Svetlana Vladimirovna Krivelyova (; born 13 June 1969) is a former track and field athlete who specialised in the shot put. Krivelyova was born in Bryansk, Russia. Her career highlights were the Summer Olympics gold medal in 1992 whilst representing the Unified Team where she beat the reigning world champion Huang Zhihong of China and her World Championship victory in 2003. Her most unlikely victory came at the 2004 World Indoor Championships. She was awarded the gold medal after Ukraine's Vita Pavlysh was stripped of her title for failing a drug test. This was the second time Pavlysh was found to have taken anabolic steroids and lost a World indoor title; she was subsequently banned from athletics for life. Despite being world ranked number 1 in the run up to the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, Krivelyova could only manage to finish fourth to match her finish at the 2000 Summer Olympics. However the winner, compatriot Irina Korzhanenko, tested positive for Stanozolol and was stripped of her title, promoting Krivelyova to the bronze medal position. The IOC retested the samples from the 2004 Olympics and diagnosed a positive test. Krivelyova lost her third place to Nadzeya Ostapchuk (the bronze medal was not awarded). In April 2013, she was banned from competitions for two years. International competitions National titles Russian Athletics Championships Shot put: 1992, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003 Russian Indoor Athletics Championships Shot put: 1993, 2003 Soviet Athletics Championships Shot put: 1991 Soviet Indoor Athletics Championships Shot put: 1991 See also List of doping cases in athletics List of Olympic medalists in athletics (women) List of 1992 Summer Olympics medal winners List of 2004 Summer Olympics medal winners List of stripped Olympic medals List of World Athletics Championships medalists (women) List of IAAF World Indoor Championships medalists (women) List of European Athletics Championships medalists (women) List of Russian sportspeople List of Russian people Doping in Russia Doping at the World Athletics Championships Doping at the Olympic Games Russia at the World Athletics Championships References 1969 births Living people Sportspeople from Bryansk Russian female shot putters Soviet female shot putters Olympic female shot putters Olympic athletes of Russia Olympic athletes of the Unified Team Olympic gold medalists for the Unified Team Olympic gold medalists in athletics (track and field) Athletes (track and field) at the 1992 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 1996 Summer Olympics Athletes (track