Svetlana Vladimirovna Shkolina is a Russia

Russia

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n high jump

High jump

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er. Her personal best (indoor) is 2.00 metres, achieved in February 2010 in Arnstadt

Arnstadt

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Early career

She was born in Yartsevo

Yartsevo

Yartsevo is a town and the administrative center of Yartsevsky District of Smolensk Oblast, Russia, located on the Vop River northeast of Smolensk. Population:...

. As a teenager she won the silver medals at the 2003 World Youth Championships

2003 World Youth Championships in Athletics

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 and the 2004 World Junior Championships

2004 World Junior Championships in Athletics

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 and the gold medal at the 2005 European Junior Championships

2005 European Athletics Junior Championships

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. Her personal bests were 1.88 metres in 2003 (Krasnodar

Krasnodar

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, May), 1.91 metres in 2004 (Grosseto

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, WJC, July) and 1.92 metres in 2005 (Mannheim

Mannheim

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, June). In 2007 she won another gold medal, at the 2007 European U23 Championships

2007 European Athletics U23 Championships

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, where both Shkolina and Adonia Steryiou

Adonia Steryiou

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 cleared 1.92 metres but failed at 1.95 metres. She also improved her personal best to 1.96 metres in Tula

Tula, Russia

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 in June 2007, having only managed to equal 1.92 metres the 2006 season.

2008-2009

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

Kazan

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. In 2009 she equalled this height in January in Rijeka

Rijeka

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 before finishing fourth at the 2009 European Indoor Championships. She finished fourth again at the 2009 European Team Championships

2009 European Team Championships

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, by equalling her personal best for the third time in the Super League competition in Leiria

Leiria

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. At the 2009 World Championships

2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's high jump

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 and the 2009 World Athletics Final

2009 IAAF World Athletics Final

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 she finished sixth; with 1.96 and 1.94 metres respectively.

2010-2011

In early 2010 she broke the 2-metre barrier as she cleared 2.00 metres at the Hochsprung mit Musik

Hochsprung mit Musik

The Hochsprung mit Musik is an annual indoor high jump meeting which takes place in February in Arnstadt, Germany. First held in 1977, the meeting began as a competition between mainly East German athletes...

 event in Arnstadt

Arnstadt

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 in February. She contended with Blanka Vlašić

Blanka Vlašic

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 who eventually set a world leading mark of 2.06 metres. In the next three international championships she ended on the unlucky 4th place: In March 2010 at the World Indoor Championships

2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Women's high jump

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 in Doha

Doha

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, Qatar

Qatar

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 (1.96 m), in August at the European Championships

2010 European Athletics Championships – Women's high jump

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 in Barcelona

Barcelona

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 (1.92 m) and in March 2011 at the European Athletics Indoor Championships

2011 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Women's high jump

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 in Paris

Paris

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 (1.92 m). In July she managed to beat Vlašić at the high jump meeting in Eberstadt

Internationales Hochsprung-Meeting Eberstadt

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, Germany

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. Shkolina managed 1.99 m, while Vlašić stopped at 1.97 m.

Shkolina stands at and weighs about 66 kilograms (145.5 lb).