Nadezhda Talanova

Nadezhda Alexandrovna Talanowa (Russian Надежда Александровна Таланова; born April 17, 1967 in Kisner, Udmurt Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union) is a former Russian biathlete and Olympic champion.

Nadezhda Talanowa began in 1985 with the sport of biathlon. In the World Cup, she debuted in 1993 with the single Ridnaun with an eleventh place. The first top-ten result they also scored in a single, as it was in Pokljuka the following season sixth. At the next World Cup stage they reached in Ruhpolding as third in the sprint her first podium finish. Their only win her later succeeded in the sprint a few weeks in Canmore. Your best result in the World Cup they also reached in the 1993/1994 season with fifth place. She started to her career in late 1999 throughout the World Cup and was still often in the top ten, but without another victory in a single race. In team and with the Russian squadron you get a total of five World Cup victories, including their most valuable at the Olympic Games in 1994 in Lillehammer in a relay race. As a first leg they drew together with Natalya Snytina, Luisa Noskowa and Anfisa Reszowa the German and the French squadron on the courts - in that memorable race in which Simone Greiner - Petter - Memm had to walk for lying six penalties in the lead and as the Russian Season to Olympic victory helped. In the individual with 16th place in the sprint and 19th place with her ​​also get respectable results. For individual medal, but not to victory, it was enough with silver at the World Championships in 1993 in Borovets, with the relay in the cast Panjutina, Talanowa, Simuschina and Belowa they finished third. In 1997 the quartet Osrblie Melnik, Kuklewa, Talanowa and Romasko she repeated this success, she won a silver medal in the team, but with Anna Volkova instead of Galina Kuklewa. Again silver team 1999 ( Talanowa, Kuklewa, Romasko, Achatowa ) in their final year as Active showed their resistance. In Valcartier they ended their 1999 World Cup career with 26th place in the overall World Cup. Even in summer biathlon Talanowa was successful, 1998, she was world champion in the dash, the pursuers came a fourth. In the same year she succeeded at the European Championships of the triple success in the individual competitions sprint, pursuit and single, plus a second place in the relay. She is up to date (2010 ) is the only biathlete who won all three individual titles at the European Championships in the same year. In addition to and after the Biathlon Talanowa approached in triathlon competitions and in local mountain bike race. She lives in Smolensk, where she is active in politics, she was a candidate in the election of deputies to the Duma in the Smolensk Oblast.

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