Svetlana Igorevna Mironova (russian: Светлана Игоревна Миронова; born 22 February 1994) is a Russian

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Career

Mironova was engaged in cross-country skiing until 2011, when she decided to switch competing in biathlon. At the 2013 Junior World Championships in

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, she became the relay champion alongside teammates

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and

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. In the same championship, she won bronze in the sprint, was 11th in the pursuit and 24th in the individual race. In 2014, at the U21

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, she took second place in the sprint and became the champion in the pursuit. Mironova made her

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debut in the 2016-17 season in

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, finishing 64th in the sprint held on 2 March 2017. In the 2017-18 season, Mironova took part in seven out of nine stages. Her best result was 9th in the

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sprint. By the end of the season, she was named rookie of the year by the

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. Svetlana competed in the 2019 Biathlon World Championships in

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, finishing 31st in the sprint, 25th in the pursuit and 33rd in the individual race. Mironova made to her first World Cup podium at 13 December 2019 in the sprint race in Hochfilzen. She also finished 2nd at the same stage in the women's relay. On 10 January 2021, Mironova played an instrumental part in the Russian mixed relay gold medal (alongside

, Alexander Loginov and Eduard Latypov) at the

in Oberhof, ending the anti-record 43-race podiumless streak for the Russian biathletes.

Biathlon results

All results are sourced from the

Olympic Games

''1 medal (1 silver)''

World Championships

Junior/Youth World Championships

''2 medals (1 gold, 1 bronze)''

References

External links

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Profile on biathlonworld.com
{{DEFAULTSORT:Mironova, Svetlana Russian female biathletes Living people 1994 births Sportspeople from Tomsk Oblast Biathletes at the 2022 Winter Olympics Medalists at the 2022 Winter Olympics Olympic biathletes for Russia Olympic medalists in biathlon Olympic silver medalists for the Russian Olympic Committee athletes