Iryna Kryuko
Iryna Kryuko | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Association | Belarus | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
birthday | 30th July 1991 (age 29) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
place of birth | Sjanno, Soviet Union | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
size | 159 cm | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 50 kg | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Debut in the European Cup / IBU Cup | 2010 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Debut in the World Cup | 2011 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
status | active | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Overall World Cup | 15. ( 2018/19 ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Individual World Cup | 21. ( 2017/18 ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sprint World Cup | 18. (2018/19) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pursuit World Cup | 16. (2018/19) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Mass start world cup | 7. (2017/18) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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last change: August 4, 2020 |
Iryna Kryuko ( Belarusian Ірына Крыўко , born July 30, 1991 in Sjanno , Belarusian SSR , Soviet Union ) is a Belarusian biathlete . In 2011 she made her debut in the Biathlon World Cup and came on the podium for the first time in a single race in December 2017. With the relay, she became Olympic champion in 2018.
Career
Beginnings and first World Cup appearances (until 2014)
Kryuko was born in northeast Belarus, in the Vitebsk region. After her parents' divorce, she and her younger brother Wiktar - who later also competed in the World Cup as a biathlete - grew up with their mother. During her childhood the family home burned down; she then moved to the local sports school. At the suggestion of her sports teacher, Kryuko began biathlon training. She played her first international competitions in the youth field at the 2009 World Youth Championships in Canmore , where she won silver in the relay with Nelia Nikalajewa and Darja Neszertschyk and was fourth in the 10-kilometer individual competition, missing a medal by ten seconds. Until 2012, Kryuko continued to regularly take part in the World and European Championships in their age group. In 2010 she won the bronze medal with the relay at the World Youth Championship , and in 2011 she won bronze again as the starting runner of the mixed relay at the junior competitions of the European Championships . She won her first international individual medal as third in the pursuit at the Junior World Championships in 2012 in Kontiolahti.
In the winter of 2010/11 Kryuko made his debut in the IBU Cup , the second highest racing series in the adult segment. In all competitions she was among the top 40, as the best result of the season she achieved a 19th place in the pursuit of Obertilliach . A year later she received her first appearances in the biathlon world cup , where she won her first world cup point in December 2011 in the pursuit race of Hochfilzen in 40th place. At the 2012 World Championships , Kryuko gave up prematurely on her only start in singles. Until 2014 she was nominated alternately for the IBU Cup and the World Cup, initially without establishing herself permanently in the first Belarusian team. At the European Championships in 2014 , which were exuberant by many World Cup starters , Kryuko won the bronze medal in the individual - 9.7 seconds behind the winner Audrey Vaillancourt - and became the European relay champion alongside Ala Talkatsch , Aksana Schymanowitsch and Nastassja Kalina .
Establishment in the World Cup and Olympic victory (since 2014)
From the 2014/15 season , Kryuko became an integral part of the Belarusian World Cup team. In January 2015 she ran in Ruhpolding with the relay around Nadseja Skardsina , Nadseja Pissarawa and Darja Domratschawa in second place and was thus on the podium of a World Cup race for the first time. As the best individual result, she achieved a ninth place in the pursuit of Nové Město. In the two following winters, she maintained this level and finished in 54th and 38th overall World Cup. She lagged behind the results of Domratschawa and Skardsina - whom she referred to in a later interview as the “two leaders” of the team - but counted next to them to the strongest biathletes in their country. In December 2017, at the Annecy - Le Grand-Bornand mass start, Kryuko was the only female athlete in the 30-man field to hit with all 20 shots, finishing second, 11.2 seconds behind Justine Braisaz . At the 2018 Winter Games in Pyeongchang , Kryuko was part of the Belarusian Olympic squad and took part in five of six competitions. Her best individual result was 17th place, which she achieved in the sprint and pursuit. In the Olympic relay she ran in second position, took over the race from Nadseja Skardsina in tenth place and handed it over to Dsinara Alimbekawa in fifth . Final runner Darja Domratschawa led the quartet to Olympic victory. In February 2018, Belarusian President Aljaksandr Lukashenka awarded all four runners the medal for personal courage (Ордэн “За асабістую мужнасць”).
Both Domratschawa and Skardsina resigned after the 2018 Winter Games. In the newly formed Belarusian World Cup team, Kryuko was the strongest athlete from 2018 to 2020. In the 2018/19 season , she reached the top ten in seven of the first fifteen World Cup races. At the end of the season, she skipped several competitions in preparation for the World and European Championships - at the behest of her coaches - and fell back from seventh to fifteenth place in the overall ranking of the World Cup. At the home European championship 2019 in Minsk-Raubitschy , she won bronze in the individual and silver in the pursuit. The following year, the European Championships took place in Raubitschy for the second time in a row, and as third in the sprint, Kryuko won another medal.
statistics
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 | Season | total |
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1st place | ||||||
2nd place | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
3rd place | ||||||
Top 10 | 3 | 6th | 5 | 19th | 33 | |
Scoring | 7th | 27 | 24 | 14th | 36 | 108 |
Starts | 18th | 61 | 35 | 14th | 36 | 164 |
Status: end of season 2019/20 |
Biathlon world championships
Results at world championships:
World Championship | Individual competitions | Relay competitions | ||||||
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year | place | sprint | persecution | singles | Mass start | Women's relay | Mixed relay | Single mixed relay |
2012 | Ruhpolding | - | - | DNF | - | - | - | |
2015 | Kontiolahti | - | - | 19th | - | 6th | - | |
2016 | Oslo | 66. | - | 64. | - | 18th | 9. | |
2017 | Hochfilzen | 36. | 45. | 14th | - | 9. | 22nd | |
2019 | Ostersund | 26th | 33. | 62. | 24. | 11. | - | - |
2020 | Antholz | 52. | 49. | 30th | - | 13. | 12 | - |
winter Olympics
Results at Olympic Winter Games:
Individual competitions | Relay competitions | |||||
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sprint | persecution | singles | Mass start | Women's relay | Mixed relay | |
Olympic Winter Games 2018 | Pyeongchang | 17th | 17th | 36. | 26th | 1. | - |
Web links
- Iryna Kryuko in the database of the IBU (English)
- Portrait on the side of the National Olympic Committee of the Republic of Belarus (Belarusian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Iryna Kryuko. Eurosport , accessed February 23, 2020 .
- ↑ a b c Ivanna Nikolskaya: Success - not thanks, but despite the circumstances. In: Biathlonworld. No. 50/2019, pp. 86-91. Available as PDF .
- ↑ Лукашенко наградил белорусских биатлонисток - олимпийских чемпионок орденами "За личное мужество" on minsknews.by. February 22, 2018.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Kryuko, Iryna |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Крыўко, Ірына (Belarusian) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belarusian biathlete |
DATE OF BIRTH | July 30, 1991 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Syanno , Belarusian SSR , Soviet Union |