Irina Nikolaevna Kalentjewa

Irina Kalentyeva at the 2012 Olympic Games

Irina Kalentieva ( Russian Ирина Николаевна Калентьева , also Irina Kalentieva * 10. November 1977 in Norwasch-Schigali , Chuvash ASSR , Russian SFSR , Soviet Union ) is a Russian mountain biker with the special discipline Cross Country , which in this discipline twice world champion was (2007 , 2009).

Career

Irina Kalentjewa grew up in the Volga region . In 2000 she was the first Russian Cross Country Champion. At the international level, she won first medals in this discipline in this discipline in 2003 as third in each case at the World and European Championships.

In 2003 she moved her residence from Russia to Aalen , after winning the overall ranking of the German Mountain Bike Bundesliga in 2002. Her greatest career successes came with the world championship titles in cross country in 2007 and 2009.

In 2008 she finished third at the Beijing Olympics.

Sporting successes

Olympic games

• Cross Country 2008

World championships

• Cross Country 2007, 2009
• Cross Country 2010, 2014
• 2004 marathon
• Cross-Country 2003, 2008

Mountain Bike World Cup - Cross Country

• Schladming 2004
• Offenburg 2007, 2008
• Mont-Sainte-Anne 2007
• St. Felicien 2007
• Hafjell Hafjell

European championships

• Cross Country 2003, 2007, 2008, 2009
• Cross Country 2001

Russian championships

• Cross-Country 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2012, 2014

Mountain bike Bundesliga

• Overall ranking 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007

Web links

Commons : Irina Kalentjewa  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Official website
• Irina Nikolajewna Kalentjewa in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Irina Kalentjewa on bike2b.com ( Memento from October 16, 2008 in the Internet Archive )