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Svetlana Tširkova-Lozovaja

Personal information
Born	(1945-11-05) 5 November 1945 (age 79) Tsivilsky District, Chuvash ASSR, Soviet Union
Sport
Sport	Fencing
Coached by	Clavdij Jadlovskij
Medal record Women's fencing Representing  Soviet Union Olympic Games 1968 Mexico CIty Foil Team 1972 Munich Foil Team World Championships 1970 Ankara Foil Team 1971 Vienna Foil Team 1969 Havana Foil Team 1969 Havana Foil Individual

Svetlana Tširkova (from 1980, Tširkova-Lozovaja) (Russian: Светлана Михайловна Чиркова-Лозовая) (born November 5, 1945, Tupner, Tsivilsky District, Chuvash ASSR, Soviet Union) is a former Soviet fencer, two-time Olympic champion in foil team competitions and fencing coach in Estonia.

She received two gold medals in team foil at the Summer Olympics from 1968 and 1972 games.

In the 1969 individual competition at the World Championships in Havana, Cuba, she lost only to Romanian Ileana Gyulai-Drîmbă-Jenei and won bronze medal.

She was awarded with Medal "For Distinguished Labour", classified as a Merited Master of Sport of the USSR in 1972.

Living in Estonia since 1950, she graduated from the Pedagogical University of Tallinn in 1973 and was also 5 time fencing champion of the Estonian SSR.

As an olympic winner, she is honorary member of the Estonian Olympic Committee.

She is a mother of two sons, Eduard "Edik" Ber and Kirill Lozovoi, who are also fencers.

In 2006 she received the Estonian Order of the White Star (Third Class) and in 2016 Tallinn City Cross [et].

References

1. Profile: "Svetlana Tširkova" sports-reference.com (Retrieved on January 22, 2008)
2. ^ Noskov, Juri (1976). Spordi kuulsuseks: Svetlana Tširkova (in Estonian). Tallinn: Eesti Raamat. pp. 102–115.
3. ^ (in Estonian) Svetlana Tširkova sai olümpiakulla asemel diplomi Eesti Päevaleht, March 20, 2006 (Retrieved on January 22, 2008)
4. Honorary members of the Estonian Olympic Committee Archived 2008-06-11 at the Wayback Machine eok.ee (Retrieved on January 22, 2008)
5. Fencing Ranking: Eduard Ber nahouw.net (Retrieved on January 22, 2008)
6. Fencing Ranking: Kirill Lozovoi nahouw.net (Retrieved on January 22, 2008)
7. Svetlana Lozovaja-Tširkova Teenetemärkide kavalerid
8. Aukodanikud tallinn.ee

• 1945 births
• Living people
• Soviet female foil fencers
• Estonian female foil fencers
• Olympic fencers for the Soviet Union
• Fencers at the 1968 Summer Olympics
• Fencers at the 1972 Summer Olympics
• Olympic gold medalists for the Soviet Union
• Olympic medalists in fencing
• Medalists at the 1968 Summer Olympics
• Medalists at the 1972 Summer Olympics
• Tallinn University alumni
• Estonian people of Russian descent
• Recipients of the Order of the White Star, 3rd Class