Irina Tananajko

Irina Tananajko ( Cyrillic Ирина Александровна Тананайко; born March 5, 1976 in Mahiljou ) is a former Belarusian biathlete who also competes for Ukraine .

Irina Tananajko is a sports teacher from Mahiljou . She has been running biathlon since 1995 and competes for Dynamo Mahiljou . In the biathlon world cup Tananajko made her debut in 1996 in a sprint race in Lillehammer , in which she, as in the subsequent pursuit, was 48th. A year later she started in Osrblie for the first time at the biathlon world championships . In the singles she came in 27th place. In the 1997/98 season she won the Östersund World Cup points for the first time in 12th place . In the summer of 1998, the Belarusian started at the World Championships in Summer Biathlon in Osrblie and achieved sixth place in the pursuit after eighth place in the sprint. The highlight of the season was Tananajko's only participation in the Olympic Games . In Nagano she was 22nd in both individual and sprint. The following season - again in Osrblie - brought her best placement in the World Cup. In the relay race she was second with Swetlana Paramygina , Natalia Murschtschakina and Natallja Ryschankowa . She also achieved her best result in an individual race - seventh in an individual - a year later on this competition track.

The Biathlon World Championships 2000 at Holmenkollen in Oslo were also comparatively successful for Tananajko , where she achieved a 27th place in the sprint and even tenth in the individual. In the summer of 2000 she started again at a World Championships in summer biathlon. In Khanty-Mansiysk , Russia , she was sixth in the sprint, seventh in the pursuit and with Paramygina, Ludmila Lysenko and Wolha Nasarawa world champion in the relay competition. In 2002 the athlete changed her nationality from Belarusian to Ukrainian. At the World Championships 2004 in Oberhof and 2005 in Hochfilzen she was able to achieve good results, especially her seventh places with the Ukrainian relay were good placements.

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				2	13	17th
Scoring	11	6th	6th	1	2	23	49
Starts	31	53	20th	1	2	24	131

Web link

• Statistics at Biathlonworld