Ekaterina Glazyrina

Yekaterina Ivanovna Glasyrina (Russian Екатерина Ивановна Глазырина; born April 22, 1987 in Tchaikovsky ) is a Russian biathlete.

Yekaterina Glasyrina took first time in 2007 at the Junior European Championships and for the first time participate in a major event in biathlon. In Bansko it was used in a race in Single she ran to 15th place. The following year she competed in the Junior World Championships in Nove Mesto na Moravě, where he was 12th in the individual as well as fifth in the sprint and pursuit. Other international operations followed again until 2010, now with the women in the power range. In Otepaeae Glasyrina participated in the Biathlon European Championship and reached the rank five in singles, 16 in the sprint and ten in the pursuit race. With Olga Wiluchina, Ekaterina and Yekaterina Jurlowa Schumilowa the Russian won the bronze medal behind the representations from Germany and Ukraine in the relay competition. Then she ran her first race of the IBU Cup 2009/2010. In the first race, a sprint in Pokljuka, it reached a podium finish with second place. For the 2010/11 season Glasyrina moved up to the national team of Russia. In Presque Isle, she made her debut in the World Cup and won as the 39th in the sprint race at once first World Cup points. A few days later in Fort Kent Ekaterina Glasyrina was in the first 19 Sprint and grew in the pursuit race in 9th place and for the first time in the top ten. The first podium in the World Cup Ekaterina Glasyrina erlief located at the start of the World Cup 2012/2013 Ostersund. In single race she finished third.

National won Glasyrina at the Russian Championships in Biathlon, 2009 in Uvat together with Ekaterina Krylatkowa, Lyubov Petrova and Natalia Sokolova with the relay bronze medal.

Glasyrina studied at the State University of Physical Culture and Sports of the Ural (Russian Уральский государственный университет физической культуры, Uralski gossudarstwenny uniwersitet fisitscheskoi kultury ) in Yekaterinburg.

Biathlon World Cup rankings

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