Natalya Matveyeva


Natalya Konstantinovna Matveyeva is a Russian cross country skier who has been competing since 2004. Matveyeva skis for Dynamo Moscow. She has a total of four victories since 2004, including three in the 2006–2007 season. All four of her victories have been in the sprint events.

Career

As of February 2007, Matveyeva leads the women's sprint category in the 2006–2007 Cross country skiing World Cup going into the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2007 in Sapporo, Japan, despite never having won a World Cup event. Her best placing in individual World Cup meets is second-place, which she achieved in the 2006 Changchun and Düsseldorf meets. She competed in the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, finishing 30th in the individual sprint.
She tested positive for recombinant EPO at a January 2009 meet in Whistler, British Columbia and was suspended provisionally from the sport following the receipt of the confirmation of the V analysis from the World Anti-Doping Agency accredited laboratory in Quebec. The case was reviewed and adjudicated by the FIS Doping Panel, chaired by Canadian judge Partick Smith. Matveyeva's results from the most recent results from the world championships in Liberec have not been removed from the official results pending the hearing though she finished fourth in the women's individual sprint event. A verdict was rendered on 23 December 2009 by the FIS that effectively banned her from competition until 12 March 2011 for doping.
In December 2017, she was one of eleven Russian athletes who were banned for life from the Olympics by the International Olympic Committee, after doping offences at the 2014 Winter Olympics. In January 2018, she successfully appealed against the lifetime ban as well as decision to disqualify her from Sochi Olympics at the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

Cross-country skiing results

All results are sourced from the International Ski Federation.

Olympic Games

World Championships

Year Age 10 km
individual		 15 km
skiathlon 		30 km
mass start		 Sprint 4 × 5 km
relay 		Team
sprint
200720———23—12
200922————
201326———21—7
201528———16—5
201730———9—Silver
201932———24——

World Cup

Season standings

Individual podiums

No.SeasonDateLocationRaceLevelPlace
1 2005–06 22 October 2005 Düsseldorf, Germany0.8 km Sprint FWorld Cup3rd
2 2006–07 28 October 2006 Düsseldorf, Germany0.8 km Sprint FWorld Cup2nd
3 2006–07 15 February 2007 Changchun, China1.1 km Sprint CWorld Cup2nd
42007–0827 October 2007 Düsseldorf, Germany0.8 km Sprint FWorld Cup1st
52007–081 March 2008 Lahti, Finland1.2 km Sprint FWorld Cup2nd
6 2008–09 20 December 2008 Düsseldorf, Germany0.8 km Sprint FWorld Cup2nd
7 2011–12 3 December 2011 Düsseldorf, Germany0.9 km Sprint FWorld Cup2nd
8 2011–12 11 December 2011 Davos, Switzerland1.5 km Sprint FWorld Cup2nd
9 2011–12 21 January 2012 Otepää, Estonia1.2 km Sprint CWorld Cup3rd
10 2014–15 24 January 2015 Rybinsk, Russia1.3 km Sprint FWorld Cup2nd
11 2015–16 3 February 2016 Drammen, Norway1.2 km Sprint CWorld Cup3rd
122016–1714 January 2017 Toblach, Italy1.3 km Sprint FWorld Cup1st

Team podiums

No.SeasonDateLocationRaceLevelPlaceTeammate
1 2005–06 23 October 2005 Düsseldorf, Germany6 × 0.8 km Team Sprint FWorld Cup3rdSidko
2 2007–08 28 October 2007 Düsseldorf, Germany6 × 0.8 km Team Sprint FWorld Cup2ndKorostelyova
3 2007–08 17 February 2008 Liberec, Czech Republic4 × 1.4 km Team Sprint CWorld Cup3rdShapovalova
42008–0921 December 2008 Düsseldorf, Germany6 × 0.8 km Team Sprint FWorld Cup1stKorostelyova
5 2011–12 4 December 2011 Düsseldorf, Germany6 × 0.9 km Team Sprint FWorld Cup3rdKorostelyova
6 2012–13 3 February 2013 Sochi, Russia6 × 1.25 km Team Sprint CWorld Cup2ndIvanova
72016–1715 January 2017 Toblach, Italy6 × 1.3 km Team Sprint FWorld Cup1stBelorukova