Olga Zabelinskaya

Zabelinskaya in 2020
Personal information
Full name	Olga Sergeyevna Zabelinskaya Ольга Серге́евна Забелинская
Born	(1980-05-10) 10 May 1980 (age 43) Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (now Saint Petersburg, Russia)
Height	170 cm (5 ft 7 in)[1]
Weight	61 kg (134 lb)
Team information
Current team	Roland Cycling
Disciplines	Road Track
Role	Rider
Amateur teams
2010	Koga Miyata (guest)
2018	Velo Alanya Cycling Team (guest)
Professional teams
2001–2002	Carpe Diem–Itera[2]
2003	Velodames–Colnago[2]
2004	Equipe Nürnberger Versicherung[2]
2006	Fenixs–Colnago[2]
2010–2011	Safi–Pasta Zara[2]
2012–2014	RusVelo[2]
2016–2017	Bepink
2018–	Cogeas[3][4]
Medal record Representing  Russia Women's road bicycle racing Olympic Games 2016 Rio de Janeiro Time trial 2012 London Road race 2012 London Time trial World Championships 1997 San Sebastián Junior time trial 1998 Valkenburg Junior road race 1998 Valkenburg Junior time trial European Championships 2002 Bergamo Under-23 time trial 2001 Apremont Under-23 time trial 2016 Plumelec Time trial 2017 Herning Road race Women's track cycling Junior World Championships 1997 Cape Town Points race 1998 Havana Points race Representing  Uzbekistan Women's road bicycle racing Asian Games 2022 Hangzhou Time trial Asian Championships 2019 Tashkent Road race 2019 Tashkent Time trial 2023 Rayong Time trial 2023 Rayong Team relay Women's track cycling Asian Championships 2019 Jakarta Points race 2019 Jakarta Individual pursuit 2019 Jakarta Madison 2019 Jakarta Omnium

Olga Sergeyevna Zabelinskaya (also transliterated Zabelinskaia; Ольга Серге́евна Забелинская; born 10 May 1980) is a Russian-born Uzbekistani professional racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's Continental Team Roland Cycling.^[5] While competing for Russia, she won three Olympic medals, before changing allegiances to Uzbekistan in 2018.^[6]

Career

Born in Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg), Zabelinskaya twice became the junior world champion in 1997, in road and track individual races. She missed the 2004 Olympics because she was having a baby. In 2006, Zabelinskaya quit competitive cycling, but returned in 2009.^[7]

She qualified for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, where she won bronze medals in both the road race and the time trial.^[8][9] Subsequently, she won a silver medal in the time trial at the 2016 Olympics. She is the first Russian female cyclist to win two Olympic medals in road events.

Doping

In July 2014 it was reported that Zabelinskaya had tested positive for octopamine at an international race in the spring.^[10] In February 2016, she accepted an 18-month ban, which she already served and which expired in September 2015.^[11]

Personal life

Zabelinskaya is the daughter of the Olympic champion former cyclist Sergei Sukhoruchenkov. She was separated from her father and they first met when Zabelinskaya was 16.^[12] She has three children.^[13] As of August 2012^[update], she spends winters in Cyprus, where she trains, and summers in Saint Petersburg.^[12]

Major results