Larissa Grigoryevna Kuklina

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Larissa Kuklina biathlon
Larisa Kuznetsova.JPG
Full name Larissa Grigoryevna Kuklina
Association RussiaRussia Russia
birthday 12th December 1990 (age 29)
place of birth Labytnangi ,  Soviet UnionSoviet UnionSoviet Union 
Career
Debut in the European Cup / IBU Cup 2012
Debut in the World Cup 2019
World Cup victories 1
status active
Medal table
JWM medals 2 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
IBU Biathlon Junior World Championships
gold 2009 Canmore Youth relay
gold 2010 Torsby Season
World Cup balance
Overall World Cup 21. ( 2019/20 )
Individual World Cup 09. (2019/20)
Sprint World Cup 25. (2019/20)
Pursuit World Cup 16. (2019/20)
Mass start world cup 31. (2019/20)
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
Season 1 1 0
last change: July 16, 2020

Larissa Grigoryevna Kuklina ( Russian Лариса Григорьевна Куклина ; born December 12, 1990 in Labytnangi as Larissa Grigoryevna Kuznetsova ) is a Russian biathlete . With the relay she won two world championship titles in the youth and junior division in 2009 and 2010. In 2019 she made her debut in the Biathlon World Cup , where she also won her first race with the relay.

Athletic career

Larissa Kuznetsova grew up in the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug and began biathlon in her school days. In 2006 she represented her home region at the Arctic Winter Games in Alaska , where she won several gold medals. She established herself as one of the strongest athletes in the Russian youth sector and took part in both the 2009 World Youth Championships in Canmore and the 2010 World Junior Championships in Torsby . She won the gold medal both times in the relay race: in 2009 with Olga Galitsch and Anna Pogorelowa , in 2010 with Svetlana Perminowa and Anastassija Kalina . In the individual races, she achieved results between fifth and tenth place. At the 2010 European Junior Championships , Kuznetsova, Kalina, Yevgeny Petrov and Maksim Burtasov won the silver medal in the mixed relay race behind the French.

Kuznetsova's career was subsequently interrupted by several injury breaks. It wasn't until the 2012/13 season that she qualified for the Russian IBU Cup team. In the second highest international biathlon competition series, she was one of the strongest athletes: She reached seventh place in the overall standings, her best individual result was a second place in the Beitostølen sprint , in which only Ann Kristin Flatland beat her. With Tatiana Semjonowa , Sergei Klyachin and Alexander Pechonkin , she won the bronze medal in the mixed relay at the 2013 Winter Universiade . In the following winters, Kuznetsova (after her wedding in 2014: Kuklina) received sporadic appearances in the IBU Cup and competed at the 2016 Summer Biathlon World Championships in Otepää , where she finished eighth and ninth in sprint and pursuit.

In December 2018, Kuklina started again in the IBU Cup after four years. In Obertilliach she finished fifth in the sprint as the best result. A month later, she made her debut in Oberhof in the Biathlon World Cup as the third runner in the Russian relay. She took over the race from Yevgenia Pavlova and Margarita Wassiljewa , 14 seconds behind, and after two faultless shots handed over to the final runner, Ekaterina Jurlowa-Percht , who crossed the finish line first, tied with the leading German relay . Kuklina also celebrated her first World Cup victory on her debut in the World Cup. In the further course of the season Kuklina was nominated for the 2019 World Championships . In her only use in the 15-kilometer individual race, she was sixteenth as the best athlete in her country. In 2019/20 Kuklina was included in the Russian World Cup team throughout the entire season and was ranked 21st in the overall ranking. In three competitions she reached the top ten places, her best result was a fifth place in the Östersund singles .

Personal

Kuklina is married to the former cross-country skier Michail Kuklin and has a daughter with him (* 2015). The family lives in Saint Petersburg .

statistics

World Cup victories

No. date place discipline
1. Jan. 13, 2019 GermanyGermany Oberhof Season 1

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
  • Relay: including mixed relays
placement singles sprint persecution Mass start Season total
1st place 1 1
2nd place 1 1
3rd place  
Top 10 1 1 1 8th 11
Scoring 4th 7th 6th 3 8th 28
Starts 4th 11 6th 3 9 33
Status: end of season 2019/20

World championships

Results at the World Championships:

World championships singles sprint persecution Mass start Season Mixed relay Single mixed relay
year place
2019 SwedenSweden Ostersund 16. - - - - - -
2020 ItalyItaly Antholz 23. 48. 23. - 8th. - 7th

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c portrait on 24smi.org. Retrieved July 16, 2020.
  2. ↑ Overall ranking of the IBU Cup 2012/13 on biathlonresults.com. Retrieved July 16, 2020.
  3. ↑ Results of the Winter Universiade 2013 , PDF (p. 159). Retrieved July 16, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Kuklina, Larissa Grigorievna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kuklina, Larisa; Куклина, Лариса Григорьевна (Russian spelling); Kuznetsowa, Larissa Grigoryevna (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian biathlete
DATE OF BIRTH December 12, 1990
PLACE OF BIRTH Labytnangi