Natalia Vladimirovna Sorokina

Natalia Sorokina 2007

Sorokina at the 2007 World Cup in Khanty-Mansiysk

Natalja Vladimirovna Sorokina ( Russian: Наталья Владимировна Сорокина , née Gussewa ; born September 12, 1982 in Tikhvin ) is a former Russian biathlete .

Natalja Sorokina is a sports soldier and starts for the St. Petersburg Army Club . She is trained by Andrei Goryachev and Ram Sabaluev. She has been practicing biathlon since 1994 and made her debut in a sprint in Pokljuka (45th) in the biathlon world cup in 2004 . Shortly afterwards she was eighth in an individual race in Antholz that same season , making it into the top places for the first time. At the same World Cup station she then won the sprint and thus her first and so far only World Cup race and came second in the mass start race. In the period that followed, Sorokina was rather volatile. Outstanding and bad performances alternated.

At the 2004 World Championships in Oberhof , Sorokina was used on three tracks and achieved a seventh place in the mass start as the best placement. In this discipline she was also used at the 2006 Olympic Games in Turin (24th). At the 2007 World Championships in Antholz, Sorokina won the bronze medal in the 7.5 km sprint.

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		1			2	3
2nd place				1	2	3
3rd place	1	1			3	5
Top 10	3	6th	5		10	24
Scoring	5	20th	21st	5	11	62
Starts	10	40	29	16	11	106
Status: after the 2008/2009 season

Web links

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

• Natalja Wladimirowna Sorokina in the IBU database (English)