Anton Shipulin

Anton Shipulin is a retired Russian biathlete, born on 21 August 1987, who later became a member of the State Duma in 2019. He grew up in a family of cross-country skiers and biathletes, trained from an early age in Tyumen and then Yekaterinburg, and was drawn to biathlon by his older sister Anastasiya Kuzmina. After strong junior and European Championships results in 2007 and 2008 he reached the World Cup in 2009. He won the bronze medal with the Russian men's relay team at the 2010 Winter Olympics and took part in the men's relay at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi with Evgeny Ustyugov, Alexey Volkov and Dmitry Malyshko, a result later affected by doping rulings against Ustyugov. He announced his retirement from sport on 25 December 2018.