Natalya Burdyga

Natalya Leonidovna Burdyga (Russian Наталья Леонидовна Бурдыга, scientific transliteration Natal'ja Leonidovna Burdyga, Ukrainian Наталія Леонідівна Бурдига / Natalija Leonidiwna Burdyga; born October 26, 1983 in Osa, Perm region, then the Soviet Union) is a Russian biathlete, currently for the Ukraine starts.

Natalya Burdyga was a very successful junior biathlete. Her international debut was at the Junior European Championships 2003 in Forni Avoltri. She started in the sprint, pursuit and relay races and won in all three competitions, the gold medal. Since the 2003/ 04 season, she took part in the Junior European Cup, winning her first sprint race in Ridnaun. Not quite as successfully ran the Junior World Championships in 2004 in Haute Maurienne, where 16th place in the sprint best result was. More success came shortly afterwards at the Junior European Championships in Minsk. With the season they again won the gold medal in the individual she finished second behind Jelena Dawgul in the sprint and pursuit they just missed out in fourth place when other medals.

Since the season 2004/ 05 Burdyga occurs at the European Cup biathlon women. After a short time they reached the first digit results. Between 2005 and 2006 they took apart of the Summer Biathlon World Championships in 2006, where she won two gold medals, not participate in any international competitions. In October 2006, the IBU announced that Burdyga been tested according to two victories at the Summer Biathlon World Championships positively to Carphedon. Burdyga was subsequently banned for two years, you were both stripped of title and corrected all the results since the positive test. Next major event was the Biathlon European Championships in 2009 in Ufa in the sprint race it reached number nine in individual she ran on the 17th and in the pursuit on the 13th Place. Since the beginning of the season 2009/2010 Natalja Burdyga start in the World Cup. In her first race, a single in Östersund, Burdyga was number 29 and won her first World Cup points. With a ranking of 22, she was able to achieve her best World Cup result to date in Pokljuka.

For the 2010/11 season Burdyga moved from the Russian to the Ukrainian Association. In Nove Mesto na Moravě she won the first race in 2011 with the single her first race in the IBU Cup. Since the mid- season, they also came regularly in the World Cup and could be used in Presque Isle in a sprint than 22 leveled her up to that best World Cup result. In the rest of the season they took in Nové Město na Moravě part in the Summer Biathlon World Championships in 2011, where she was eighth of the sprint and seventh persecution. Previously, she started at the end of the preseason in Khanty-Mansiysk first time at Biathlon World Championships and was 18th of Single Page. Her breakthrough in the World Cup reached Burdyga in the 2011/12 season with eighth place in the Oberhof sprint and thus a first top ten placement. In Nove Mesto it was after a eleventh place in the sprint and improved in the subsequent pursuit race in sixth personally their best placement.

Placements in the Biathlon World Cup

The table shows all placements (depending on the year, including hosting the Olympic Games and World Championships ).