Olga Bogoslovskaya

Olga Bogoslovskaya
Medal record
Women's Athletics
Olympic Games
Representing the Unified Team
World Championships
Representing Russia

Olga Mikhaylvna Bogoslovskaya (‹See Tfd›Russian: Ольга Михайловна Богословская; born May 20, 1964) is a retired Russian athlete who competed mainly in the 100 metres. She currently works as a sports journalist.

She competed for the Unified Team at the age of 28 in the 1992 Summer Olympics held in Barcelona, Spain in the 4 x 100 metres with her teammates Galina Malchugina, Marina Trandenkova and Irina Privalova who had finished third in the 100 metres. Her team recorded a time of 42.16, and she received a silver medal–second only to the United States team of Evelyn Ashford, Esther Jones, Carlette Guidry, Gwen Torrence, and Michelle Finn, who recorded a time of 42.11. She works as an athletics correspondent for Match TV and was married to Dmitry Guberniev.

Doping disqualification

In 1994, a doping test taken by Bogoslovskaya at the famous Cologne laboratory of Manfred Donike proved positive. The substance was obviously a steroid. After receiving a two-year disqualification and training for one more season, Bogoslovskaya decided to end her career.^[1]