Irina Nikolaevna Mileschina

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Irina Mileschina biathlon
Full name Ирина Милешина
Association RussiaRussia Russia
birthday 20th July 1970
place of birth Lopatino,  Soviet UnionSoviet Union 1955Soviet Union 
Career
status resigned
Medal table
EM medals 3 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
IBU European biathlon championships
gold 1994 Kontiolahti sprint
gold 1994 Kontiolahti Season
bronze 1994 Kontiolahti singles
gold 1997 Windischgarsten Season
World Cup balance
 

Irina Nikolajewna Mileschina ( Russian Ирина Николаевна Милешина ; born July 20, 1970 in Lopatino , Penza Oblast ) is a former Russian biathlete .

Irina Mileschina lives in Yekaterinburg . The soldier began biathlon in 1987. For the first time she made a notable appearance at the first ever biathlon European championships in Kontiolahti . Behind Halina Pitoń and Martina Jasiková she won the bronze medal in the individual, she started the sprint ahead of Jiřina Pelcová and Kathi Schwaab . She also triumphed in the relay race as the final runner together with Larissa Novoselskaya and Jelena Dumnowa . The Russian competed in the Biathlon World Cup for the first time in Ruhpolding in 1994, where she immediately won World Cup points as 15th of an individual. At the start of the 1994/95 season in Bad Gastein , she achieved her best result in the World Cup with third place behind Hildegunn Mikkelsplass and Elin Kristiansen in a sprint. The high point of the season was the 1995 biathlon world championships in Antholz , where Mileschina was 33rd in the individual. Also in 1996 she was used in Ruhpolding in the world championship singles, which she now finished as 38th. In the 1996/97 season she mostly competed in the Biathlon European Cup and won the overall ranking of the racing series ahead of Tatjana Markowa and Iris Eckschläger . In 1997 she competed in her last World Cup races in Oberhof , where Mileschina was 20th in the sprint and seventh in the pursuit. 1997 she won in Windischgarsten again on the side of Tatjana Martynowa and Albina Achatowa the title in the relay race at the European Championships.

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