Svetlana_Tširkova-Lozovaja
Svetlana Tširkova-Lozovaja
Soviet fencer and coach
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.[1]
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.[2]
She was awarded with Medal "For Distinguished Labour", classified as a Merited Master of Sport of the USSR in 1972.[3]
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.[2]
As an olympic winner, she is honorary member of the Estonian Olympic Committee.[4]
She is a mother of two sons, Eduard "Edik" Ber[5] and Kirill Lozovoi,[6] who are also fencers.[3]
In 2006 she received the Estonian Order of the White Star (Third Class)[7] and in 2016 Tallinn City Cross.[8]