Natalia Levcencova

Natalia Levchenkova
Full name	Natalja Viktorovna Levchenenkova Наталья Викторовна Левченкова
Association	Russia (1997-2003) Moldova (from 2003)
birthday	July 30, 1977
place of birth	Smolensk,  Soviet Union
Career
society	Dynamo Smolensk
Trainer	Alexander Chlussowitsch
Admission to the national team	2003
Debut in the World Cup	2003
status	resigned
End of career	2011
Medal table
EM medals 1 × 0 × 0 × SBWM medals 1 × 1 × 3 ×
European biathlon championships gold 2008 Nove Mesto singles  Summer biathlon world championships gold 1999 Minsk Cross relay silver 1999 Minsk Cross sprint bronze 1999 Minsk Cross chase bronze 2008 Haute Maurienne Ski roll chase bronze 2009 Oberhof Ski roll sprint
World Cup balance
Overall World Cup	20th (2008/09)

Natalja Wiktorowna Levtschenkowa ( Russian: Наталья Викторовна Левченкова , Romanian Natalia Levcencova ; born July 30, 1977 in Smolensk ) is a former biathlete who started in 1997 initially for Russia and from 2003 for the Republic of Moldova .

Natalia Levtschenkowa began her career in 1988 for the Dynamo Smolensk club . She was trained by Alexander Chlussowitsch. Levtschenkowa started for Russia for the first time at the international level at the junior world championships in Forni Avoltri at the age of 20 . Here she won bronze medals in the singles and with the relay, which also included Wolha Nasarawa and Jekaterina Iwanowa . But she could not fight for a place in the World Cup team in the strong Russian team in the following years and moved to Moldova for the 2003/04 season . In retrospect, however, all results in this World and European Cup season were not counted for formal reasons and Levtschenkowa was disqualified for these races.

So her career in the Moldovan team did not begin until the following season. First she achieved notable results at the first European Cup of the season in Geilo . She then made her regular World Cup debut in Beitostølen as 62nd in the sprint. In her second race, an individual at Holmenkollen in Oslo , she was 28th for the first time to achieve World Cup points. She achieved her best result of the season in the context of the Biathlon World Championships in 2005 in Hochfilzen . Here she finished eleventh in the pursuit after a 27th place in the sprint after being the only starter with no mistakes at the shooting range. The following 2005/06 season was even better. In Antholz she achieved her best World Cup result to date in seventh place. Her best performance so far, however, was eighth in the individual at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin . She also achieved good results in pursuit (23rd) and mass start (21st). Levtschenkowa repeated eighth place in the individual during the Biathlon World Championships 2008 in Östersund . There she was also 44th in the sprint, 42nd in the pursuit and 21st in the mass start. The next major event she started at the Biathlon World Championships 2009 in Pyeongchang and had the outstanding result with eighth place in the pursuit after she had only landed 43rd in the sprint before. In individual she was 18th, in the mass start race 25. 2010 Levtschenkowa went to the Winter Olympics at the start. Her best result was the 37th place in the individual. She was 53rd in the sprint and 53rd in the pursuit. In the 2010/11 season she could no longer start regularly in the World Cup due to lack of support from the association and never reached the points. So after the season she ended her career.

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

placement	singles	sprint	persecution	Mass start	Season	total
1st place
2nd place
3rd place
Top 10	2		1	2		5
Scoring	13	23	18th	12		66
Starts	20th	53	35	12		120
Status: after the 2009/2010 season

Web links

Commons : Natalja Levtschenkowa  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Natalia Levcencova in the IBU database (English)
• Natalia Levcencova in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

supporting documents

1. ↑ Natalia Levchenkova announces her resignation