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Anastasiya Kuzmina

Anastasiya Kuzmina
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Personal information
Birth name Anastasiya Vladimirovna Shipulina
Full name Anastasiya Vladimirovna Kuzmina
Born (1984-08-28) 28 August 1984 (age 32)
Tyumen, RSFSR,
Soviet Union
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Professional information
Sport Biathlon
Club VSC Dukla Banska Bystrica
World Cup debut 7 January 2006
Olympic Games
Teams 2 (2010, 2014)
Medals 3 (2 gold)
World Championships
Teams 5 (2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013)
Medals 2 (0 gold)
World Cup
Seasons 9 (2005/06–2013/14)
Individual victories 6
All victories 6
Individual podiums 19
All podiums 20

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

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. 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. She won another medal - bronze, at the 2011 Biathlon World Championships in Khanty-Mansiysk. At the 2014 Winter Olympics, she again won the gold medal in the 7.5 km sprint.

Kuzmina's victory made her the second Slovak after Ondrej Nepela to win a Winter Olympic gold medal, and the first for independent Slovakia.

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 a one daughter, Olivia. She, her husband and their children live in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia. She speaks Russian, Slovak and English.

Kuzmina has won three medals from Olympic Games. In Vancouver she won a gold medal 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.


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