Iryna Babezkaya

Iryna Babezkaya
Association	Belarus
birthday	June 20, 1986
place of birth	Lahojsk , Soviet Union
Career
job	Student sports soldier
society	Army Sports Club
Trainer	Mikalaj Sacharau
status	active
Medal table
SWM medals 1 × 0 × 0 × SEM medals 1 × 0 × 0 × JSWM medals 1 × 0 × 2 ×
Summer biathlon world championships gold 2009 Oberhof sprint  Summer biathlon European championships gold 2009 Nové Město Mass start  Junior Summer Biathlon World Championships gold 2006 Ufa persecution bronze 2006 Ufa Mixed bronze 2007 Otepää sprint
World Cup balance
last change: August 19, 2009

Iryna Babezkaja ( Belarusian Ірына Бабецкая , Russian Ирина Николаевна Бабецкая / Irina Nikolajewna Babezkaja; born June 20, 1986 in Lahojsk , Minskaja Woblasz ) is a Belarusian biathlete .

Iryna Babezkaja is a student. She lives and trains in her native Lahojsk, where she competes for the army sports club and is looked after by trainer Mikalaj Sacharau. The sports soldier began biathlon in 1991. The Belarusian competed in the first international races in the Junior European Cup in 2005 in Obertilliach , and the following year she was among the top ten for the first time in Martell . At the junior summer biathlon world championship in Ufa in 2006 , Babezkaja missed a medal in fourth place in the cross-country sprint, and in the following pursuit race she was able to win and become junior world champion. In the mixed relay race of cross-country runners, a bronze medal was added alongside Nadseja Skardsina , Wadsim Zwetau and Igor Matlachow . In the sprint scooter competitions, he came eighth in the sprint and seventh in the pursuit. In the winter of 2007 she took part in the Junior World Championships on snow for the first time in Martell. The best result was a 30th place in the sprint race. Shortly afterwards, the European Junior Championships in Bansko went better, with a top ten result with seventh place in the pursuit. At the Summer Junior World Championships Babezkaya again achieved good results. She was ninth in the sprint, fourth in the mass start race and with the mixed relay she won the bronze medal again.

In the women’s category, Babezkajas’s first internationally significant event was at the 2006 Winter Military World Championships in Andermatt , where she came 25th in the sprint. In 2008 she reached 38th place in Hochfilzen . Since 2008, the Belarusian has specialized increasingly in summer biathlon. The 2008 Summer Biathlon World Championships in Haute-Maurienne became the first major event in the summer for women. She finished sixth in the cross-country sprint and seventh in the pursuit race. In the roller ski competitions she came in 19th place in the sprint and was fifth with Maryja Kaslouskaja , Jauhen Schuleu and Sjarhej Daschkewitsch in the mixed relay. The final breakthrough made Babezkaja 2009. First she was in Nové Město na Moravě at the Summer Biathlon European Championships 2009 after an eleventh place in the sprint European champion in the pursuit. With the mixed relay around Hanna Zwetawa , Zwetau and Matlachow, she missed the bronze medal by four seconds against the team from the Czech Republic and came in fourth. At the Summer Biathlon World Championships in Oberhof in 2008 , Babezkaja won the women's opening race, the cross-country sprint, and became world champion for the first time. In the pursuit, she slipped back to fifth.

Web links

• Iryna Babezkaja in the IBU database (English)