Natallia Tsylinskaya

Natalya Valerevna Zilinskaja, Eng. Transcription Natalia Tsilinskaya, born Natalia Markownitschenko (Russian Наталья Валерьевна Цилинская; born August 30, 1975 in Minsk) is a former Belarusian railway cyclist, the world champion was eight times.

Natalya Zilinskaja began as a street driver, before turning to the track cycling and focused on the short-term disciplines. At 14 she won the USSR Junior Championships, two years later she won at the Junior World Championships in 1993 in Sydney a bronze medal. By cycling she met her first husband, the cyclist Alexander Markownitschenko, know, mother was listening to the cycling on. During this time, she made an Instructor Training.

Against the wishes of her husband Natalya Zilinskaja took under her married name in 1998 their active cycling career on again; They were divorced. Due to a lack of training opportunities in Minsk Zilinskaja moved to Moscow. In the UCI Track World Championships 2000 in Manchester, she won one gold medal in the sprint and in the 500 -meter time trial. In the UCI Track Cycling World Championships in 2001 in Antwerp they crashed heavily. As of 2002, she went back under her birth name Zilinskaja.

In the Track World Championships in Stuttgart in 2003 Natalja Zilinskaja was her gold medal over 500 meters (as well as 2005 and 2006) defend in the sprint, she won silver; 2006 also again the World Championship gold medal in the sprint. In 2004, she won her only medal at the Olympic Games with a third place in the time trial. Also in the race of the UCI Track Cycling World Cup she finished getting top positions.

Natalya Zilinskaja is married in second marriage with the cyclist Andrei Minaschkin and has a daughter from his first marriage.