Olga Poltaranina

Olga Poltaranina
Full name	Olga Mikhailovna Poltaranina Ольга Михайловна Полтаранина
Association	Kazakhstan
birthday	27th February 1987 (age 33)
place of birth	Leninogorsk ,  Soviet Union
Career
job	policewoman
Trainer	Mikhail Dudchenko
Debut in the World Cup	2003
status	resigned
End of career	2018
Medal table
JSWM medals 1 × 0 × 0 × JWM medals 0 × 0 × 1 × Asian Games Medals 0 × 1 × 1 ×
Junior Summer Biathlon World Championships gold 2000 Khanty-Mansiysk Season  Biathlon Junior World Championships bronze 2002 Ridnaun sprint  Winter Asian Games bronze 2003 Aomori Season silver 2007 Changchun Season
World Cup balance

Olga Mikhailovna Poltaranina , born Dudtschenko ( Kazakh Ольга Михайловна Полтаранина , born Дудченко * 27 February 1987 in Leninogorsk , oblast East Kazakhstan , Kazakh SSR , Soviet Union ) is a Kazakh biathlete .

Career

Olga Poltaranina is the daughter of the Kazakh national coach Mikhail Dudchenko , who also trains her. She is married to the Kazakh cross-country skier Alexei Poltaranin , and in 2009 the couple had a son. The trained police officer made her debut in 2000 at the age of 13 at the junior world championships in summer biathlon in Khanty-Mansiysk . Here she won relay gold with Irina Moschewitina and Viktorija Afanassjewa and was tenth in the sprint and ninth in the pursuit.

Her next appearances at international tournaments were at the Junior World Championships in biathlon in 2001, also in Khanty-Mansiysk and in 2002 in Ridnaun . In Ridnaun, Poltoranina won bronze in the sprint and was sixth in the pursuit and with the relay. In 2002 she made her debut in the European Cup in Obertilliach , where she was 21st in the sprint. In 2003, at the age of 16, she started at the biathlon world championships in Khanty-Mansiysk for the first time . She was used in the sprint, where she finished 74th.

At the beginning of the 2003/04 season, Poltaranina also made her debut in the Biathlon World Cup in a sprint race in Kontiolahti (67th). After that, however, it was used almost exclusively in the European Cup. In 2004 she won an individual for the first time in Obertilliach. Since the 2006/07 season, Dudchenko was increasingly used in the World Cup. At the 2007 Biathlon World Championships in Antholz she competed in singles and was 69.

After a break of several years, Olga Poltaranina started the 2010/2011 World Cup in Östersund in the singles and came in 37th. This was the first time she won points in the World Cup. In Östersund, she improved her best performance in a pursuit race to 24th place as the season progressed.

statistics

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
• Relay: including mixed relays

placement	singles	sprint	persecution	Mass start	Season	total
1st place
2nd place
3rd place
Top 10
Scoring	1				8th	9
Starts	4th	7th			8th	19th
As of December 1, 2010

winter Olympics

Results at Olympic Winter Games:

	Individual competitions				Relay competitions
	sprint	persecution	singles	Mass start	Women's relay	Mixed relay
Olympic Winter Games 2018 | Pyeongchang	63.	-	46.	-	14th	-

Web links

• Olga Poltaranina in the IBU database (English)
• Profile at www.biastat.com (Russian / English)