Lilia Vajhina-Yefremova
Lilia Vajhina-Yefremova 
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| Full name | Lilia Mykolaevna Vajhina-Yefremova |
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 Ukraine
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| birthday | April 15, 1977 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| place of birth |
Cheboksary , Soviet Union
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| job | trainer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| society | Dynamo Sumy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Admission to the national team |
2004 ( Ukraine ) 2003–2004 ( Belarus ) 1999–2003 ( Russia )
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| Debut in the European Cup / IBU Cup | 2004 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Debut in the World Cup | 1999 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| World Cup victories | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| status | active | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Overall World Cup | 26. (05/06) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| last change: January 30, 2009 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Lilija Mykolajewna Wajhina-Jefremowa ( Ukrainian Лілія Миколаївна Вайгіна-Єфремова , scientific. Transliteration lilija Jefremova , Russian Лилия Николаевна Вайгина-Ефремова * 15. April 1977 in Cheboksary , Chuvashia ) is a Russian weißrussisch- Ukrainian biathlete .
In her international career, which has been going on since 1999, Vajhina-Jefremowa achieved two individual podium finishes in the World Cup, including a bronze medal in the sprint at the 2006 Olympic Games. She also won a World Cup with the Belarusian relay team.
Career
Early years as a Russian athlete (1999–2002)
Yefremova started biathlon in 1987 at the age of ten. Her first start in the biathlon world cup , the highest competition class in her sport, dates back to the 1999/2000 season when she took part in the sprint in Pokljuka . Her result there, a 77th place out of 91 starters, she improved a few days later when she was 36th in another sprint and narrowly missed the points. The athlete, who was starting for Russia at the time, also finished the fourth World Cup in Oberhof with great success, as she surprisingly finished eighteenth in the sprint and thus collected her first World Cup points. In the following pursuit she did not hold this position and fell back to 42nd place with six shooting errors. In Antholz , Jefremowa achieved further points for the overall World Cup by finishing 21st in the sprint and 29th in the pursuit. This good form saved her up to the European Championships in Zakopane in 2000 , where she was sixteenth in the sprint and even tenth in the pursuit. The European Championships, however, have a lower status in biathlon, so that not all top runners started there. In the 2000/01 season the Russian rose late and collected at two World Cup starts no more points. For this she again took part very successfully in the European Championships , where she won two silver medals in relay and pursuit. In the pursuit, she was the only athlete to stay clear and so improved by nineteen places compared to the sprint. The victory, which went to the German Katja Beer , she missed by 15 seconds. The Russian relay won silver, roughly the same behind the German winners. In addition to Jefremowa, the two world champions Olga Saizewa and Olga Romasko as well as vice-world champion Natalja Sokolowa competed in this competition. At the 2001 World Championships , she reached the 27th place in the individual with three shooting errors, but this was her only start at these World Championships.
In the 2001/02 season, Yefremowa did not prevail against their strong national rivals and was not nominated for the World Cup or the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City . The latter was ultimately the decisive factor in switching the association to Belarus , although they had previously won the European Championship silver with the Russian relay . In the other competitions of those European championships, she did not make it into the top ten.
A successful year for Belarus (2002-2003)
After the association change, Jefremowa was regularly used in the World Cup . As eighth in the first sprint of the season in Östersund , Sweden , she placed in the top 10 for the first time in the World Cup. In addition, she narrowly missed the podium in her first relay race in fourth place, with the Belarusian being the second runner to ensure the only penalty loop. At the following World Cup station in Pokljuka, she did not build on the successes from the World Cup opener, but instead celebrated the first World Cup victory with the relay at the third station in Osrblije . As a starting runner, Yefremova only needed a single spare this time. As one of the thirty most successful athletes of the season up to then, she was also allowed to take part in the first mass start of her career, which she finished in Oberhof as 29th and last of the classified starters. In the following competitions, the Belarusian often missed further World Cup points, but thanks to her good start to the season she was able to continue to take part in the mass start, where she scored several decent results and thus points. She also maintained her performance in the relay, with two additional podium finishes after the season - a second and a third place. Overall, she reached a good 34th place in the overall World Cup, and in the mass start discipline World Cup she was even 25th. The Belarusians finished third in the Relay World Cup. Yefremowa also won another medal at the 2003 European Championships , bronze with the relay, but did not start at the summer biathlon world championships of the year despite reports . In the same year, the Belarusian changed associations again due to disagreements with the coach, this time Ukraine accepted her.
