Iuliia Budaleeva also known as Iuliia Chokhlaeva (born 13 November 1990) is a Russian female visually impaired cross-country skier and

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 represented

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and was successful in her first Paralympic competition, claiming four medals including a gold medal in the biathlon event. Iuliia Budaleeva was awarded the

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by the Russian president,

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for her performance at the

2014 Winter Paralympics The 2014 Winter Paralympics (russian: Зимние Паралимпийские игры 2014, Zimniye Paralimpiyskiye igry 2014), the 11th Paralympic Winter Games, and also more generally known as the Sochi 2014 Paralympic Winter Games, were an ...

Career

Iuliia Budaleeva competed at the

with her guide

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and went onto claim 3 medals in the biathlon events including a gold medal in the women's 12.5km biathletes event and two silver medals in women's 6km event and women's 10km event. She also clinched a bronze medal in the women's 5km cross-country skiing event as a part of the

Personal life

Iuliia Budaleeva married fellow Russian visually impaired Paralympic Nordic skier, Stanislav Chokhlaev. Stanislav Chokhlaev also competed at the

and excelled at his first Paralympic event similar to that of his wife by claiming two silver medals in the

cross-country skiing Cross-country skiing is a form of skiing where skiers rely on their own locomotion to move across snow-covered terrain, rather than using ski lifts or other forms of assistance. Cross-country skiing is widely practiced as a sport and recreation ...

and a bronze medal in

biathlon The biathlon is a winter sport that combines cross-country skiing and rifle shooting. It is treated as a race, with contestants skiing through a cross-country trail whose distance is divided into shooting rounds. The shooting rounds are not tim ...

events.

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* 1990 births Living people Russian female biathletes Russian female cross-country skiers Cross-country skiers at the 2014 Winter Paralympics Biathletes at the 2014 Winter Paralympics Paralympic cross-country skiers for Russia Paralympic biathletes for Russia Paralympic gold medalists for Russia Paralympic silver medalists for Russia Paralympic bronze medalists for Russia Medalists at the 2014 Winter Paralympics Russian blind people Paralympic medalists in cross-country skiing Paralympic medalists in biathlon 21st-century Russian women {{Russia-wintersport-bio-stub