Valentina Nazarova took part in Haute-Maurienne as part of the junior races of the Summer Biathlon World Championships in 2008 in her first international championship. In the competitions on roller skis she was eleventh in the sprint, ninth in the pursuit and won the mixed race title with Irina Maximowa , Dmitri Blinow and Viktor Wassiljew . In Duszniki-Zdrój she took part in the Summer Biathlon World Championships 2010 and started with her first international championships in the women's performance area. In the sprint, she took 15th place and in the pursuit race based on it reached 17th place. In 2012 she achieved a first podium finish in the racing series with third place in a pursuit race in the IBU Cup in Altenberg . In 1023 she repeated this placement in Ostrow after she was even second in the sprint. The 2013 European Championships in Bansko followed . Nasarowa was 21st in the sprint, eighth in the pursuit, fifth in the relay and, as fourth in the individual, missed the medal ranks by just one place. Shortly afterwards , she also competed in her first race in the Biathlon World Cup at Holmenkollen in Oslo , where she qualified as the 57th sprint for the pursuit, in which she was the 34th to collect first World Cup points.
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