Natalya Konstantinovna Matveyeva (Russian: Ната́лья Константи́новна Матве́ева; born May 23, 1986) is a Russian cross country skier who has been competing since 2004. Matveyeva skis for Dynamo Moscow. She has a total of four victories since 2004, including three in the 2006–2007 season. All four of her victories have been in the sprint events.
As of February 2007, Matveyeva leads the women's sprint category in the 2006–2007 Cross country skiing Wo...
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Natalya Konstantinovna Matveyeva (Russian: Ната́лья Константи́новна Матве́ева; born May 23, 1986) is a Russian cross country skier who has been competing since 2004. Matveyeva skis for Dynamo Moscow. She has a total of four victories since 2004, including three in the 2006–2007 season. All four of her victories have been in the sprint events.
As of February 2007, Matveyeva leads the women's sprint category in the 2006–2007 Cross country skiing World Cup going into the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2007 in Sapporo, Japan, despite never having won a World Cup event. Her best placing in individual World Cup meets is second-place, which she achieved in the 2006 Changchun and Düsseldorf meets. She competed in the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, finishing 30th in the individual sprint.
She tested positive for recombinant EPO (rEPO) at a January 2009 meet in Whistler, British Columbia and was suspended provisionally from the sport following the receipt of the confirmation of the V...
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