Svetlana Mikhaylovna Radzivil (
Russian: Светлана Михайловна Радзивил; born 17 January 1987 in
Tashkent,
Uzbek SSR) is an
Uzbekistanihigh jumper. She is among Asia's top female high jumpers. She won the
Asian Games title three times running (2010 to 2018) and was the Asian champion in
2015. She has also won two silver and one bronze medal at the
Asian Athletics Championships. She is a two-time champion at the
Asian Indoor Athletics Championships (2006 and 2014). She is a four-time Olympian (2008, 2012, 2016 and 2021).
She was born in
Tashkent. She finished ninth at the
2003 World Youth Championships and thirteenth at the
2004 World Junior Championships. In 2006, she won the
2006 World Junior Championships, in a new personal best jump of 1.91 metres,[1] and finished seventh at the
2006 Asian Games.[citation needed] She jumped 1.91 again in 2007. In 2008, she competed at the
Olympic Games.[1] She won the gold medal at the 17th Asian Games with a jump of 1.94 metres ahead of China's Xingjuan Zheng who claimed silver with her season's best jump of 1.92 m and Uzbekistan's Nadiya Dusanova who took home the bronze with a best leap of 1.89 m. She won gold medal in Asian Games 2018, with games record of 1.96 meters[2] beating
Nadiya Dusanova 1.94 m.
Her personal best jump is 1.97 metres, achieved in August 2012 in
London and in April 2021 in
Mersin.[1]
On December 22, 2019, Svetlana Radzivil was elected to the
Tashkent City Kengash of People's Deputies.[3]