Olesya Forsheva

Olesya Forsheva

Medal record
Women's athletics
Competitor for  Russia
Olympic Games
Silver	2004 Athens	4x400 m relay
World Championships
Gold	2005 Helsinki	4x400 m relay
World Indoor Championships
Gold	2004 Budapest	4x400 m relay
Gold	2006 Moscow	400m
Gold	2006 Moscow	4x400 m relay
Silver	2004 Budapest	400m
European Indoor Championships
Gold	2011 Paris	4x400 m relay
Silver	2011 Paris	400m

Olesya Aleksandrovna Forsheva (Russian: Олеся Александровна Форшева, born July 8, 1979 in Nizhny Tagil, Russian SFSR) (née Krasnomovets Russian: Красномовец) is a Russian athlete.

She was born in Nizhny Tagil and is married to Dmitriy Forshev.

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.

Personal bests

• 500 metres - 66.31 (2006)- indoors, world record
• 400 metres - 50.04 (2006)- indoors, 50.19 - outdoors
• 200 metres - 23.09 (2005)

External links

• Olesya Forsheva profile at IAAF
• Profile on sports-reference.com