Anton Smolski

Anton Smolski
Association	Belarus
birthday	16th December 1996 (age 23)
place of birth	Pyassochnaya ,  Belarus
Career
job	athlete
society	RCOP Raubitschy
Debut in the European Cup / IBU Cup	2017
Debut in the World Cup	2017
status	active
Medal table
JWM medals 0 × 0 × 1 × JEM medals 0 × 0 × 1 ×
Biathlon Junior World Championships bronze 2017 Brezno persecution  Biathlon Junior European Championships bronze 2017 Nové Město singles
World Cup balance
Overall World Cup	36th ( 2019/20 )
Individual World Cup	53rd (2019/20)
Sprint World Cup	27. (2019/20)
Pursuit World Cup	42nd (2019/20)
Continental Cup balance
Overall IBU Cup	47th ( 2019/20 )
last change: August 5, 2020

Anton Smolski ( Byelorussian Антон Смольскі , born December 16, 1996 in Pjassochnaje , Kapyl Raion , Minskaya Woblasz ) is a Belarusian biathlete .

Career

Beginnings

Anton Smolski contested his first international race at the Junior World Championships 2015 in his home country in Minsk . In the sprint he was 53rd and was able to improve to 42nd in the subsequent pursuit. In the following season he started in two races in the first ever IBU Junior Cup . In the 2016/17 season he then took part in all races of the Junior Cup, achieved two podium places and finished eighth in the overall standings. In the Junior European Championships and Junior World Championships , which concluded the Junior Cup , he first ran on the podium. At the Junior European Championships in Nové Město Smolski won bronze in singles and at the Junior World Championships in Osrblie he was able to improve by one place in the pursuit after a fourth place in the sprint and was third. After the Junior Cup ended with the Junior World Championships, Smolski started in the IBU Cup for the first time . His best results in this remaining season were a 24th place in the sprint and two top ten results with the mixed and single-mixed relay.

First World Cup and Olympic Games (since 2017/18)

At the beginning of the 2017/18 Olympic season , Smolski started in the World Cup for the first time . Together with Iryna Kryuko , he competed in the first race and finished eleventh in the single mixed relay competition. In Annecy he started the sprint for the first time in an individual competition and reached the 90th place. He then contested the first two races of the new year in the IBU Cup and started again in the World Cup in Ruhpolding and finished 85th in the individual. At the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang , he finished 35th in the sprint and 33rd in the pursuit. He finished eighth with the Belarusian relay, the best result for the relay in two years. This season result could be repeated in Oslo . With a 41st place in the sprint in Tyumen , he missed his first World Cup points by one place.

The 2018/19 season began for Smolski with results outside the points. At the beginning of the second trimester in Oberhof he reached the points for the first time with a 26th place, but these remained the only points this season. At his first World Championships in Östersund , his best result was a 58th place in the individual. In the next winter Smolski reached world cup points with a 35th place right at the World Cup start in Östersund. His best result of the season he achieved in March in Kontiolahti, where he finished 14th in the pursuit. As the best athlete of the Belarusian team, he was 36th in the overall World Cup at the end of the season.

statistics

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
2nd place
3rd place
Top 10					8th	8th
Scoring	2	5	2		20th	29
Starts	6th	19th	9		20th	54
Status: end of season 2019/20

winter Olympics

Results at Olympic Winter Games:

winter Olympics		singles	sprint	persecution	Mass start	Season	Mixed relay
year	place
2018	Pyeongchang	-	35.	33.	-	8th.	-

World championships

Results at the World Championships:

World championships		singles	sprint	persecution	Mass start	Season	Mixed relay	Single mixed relay
year	place
2019	Ostersund	58.	77.	-	-	10.	13.	-
2020	Antholz	34.	15th	38.	-	9.	12.	-

European championships

Results at the European Championships:

European championships		singles	sprint	persecution	Mixed relay	Single mixed relay	Super sprint
year	place
2018	Ridanna	-	57.	DNS	-	-
2019	Minsk	63.	22nd	7th	-	-
2020	Minsk	-	7th	15th	4th	-	11.

Junior World Championships

Results at the youth and junior world championships:

World championships		singles	sprint	persecution	Season
year	place
2015	Minsk	-	53.	42.	-
2017	Osrblie	20th	4th	3.	7th

Web links

• Anton Smolski in the IBU database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Антон Смольский. Персональные данные. In: biathlon.com.ua. Retrieved January 19, 2020 (Russian / Ukrainian).