Sisters Kruchinkina Biography

Photo Biatlon. Elena Kruchinkina was born in Mordovia and for a long time was a Russian biathlete. Only in the year, with her sister Irina, did she change her passport. Then the Belarusian Biathlon Federation appealed to the Union of Biathlonists of Russia, and the sisters did not refuse. In Russia, Kruchinkins could not reveal the potential due to high competition.

The transition was at that time by the head of the Union of Biathlonists of Russia Vladimir Drachev. He commented on the situation as follows: “I think we acted correctly, without preventing their transition. Kruchinkins have found their place, work and are satisfied with their sports life. Otherwise, they could completely complete the career. Kruchinkins' performances for another country should be considered positively.

The girls went to the world arena. At the same time, they are still Russian athletes and help fraternal Belarus. ” In the national team of Belarus, Elena Kruchinkina began to show higher results. And the main success was her hit the World Cup. According to its results, the Belarusian biathlete took place in the overall standings. Then she showed the best result in her career - seventh place in the sprint race of Hochfilzen.

In the top ten, she fell four times, reports Championat. But the Olympic Games of the year in Beijing did not set Elena Kruchinkina. In an individual race there is a place, in a sprint - and a non -attachment to the persecution race. And the baton of the Belarusian Quartet, unfortunately, failed with a bang - only a place.

In the last season, already without the World Cup, Elena Kruchinkina took a modest place in the "Commonwealth Cup. The best result was the fifth place in the sprint race at the stage in Ryazan. In August, it became known that Elena Kruchinkina went back to Russia and would not play for the Belarusian team anymore. Now she is part of the team of the Tyumen region.

Why don't I be at the collection? Then Irina told me that the whole team was informed that I was no longer in the team of Belarus. Of course, I had a question: why did no one tell me anything? Here I even came to the gathering, my sister told me, but no one else said anything. ” That is, the biathlete, one might say, was kicked out of the national team.

For what? Failure to fulfill individual plans, planned tasks also played a role. We still have a national team: there is a result-please, no-sorry. There is no need to be offended here. ”