Svetlana Mikhaylovna Radzivil (; born 17 January 1987 in

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) is an Uzbekistani

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er. She is among Asia's top female high jumpers. She won the

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title three times running (2010 to 2018) and was the Asian champion in

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. She has also won two silver and one bronze medal at the

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. She is a two-time champion at the

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. 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,. Retrieved on 4 April 2009. and finished seventh at the

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. She jumped 1.91 again in 2007. In 2008, she competed at the

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. 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 beating Nadiya Dusanova 1.94 m. Her personal best jump is 1.97 metres, achieved in August 2012 in

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and in April 2021 in

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. On December 22, 2019, Svetlana Radzivil was elected to the Tashkent City Kengash of People's Deputies.

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Soviet people of Polish descent Uzbekistani people of Polish descent Medalists at the 2010 Asian Games Medalists at the 2014 Asian Games Medalists at the 2018 Asian Games Medalists at the 2022 Asian Games Asian Games gold medalists in athletics (track and field) Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics 20th-century Uzbekistani women 21st-century Uzbekistani sportswomen Asian Athletics Championships winners Asian Athletics Championships medalists Asian Indoor Athletics Championships winners Islamic Solidarity Games medalists in athletics Recipients of Order of Friendship of Uzbekistan Medalists at the 2021 Islamic Solidarity Games Islamic Solidarity Games silver medalists for Uzbekistan