Lyubov Filimonova

Lyubov Filimonova
Full name	Lyubov Alexandrovna Filimonova
Association	Kazakhstan
birthday	August 31, 1988
place of birth	Uner , Krasnoyarsk Region ,  Soviet Union
Career
Trainer	Alexander Funtikov
Debut in the European Cup / IBU Cup	2009
Debut in the World Cup	2009
status	active
World Cup balance
last change: December 19, 2009

Lyubov Alexandrovna Filimonowa ( Russian Любовь Александровна Филимонова ; born August 31, 1988 in Uner , Krasnoyarsk region ) is a Russian biathlete starting for Kazakhstan who was only used nationally in Russia until the beginning of 2009 and the associated change to the Kazakh association.

Lyubov Filimonova began cross-country skiing at the age of ten and achieved considerable success in her age group. Her first trainer Alexander Funtikow introduced her to biathlon at the age of fifteen, and when she was sixteen she was accepted into the sports school of the Olympic Reserve in Divnogorsk . During this time she became three-time Russian youth champion. Then she trained in the biathlon academy in Krasnoyarsk ( Красноярская "Академия биатлона” ). In the spring of 2009 she switched from the Russian to the Kazakh association and has since started working for Kazakhstan, where she now lives in Cheryomushki . Filimonowa made her international debut in 2009 at the start of the IBU Cup season in Idre , where she was 56th and 38th in sprint races. Then she rose to the biathlon world cup . In the first race of the 2009/10 season , an individual in Östersund , she was 81. In the following races Filimonova was able to improve steadily and won a sprint in Pokljuka as 35th for the first time World Cup points. In 2010 Lyubov Filimonova took part in the Winter Olympics. Her best result was 57th place in the individual, in the sprint she came in 67th. With the relay she finished 14th.

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
2nd place
3rd place
Top 10					1	1
Scoring		1			4th	5
Starts	4th	10	2		4th	20th
Status: after the 2009/2010 season

Web links

• Lyubov Filimonowa in the IBU database (English)
• Lyubov Filimonowa in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Profile on the website of the Association of Russian Biathletes  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Russian); checked on October 22, 2012  
2. ↑ Profile (in the Sportsmeny section ) on the Krasnoyarsk Biathlon Academy website  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Russian); checked on October 22, 2012  
3. ↑ ^{a b} Любовь Филимонова из Черемушек - олимпийская надежда Казахстана (Ljubow Filimonova from Tscherjomuschki - Olympic hope Kazakhstan) ( Russian ) Министерство спорта, туризма и молодежной политики Республики Хакасия. February 12, 2010. Retrieved on November 1, 2010.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.