Valentina Leonidovna Linkova

Valentina Linkova
Full name	Valentina Leonidowna Linkowa Russian Валентина Леонидовна Линькова
Association	Russia
birthday	1970
place of birth	Soviet Union
Career
status	resigned
Medal table
BWM medals 5 × 0 × 1 × BEM medals 0 × 2 × 0 ×
Archery biathlon world championships gold 2005 Forni Avoltri sprint gold 2005 Forni Avoltri Season bronze 2005 Forni Avoltri persecution gold 2007 Moscow singles gold 2007 Moscow sprint gold 2007 Moscow persecution Archery biathlon European championships silver 2008 Moscow sprint silver 2008 Moscow persecution
World Cup balance
last change: March 7, 2012

Valentina Leonidowna Linkowa ( Russian Валентина Леонидовна Линькова ; * 1970 ) is a Russian archery biathlete and archer .

Along with Natalija Jemelina, Valentina Linkowa is the most successful archery biathlete of the second half of the first decade of the 2000s. At the 2005 World Championships in Forni Avoltri , she won the title in the last relay race with Olga Koslowa and Jekaterina Lugowkina . In the sprint she also won the title ahead of her relay mates, in the pursuit she fell behind these two and came third. Two years later she became the most successful participant in the World Cup in Moscow . In the individual she won the title before Lugowkina and Koslowa, in the sprint before Jelena Sharafutdinova and Lugowkina, in the pursuit race before Lugowkina and Jemelina. At the last international championships so far, the European Championships in Moscow in 2008 , Linkowa won the silver medals behind Jemelina and ahead of Sharafutdinova in both the sprint and the pursuit race. To this day, Linkowa, the most experienced Russian archery biathlete, tops the result lists of Russian archery competitions and dominated the 2012/2013 Russian Cup.

Parallel to their great success in the bow Biathlon began Linkowa 2004 a successful career in the arc running and was in national championships in Izhevsk first sixth. In 2011 she entered the open Dutch championships in The Hague due to a lack of female competition in the men's class, won the bronze medal behind her compatriot Maxim Menshikov and thus triumphed over all Dutch starters. In the same competition, she won the bronze medal for women the year before. In 2012 she took silver there and won double gold in the relay and mass start of the women at the open German championships.

Web links

• Results list World Cup 2005
• Result list World Cup 2007
• Results of the EM 2008 ( Memento of August 12, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF file; 453 kB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Russian arch biathlon results portal ( memento of the original from March 31, 2013 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. 
2. ↑ Results of the Russian Cup Archery Biathlon 2012 ( Memento of the original from December 3, 2015 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. (PDF; 382 kB) 
3. ↑ Results of the Russian Cup Archery Biathlon 2013 ( Memento of the original from December 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 298 kB) 
4. ↑ Results of the Russian Archery Championships 2004  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ↑ Results of the Dutch Archery Championship 2011 ( Memento of the original from October 5, 2013 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. (PDF; 76 kB) 
6. ↑ Results of the Dutch Archery Championship 2010 ( Memento of the original from October 4, 2013 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. (PDF; 52 kB) 
7. ↑ Results of the Dutch Archery Championship 2012 ( Memento of the original from October 6, 2013 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. (PDF; 75 kB) 
8. ↑ Results of the German Archery Championship 2012 (PDF; 121 kB)
9. ↑ Report on the German Archery Championship 2012 with picture ( memento of the original from October 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.