Anastasiya Kuzmina

This article deals with the sportswoman, for the mathematician see Galina Wassiljewna Kusmina

Anastasiya Kuzmina
Full name	Anastasia Kuzminová
Association	Slovakia Russia (until 2007)
birthday	28th August 1984 (age 36)
place of birth	Tyumen ,  Soviet Union
Career
society	VŠC Dukla Banská Bystrica
Trainer	Daniel Kuzmin
Admission to the national team	1999
Debut in the European Cup / IBU Cup	2005
European Cup / IBU Cup victories	3
Debut in the World Cup	2006
World Cup victories	16
status	resigned
End of career	2019
Medal table
Olympic games 3 × 3 × 0 × Biathlon World Cup 1 × 1 × 1 × Biathlon JWM 1 × 1 × 1 × Biathlon EM 2 × 0 × 0 × Summer biathlon world championship 0 × 0 × 2 ×
winter Olympics gold 2010 Vancouver sprint silver 2010 Vancouver persecution gold 2014 Sochi sprint gold 2018 Pyeongchang Mass start silver 2018 Pyeongchang persecution silver 2018 Pyeongchang singles  Biathlon world championships silver 2009 Pyeongchang Mass start bronze 2011 Khanty-Mansiysk sprint gold 2019 Östersund sprint  European biathlon championships gold 2009 Ufa sprint gold 2009 Ufa persecution  Summer biathlon world championships bronze 2009 Oberhof Mixed relay bronze 2011 Nové Město na Moravě Mixed relay  Biathlon Junior World Championships silver 2004 Haute Maurienne Season gold 2005 Kontiolahti Season bronze 2005 Kontiolahti sprint
World Cup balance
Overall World Cup	2. ( 2017/18 )
Individual World Cup	3rd ( 2013/14 )
Sprint World Cup	1.  (2017/18, 2018/19 )
Pursuit World Cup	1.  (2017/18)
Mass start world cup	2. (2013/14)
Podium placements 1. 2. 3. singles 0 2 1 sprint 9 4th 2 persecution 5 5 1 Mass start 2 4th 1 Season 0 0 1

Anastasiya Kuzmina ( Slovak Anastázia Kuzminova , Russian Анастасия Владимировна Кузьмина , born Schipulina , Russian Шипулина * 28. August 1984 in Tyumen , Russian SFSR , Soviet Union ) is a former Slovak biathlete Russian origin and three-time Olympic champion and world champion in biathlon.

biography

Kuzmina at the World Cup in Oberhof in January 2018

Kuzmina has been practicing biathlon since 1999. The policewoman lived in Tyumen and started for Dinamo Tyumen . She was trained by Valeri Polchowski, Sergei Schestow and Leonid Gurjew .

Junior area and World Cup debut (until 2007)

Kuzmina was already extremely successful in the junior area. At the Junior World Championships in Ridnaun in 2002 , she won a first medal, silver with the Russian relay. A year later, in Kościelisko , she won relay gold and silver in singles and in the pursuit. In 2004 she won the relay silver again in Haute-Maurienne , and in 2005 she won relay gold and bronze in the sprint in Kontiolahti . In 2004 she started at the Junior European Championships in Minsk . Here she won gold with the relay and silver behind Krystyna Pałka in the pursuit. The following year she started a second time at a junior European championship. In Novosibirsk she won silver in the sprint and gold in the individual after Anna Bulygina .

In 2005 Kuzmina made her debut in the European Cup in Obertilliach . She was seventh in the singles. She won a sprint race in Obertilliach. At the beginning of 2006 she made her debut in the Biathlon World Cup in Oberhof . In the sprint she was 63rd, in the subsequent pursuit 37th. The next season she won her first World Cup points in Östersund as 13th and achieved her best ever World Cup result - but she ended the season prematurely after the second World Cup station in Hochfilzen because she was her first Child expected.

World Cup medals and first Olympic victory (2008 to 2011)

During the break, Kuzmina changed associations and has been playing for Slovakia ever since. The 2009 biathlon world championships in Pyeongchang were particularly successful in their first season for their new country . There she surprisingly won the silver medal in the mass start behind Olga Saizewa . Before that, she had achieved very good results with ranks 29 in the individual, seven in the sprint - also her first top ten placement in a World Cup race - and 17 in the pursuit race. The European biathlon championship , which began a week later in Ufa , began no less successfully . Kuzmina won the sprint and pursuit titles.

At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver , she won the gold medal in the sprint and silver in the pursuit. At the same time it was her first World Cup victory and the first gold for Slovakia at the Winter Olympics, the Slovak Ondrej Nepela won gold in Czechoslovakian colors at the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo. The following season she won the sprint in Hochfilzen and was often in the top ten. After she skipped the stations in Presque Isle and Fort Kent , she ran in the first individual competition of the Biathlon World Championships 2011 in Khanty-Mansiysk in the sprint to third place.

World Cup successes and second Olympic victory (2012 to 2014)

In the two following seasons 2011/12 and 2012/13 Kuzmina stabilized in the world elite. She regularly reached the top ranks and was represented in the overall World Cup top 10. However, she could not win any more World Cup medals.

