Anastasiya Kuzmina
Personal information
Birth nameAnastasiya Vladimirovna Shipulina
Full nameAnastasiya Vladimirovna Kuzmina
NationalitySlovak
Born (1984-08-28) 28 August 1984 (age 39)
Tyumen, RSFSR,
Soviet Union
Height1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Weight67 kg (148 lb)
Professional information
SportBiathlon
ClubVSC Dukla Banská Bystrica
World Cup debut7 January 2006[1][2]
Retired24 March 2019
Olympic Games
Teams3 (2010–2018)
Medals6 (3 gold)
World Championships
Teams7 (2009–2013, 2017, 2019)
Medals3 (1 gold)
World Cup
Seasons11 (2005/06–2018/19)
Individual victories18
Individual podiums38
All podiums39
Discipline titles3:
2 Sprint (2017–18,
2018–19);
1 Pursuit (2017–18);
Medal record
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
Olympic Games 3 3 0
World Championships 1 1 1
Total 4 4 1
Women's biathlon
Representing  Slovakia
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2010 Vancouver 7.5 km sprint
Gold medal – first place 2014 Sochi 7.5 km sprint
Gold medal – first place 2018 Pyeongchang 12.5 km mass start
Silver medal – second place 2010 Vancouver 10 km pursuit
Silver medal – second place 2018 Pyeongchang 10 km pursuit
Silver medal – second place 2018 Pyeongchang 15 km individual
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2019 Östersund 7.5 km sprint
Silver medal – second place 2009 Pyeongchang 12. 5km mass start
Bronze medal – third place 2011 Khanty-Mansiysk 7.5 km sprint
Representing  Russia
Junior World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2005 Kontiolahti 3 × 6 km relay
Silver medal – second place 2004 Haute Maurienne 3 × 6 km relay
Bronze medal – third place 2005 Kontiolahti 7.5 km sprint
Youth World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2003 Kościelisko 3 × 6 km relay
Silver medal – second place 2002 Ridnaun 3 × 6 km relay
Silver medal – second place 2003 Kościelisko 7.5 km pursuit
Silver medal – second place 2003 Kościelisko 10 km individual
Updated on 8 March 2019.

Anastasiya Vladimirovna Kuzmina (Slovak: Anastasia Kuzminová, Russian: Анастасия Владимировна Кузьмина; née Shipulina; born 28 August 1984) is a Russian-born Slovak biathlete.

Career

Kuzmina represented Slovakia from December 2008 and won the silver medal two months later in mass start at the 2009 Biathlon World Championships in Pyeongchang.[3] She won a gold medal in the 7.5 km sprint and a silver medal in the 10 km pursuit at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Kuzmina's victory made her the second Slovak after Ondrej Nepela to win a Winter Olympic gold medal, and the first for independent Slovakia.[4] She won another medal – bronze, at the 2011 Biathlon World Championships in Khanty-Mansiysk.[5] At the 2014 Winter Olympics, she again won the gold medal in the 7.5 km sprint. At the 2018 Winter Olympics, she took silver medals in the pursuit and the individual before taking the gold in the mass start, hitting 19 out of 20 targets to become the first biathlete to win gold medals in three consecutive Games, and tying her as the Slovak sportsperson with the most Olympic golds alongside canoeists Pavol and Peter Hochschorner.[6]

In the 2017–18 season she took her first discipline World Cup titles, winning the Crystal Globes for the sprint[7] and pursuit disciplines.[8] She also finished the season second in the overall World Cup standings, three points behind champion Kaisa Mäkäräinen.[9]

Her brother Anton Shipulin is a Russian biathlete. Her husband, Daniel Kuzmin, is an Israeli cross-country skier and Kuzmina's personal coach. They have one son, Yelisey, and one daughter, Olivia.[10] She, her husband and their children live in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia. She speaks Russian, Slovak and English.

After almost 5 years into her retirement from competitive biathlon, Kuzmina decided to compete at the 2024 IBU Open European Championships in Osrblie where she finished 59th in sprint.

Biathlon results

All results are sourced from the International Biathlon Union.

