Krystsina Tsimanouskaya

Krystsina Tsimanouskaya
	Tsimanouskaya at the 2019 Summer Universiade
Personal information
Born	19 November 1996; Klimavichy, Belarus
Sport
Sport	Athletics
Event(s)	100 m, 200 m
Club	BFST Dynamo

Krystsina Siarheyeuna Tsimanouskaya or Kristina Sergeyevna Timanovskaya (Belarusian: Крысціна Сяргееўна Ціманоўская, Łacinka: Kryscina Siarhiejeŭna Cimanoŭskaja, Belarusian pronunciation: [t͡simanˈɔwskaː]; Russian: Кристина Сергеевна Тимановская, Russian pronunciation: [tɪmənˈofskəː]; born on November 19, 1996) is a Belarusian sprinter.[1] She won a silver medal in the 100 metres at the 2017 European U23 Championships, a gold medal in the 200 metres at the 2019 Summer Universiade and a silver medal in the team event at the 2019 European Games.[2]

2020 Olympics

Tsimanouskaya was about to be part of the 2020 Summer Olympics in the 100 m and 200 m events. Belarus and the country's Olympic committee forced her to run in the 4 × 400 m relay race, even though she did not want to.[3] Belarusian sports representatives just did not make enough doping tests for other 4 × 400 m relay race sprinters.[3] But Tsimanouskaya has never run in this event as a sprinter.[3]

On July 30, 2021, during the Games, she took it to her Instagram and said bad things about the Belarus Olympic Committee.[3] On August 1, 2021, she was taken to Haneda Airport by the representatives of the Belarusian Olympic team against her will.[3] She was forced into taking a flight in Belarus.[3] She was afraid to come back home and did not want to go to Belarus.[3] She contacted Japanese police in Haneda Airport.[3] Japanese police offered her protection.[3] Then she asked for asylum in Poland.[3] Its embassy in Japan took her in on August 2, 2021.[4]

International events

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Notes
Representing Belarus
2015	European Junior Championships	Eskilstuna, Sweden	6th	100 m	11.85
2015	European Junior Championships	Eskilstuna, Sweden	17th (h)	200 m	24.51
2017	European Indoor Championships	Belgrade, Serbia	12th (sf)	60 m	7.39
	European U23 Championships	Bydgoszcz, Poland	2nd	100 m	11.54
	European U23 Championships	Bydgoszcz, Poland	4th	200 m	23.32
2018	World Indoor Championships	Birmingham, United Kingdom	31st (h)	60 m	7.37
	European Championships	Berlin, Germany	13th (sf)	100 m	11.34
	European Championships	Berlin, Germany	10th (sf)	200 m	23.03
2019	European Indoor Championships	Glasgow, United Kingdom	7th	60 m	7.26
	Universiade	Naples, Italy	6th	100 m	11.44
	Universiade	Naples, Italy	1st	200 m	23.00
	World Championships	Doha, Qatar	26th (h)	200 m	23.22
	European Games	Minsk, Belarus	2nd	team	TBC
2021	European Indoor Championships	Toruń, Poland	–	60 m	DQ
	2020 Summer Olympics	Tokyo, Japan	38th (h)	100 m	11.47
	2020 Summer Olympics	Tokyo, Japan	–	200 m	DNC

Personal bests

Outdoor

100 metres – 11.04 (+0.7 m/s, Minsk 2018)
200 metres – 22.78 (−1.2 m/s, Minsk 2019)

Indoor

60 metres – 7.21 (Mogilyov 2017)
200 metres – 23.62 (Mogilyov 2019)

Personal life

She is married to sprinter Arseniy Zdanevich.[5] He was afraid of getting in trouble over his wife's words and went to Ukraine in August 2021.[5] Krystsina Tsimanouskaya's parents told Krystsina Tsimanouskaya not to return to Belarus. There was information that Belarusian police locked in on them and Krystsina Tsimanouskaya's grandmother.[4] A Financial Times interview claims she officially worked for the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Belarus with the rank of Lieutenant.[6]

References

Krystsina Tsimanouskaya at World Athletics
"Team results" (PDF). 2019 European Games. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 October 2019. Retrieved 9 November 2020.
Brunner, Simone (2 August 2021). "Von der Sprinterin zur Staatsfeindin" (in German). Die Zeit. Archived from the original on 3 August 2021. Retrieved 3 August 2021.
Roth, Andrew (2 August 2021). "Belarus sprinter faces long exile in Poland after seeking refuge". The Guardian. Retrieved 2 August 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
Roth, Andrew (2 August 2021). "Belarus athlete who refused to fly home is granted Polish visa". The Guardian. Retrieved 2 August 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
Miecznicka, Magdalena (20 August 2021). "Olympic defector Krystsina Tsimanouskaya: 'Eventually, we will win'". Financial Times. Warsaw. Retrieved 29 August 2021.

Other websites

"The Guardian view on Belarus: an Olympic athlete joins the exodus". The Guardian. 2 August 2021.
"Opinion: An Olympian reminds us: In Belarus, honesty can be a crime". The Washington Post. 2 August 2021.

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[1] Krystsina Tsimanouskaya at World Athletics

[team_medalists_european_games_2019-2] "Team results" (PDF). 2019 European Games. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 October 2019. Retrieved 9 November 2020.

[zeit-3] Brunner, Simone (2 August 2021). "Von der Sprinterin zur Staatsfeindin" (in German). Die Zeit. Archived from the original on 3 August 2021. Retrieved 3 August 2021.

[guardianparentsathletes-4] Roth, Andrew (2 August 2021). "Belarus sprinter faces long exile in Poland after seeking refuge". The Guardian. Retrieved 2 August 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)

[guardian-5] Roth, Andrew (2 August 2021). "Belarus athlete who refused to fly home is granted Polish visa". The Guardian. Retrieved 2 August 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)

[6] Miecznicka, Magdalena (20 August 2021). "Olympic defector Krystsina Tsimanouskaya: 'Eventually, we will win'". Financial Times. Warsaw. Retrieved 29 August 2021.