Svetlana Radzivil

Svetlana Mikhaylovna Radzivil was born on 17 January 1987 in Tashkent. A high jumper, 1.86 m tall, she competed at major events from her teens: in 2006 she won the World Junior Championships (1.91 m) and the Asian Junior Championships.

As a senior she became one of Asia's most consistent jumpers: Asian Games champion in 2010 (Guangzhou, 1.95 m), 2014 (1.94 m) and 2018 (1.96 m), and silver medallist in 2022. She won the 2015 Asian Championships, took bronze in 2009, 2019 and 2023 and silver in 2011 and 2013, and won the Asian Indoor Championships in 2014 and 2016. In 2021 she took silver at the Islamic Solidarity Games.

She competed at four Olympic Games: 18th in qualification in 2008 (1.89 m), 7th in the final in London in 2012 (1.97 m, her personal best, matched in Mersin in 2021), 13th in 2016 and 20th in qualification in 2021. At the World Championships she placed 7th (2011), 9th (2015) and 12th (2019).

On 22 December 2019 she was elected to the Tashkent City Council of People's Deputies. She appeared on an Uzbekistan postage stamp in 2011, and sources list her among recipients of Uzbekistan's Order of Friendship.