Natalia Zilinskaya

Natalja Zilinskaya, 2004

Natalja Valerjewna Zilinskaja , engl. Transcription Natalia Tsilinskaya , b. Natalja Markownitschenko ( Russian: Ната́лья Вале́рьевна Цили́нская ; born August 30, 1975 in Minsk ) is a former Belarusian track cyclist who was eight times world champion.

Natalja Zilinskaja started out as a road cyclist before turning to track cycling and concentrating on the short-term disciplines. At 14 she won the USSR Junior Championships, two years later she won a bronze medal at the 1993 Junior World Championships in Sydney. Through cycling, she met her first husband, the cyclist Alexander Markownitschenko, became a mother and stopped cycling. During this time she trained as a coach.

Against the will of her husband, Natalja Zilinskaja resumed her active cycling career under her married name in 1998; the marriage was divorced. Due to a lack of training opportunities in Minsk, Zilinskaya moved to Moscow . At the UCI track world championships in Manchester in 2000 , she won a gold medal in the sprint and in the 500 m time trial . She had a bad fall at the 2001 World Championships in Antwerp . From 2002 she drove again under her maiden name Zilinskaya.

Natalja Zilinskaja was able to defend her gold medal over 500 meters (as in 2005 and 2006 ) at the World Track Championships in Stuttgart in 2003, and she won silver in the sprint; In 2006, the World Cup gold medal in the sprint again. In 2004 she won her only medal at the Olympic Games with a third place in the time trial. Even in races of the track cycling world cup , she always took top places.

Natalja Zilinskaja is married to the cyclist Andrei Minaschkin in her second marriage and has a daughter from her first marriage.

After finishing her active sports career, Zilinskaya acted as the sporting director of the Belarus Cycling Federation (as of 2018), and in 2017 she also became the association's president.

Web links

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

• Natalja Zilinskaja in the database of Radsportseiten.net
• Natalja Zilinskaja in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Structure - Minsk Cycling Club. In: minskcyclingclub.by. August 1, 2011, accessed March 8, 2018 . 
2. ↑ UEC Super Cycling Euro Champs will make their debut in 2021. In: uec.ch. January 17, 2020, accessed March 15, 2020 .