Olga Olegovna Koslowa

Olga Koslowa
Full name	Olga Olegowna Koslowa Olga Olegowna Simuschina Russian Ольга Олеговна Симушина
Association	Russia
birthday	17th December 1969
Career
job	Teacher
status	resigned
Medal table
World Cup medals 0 × 0 × 1 × BWM medals 13 × 3 × 4 × BEM medals 2 × 1 × 0 ×
European biathlon championships bronze 1993 Borowetz Season Archery biathlon world championships gold 2001 Kubalonka Mass start gold 2001 Kubalonka Season bronze 2001 Kubalonka persecution gold 2002 Pokljuka sprint gold 2002 Pokljuka persecution gold 2002 Pokljuka Season bronze 2002 Pokljuka singles gold 2003 Krün persecution gold 2003 Krün Mass start silver 2003 Krün sprint gold 2004 Pokljuka sprint gold 2004 Pokljuka Mass start gold 2004 Pokljuka Season bronze 2004 Pokljuka persecution gold 2005 Forni Avoltri persecution gold 2005 Forni Avoltri Season silver 2005 Forni Avoltri sprint silver 2005 Forni Avoltri Mass start gold 2007 Moscow Mass start bronze 2007 Moscow singles Archery biathlon European championships gold 2001 Pokljuka persecution gold 2001 Pokljuka Season silver 2001 Pokljuka sprint
World Cup balance
Overall World Cup	1. ( 2003 , 2004 , 2005 )
Sprint World Cup	1. ( 2005 )
Pursuit World Cup	1. ( 2005 )
Mass start world cup	1. ( 2005 )
last change: end of career

Olga Olegovna Koslowa ( Russian Ольга Олеговна Козлова , née Olga Olegowna Simuschina ( Russian Ольга Олеговна Симушина ); * December 17, 1969 ) is a Russian biathlete who started a successful career in archery as a biathlete after a successful second career in biathlon . With 13 titles in archery world championships and 20 medals in total, as well as three overall victories in archery biathlon world cup , she is the most successful athlete in this sport. In addition, she is one of the very few biathletes who has won world championship medals in both Olympic and archery biathlon.

Olga Koslowa, who lives in Moscow and works as a teacher, made her international debut under her maiden name after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the creation of new national associations in Oberhof in the 1992/93 season . There she finished fifth in both the individual and the sprint in her first races. With Swetlana Panjutina , Jelena Belowa and Anfissa Reszowa she also won the relay race of the World Cup weekend. Also at the next World Cup stations in Antholz , Lillehammer and Kontiolahti , she reached the podium as runner-up in the relay. The high point of the season was the 1993 Biathlon World Championships in Borovets . Simuschina won the bronze medal at the side of Swetlana Panjutina, Nadeschda Talanowa and Jelena Belowa behind the representations of the Czech Republic and France. In the team race she missed another medal with Reszowa, Panjutina and Belowa as fifth placed another medal. The Russian achieved her best placement in the World Cup the following season in Antholz, when she finished third in a sprint behind Swjatlana Paramyhina and Antje Harvey . Before that, she also achieved third place in the relay in Ruhpolding . After missing the Olympic qualification , she ended her international career in 1994.

Now married, Koslowa began a second career in archery biathlon, which is quite widespread and popular in Russia. The Russian had her international breakthrough here at the 2001 World Archery Championships in Kubalonka , where she won the mass start race ahead of Stefania D'Andrea and Jekaterina Lugowkina and in the relay race with Lugowkina and Marija Filippowa . In addition, she was third in the pursuit behind Lugowkina and Nadia Peyrot . At the European Championships of the year in Pokljuka , she also won the gold medal in the same relay line-up, and also won the pursuit race ahead of her relay mates, having previously won the silver medal in sprint races behind Filippowa and Peyrot. At the 2002 World Championships in Pokljuka, Koslowa again won the title in the relay line-up of the previous year, as well as in the sprint and pursuit races. In the individual she was third behind Lugowkina and Peyrot. With three titles and a total of four medals, she was the most successful participant in the world championships. She did that again in Krün in 2003 , when she finished second in sprint races behind Lugowkina and ahead of Ksenija Malzewa , and won the titles in the pursuit race and in the mass start. The relay race was not part of the program again until 2004 in Pokljuka, where Koslowa won the title for the third time in a row with Lugowkina and Malzewa. In addition, she won the sprint and mass start titles, in pursuit she had to admit defeat to Malzewa and Peyrot. In 2005 in Forni Avoltri Koslowa was for the third time in a row the most successful starter at the World Championships. With Lugowkina and Valentina Linkowa she won her fourth and last title with the relay, won the pursuit race after she had to admit defeat Linkova in the sprint, and was runner-up behind Natalija Jemelina in the mass start race. After a one-year break, the archery biathlon world championships were held in Moscow for the last time in 2007 . Koslowa won her 13th title in the mass start race ahead of Linkowa and Peyrot. In addition, she won behind the most successful participant in these title fights, Linkowa, and her permanent competitor over the years, Lugowkina, the bronze medal in the individual, which was held again for the first time since 2002. In 2003 , 2004 and 2005 Koslowa won the overall World Cup rankings three times in a row, in 2006 she finished third with Peyrot and D'Andrea behind Lugowkina and Jemelina. In 2005 she also won the sprint, pursuit and with Jemelina in the mass start World Cup.

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	team	Season	total
1st place						2	2
2nd place						3	3
3rd place		1				1	2
Top 10	1	3			1	6th	11
Scoring	2	4th			1	6th	13
Starts	5	7th			1	6th	19th
Status : End of career, data may not be complete

Web links

• Olga Olegowna Koslowa in the IBU database (English) (biathlon)
• Olga Olegowna Koslowa in the IBU database (English) (archery biathlon)
• Olga Olegovna Koslowa in the infosport.ru database (Russian)