Dinara Talhatauna Alimbekava ( kk, Динара Талғатқызы Әлімбекова, Dinara Talğatkyzy Älimbekova born 5 January 1996) is a

Kazakhstan Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country located mainly in Central Asia and partly in Eastern Europe. It borders Russia to the north and west, China to the east, Kyrgyzstan to the southeast, Uzbeki ...

-born Belarusian

biathlete The biathlon is a winter sport that combines cross-country skiing (sport), cross-country skiing and shooting sports, rifle shooting. It is treated as a race, with contestants skiing through a cross-country trail whose distance is divided into sh ...

. She won a gold medal in the 4×6 km relay at the 2018 Olympics. Alimbekava won her first IBU World Cup competition (a sprint) in

Hochfilzen Hochfilzen is a town and municipality in the Kitzbühel district of the Austrian state of Tyrol. It is located in the Pillersee valley 5 km east of Fieberbrunn. Population was 1,147 in 2016. It is a popular winter sports resort, especially f ...

, Austria, in December 2020, and finished as the Under-25 Cup leader for the 2020-21 World Cup season. Alimbekava was born in Kazakhstan to a Kazakh father and a Belarusian mother. When she was three years old, her family moved to Belarus, where her younger brother Zhenya was born. Dzinara is professionally trained in piano and skates and practices

snowboarding Snowboarding is a recreational and competitive activity that involves descending a snow-covered surface while standing on a snowboard that is almost always attached to a rider's feet. It features in the Winter Olympic Games and Winter Paralympi ...

in her free time.От пианистки до биатлонистки. История Динары Алимбековой
krayavidy.by (interview in Russian) In October 2022, Alimbekava revealed via her Instagram account that she had married fellow biathlete Anton Smolski on January 10th of that same year.

Biathlon results

All results are sourced from the

International Biathlon Union The International Biathlon Union (IBU; german: Internationale Biathlon-Union) is the international governing body of biathlon. Its headquarters were in Salzburg, Austria, until May 2020, when the Federation moved to Anif, on the outskirts of the ...

Olympic Games

''1 medal (1 gold)''

World Championships

''0 medals'' :''*During Olympic seasons competitions are only held for those events not included in the Olympic program.'' :''**The single mixed relay was added as an event in 2019.''

World Cup

Individual podiums

* 1 victories (1 Sp) * 6 podiums (1 Sp, 3 Pu, 2 Ms)

References

1996 births Living people Biathletes at the 2018 Winter Olympics Biathletes at the 2022 Winter Olympics Belarusian female biathletes Olympic biathletes of Belarus Olympic gold medalists for Belarus Olympic medalists in biathlon Medalists at the 2018 Winter Olympics People from Abay District, East Kazakhstan Kazakhstani emigrants to Belarus {{Belarus-biathlon-bio-stub