Alina Stremous (born 11 July 1995) is a Russian-born Moldovan

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who competed at the

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. She won the 10 km pursuit event at the 2022 IBU Open European Championships.

Personal life

Stremous was born in Kotelnikovo, Russia. She studied at State Budgetary Secondary School No. 3,

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Career

Stremous started

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, Russia, and later moved to Saint Petersburg. In 2017, she started competing for the St. Petersburg Biathlon Sports Federation. She made her international debut in the

2019–20 Biathlon IBU Cup The 2019–20 Biathlon IBU Cup was a multi-race tournament over a season of biathlon, organised by the International Biathlon Union. IBU Cup is the second-rank competition in biathlon after the Biathlon World Cup. The season started on 25 Novembe ...

event in

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, Belarus. In April 2020, Stremous started competing for Moldova, as she had been unable to make the Russian reserve team. She had not competed internationally for Russia, and so did not need permission from the Russian Biathlon Union to make the nationality change. She was one of several Russian-born athletes who chose to represent Moldova. Stremous came fourth in the

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event in

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, Germany. At the 2022 IBU Open European Championships, she won the 10 km pursuit event, by 18 seconds. She had four penalties in the competition. At the same Championships, she came second in the 15 km individual event, and fourth in the 7.5 km sprint race. Stremous qualified for the

; she was one of four Moldovan biathletes at the Games. She came 10th in the women's sprint event and 16th in the pursuit race. She missed two of her 10 targets in the pursuit race. She also finished 37th in the 15km individual event, and was the country's flag bearer at the

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Career results

Olympic Games

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World Championships

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Stremous, Alina 1995 births Living people Moldovan female biathletes Moldovan people of Russian descent People from Kotelnikovsky District Biathletes at the 2022 Winter Olympics Olympic biathletes for Moldova Sportspeople from Volgograd Oblast