Irina Avvakumova

Irina Andrejewna Awwakumowa, born Taktajewa (Russian Ирина Андреевна Аввакумова ( Тактаева ), also English Irina Avvakumova; born September 14, 1991 Mysa, Leningrad Oblast, Russian SFSR, USSR) is a Russian ski jumper and winner of the Continental Cup 2012/13.

Career

Irina Awwakumowa comes from the small village Mysa in Rajon Gatchina near the southern suburbs of Saint Petersburg. She moved in 2005 from cross-country skiing to ski and was included in the national team in 2009. Her international debut as Irina Taktajewa 8 August 2009 at the Ski Jumping Continental Cup in Bishops Green, where she was 47th. Two weeks later she won in Lillehammer their first Continental Cup points. The season 2009/10 she began by winning three points in Rovaniemi, Finland. In the Nordic Junior World Ski Championships 2010 in Hinterzarten they reached No. 38 in singles. The season she finished with six points on the 61st place in the Continental Cup overall standings.

In the summer of 2010 she was able to score again in Bischofsgruen. In September Taktajewa in Falun, Sweden 21 was twice In the Nordic Junior World Ski Championships 2011 at the Estonian Otepaeae they jumped to 39th place. She received a nomination for the Nordic World Ski Championships 2011 in Oslo, Norway, where she jumped to the 37th rank.

Since the season 2011/12 Awwakumowa starts in the newly refurbished ski jumping World Cup Ladies. At their Welcup debut in Lillehammer on December 3, 2011, she was 40th on February 4, 2012 she succeeded in Hinzenbach first time the profit of World Cup points. The 2011/12 season they finished on the 33rd place in the World Cup standings, the 2012/2013 season at No. 41

In the Nordic World Ski Championships 2013 in Val di Fiemme, they reached the 9th and the 13th place in the individual with the team in the mixed competition. In the Winter Universiade in 2013 at the Stadio del Trampolino she won the bronze medal in the individual and in the Mixed Competition with Mikhail Maksimotschkin the gold medal. Your first podium finish in the World Cup scored Awwakumowa with third place on 21 December in Hinterzarten. On January 4, 2014, it won on the Sneschinka hill in the Russian Tchaikovsky was the first Russian woman a competition in ski jumping World Cup. So she ended the inception of the 2013/14 season continued winning streak by Sara Takanashi.

Awwakumowas best ever individual score in the World Cup was a victory in Tchaikovsky (4 January 2014), in the Summer Grand Prix second place in Almaty (23 September 2012) and in the Continental Cup with three wins in Örnsköldsvik (9th - March 10, 2013 ).

As the only Russian participant she won at the Olympic debut of women's ski jumping in Sochi 16th place

Personal

Awwakumowa lives in Tschulkowo in Moscow and studied at the National Sports Academy МГАФК ( Московская государственная академия физической культуры, previously МОГИФК ) since 2009. It belongs to the experimental elite school for winter sports " Sparrow Hills " ( ЭШВСМ по зимним видам спорта " Воробьевы горы ").