Inna Scheschkil started competitive sports at a young age, her father was a coach at a sports school in Makinsk. She attended a sports institute in Almaty , where her talent for biathlon was discovered. After less than three years, she made the leap into the junior national team of the USSR in 1991, before the collapse of the Soviet Union . Against great resistance, she was one of the few non-Russian athletes to be appointed to the team of the USSR and subsequently the Commonwealth of Independent States and took part in the 1992 Biathlon World Championships for the CIS team. In the team competition in Novosibirsk she won the silver medal behind the team from Germany together with Jelena Belowa , Anfissa Reszowa and Swetlana Petschorskaja . In 1994 she made her debut for Kazakhstan in the biathlon world cup . In Ruhpolding she finished 44th in the individual. Up to the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer , she had started in four World Cup races without winning any points. In the individual she reached 29th place. A surprise that was tantamount to a sensation was the Scheschkils sprint race. She missed the bronze medal by just 3.9 seconds behind Walentyna Zerbe , a fall shortly before the finish prevented a medal from being won. It should still be the greatest single success in the Kazakhstan's career. At the Holmenkollen in Oslo she won her first World Cup points as 24th in the individual and 21st in the sprint at the beginning of the 1994/95 World Cup season . Shortly afterwards, she came in fifth in the sprint in Osrblie again among the top ten. In the period that followed, the Kazakh woman repeatedly placed in the points, but then suspended the biathlon for a year because of the birth of her daughter. At the first summer biathlon world championships in Hochfilzen in 1996 , the Kazakh woman won the bronze medal in the sprint race. At the Biathlon World Championships in 1997 Scheschkil reached 21st place in the individual, 48th place in the sprint, twelfth place with the team and 6th place with the Kazakh relay, which was seen as a big surprise. In 1998 she started in Nagano for the second time at the Olympic Games. After a 54th place in the individual, she was 20th in the sprint and eleventh with the relay. First, she announced her retirement after the Nagano Olympics after differences with the newly appointed coaching staff in Kazakhstan. But she continued her career without a coach and won the overall standings of the 1998/99 European Cup , as well as three individual races, was second six times and third twice. She competed for Kazakhstan until the end of the season and then moved to the Belarusian association. The change followed through mediation by her friend Svetlana Paramygina together with her husband Valeri Ivanov , also a biathlete. The newly appointed coach of Belarus, Alexander Popov , brought promising athletes from the successor states of the Soviet Union to the Belarusian team. However, Scheschkil no longer achieved notable successes in the World Cup. At the end of her career, Scheschkil started at the Biathlon European Championships in Zakopane in 2000 . She was 13th in the sprint and 15th in the pursuit. With the relay, she just missed a medal as fourth at the end of her career. After there were again differences with the Belarusian team leadership under Nikolai Sakharov, she finally ended her career. Sheschkil was awarded the title of Honored Master of Sport . She has a daughter with her husband Valeri (1996), lives in seclusion and lived in the closed city of Meschgorje until 2010 .
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
placement
singles
sprint
persecution
Mass start
team
Season
total
1st place
2nd place
1
1
3rd place
Top 10
2
3
5
Scoring
4th
10
3
4th
21st
Starts
16
21st
4th
3
4th
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Status : After the end of your career, results not complete
Soviet Union CIS Kazakhstan Belarus