Olympic Games

6 medals (3 gold, 3 silver)

Kuzmina has won six medals from Olympic Games. In Vancouver she won a gold medal in the sprint and a silver medal in pursuit and in Sochi she won a gold medal in the 7.5 km sprint, becoming the first woman in biathlon to successfully defend an individual Olympic title.[11] In Pyeongchang she won three medals, gold in the 12.5 km mass start event[12] and silver in the 10 km pursuit[13] and in the 15 km individual race.[14]

Event Individual Sprint Pursuit Mass start Relay Mixed relay[a]
Canada 2010 Vancouver 39th Gold Silver 8th 13th —
Russia 2014 Sochi 26th Gold 6th 24th – 5th
South Korea 2018 Pyeongchang Silver 13th Silver Gold 5th 20th
*The mixed relay was added as an event in 2014.

World Championships

3 medals (1 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze)

Kuzmina has won three medals from World Championships. In Pyeonchang she won a silver medal in the 12.5 km mass start.[15] In Khanty-Mansiysk she won a bronze medal in the 7.5 km sprint.[16]

Event Individual Sprint Pursuit Mass start Relay Mixed relay
South Korea 2009 Pyeongchang 29th 7th 17th Silver 13th 10th
Russia 2010 Khanty-Mansiysk Not held in an Olympic season 14th
Russia 2011 Khanty-Mansiysk 9th Bronze 6th 10th 7th 12th
Germany 2012 Ruhpolding 10th 10th 19th 8th 8th 7th
Czech Republic 2013 Nové Město 4th 17th 14th 15th 8th 7th
Austria 2017 Hochfilzen — 8th 13th 22nd 8th —
Sweden 2019 Östersund 58th Gold 6th 28th 6th —
Czech Republic 2024 Nové Město — 61st — — — 16th

World Cup

Season Overall Sprint Pursuit Individual Mass Start
Races Points Position Races Points Position Races Points Position Races Points Position Races Points Position
2005/06 5/26 0 — 3/10 0 — 2/8 0 — 0/3 0 — 0/5 0 —
2006/07 3/27 20 61st 1/10 0 — 1/8 0 — 1/4 20 36th 0/5 0 —
2007/08 did not start
2008/09 17/26 290 30th 7/10 81 36th 5/7 50 40th 2/4 44 30th 3/5 115 13th
2009/10 17/25 443 20th 7/10 144 26th 4/6 121 15th 3/4 73 17th 3/5 105 17th
2010/11 21/26 708 9th 8/10 328 5th 5/7 195 10th 4/4 60 23rd 4/5 125 15th
2011/12 26/26 721 10th 10/10 274 8th 8/8 198 12th 3/3 85 9th 5/5 180 6th
2012/13 26/26 769 7th 10/10 294 9th 8/8 222 11th 3/3 104 5th 5/5 157 9th
2013/14 19/22 606 6th 7/9 179 12th 7/8 204 9th 2/2 84 3rd 3/3 139 2nd
2014/15 did not start
2015/16
2016/17 10/26 176 40th 5/9 103 29th 4/9 55 41st 0/3 0 — 1/5 18 42nd
2017/18 21/22 819 2nd 8/8 323 1st 7/7 301 1st 1/2 32 22nd 5/5 168 6th
2018/19 23/25 870 3rd 9/9 371 1st 8/8 309 3rd 3/3 50 18th 5/5 145 10th

Overall record

Result Individual Sprint Pursuit Mass start Relay Mixed
relay 		Total
Individual events Team events All events
1st place – 10 5 3 – – 18 – 18
2nd place 2 4 5 4 – – 15 – 15
3rd place 1 2 1 2 – 1 6 1 7
Podiums 3 16 11 9 – 1 39 1 40
Top 10 – – – – – – – – –
Points – – – – – – – – –
Others – – – – – – – – –
DNF – – – – – – – – –
DSQ – – – – – – – – –
Starts – – – – – – – – 213
* Results in IBU World Cup races, Olympics and World Championships.

