Anastasiya Kuzmina

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

Anastasiya Kuzmina

Kuzmina in 2024
Personal information
Birth name	Anastasiya Vladimirovna Shipulina
Full name	Anastasiya Vladimirovna Kuzmina
Nationality	Slovak
Born	(1984-08-28) 28 August 1984 (age 40) Tyumen, RSFSR, Soviet Union
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Weight	67 kg (148 lb)
Professional information
Sport	Biathlon
Club	VSC Dukla Banská Bystrica
World Cup debut	7 January 2006[1][2]
Retired	24 March 2019
Olympic Games
Teams	3 (2010–2018)
Medals	6 (3 gold)
World Championships
Teams	7 (2009–2013, 2017, 2019)
Medals	3 (1 gold)
World Cup
Seasons	11 (2005/06–2018/19)
Individual victories	18
Individual podiums	38
All podiums	39
Discipline titles	3: 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 2010 Vancouver 7.5 km sprint 2014 Sochi 7.5 km sprint 2018 Pyeongchang 12.5 km mass start 2010 Vancouver 10 km pursuit 2018 Pyeongchang 10 km pursuit 2018 Pyeongchang 15 km individual World Championships 2019 Östersund 7.5 km sprint 2009 Pyeongchang 12. 5km mass start 2011 Khanty-Mansiysk 7.5 km sprint Representing  Russia Junior World Championships 2005 Kontiolahti 3 × 6 km relay 2004 Haute Maurienne 3 × 6 km relay 2005 Kontiolahti 7.5 km sprint Youth World Championships 2003 Kościelisko 3 × 6 km relay 2002 Ridnaun 3 × 6 km relay 2003 Kościelisko 7.5 km pursuit 2003 Kościelisko 10 km individual
Updated on 8 March 2019

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]
2010 Vancouver	39th	Gold	Silver	8th	13th	—
2014 Sochi	26th	Gold	6th	24th	–	5th
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
2009 Pyeongchang	29th	7th	17th	Silver	13th	10th
2010 Khanty-Mansiysk	Not held in an Olympic season					14th
2011 Khanty-Mansiysk	9th	Bronze	6th	10th	7th	12th
2012 Ruhpolding	10th	10th	19th	8th	8th	7th
2013 Nové Město	4th	17th	14th	15th	8th	7th
2017 Hochfilzen	—	8th	13th	22nd	8th	—
2019 Östersund	58th	Gold	6th	28th	6th	—
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	Vancouver, Canada	7.5 km Sprint	Winter Olympic Games
2	2010/11	10 December 2010	Hochfilzen, Austria	7.5 km Sprint	World Cup
3		19 March 2011	Holmenkollen, Norway	10 km Pursuit	World Cup
4	2012/13	17 January 2013	Antholz, Italy	7.5 km Sprint	World Cup
5	2013/14	9 February 2014	Sochi, Russia	7.5 km Sprint	Winter Olympic Games
6		22 March 2014	Holmenkollen, Norway	10 km Pursuit	World Cup
7		23 March 2014	Holmenkollen, Norway	12.5 km Mass Start	World Cup
8	2017/18	9 December 2017	Hochfilzen, Austria	10 km Pursuit	World Cup
9		14 December 2017	Annecy, France	7.5 km Sprint	World Cup
10		4 January 2018	Oberhof, Germany	7.5 km Sprint	World Cup
11		6 January 2018	Oberhof, Germany	10 km Pursuit	World Cup
12		17 February 2018	Pyeongchang, South Korea	12.5 km Mass Start	Winter Olympic Games
13		15 March 2018	Holmenkollen, Norway	7.5 km Sprint	World Cup
14	2018/19	23 December 2018	Nové Město, Czech Republic	12.5 km Mass Start	World Cup
15		17 January 2019	Ruhpolding, Germany	7.5 km Sprint	World Cup
16		8 March 2019	Östersund, Sweden	7.5 km Sprint	World Championships
17		21 March 2019	Holmenkollen, Norway	7.5 km Sprint	World Cup
18		23 March 2019	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