Background
She was born in Nizhny Tagil and is married to Dmitriy Forshev.
She was born in Nizhny Tagil and is married to Dmitriy Forshev.
500 metres - 66.31 (2006)- indoors, world record
400 metres - 50.04 (2006)- indoors, 50.19 - outdoors
200 metres - 23.09 (2005).
Specializing in the 400 metres, she won a silver medal at the 2004 IAAF World Indoor Championships. In addition, she won the silver medal in 4 x 400 metres relay at the 2004 Olympics and a gold medal in the same event at the 2005 World Championships. At the IAAF World Indoor Championships 2006 in Moscow she won the Gold Medal for 400 metres women with a winning time of 50.04 seconds. In addition she again won the relay with the Russian team