Individual victories

No. Season Date Location Discipline Level
1 2009/10 13 February 2010 Canada Vancouver, Canada 7.5 km Sprint Winter Olympic Games
2  2010/11  10 December 2010 Austria Hochfilzen, Austria 7.5 km Sprint World Cup
3 19 March 2011 Norway Holmenkollen, Norway 10 km Pursuit World Cup
4 2012/13 17 January 2013 Italy Antholz, Italy 7.5 km Sprint World Cup
5 2013/14 9 February 2014 Russia Sochi, Russia 7.5 km Sprint Winter Olympic Games
6 22 March 2014 Norway Holmenkollen, Norway 10 km Pursuit World Cup
7 23 March 2014 Norway Holmenkollen, Norway 12.5 km Mass Start World Cup
8 2017/18 9 December 2017 Austria Hochfilzen, Austria 10 km Pursuit World Cup
9 14 December 2017 France Annecy, France 7.5 km Sprint World Cup
10 4 January 2018 Germany Oberhof, Germany 7.5 km Sprint World Cup
11 6 January 2018 Germany Oberhof, Germany 10 km Pursuit World Cup
12 17 February 2018 South Korea Pyeongchang, South Korea 12.5 km Mass Start Winter Olympic Games
13 15 March 2018 Norway Holmenkollen, Norway 7.5 km Sprint World Cup
14 2018/19 23 December 2018 Czech Republic Nové Město, Czech Republic 12.5 km Mass Start World Cup
15 17 January 2019 Germany Ruhpolding, Germany 7.5 km Sprint World Cup
16 8 March 2019 Sweden Östersund, Sweden 7.5 km Sprint World Championships
17 21 March 2019 Norway Holmenkollen, Norway 7.5 km Sprint World Cup
18 23 March 2019 Norway Holmenkollen, Norway 10 km Pursuit World Cup
*Results are from IBU races which include the Biathlon World Cup, Biathlon World Championships and the Winter Olympic Games.

Updated on 25 March 2018

References

  1. ^ "Anastasiya KUZMINA". BiathlonResults.com. International Biathlon Union. Archived from the original on 5 February 2014. Retrieved 10 February 2014.
  2. ^ "Anastasiya KUZMINA". BiathlonWorld.com. International Biathlon Union. Archived from the original on 5 August 2011. Retrieved 23 January 2010.
  3. ^ Pyeongchang Mass-start Archived 5 March 2010 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ Vancouver2010.com 13 February 2010 biathlon women's 7.5 km sprint results. Archived 6 May 2010 at the Wayback Machine – accessed 13 February 2010
  5. ^ Khanty-Mansiysk Sprint Archived 6 July 2015 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ^ O'Connor, Philip; Ransom, Ian (17 February 2018). "Biathlon: Kuzmina finally gets her gold in mass start". reuters.com. Retrieved 28 March 2018.
  7. ^ "Darya Domracheva Wins Closely-Contested Tyumen Sprint". International Biathlon Union. 23 March 2018. Retrieved 24 March 2018.
  8. ^ "Kaisa Mäkäräinen Sprints to Tyumen Pursuit Victory". International Biathlon Union. 24 March 2018. Retrieved 24 March 2018.
  9. ^ "Makarainen wins biathlon World Cup title in dramatic finish". CharlotteObserver.com. 25 March 2018. Archived from the original on 28 March 2018. Retrieved 27 March 2018.
  10. ^ "New Daughter for Anastasiya Kuzmina". Biathlonworld.com. 13 July 2015. Archived from the original on 16 July 2015. Retrieved 15 July 2015.
  11. ^ ERIC WILLEMSEN (9 February 2014). "Defending champion Kuzmina wins biathlon gold". Yahoo Sports. Archived from the original on 11 February 2014. Retrieved 10 February 2014.
  12. ^ "Biathlon: Women's mass start results" (PDF). pyeongchang2018.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 February 2018. Retrieved 17 February 2018.
  13. ^ "Biathlon: Women's 10km pursuit cumulative results" (PDF). pyeongchang2018.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 February 2018. Retrieved 12 February 2018.
  14. ^ "Biathlon: Women's 15km individual final results" (PDF). pyeongchang2018.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 February 2018. Retrieved 15 February 2018.
  15. ^ Official data from Biathlonworld.com[dead link]
  16. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 July 2011. Retrieved 18 February 2018.((cite web)): CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

External links

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Awards and achievements Preceded byPeter Hochschorner/Pavol HochschornerPeter SaganPeter Sagan Sportsperson of Slovakia 201020142018 Succeeded byPeter Hochschorner/Pavol HochschornerPeter SaganPetra Vlhova
Olympic champions in women's biathlon – 7.5 km sprint
Olympic champions in women's biathlon – 12.5 km mass start
World champions in women's biathlon – 7.5 km sprint
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