Albina Akhatova

Albina Akhatova is a Russian former biathlete, born on 13 November 1976, who won Olympic and World Championship medals in the 1990s and 2000s. At the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin she took bronze medals in the pursuit and the individual race, the latter after a teammate was disqualified for a failed doping test, and she won Olympic relay medals in 1998, 2002 and 2006, in silver, bronze and gold respectively. At the World Championships she won the mass start in 2003 and was part of Russian relay teams that won in 2000 and 2003. She was banned for two years in 2009 after testing positive for EPO.