Svetlana Shkolina

Svetlana Shkolina

Shkolina at the 2013 World championships Athletics in Moscow.
Personal information
Born	(1986-03-09) March 9, 1986 (age 31) Yartsevo, Smolensk, USSR
Height	1.87 m (6 ft 2 in)
Weight	66 kg (146 lb)
Medal record Women's athletics Representing  Russia Olympic Games 2012 London High jump World Championships 2013 Moscow High jump

Svetlana Vladimirovna Shkolina (Russian: Светлана Владимировна Школина; born 9 March 1986) is a Russian high jumper. She set her outdoor personal best of 2.03 metres to earn the bronze medal at the 2012 Olympic Games. She again cleared 2.03 metres to become World Champion at the 2013 World Championships in Moscow. Her indoor personal best is 2.00 metres, achieved in February 2010 in Arnstadt.

She was born in Yartsevo. As a teenager she won the silver medals at the 2003 World Youth Championships and the 2004 World Junior Championships and the gold medal at the 2005 European Junior Championships. Her personal bests were 1.88 metres in 2003 (Krasnodar, May), 1.91 metres in 2004 (Grosseto, WJC, July) and 1.92 metres in 2005 (Mannheim, June). In 2007, she won another gold medal, at the 2007 European U23 Championships, where both Shkolina and Adonia Steryiou cleared 1.92 metres but failed at 1.95 metres. She also improved her personal best to 1.96 metres in Tula in June 2007, having only managed to equal 1.92 metres the 2006 season.

Her first major international senior championship was the 2008 Olympic Games, where she finished fourteenth with a jump of 1.93 metres. Her season's best was 1.98 metres, achieved in July in Kazan. In 2009, she equalled this height in January in Rijeka before finishing fourth at the 2009 European Indoor Championships. She finished fourth again at the 2009 European Team Championships, by equalling her personal best for the third time in the Super League competition in Leiria. At the 2009 World Championships and the 2009 World Athletics Final she finished sixth; with 1.96 and 1.94 metres respectively.