anastasia Tambovtseva , who became the 15th. At the World Championships in St. Moritz, Stulneva and Izmailova took 12th place in the competition of twos. As part of the mixed skeleton-bobsleigh team, Stulneva and Sergeyeva took ninth place out of 13 participating teams.

Disqualification

On November 24, 2017, by a decision of the International Olympic Committee for violating anti-doping rules, all results from the 2014 Olympic Games in Sochi were canceled and suspended for life from participating in the Olympic Games. An appeal was soon filed and on February 1, the Court of Arbitration for Sport granted it and annulled her lifelong suspension from participation in the Olympic Games for violating anti-doping rules ^[4] .

On October 20, 2008, after a training session at the CSKA sports complex on Leningradsky Prospekt in Moscow, Olga was attacked: two unknown men dragged Olga into a car without license plates and demanded that the athlete give them the keys to the Range Rover car. When Olga began to look for keys in her bag, one of the attackers suddenly shot her in the leg with a pistol, after which Fedorova and the bag were pushed out of the car. The attackers fled, and Fedorova was taken to the hospital, where a bullet fired from a traumatic gun was removed from her leg. Neither bones nor large blood vessels were affected, the bobsledder spent several days in the hospital and was soon able to return to training ^[5] .

• Olga Fedorova - profile on IAAF website
• Olga Fedorova - Olympic statistics at Sports-Reference.com