Tatiana Alexandrovna Borodulina

Tatiana Borodulina
Full name	Tatiana Alexandrovna Borodulina
nation	Russia Australia
birthday	22nd December 1984
place of birth	Omsk, Soviet Union
size	155 cm
Weight	50 kg
job	Student
Career
society	Dynamo Omsk
National squad	since 2010 (RUS) 2006–2010 (AUS) 2001–2006 (RUS)
status	active
Medal table
EM medals 3 × 2 × 0 ×
European Short Track Championships silver 2003 St. Petersburg 3000 m relay gold 2004 Zoetermeer 3000 m relay silver 2004 Zoetermeer All-around gold 2005 Turin All-around gold 2005 Turin 3000 m relay
Placements in the Short Track World Cup
Debut in the World Cup September 28, 2001  World Cup victories 3  Overall World Cup 8. ( 03/04 )  500 m world cup 3. ( 08/09 )  1000 m world cup 4. ( 05/06 )  1500 m world cup 8. ( 09/10 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  500 meters 2 1 3  1000 meters 0 0 1  Relay / team 1 2 3
last change: February 14, 2016

Tatjana Alexandrowna Borodulina ( Russian Татьяна Александровна Бородулина , scientific transliteration Tat'jana Aleksandrovna Borodulina ; born December 22, 1984 in Omsk ) is a Russian short tracker .

Borodulina made her debut in the World Cup at the age of 16, won several medals at junior world and European championships and qualified for the course finals over 1500 meters at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin . In August 2006, she left the Russian national team because of disputes with the association and then joined Australia. After Borodulina was banned from international competitions in the 2006/07 season due to the change of country, she rose in the following winters to become the most successful Australian short tracker by then, winning two World Cup races. After another Olympic start in Vancouver in 2010 , the Omsk girl surprisingly returned to the Russian team in October 2010 due to homesickness.

career

European champion and Olympic participant for Russia (2001 to 2006)

Borodulina's international career began in early 2001 when she competed in the three major events of the season, the Junior World Championship, the European Championship and the World Championship. Although the 16-year-old did not reach a final race at any of these events, the Russian Federation nominated her for the first time for the Short Track World Cup in September 2001 . In the following winter, the junior established herself in the extended world class: With the relay she won her first World Cup race in February 2003, at the Junior World Championships and at the European Championship she reached the finals in several disciplines. At this point in time, in June 2003, the short track Olympic champion Steven Bradbury saw the 18-year-old Russian as an upcoming winner.

In the next two seasons Borodulina underlined her talent. In the 2003/04 World Cup, she placed eighth overall. In addition, she was European champion with the relay in 2004 and finished second in the all-around competition behind the series winner Yevgenia Radanova , who won this competition for the fifth time in a row. A year later, Borodulina broke the Bulgarian winning streak and secured her first major individual triumph with the all-around European championship title. The Olympic winter 2005/06 was a little less successful, in which the Russian initially lost her European title again to Yevgenia Radanova and was only placed sixth in the overall standings. Nevertheless, she qualified as the only female Russian short tracker for the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin . There she started in two races, the 1000-meter and the 1500-meter competition, both of which ended with Borodulina's disqualification. Over the longer distance, the girl from Omsk reached the final of the seven best runners.

Four years as an Australian (2006 to 2010)

In August 2006, Borodulina announced, who had won two Russian championship titles at the time, to start immediately for the Australian national team. She justified this with the many conflicts in the Russian Federation, which would have hindered her in the preparations for the Olympics. Decisive for the move to Australia was the national coach Ann Zhang , from whom Borodulina had received the offer. According to a report in the Australian daily newspaper The Age , she received no money or privileges for the change of association, she was only offered "Australian citizenship and the chance to live in sunny Queensland ".

In the 2007/08 season Borodulina first took part in World Cup races for Australia. At the penultimate stop in Quebec City , she achieved fifth place, the best result of an Australian short tracker to date. She was able to improve this again at the last World Cup in Salt Lake City . There she was the first Australian short tracker to stand on the podium in third place over 500 meters. In the winter of 2008/09 Borodulina experienced her most successful season to date: At the World Cup finals in Dresden she won two races - both over 500 meters - and improved to third place in the overall World Cup on this route. In 2009 she was named Australian Ice Racing Skater of the Year and was granted Australian citizenship in September of that year. It also benefited from a new Australian law that stipulated that top athletes could be naturalized faster than usual under certain conditions. In order for her to receive her naturalization before the 2010 Winter Olympics , Borodulina joined the Australian Army Reserve for six months in January 2009 and had completed six months of military service.

Before the Winter Games in Vancouver in February 2010, Borodulina was the only Australian medal candidate on the short track. That is why several major newspapers in the country wrote about the short-term naturalized athlete in the run-up to the Olympic Games. In a report in the Daily Telegraph , Borodulina said, for example, that the Russian side had offered her "money, a house and a husband" when she returned to her native country; But she refused and will definitely start for Australia for at least the next four years, as she feels comfortable in the team. She confirmed these statements to the AFP news agency: She was proud to be Australian. At the Olympic Winter Games, Borodulina missed qualifying for the finals at all three starts; best result was a seventh place over 1000 meters. This result, which was unanimously viewed as a disappointment by the Australian media, explained the athlete by saying that she had put too much pressure on herself.

Return to Russia (from 2010)

In October 2010 Tatyana Borodulina announced that she would start again for Russia. In Australia she felt lonely, missed her friends and family and got homesick. Since the problems had been clarified with the Russian association and she was receiving more financial support, she made this decision. At the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, she wants to compete for her home country again.

Web links

• Tatjana Alexandrovna Borodulina in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Tatjana Alexandrowna Borodulina in the database of ShorttrackOnLine.info (English)
• Announcement about Borodulina's return to Russia and presentation of her career ( memento from December 25, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) on shorttrack.wordpress.com.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Interview with Bradbury ( Memento of the original from December 17, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English) 
2. ↑ Report on the change of association in the Новых Известий ( memento of the original from June 1, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Russian) 
3. ^ Dan Silkstone: From Russia to skate for Australia with love on theage.com. Published on February 11, 2010 in the Australian daily newspaper The Age . Retrieved October 30, 2010.
4. ↑ Portrait on vancouver2010.olympics.com ( Memento of the original from February 21, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
5. ↑ Australia wants to naturalize athletes faster on welt.de. Released August 31, 2009. Retrieved October 30, 2010.
6. ↑ Chris Barrett: Speed ​​skater swaps blades for khakis on brisbanetimes.com.au. Released January 13, 2010.
7. ↑ Josh Massoud: How Russia tried to lure back Tatiana Borodulina on dailytelegraph.com.au. Released February 11, 2010. Retrieved October 30, 2010.
8. ↑ Tatiana Borodulina rebuffed Russian cash offers on theaustralian.com. Released February 10, 2010. Retrieved October 30, 2010.
9. ↑ Nicole Jeffery: Too much pressure crushes speedskater Tatiana Borodulina on theaustralian.com.au. Released February 22, 2010. Retrieved October 30, 2010.
10. ↑ Tatiana Borodulina misses 1000m speed skating final on heraldsun.com.au. Released February 27, 2010. Retrieved October 30, 2010.
11. ↑ Пятикратная чемпионка Европы Татьяна Бородулина: Каток в Сочи для иностранцев нужно закрыть ( Memento of the original June 22, 2013 Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link is automatically inserted and not yet tested. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on sovsport.ru. Released October 15, 2010. Retrieved October 30, 2010.