DOB: July 16, 1980
Height: 163 cm
Weight: 52 kg
Coach: Evgeny Bondarenko
Personal best:
Pole vault – 4.88 cm (Iráklio, July 4, 2004)
Honors:
29th European Indoor Championships – 1st place 4.76 cm (Birmingham, March 4, 2007)
19th European Athletics Championships – 4th place, 4.50 cm (Göteborg, August 12, 2006)
11th IAAF World Indoor Championships – 3rd place, 4.70 cm (Moscow, March 11, 2006)
2nd IAAF World Athletics Final – 4th place, 4.60 cm (Monaco, September 19, 2004)
28th Olympic Games - 2nd place, 4.75 cm (Athens, August 24, 2004)
10th IAAF World Indoor Championships – 3rd place, 4.70 cm (Budapest, March 6, 2004)
1st IAAF World Athletics Final – 2nd place, 4.60 cm (Monaco, September 14, 2003)
9th IAAF World Championships in Athletics – 1st place, 4.75 cm (Paris Saint-Denis, August 25, 2003)
9th IAAF World Indoor Championships – 1st place, 4.80 cm (Birmingham, March 16, 2003)
1st European Indoor Cup – 1st place, 4.65 cm (Leipzig, February 15, 2003)
9th IAAF World Cup in Athletics – 2nd place, 4.40 cm (Madrid, September 20, 2002)
18th European Championships in Athletics – 1st place, 4.60 cm (München, August 9, 2002)
27th European Indoor Championships – 1st place, 4.75 cm (Wien, March 3, 2002)
17th IAAF Grand Prix Final – 2nd place, 4.45 cm (Melbourne, September 9, 2001)
8th IAAF World Championships – 2nd place, 4.75 cm (Edmonton, August 6, 2001)
8th IAAF World Indoor Championships – 2nd place, 4.51 cm (Lisboa, March 9, 2001)
European Indoor Championships – 5th place (2000); 1st place (2002)
European Cup – 1st place (2000, 2002)
National Indoor Championships – 1st place (2006)
National Championships – 1st place (2006)
Svetlava Feofanova won the silver medal in women's pole vaulting at the 2004 Summer Olympics behind compatriot Yelena Isinbayeva. Feofanova also was a Russian gymnast and was included to Russian national team on 1996 Summer Olympics but didn't became a good athlete in this sport.
On July 4, 2004 she jumped 4,88 m in Heraklion, Greece, which was world record at the time.
She made 8 World Records on Pole Vault until now. In the World Athletics Championships, she was the second in 2001 and the first in 2003. She won also the World Indoor Championships in 2003, and she was the third in 2004.
She finished 4th at the 2006 European Athletics Championships in Gothenburg.
She won the 2007 European Athletics Indoor Championships gold medal for the Pole Vault in Birmingham, Great Britain, with a height of 4.76 metres. Her main rival Yelena Isinbayeva did not take part in these Championships.
