Viktoria Alexandrovna Slivko

Viktorija Slivko Виктория Александровна Сливко
Full name	Viktoria Alexandrovna Slivko
Association	Russia
birthday	5th May 1994 (age 26)
place of birth	Muromzewo , Russia
Career
Debut in the European Cup / IBU Cup	2015
European Cup / IBU Cup victories	4 (1 individual victory)
Debut in the World Cup	2017
status	active
Medal table
EM medals 1 × 2 × 1 × JWM medals 1 × 2 × 0 × JEM medals 2 × 0 × 0 ×
European biathlon championships gold 2016 Tyumen Single mixed relay silver 2018 Ridnaun Mixed relay bronze 2018 Ridnaun singles silver 2020 Minsk-Raubitschy Mixed relay  Biathlon Junior World Championships gold 2013 Obertilliach singles silver 2014 Presque Isle Season silver 2015 Minsk Season  Biathlon Junior European Championships gold 2015 Otepää Season gold 2015 Otepää singles
World Cup balance
Overall World Cup	71st ( 2017/18 )
Individual World Cup	43rd (2017/18)
Sprint World Cup	73rd ( 2016/17 )
Pursuit World Cup	66th (2016/17)
Continental Cup balance
Overall IBU Cup	5. ( 2016/17 )
last change: end of season 2017/18

Wiktorija Alexandrowna Sliwko ( Russian Виктория Александровна Сливко ; English Victoria Slivko ; born May 5, 1994 in Muromzewo ) is a Russian biathlete .

Career

Beginnings

Wiktorija Alexandrovna Sliwko first took part in international competitions as part of the Junior World Championships 2013 in Obertilliach . There she won gold with the Russian relay and achieved two top ten results with a sixth place in the sprint and a ninth place in the pursuit. At the Junior World Championships next year, the Russian relay finished second and won silver. In addition, Sliwko only appeared in the singles and was fourth there.

In 2015 Sliwko competed at the Junior European Championships in Otepää and won gold in the individual. In the pursuit, after finishing eighth in the sprint, she narrowly missed a second medal with fourth place. The Russian season prevailed against the other seasons and won gold. At the Junior World Championships of the same year, the relay won silver, as in the previous year. She achieved her best individual result with a fifth place in the individual.

At the beginning of the 2015/16 season , Sliwko competed in the IBU Cup for the first time and finished fifth in one of the two sprint races in Idre . In Ridnaun , Italy , she won her first race in the IBU Cup together with Uljana Kaischewa , Matwei Jelissejew and Alexei Wolkow in the mixed relay. In the sprint race and in the pursuit race she just missed the podium with places five and four. In the overall ranking of the IBU Cup, she finished seventh at the end of the season. At her first European championships she only started in the single mixed relay and won it with Anton Babikow .

First World Cup use (since 2016/17)

In the season 2016/17 started Sliwko with a victory in the mixed relay. In Martell , she was able to improve her placings from a fifth, through a fourth, to a third place, thus achieving her first podium finish. At the beginning of 2017 she was allowed to start in relay races of the World Cup for the first time . The Russian squadron reached once the 13th and once the 5th place. In Kontiolahti , Finland , she first started in the IBU Cup and reached the podium twice and improved her personal best to a second place. Then she started in both Kontiolahti and Oslo in the World Cup and reached the points in three of four races. She ended the season with a new personal best, a 24th place in the pursuit. She finished fifth in the overall ranking of the IBU Cup. In the overall ranking of the World Cup, she was able to achieve 76th place.

In the 2017/18 season , Sliwko started in the World Cup from the start. She started in the first race of the season, the single mixed relay, in Östersund and finished eighth with Jelissejew. In the individual she was 28th and also in the sprint and pursuit she reached the points. With the Russian relay, with two fourth places, she narrowly missed the podium in both Hochfilzen and Oberhof . In the two sprints in Annecy and Oberhof, she missed the pursuit and achieved her worst placements in the World Cup. At the singles in Ruhpolding , she again just reached the points with a 39th place. Then she took part in the European Championships and won bronze in the individual and just missed a second bronze medal in the sprint with a fourth place. With the mixed relay she could finally win silver. After the European Championships, she started again in the IBU Cup and won her first race there in the sprint. She was unable to maintain this ranking in the persecution that followed and was eighth. After this mission she started again in the World Cup and once again achieved the points. After she was 76th overall in the previous season, she improved to 71st place.

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					5	5
Scoring	2	1	3		6th	12
Starts	2	8th	3		6th	19th
Status: end of season 2017/18

European biathlon championships

European Championship		Individual competitions				Relay competitions
year	place	singles	sprint	persecution	Mass start	Mixed relay	Single mixed relay
2016	Tyumen		-	-	-	-	1.
2018	Ridanna	3.	4th	16.		2.	-

Junior World Championships

World Championship		singles	sprint	persecution	Season
year	place
2013	Obertilliach	41.	6th	9.	1.
2014	Presque Isle	4th	-	-	2.
2015	Minsk	5.	22nd	20th	2.

Web links

• Wiktorija Alexandrovna Sliwko in the IBU database (English)