The Russian Olympic champion was in the hospital. She found a serious illness

In Moscow, the two -time Olympic champion in athletics Svetlana Masterkova was hospitalized. She was diagnosed with an aggressive malignant brain tumor.

According to the source, the athlete was administered intravenously antitumor drugs and released home with the condition of observation by the oncologist. The state of Maskkova was evaluated as satisfactory. However, it is reported that the symptoms of the disease are preserved. Doctors forbade the champion to do any hard work.

Masterkova 57 years old. At the 1996 Games in Atlanta, she won gold in running at distances of 800 and 1,500 meters.

In the summer of 2024, Maskova already went to the hospital

It is known that in the summer of 2024, Svetlana Masterkova already went to the hospital when she began to lose speech during physical exertion and stress. Doctors suspected her stroke, but he was not confirmed. The tumor was discovered in the head.

According to Mash, after a month and a half, the athlete was operated on – the tumor was removed with microsurgically, after which it passed several courses of chemotherapy.

In this regard, the athlete began serious vision problems, the cardiovascular system and joints.

Masterkova is a two -time Olympic champion and world champion

Svetlana Masterkova – Soviet and Russian athletics specializing in medium -distance running. She was born in the city of Achinsk, Krasnoyarsk Territory. Masterkova is a two -time Olympic champion at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics and the 1999 world champion.

Masterkova began a sports career as a runner of 800 meters. In 1991, at this distance, she won the last championship of the USSR in history and won a ticket to the world championship. At the 1991 World Cup in Tokyo, she took eighth place.

On August 14, 1996, Maskkova set a world record in the run for one mile – 4.12.56, and nine days later, on August 23, 1996 – a world record in running 1000 meters. In addition, for 23 years she was a world record holder in a mile in open rooms. A leg injury prevented the Russian athlete to repeat her success at the 2000 Olympic Games in Australian Sydney.

Masterkova completed her sports career in 2003. After that, the champion worked as a sports television team on the NTV +channel, took part in various television shows and was the director of the Moscow Palace of Children’s Sports. In addition, she is the owner of the Order of Merit to the Fatherland, III degree, bears the title of Honored Master of Sports of Russia and the best athlete of the world according to the International Association of athletics federations.