Anastasiya Kuzmina

Anastasíya Vladímirovna Kuzminá (, ; 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. 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. 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. 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.

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

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. 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 returned to compete in the World Cup in October 2023, deciding to compete at the 2024 IBU Open European Championships in Osrblie where she finished 59th in sprint. She continued to compete in 2025/26 World Cup season.

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. In Pyeongchang she won three medals, gold in the 12.5 km mass start event and silver in the 10 km pursuit and in the 15 km individual race.

EventIndividualSprintPursuitRelay 2010 Vancouver 39th Gold Silver 8th 13th 2014 Sochi 26th Gold 6th 24th –5th 2018 Pyeongchang Silver 13th Silver Gold 5th20th 2026 Milano-Cortina 46th 36th 49th – 10th 19th 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 Pyeongchang she won a silver medal in the 12.5 km mass start.

EventIndividualSprintPursuitRelay Single 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 — — 20th 16th — 2025 Lenzerheide 52d 33th 32nd — 6th 12th —

World Cup

Overall record ResultIndividualSprintPursuitMass startRelayMixedrelayTotalIndividual eventsTeam eventsAll 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 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 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 SprintWorld 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