Kryszina Zimanouskaja

Kryszina Zimanouskaja
Kryszina Zimanouskaja at the Summer Universiade 2019
Full name	Kryszina Sjarhejeuna Zimanouskaja
nation	Belarus
date of birth	19th November 1996 (age 24)
place of birth	Klimawitschy , Belarus
size	168 cm
Weight	61 kg
profession	Student
Career
discipline	sprint
society	BFST Dynamo Minsk
status	active
Medal table
European Games 0 × 1 × 0 × Summer Universiade 1 × 0 × 0 × U23 European Championships 0 × 1 × 0 ×
European Games silver Minsk 2019 100 m  Universiade gold Naples 2019 200 m  U23 European Championships silver Bydgoszcz 2017 100 m
last change: August 2nd, 2021

Cyrillic ( Belarusian )
	Крысціна Сяргееўна Ціманоўская
Transcr. :	Kryszina Sjarhejeuna Zimanouskaja
Cyrillic ( Russian )
	Кристи́на Серге́евна Тимано́вская
Transl .:	Kristina Sergeevna Timanovskaja
Transcr .:	Kristina Sergejewna Timanovskaya

Kryszina Sjarhejeuna Zimanouskaja ( Belarusian Крысціна Сяргееўна Ціманоўская , often Kristina Timanowskaja in the German-language press ; born November 19, 1996 in Klimawitschy ) is a Belarusian sprinter .

Athletic career

Zimanouskaja gained her first international experience in 2015 at the Junior European Championships in Eskilstuna , where she finished sixth in the 100-meter run in 11.85 seconds , while she was eliminated over 200 meters with 24.51 seconds in the lead. Two years later she reached the semifinals in the 60-meter run at the European Indoor Championships in Belgrade , in which she was eliminated with 7.39 seconds. At the U23 European Championships in Bydgoszcz she won the silver medal behind Polish Ewa Swoboda in 11.54 seconds and in the 200-meter run she was fourth in 23.32 seconds. In 2018 she took part in the World Indoor Championships in Birmingham and was eliminated there with 7.37 seconds in advance. In August of the same year she reached the semifinals at the European Championships in Berlin over 100 and 200 meters , in which she was eliminated with 11.34 seconds and 23.03 seconds respectively. The following year she was seventh over 60 meters in 7.26 seconds at the European Indoor Championships in Glasgow and in July she finished sixth in 11.44 seconds at the Summer Universiade in Naples . Two days later she won the 200 meters in 23.00 seconds. Before that, she won the silver medal behind Maja Mihalinec from Slovenia in 11.36 seconds at the European Games in Minsk . Over 200 meters she took part in the World Championships in Doha at the end of September and was eliminated there with 23.22 seconds in the first round .

In 2021, Zimanouskaja was disqualified in the first round of the European Indoor Championships in Toruń for leaving the designated track. However, she qualified in the 100- and 200-meter run for the Summer Olympics in Tokyo , but retired over 100 meters with 11.47 seconds in the lead . After the start of the Summer Olympics, the officials of their delegation ordered that they should also compete in the 4 × 400 meter relay , as the runners Hanna Michajlawa and Kryszina Muljartschik (as well as the high jumper Maryja Schodsik) were not for the games due to missed doping controls had been admitted.

Between 2016 and 2020 , Zimanouskaja became the Belarusian champion in the 100 and 200 meter races every year. In addition, she won the 60-meter run in the hall from 2017 to 2021 as well as the 200 meters in 2017, 2019 and 2020.

Incident at the Olympic Summer Games in Tokyo 2021

After Zimanouskaja publicly criticized the short-term occupation of the 4 × 400 meter relay, the officials of her delegation brought her to Tokyo Haneda Airport against her will , where she was supposed to board a plane to Istanbul for the onward flight to Minsk. Volunteers and officers from the Japanese police stopped this.

According to Zimanouskaja, her head coach said there had been an "order from above" to "remove" her. At the airport, she announced that she was afraid to fly to Belarus and asked the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for help. The National Olympic Committee of the Republic of Belarus stated that the athlete had been excluded because of her "emotional-psychological state". Zimanouskaja spent the night from August 1st to 2nd, accompanied by IOC staff, in a hotel at the airport. On August 2nd, she received a humanitarian visa at the Polish embassy in Tokyo . In addition to Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovenia had also offered her asylum.

Personal best

• 100 meters: 11.04 s (+0.7 m / s), July 11, 2018 in Minsk
  • 60 meters (hall): 7.21 s, February 18, 2017 in Mahiljou
• 200 meters: 22.78 s (−1.2 m / s), August 31, 2019 in Minsk
  • 200 meters (hall): 23.62 s, January 30, 2019 in Mahiljou

Web links

Commons : Kryszina Zimanouskaja  - collection of images

• Kryszina Zimanouskaja in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Kryszina Zimanouskaja in the database of Olympedia.org (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Из-за косяка чиновников (они включили дурака и не признают вину) у беларусов в Токио подвисла эстафета 4 по 400. В нее заявляют девушек совсем другого профиля - и это просто жесть found on by.tribuny.com of 30 July 2021 on August 1, 2021 (Belarusian).
2. ↑ Andy Brown: Nobody apologized on sportsintegritiyinitiative.com on July 30, 2021, accessed on August 1, 2021.
3. ↑ "Они накосячили с девчонками" - белорусская легкоатлетка Тимановская заявила, что «очень крутое начальство" поставило ее на эстафету на Олимпиаде без ее ведома on telegraf.by of 30 July 2021 Retrieved on August 1, 2021 (White Russian).
4. ↑ "Проста сказалі збіраць рэчы" Ціманоўская пра выгнанне з Алімпіяды ў Токіа on Eurapejskaje Radyjo dlja Belarusi from 1 August 2021 Retrieved on August 1, 2021 (White Russian).
5. ↑ EXCLUSIVE Olympics-Belarusian athlete says she was taken to airport to go home after criticizing coaches. Accessed August 1, 2021 . 
6. ↑ Belarus apparently wants to force a sprinter to leave. Retrieved August 1, 2021 . 
7. ↑ Belarus athlete victim of kidnapping according to opposition - she wants to apply for asylum. Retrieved August 1, 2021 . 
8. ↑ Timanowskaja receives asylum in Poland. In: Tagesschau.de . Retrieved August 2, 2021 .