Natalia Murschtschakina lives as a sports teacher in Minsk . In 1987 she started biathlon and started working for the army sports club CSKA Minsk . At the start of the 1996/97 season , she made her debut in Lillehammer in the Biathlon World Cup . She was 33rd in the sprint and 39th in the pursuit race. The climax of the first international season was the 1997 Biathlon World Championships in Osrblie , where Murschtschakina with Natalia Permiakowa , Irina Tananaiko and Swetlana Belan finished tenth in the team competition. Later in the year she also took part in the 1997 Summer Biathlon World Championships in Krakow . With Tananaiko, Permiakowa and Swetlana Paramygina she won the relay race title. The greatest success was participation in the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano . At the competitions in Nozawa Onsen she reached the sprint of 28th place and was with Tananaiko, Natalia Ryschenkowa and Paramygina 12th of the relay race. Later in the year, she participated again in the Summer Biathlon World Championships , which were held in Osrblie. Murschtschakina was able to defend her title in the relay race on the side of Tananaiko, Ryschenkowa and Paramygina. In the sprint she was 27. It was not until her last international season in 1998/99 that the Belarusian was able to win World Cup points for the first and only time as 19th in a sprint race in Osrblie. The World Cup weekend was crowned by a second place with the Belarusian relay. At the World Championships in Kontiolahti finished 38th in the sprint and was 44th in the pursuit. Due to weather problems, part of the World Cup had to be relocated to the Holmenkollen in Oslo . This made a World Cup individual the last international race for Murschtschakina, in which she was 58th.
Placements in the biathlon world cup
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
Belarus
