Natalya Matveyeva
Natalya Konstantinovna Matwejewa (born 23 May 1986 as Moscow) is a Russian cross-country skier.
Natalya Matwejewa was educated in a military school. The policewoman lives in Moscow and starts for Dynamo Moscow. Matwejewa made her international debut in a 10-kilometer FIS races in November 2004 as 47th in Muonio. A month later she won in St. Gallen a race over this distance. Then they were in a mixed relay Nations a few days later in Lago di Tesero her World Cup debut. The highlight of the first season were the Junior World Championships in Rovaniemi, where it was Sprint- fourth. At the first race of the season 2005/ 06, a sprint in Dusseldorf Matwejewa launched for the first time in a single World Cup. Both this single and also below, team sprint, she came on third places. In the aftermath, the young Russian specializing in sprint races and occurred only rarely in distance races. At the Junior World Championships in Kranj in 2006 she won silver behind Astrid Jacobsen in the sprint race. At the start of the Olympic Games in Turin was occupied due to increased hemoglobin levels with a five-day protective barrier. After the lock, she launched the sprint competition, where she placed 30th place. The following season they reached the season opener in Dusseldorf again as runner-up in the sprint a top ranking. In January 2007 she won in Syktyvkar as sprint champion her first title at the Russian Championships. In the sprint World Cup of the season 2006/ 07 they finished third behind Virpi Kuitunen and Petra Majdič. At the beginning of the season 2007/ 08 she started again very successful in Dusseldorf in the season. She won her first World Cup with the Sprint race and finished with Natalya Korosteljowa Second in the team sprint. In so far 20 World Cup races she came 13 times in the Top 10, four times on the podium (as of November 1, 2007 ).
On 8 April 2009 the FIS announced that Matwejewa has been tested during the World Cup in January in Whistler, Canada in a positive doping test on the blood doping agent EPO. In December 2009 Matwejewa was retrospectively banned from January 2009 for two years for doping. The Russian Ski Federation announced it to go to appeal against this decision an appeal with the Court of Arbitration for Sport.