Elena Turysheva

Jelena Leonidovna Turyschewa (Russian: Елена Леонидовна Турышева; born January 29, 1986 in Sverdlovsk ) is a Russian cross-country skier who specializes in sprint competitions.

Life and career

After Turyschewa was started since 2006 mainly in FIS races, she took first in the 2007/ 08 season in races in Eastern Europe Cup. After several top - ten finishes and a third place in the sprint in Krasnogorsk they occupied at the end of the season ranked twelfth in the overall standings of the Eastern Europe Cup. Good results with the traditional pre-season competitions in Muonio enabled Turyschewa nomination for the Cross Country World Cup. Immediately upon their first use in Kuusamo, she reached the semi-finals and evidences the tenth place. During the season they survived multiple qualifying for the quarter- finals and finished at the end of the 36th place in the overall standings of the sprint competitions. The Pursuit competition in Vancouver she was able to place first the profit of World Cup points in a distance race. In the Universiade in Harbin, China, she moved into the final round, where they finished fifth. Also in the 2009/10 season Turyschewa able to build on the good performances of the previous year and repeated in Kuusamo their ranking from the previous year.