Anastasiya Kuzmina

Anastasiya Kuzmina is a Russian-born Slovak biathlete, born Anastasiya Shipulina on 28 August 1984 and the sister of the Russian biathlete Anton Shipulin. She represented Slovakia from December 2008 and won silver in the mass start at the 2009 World Championships within two months. She took Olympic sprint gold at Vancouver in 2010 and again at Sochi in 2014, becoming the first woman to successfully defend an individual Olympic biathlon title, and at Pyeongchang in 2018 she won mass start gold plus two silver medals, the first biathlete to win gold at three consecutive Games. In 2017-18 she won the sprint and pursuit Crystal Globes and finished second overall in the World Cup. Her husband Daniel Kuzmin, an Israeli cross-country skier, is her coach, and the family lives in Banska Bystrica. She returned to World Cup racing in October 2023.