Natalija Jemelina is next to Valentina Linkowa the most successful archery biathlete of the second half of the first decade of the 2000s. She achieved her first successes at the junior races of the 2004 World Championships in Pokljuka , where she won the sprint, pursuit and relay races with Jelena Sharafutdinova and Anna Kletskova. In addition, she was third behind her relay mates in the mass start race. At the 2005 World Championships in Forni Avoltri , she won the mass start race ahead of Olga Koslowa and Jekaterina Lugowkina . In the overall World Cup ranking in 2005 she was second behind Koslowa, in 2006 she won the overall ranking with Lugowkina. In addition, she won the ratings in the Mass Start World Cup and with Lugowkina in the Pursuit World Cup and was second in the Sprint World Cup behind Lugowkina. Two years later , Jemelina won the world championship in Moscow in the pursuit race behind Valentina Linkowa and Lugowkina. At the last international championships so far, the European Championships in Moscow in 2008 , Jemelina was the most successful participant. She won all three possible titles in the sprint, pursuit and the mass start.
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