Unsuccessful first years in Ukraine (2003-2005)
In contrast to the Belarusian team, at the beginning of the 2003/2004 World Cup, the Ukraine team did not yet have a squad that would have reached the podium or even won. In the 2002/03 World Cup, the new team from Jefremowas only placed 14th in the nations ranking. Accordingly, it was already a success when the Ukrainian relay team finished ninth in the first World Cup of the season (one place ahead of Belarus). The newcomer had prevented an even better result even with the only two penalty loops. In the second sprint of Hochfilzen, Jefremowa collected the first World Cup points for the Ukraine, in addition she was 24th in the pursuit of Osrblije. No further points followed, so that she could not maintain the good result from last year's overall World Cup. In her second participation in the world championships , the Ukrainian also missed a top 30 result, but she achieved her top ten several times at the European championships . Among other things, she achieved seventh place in the sometimes well-attended Summer Grand Prix competitions.
The 2004/05 season began even less successfully for Yefremova. At the first seven World Cup stations, she remained without points in individual races, only with the relay she reached a tenth place once. Only at the last World Cup before the World Championships did she get back into shape and even finished eleventh in the sprint with two mistakes. In the following pursuit she fell back to 30th place with six misses, but received at least one more World Cup point. At the World Championships , she just missed the points in the individual as 31st, but clearly in the other competitions.
From the surprise success at the Olympics to today (2005-2009)
At the start of the 2005/2006 World Cup , it looked for Yefremowa again after an unsuccessful season, although she scored points again as the 26th of the first season pursuit. Surprisingly, a third place in the sprint followed at the third World Cup station - her first individual podium placement in the World Cup - and fifth place in the following pursuit. In the other competitions she did not build on these successes and only collected a few points, so that she did not travel as a favorite to her first Olympic Winter Games in Turin in 2006. There, however, she won the bronze medal in the sprint , which was also unexpected, but the Ukrainian benefited, like the surprise winner Florence Baverel-Robert, from the decreasing or ceasing snowfall. In the pursuit she fell back to eighth place due to three shooting errors, in the mass start she was 17th. In the remaining World Cups she managed a 12th place, overall she placed 26th in the overall World Cup. She failed the following season; in only four appearances she did not reach a World Cup point.
On the other hand, Jefremowa was in good shape at the Summer Biathlon World Championships in 2007 , where she was only one second behind winner Kaisa Mäkäräinen from Finland in the roller-ski sprint as a silver medalist . In the World Cup, however, she again failed to achieve top results, her best result was a 21st place. At the European Championships in 2008 she won her fifth European Championship medal with bronze in singles after a five-year break. In the 2008/2009 season she got two 22nd places, according to her coach Yevgeny Kolupayev , she is currently weakening when shooting.
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 |
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| 1st place | 1 | 1 | ||||
| 2nd place | 1 | 1 | ||||
| 3rd place | 2 | 1 | 3 | |||
| Top 10 | 3 | 2 | 15th | 20th | ||
| Scoring | 4th | 18th | 15th | 7th | 21st | 65 |
| Starts | 18th | 58 | 29 | 7th | 21st | 133 |
| Status: after the 2009/2010 season | ||||||
Web links
- Lilija Wajhina-Jefremowa in the IBU database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ruhrgas World Cup 4 - Oberhof (GER) Women 10 km Pursuit Final Results ( Memento from July 17, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS - Haute Maurienne (FRA) Women 10 km Pursuit Final Results ( Memento from June 23, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Лилия Вайгина-Ефремова on www.biathlon.com.ua
- ↑ Ruhrgas World Cup 1 - Oestersund (SWE) Women 4 x 6 km Relay Final Results ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Ruhrgas World Cup 3 - Brezno-Osrblie (SVK) Women 4 x 6 km Relay Final Results ( Memento from January 1, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Women's World Cup Total Scores Final Result after 23 competitions ( Memento from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Women's World Cup Mass Start Score Final Result after 4 competitions ( Memento from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Women's World Cup Relay Score Final Result after 8 competitions ( Memento from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Лілія Єфремова бере на змагання свою собаку Лоліту on gazeta.ua
- ↑ Women's Nation Cup Score Final Result after 12 competitions ( Memento from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Ruhrgas World Cup 1 - Kontiolahti (FIN) Women 4 x 6 km Relay Final Results ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ E.ON-Ruhrgas World Cup 8 - Pokljuka (SLO) Women 7.5 km Sprint Final Results ( Memento from February 8, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ fischer.ru ( Memento from June 19, 2007 in the web archive archive.today )
- ↑ biathlon-online.de ( Memento from February 10, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
- ↑ Nadine Gärtner: biathlon.xc-ski.de ( Memento from July 22, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) on biathlon2b.com
- ↑ Ksenyia Lomakina: Interview with Ukraine coach Ievgeni Kolupaev ( Memento from January 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) on biathlonworld.com
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Vajhina-Yefremova, Lilija |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Vajhina-Jefremowa, Lilija Mykolaevna (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian-Belarusian-Ukrainian biathlete |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 15, 1977 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cheboksary |