At the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi , she won her second gold medal in the sprint and two more races at the end of the World Cup in Oslo. At the end of the season, she started from April 4 to 7, 2014 in the Arctic Circle Race , a 160 km long distance race on Greenland, and finished second behind Niviaq Chemnitz Berthelsen .

Comeback, most successful season and third Olympic victory (2016 to 2018)

After a second pregnancy break in 2014, Kuzmina did not return to biathlon in 2015. She did not contest her first race at an IBU Cup until March 2016, and in December of the same year she made her comeback in the World Cup at the Pokljuka , where she finished sixth in the first race. However, she did not contest the entire 2016/17 season , which was less successful overall with 40th place in the overall World Cup.

In December 2017, Anastasiya Kuzmina won her first World Cup race in Hochfilzen in over three years. At the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang , she won two silver medals, in singles and in pursuit, as well as her third gold medal at the mass start Olympics. Overall, the 2017/18 season was the most successful of her career , just three points behind the winner Kaisa Mäkäräinen , with five victories, winning the small crystal balls for the sprint and pursuit disciplines and second place in the overall World Cup .

First world title and end of career (2019)

In autumn 2018, she announced that she would end her career after the 2019 World Championships in Östersund , where she wanted to win a world title for the first time. Already in the first competition of this event, the sprint, she reached her goal and became world champion. At the following World Cup final in Oslo , she won the sprint and pursuit and was third in the overall standings in her last season and again won the sprint discipline.

Private

Anastasiya Kuzmina is the sister of the former Russian biathlete Anton Schipulin . She lives in Banská Bystrica with the Russian-born former Israeli cross-country skier Daniel Kuzmin , whom she married in 2008 . The couple has a son (* 2008) and a daughter (* 2014).

statistics

World Cup victories

No.	date	place	discipline
1.	Feb 13, 2010	Vancouver ( OWS )	sprint
2.	Dec 10, 2010	Hochfilzen	sprint
3.	19 Mar 2011	Oslo	persecution
4th	Jan. 17, 2013	Antholz	sprint
5.	22 Mar 2014	Oslo	persecution
6th	23 Mar 2014	Oslo	Mass start
7th	0Dec 9, 2017	Hochfilzen	persecution
8th.	Dec 14, 2017	Le Grand-Bornand	sprint
9.	0Jan. 4, 2018	Oberhof	sprint
10.	0Jan. 6, 2018	Oberhof	persecution
11.	15th Mar 2018	Oslo	sprint
12.	23 Dec 2018	Nové Město na Moravě	Mass start
13.	Jan. 17, 2019	Ruhpolding	sprint
14th	0March 8 2019	Östersund ( World Cup )	sprint
15th	21 Mar 2019	Oslo	sprint
16.	23 Mar 2019	Oslo	persecution

Biathlon World Cup placements

The table shows all placements (depending on the year, including the Olympic Games and World Championships).

• 1st - 3rd Place: Number of podium placements
• Top 10: Number of placements in the top ten (including podium)
• Points ranks: Number of placements within the point ranks (including podium and top 10)
• Starts: Number of races run in the respective discipline
• Relay: including mixed relays

placement	singles	sprint	persecution	Mass start	Season	total
1st place		9	5	2		16
2nd place	1	4th	4th	4th		13
3rd place	1	2	1	1	1	6th
Top 10	10	32	25th	18th	20th	105
Scoring	19th	67	55	33	42	216
Starts	22nd	75	59	33	42	231
Status: end of career

winter Olympics

	Individual competitions				Relay competitions
	sprint	persecution	singles	Mass start	Women's relay	Mixed relay
2010 Winter Olympics  Vancouver	1.	2.	39.	8th.	13.	-
2014 Winter Olympics  Sochi	1.	6th	27.	26th	-	5.
Olympic Winter Games 2018  Pyeongchang	13.	2.	2.	1.	5.	20th

World championships

	Individual competitions				Relay competitions
	sprint	persecution	singles	Mass start	Women's relay	Mixed relay
World Championships 2009  Pyeongchang	7th	17th	29	2.	13.	10.
Mixed Relay World Championship 2010  Khanty-Mansiysk						13.
World Championships 2011  Khanty-Mansiysk	3.	6th	9.	9.	7th	12.
World Championships 2012  Ruhpolding	10.	19th	10.	8th.	8th.	7th
World Championships 2013  Nové Město na Moravě	17th	14th	4th	15th	8th.	7th
World Championships 2017  Hochfilzen	8th.	13.	-	22nd	8th.	-
World Championships 2019  Ostersund	1.	6th	58.	28.	6th	-

Web links

Commons : Anastasiya Kuzmina  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Anastasiya Kuzmina in the IBU database (English)
• Anastasiya Kuzmina in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Nadine Gärtner: Russian women return after maternity leave . XNX GmbH - biathlon.xc-ski.de. March 19, 2007. Archived from the original on March 22, 2014. Retrieved March 6, 2011.
2. ↑ Arctic Circle Race Secretariat: I am impressed by Niviaq Chemnitz Berthelsen ( en ) Arctic Circle Race - acr.gl. April 4, 2014. Retrieved December 8, 2014.