Olga Anisimova (Russian Ольга Викторовна Анисимова; born 29 January 1972) is a former
Russia
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n
biathlete
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.
Career
Anisimova started her career competing for the
USSR
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at the
Biathlon Youth and Junior World Championships between 1988 and 1991. Her
Biathlon World Cup
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debut came during the
1991-92 Biathlon World Cup season in the individual in
Hochfilzen
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, Austria. She competed during the
1993-94 Biathlon World Cup season. However, she was out of the A-Team following the
1995-96 Biathlon World Cup season, making a comeback a decade later during the
2006-07 Biathlon World Cup season.
She made her way back into the Russian A-Team thanks to great results in the
European Cup
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when she won the overall title during the 2005–06 season. At the 2004
Biathlon Open European Championships in
Minsk
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,
Belarus
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, she won a gold medal with the Russian relay. Two years later in
Arber
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, Germany, she won two silver medals in the sprint and pursuit.
Her best ever result in the World Cup came during the
2007-08 Biathlon World Cup where, at the age of 35, she finished second in the
Oberhof, Germany mass start, behind
Magdalena Neuner
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. Her best finish in the overall came a season earlier when she finished 21st.
World Championships
:''*During Olympic seasons competitions are only held for those events not included in the Olympic program.''
:''**Team was removed as an event in 1998, and pursuit was added in 1997 with mass start being added in 1999 and the mixed relay in 2005.''
References
External links
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1972 births
Russian female biathletes
Living people
People from Balakovo
Sportspeople from Saratov Oblast