Valentina Linkova
Valentina Leonidovna Linkova (Russian: Валентина Леонидовна Линькова; born 1970) is a Russian winter archery biathlete and run archer.
Along with Natalija Jemelina, Valentina Linkova is the most successful archery biathlete of the second half of the first decade of the 2000s. At the 2005 World Championships in Forni Avoltri, she won the title in the last relay race with Olga Simushina and Yekaterina Vasilyevna Lugovkina. In the sprint, she also won the title ahead of her relay mates, and in the pursuit she fell behind the two and came third. Two years later she became the most successful participant in the World Cup in Moscow. In the individual race she won the title before Lugovkina and Simushina, in the sprint before Jelena Sharafutdinova and Lugovkina, in the pursuit before Lugowkina and Jemelina. At the European Championships in Moscow in 2008, Linkowa won silver medals behind Jemelina and ahead of Sharafutdinova both in the sprint and in the pursuit race. To this day Linkowa leads the result lists of Russian archery biathlon competitions as the most experienced Russian archery biathlete,[1] as she dominated the Russian Cup 2012/2013.[2][3]
Parallel to her great success in the bow biathlon, Linkova began in 2004 a successful career in run archery and competed in the national championships in Izhevsk.[4] In 2011 she entered the open Dutch championships in The Hague in the men's class for lack of female competition, and took the bronze medal behind her compatriot Maxim Menschikow, ahead of all the Dutch starters.[5] In the same competition she had won bronze in the women's the year before.[6] In 2012 she won silver there[7] and two gold medals in the relay and mass start women's races at the open German championships.[8][9]
References[edit]
- ^ "Russian results". Archived from the original on 2013-03-31. Retrieved 2021-04-08.
- ^ "Results of the Russian Cup Archery Biathlon 2012" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-12-03. Retrieved 2021-04-08. (PDF; 382 kB)
- ^ "Results of the Russian Cup Archery Biathlon 2013" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-12-17. Retrieved 2021-04-08. (PDF; 298 kB)
- ^ Ergebnisse Russische Bogenlaufmeisterschaften 2004 [dead link]
- ^ "Results of the Dutch Archery Championship 2011" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-10-05. Retrieved 2021-04-08. (PDF; 76 kB)
- ^ "Results of the Dutch Archery Championship 2010" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-10-04. Retrieved 2021-04-08. (PDF; 52 kB)
- ^ "Results of the Dutch archery championship 2012" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-10-06. Retrieved 2021-04-08. (PDF; 75 kB)
- ^ "Ergebnisse Deutsche Bogenlaufmeisterschaft 2012" [German Archery Championship 2012 Results] (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 20 September 2020.
- ^ "Deutsche Meisterschaft Bogenlaufen 2012 am 8. und 9. September in Berlin". Archived from the original on 2013-10-06. Retrieved 2021-04-08.
External links[edit]
- World Championship 2005 results
- World Championship 2007 results
- Results of the European Championship 2008 at archery.org (Error: unknown archive URL) (archived 12 August 2012) (PDF-Datei; 453 kB)