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Anastasíya Vladímirovna Kuzminá (Slovak:Anastázia Kuzminová,Russian:Анастаси́я Влади́мировна Кузьмина́; néeShipulina; born 28 August 1984) is a Russian-born Slovakbiathlete.

Career

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Kuzmina represented Slovakia from December 2008 and won the silver medal two months later in mass start at the2009 Biathlon World Championships inPyeongchang.^[3] She won a gold medal in the 7.5 km sprint and a silver medal in the 10 km pursuit at the2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Kuzmina's victory made her the second Slovak afterOndrej Nepela to win aWinter Olympic gold medal, and the first for independent Slovakia.^[4] She won another medal – bronze, at the2011 Biathlon World Championships inKhanty-Mansiysk.^[5] At the2014 Winter Olympics, she again won the gold medal in the 7.5 km sprint. At the2018 Winter Olympics, she took silver medals in thepursuit and theindividual before taking the gold in themass 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 canoeistsPavol andPeter Hochschorner.^[6]

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

Her brotherAnton Shipulin is a Russian biathlete. Her husband,Daniel Kuzmin, is an Israelicross-country skier and Kuzmina's personal coach. They have one son, Yelisey, and one daughter, Olivia.^[10] She, her husband and their children live inBanská Bystrica,Slovakia. She speaksRussian,Slovak andEnglish.

After almost 5 years into her retirement from competitive biathlon, Kuzmina decided to compete at the2024 IBU Open European Championships inOsrblie where she finished 59th in sprint.

Biathlon results

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All results are sourced from theInternational Biathlon Union.

Olympic Games

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6 medals (3 gold, 3 silver)

Kuzmina has won six medals from Olympic Games. InVancouver she won a gold medal in thesprint and a silver medal inpursuit and inSochi she won a gold medal in the7.5 km sprint, becoming the first woman in biathlon to successfully defend an individual Olympic title.^[11] InPyeongchang she won three medals, gold in the12.5 km mass start event^[12] and silver in the10 km pursuit^[13] and in the15 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

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

Kuzmina has won three medals from World Championships. InPyeonchang she won a silver medal in the12.5 km mass start.^[15] InKhanty-Mansiysk she won a bronze medal in the7.5 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

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Season	Overall			Sprint			Pursuit			Individual			Mass Start
Season	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	did not start
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

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Result	Individual	Sprint	Pursuit	Mass start	Relay	Mixed relay	Total
Result	Individual	Sprint	Pursuit	Mass start	Relay	Mixed relay	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

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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	2010/11	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 theBiathlon World Cup,Biathlon World Championships and theWinter Olympic Games.

Updated on 25 March 2018

References

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^Pyeongchang Mass-start Archived 5 March 2010 at theWayback Machine
^Vancouver2010.com 13 February 2010 biathlon women's 7.5 km sprint results.Archived 6 May 2010 at theWayback Machine – accessed 13 February 2010
^Khanty-Mansiysk Sprint Archived 6 July 2015 at theWayback Machine
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External links

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Media related toAnastasiya Kuzmina at Wikimedia Commons

Anastasiya Kuzmina atIBU
Anastasiya Kuzmina atOlympics.com
Anastasiya Kuzmina at theSlovak Olympic and Sports Committee (in Slovak)
Anastasiya Kuzmina atOlympedia

Awards and achievements
Preceded by Peter Hochschorner/Pavol Hochschorner Peter Sagan Peter Sagan	Sportsperson of Slovakia 2010 2014 2018	Succeeded by Peter Hochschorner/Pavol Hochschorner Peter Sagan Petra Vlhova

v t e Olympic champions in women's biathlon – 7.5 km sprint
1992: Anfisa Reztsova (EUN) 1994: Myriam Bédard (CAN) 1998: Galina Koukleva (RUS) 2002: Kati Wilhelm (GER) 2006: Florence Baverel-Robert (FRA) 2010: Anastasiya Kuzmina (SVK) 2014: Anastasiya Kuzmina (SVK) 2018: Laura Dahlmeier (GER) 2022: Marte Olsbu Røiseland (NOR)

v t e Olympic champions in women's biathlon – 12.5 km mass start
2006: Anna Carin Olofsson (SWE) 2010: Magdalena Neuner (GER) 2014: Darya Domracheva (BLR) 2018: Anastasiya Kuzmina (SVK) 2022: Justine Braisaz-Bouchet (FRA)

v t e World champions in women's biathlon – 7.5 km sprint
5 km	1984:Venera Chernyshova 1985:Sanna Grønlid 1986:Kaija Parve 1987:Elena Golovina 1988:Petra Schaaf
7.5 km	1989:Anne Elvebakk 1990:Anne Elvebakk 1991:Grete I. Nykkelmo 1993:Myriam Bédard 1995:Anne Briand 1996:Olga Romasko 1997:Olga Romasko 1999:Martina Zellner 2000:Liv Grete Skjelbreid 2001:Kati Wilhelm 2003:Sylvie Becaert 2004:Liv Grete Skjelbreid Poirée 2005:Uschi Disl 2007:Magdalena Neuner 2008:Andrea Henkel 2009:Kati Wilhelm 2011:Magdalena Neuner 2012:Magdalena Neuner 2013:Olena Bilosiuk 2015:Marie Dorin Habert 2016:Tiril Eckhoff 2017:Gabriela Soukalová 2019:Anastasiya Kuzmina 2020:Marte Olsbu Røiseland 2021:Tiril Eckhoff 2023:Denise Herrmann-Wick 2024:Julia Simon 2025:Justine Braisaz-Bouchet

World champions in women's biathlon – 7.5 km sprint

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