Olga Seleznyova

Olga Seleznyova
Full name	Ольга Селезнёва
Association	Kazakhstan
birthday	June 7th 1975
place of birth	Qostanai,  Soviet Union
Career
Debut in the World Cup	2005 (World Cup)
status	resigned
End of career	2005
World Cup balance
last change: end of career

Olga Selesnjowa ( Russian Ольга Селезнёва ; born June 7, 1975 in Qostanai ) is a former Kazakh cross-country skier and biathlete .

Olga Seleznjowa was also active as a swimmer and gymnast at the national level. Initially, she competed in cross-country skiing. There she made her international debut in an FIS race in Yabuli in 1996 . A year later, further races followed in Norway in the lower-class cross-country skiing Continental Cup , before the Kazakh woman contested her first international championship in Trondheim as part of the Nordic World Ski Championships. She finished 57th over the 5-kilometer classic, finished 55th in the pursuit race and came in 48th over the 30-kilometer classic. After the World Championships, she also made her debut in the Cross-Country World Cup in Falun . Neither in her first race over the 5-kilometer freestyle as 74th nor in the following four World Cup races did she get into the points, the best result was a 57th place over the 30-kilometer freestyle in Oslo . The high point of his career was participation in the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano . Selesnjowa was over the 5-kilometer classic 66th, in the pursuit 63rd and over 30-kilometer freestyle 52. Until 2001, after the games only followed in lower class races.

For the 2004/05 season Selesnyova switched to biathlon. She made her international debut at the 2005 European Biathlon Championships in Novosibirsk , where she was 15th in the individual, 18th in the sprint and 20th in the pursuit race. The 2005 biathlon world championships in Hochfilzen marked the end of a career . The Kazakh was 76th of the individual, 83rd of the sprint and alongside Jelena Dubok , Tatjana Masunina and Anna Lebedewa 19th in the relay race.

World Cup statistics

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
2nd place
3rd place
Top 10
Scoring					2	2
Starts	1	2			2	5
Status: end of career

Web links

• Olga Selesnjowa in the IBU database (English)
• Olga Selesnjowa in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Olga Selesnjowa in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )