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Yuliya Chepalova (Russian: Ю́лия Чепа́лова; born December 23, 1976 in Komsomolsk, Russian SFSR) is a Russian cross-country skier.
[edit] Early and current personal life
Daughter of a cross-country skiing coach, Chepalova started to ski as soon as she began to walk. Coached by her father, Anatoly Chepalov, Yuliya made her debut in 1986 and continued to move upward through the old Soviet system (and later Russian, following the collapse of the Soviet Union in late 1991). Chepalov, a coach of the Russian junior national team, reportedly sold off all of his assets to help finance his daughter's career. Chepalova is currently affiliated with Dynamo Moscow, lives in Syktyvkar with her second husband, Vassili Rotchev and her daughter Olesya, and their daughter Vaselina who was born in February 2007; works as a sports instructor, and speaks fluent Russian and some German.
[edit] Skiing career
Debuting on the FIS cross-country circuit in the 1995–1996 season, Chepalova has continually ranked in the Top 15 throughout her career (the lone exception is the 2002–2003 season, where she took maternity leave to have her daughter Olesya), finishing #1 overall in 2000–2001 (#3 in 2005–2006 with #1 in the distance category (greater than 5 km)). This includes success at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships, with golds in the 4x5 km (2001) and 7.5 km + 7.5 km double pursuit (2005), silvers in the 4x5 km and 10 km freestyle (both 2005), and bronzes in the Individual sprint (2001) and Team sprint (2005). Additionally, Chepalova has won the women's 30 km at the Holmenkollen ski festival three times (1999, 2004, and 2006), joining fellow Russian cross-country skier Larisa Lazutina as the only three-time winners of the event. She earned the Holmenkollen medal in 2004.
At the 1998 Winter Olympics, Chepalova won the women's 30 km freestyle event in her Olympic debut, becoming the youngest winner of that event (and in women's cross country skiing). Four years later at the 2002 Winter Olympics, Chepalova won a complete set of medals with gold in the Individual sprint, silver in the 10 km classical, and bronze in the 15 km freestyle. At the most recent Winter Olympics in Turin, Chepalova would win two more medals with a gold in the 4x5 km and a silver in the 30 km freestyle mass start.
Chepalova was absent from the cross country skiing World Cup for the 2006–2007 season to pregnancy.
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Olympic champions in women's cross country skiing 3/4 x 5 km relay |
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1956 Finland - Sirkka Polkunen, Mirja Hietamies, & Siiri Rantanen * 1960 Sweden - Irma Johansson, Britt Strandberg, & Sonja Ruthström-Edström * 1964 Soviet Union - Alevtina Kolchina, Yevdokiya Mekshilo, & Klavdiya Boyarskikh * 1968 Norway - Inger Aufles, Babben Enger-Damon, & Berit Mørdre Lammedal * 1972 Soviet Union - Lyubov Mukhachyova, Alevtina Olyunina, & Galina Kulakova |
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1976 Soviet Union - Nina Baldycheva, Zinaida Amosova, Raisa Smetanina, & Galina Kulakova * 1980 East Germany - Marlies Rostock, Carola Anding, Veronika Hesse, & Barbara Petzold * 1984 Norway - Inger Helene Nybråten, Anne Jahren, Britt Pettersen, & Berit Aunli * 1988 Soviet Union - Svetlana Nageykina, Nina Gavrilyuk, Tamara Tikhonova, & Anfisa Reztsova * 1992 Unified Team - Yelena Välbe, Raisa Smetanina, Larisa Lazutina, & Lyubov Yegorova * 1994 Russia - Yelena Välbe, Larisa Lazutina, Nina Gavrilyuk, & Lyubov Yegorova * 1998 Russia - Nina Gavrilyuk, Olga Danilova, Yelena Välbe, & Larisa Lazutina * 2002 Germany - Manuela Henkel, Viola Bauer, Claudia Künzel, & Evi Sachenbacher * 2006 Russia - Natalia Baranova-Masolkina, Larisa Kurkina, Yuliya Chepalova, & Yevgeniya Medvedeva-Arbuzova |
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World champions in women's cross country skiing 3/4 x 5 km relay |
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1974 Soviet Union - Nina Baldycheva, Nina Selyunina, Raisa Smetanina & Galina Kulakova * 1978 Finland - Taina Impiö, Marja-Liisa Hämäläinen, Hilkka Riihivuori & Helena Takalo * 1982 Norway - Anette Bøe, Inger Helene Nybråten, Berit Aunli & Britt Pettersen * 1985 Soviet Union - Tamara Tikhonova, Raisa Smetanina, Liliya Vasilchenko & Anfisa Romanova * 1987 Soviet Union - Antonina Ordina, Nina Gavrilyuk, Larisa Ptistyna, & Anfisa Reztsova * 1989 Finland - Pirkko Määttä, Marja-Liisa Kirvesniemi, Jaana Savolainen & Marjo Matikainen * 1991 Soviet Union - Lyubov Yegorova, Raisa Smetanina, Tamara Tikhonova & Yelena Välbe * 1993 Russia - Yelena Välbe, Larisa Lazutina, Nina Gavrilyuk & Lyubov Yegorova * 1995 Russia - Olga Danilova, Yelena Välbe, Larisa Lazutina & Nina Gavrilyuk * 1997 Russia - Olga Danilova, Larisa Lazutina, Nina Gavrilyuk & Yelena Välbe * 1999 Russia - Olga Danilova, Larisa Lazutina, Anfisa Reztsova & Nina Gavrilyuk * 2001 Russia - Olga Danilova, Larisa Lazutina, Yuliya Chepalova & Nina Gavrilyuk * 2003 Germany - Manuela Henkel, Viola Bauer, Claudia Künzel & Evi Sachenbacher * 2005 Norway - Vibeke Skofterud, Hilde Gjermundshaug Pedersen, Kristin Størmer Steira & Marit Bjørgen * 2007 Finland - Virpi Kuitunen, Aino-Kaisa Saarinen, Riitta-Liisa Roponen & Pirjo Manninen |
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