Four years ago, she announced her retirement from the competition in biathlon with tears in her eyes, today she is training again. She accepted a new challenge. How did her daughter and son react to her and what, for example, does Nastya say at Christmas?
We don’t see them as a holiday at the table…
The most successful Slovak biathlete, Anastasia Kuzminová, started biathlon at the age of 15. Today she is 39 years old and she is a three-time Olympic champion, world champion and holder of small crystal globes. However, Nastya was still active even after ending her professional biathlon career, and biathlon finally lured her back. He will present at the January European Championships in Osrblí. For Diva.sk she described how she prepares for her return, but also how she spends the Christmas holidays… And that’s not all! In an exclusive interview, you will learn, for example:
- How does he feel after three months of regular training?
- How did her children react to her decision to compete again?
- Did she have to change her diet?
- What does it say about the new competition?
- Which of her dreams did she have to put aside for a sports career?
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Anastasia Kuzminová is a charming woman in private, Christmas is really a family holiday for her Photo source/IG: nastja.kuzminova Source: Instagram
Your return to the competitive carousel is approaching, do you feel nervous, or does joy prevail? How do you feel mentally and physically?
At the outset, I have to make it clear. So far, it is only the European Championships in Osrblí. We will think about the term “competition carousel” later, when I will see how the body reacts to the first race after such a long break. At the moment, after three months of more regular training, I feel that I am “halfway” to “catching up” in fitness, and for now only physical. I’m fine mentally.
I think that nervousness can logically, naturally come right before the race. Until then, I have time to work on the mental side of my preparation in such a way that I can handle the “increase in interest” of the public and the media, and thus perform as well as possible.
How does the family react to your decision, specifically son Jelisa (15) and daughter Olívia (8)? Since you were mainly a mother for four years…
The stage when my children wanted me only for themselves and to be only a mother is almost behind us. Jeliseja’s son has been trying out cross-country skiing in a competitive form since last season. He significantly supported me in making a decision, until he “heckled” me at the moment when I hesitated.
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Daughter Olívia and son Jeliseja inherited their parents’ love and talent for winter sports Source photo/IG: nastja.kuzminova Source: Instagram
Because of my daughter Olivia, I adapted the training program so that she would miss me as little as possible. This means that while he is at school, I train the main training phase, the longest and most demanding, and again, when he has afternoon clubs or sports activities for an hour, an hour and a half, I use the time and complete another, shorter or more intense training. She likes to train alongside me at training sessions, but she always chooses her own pace and type of training.
Did you have to change your diet because of Christmas?
Sport and a healthy lifestyle, or healthier eating in our family is not an occasional matter. It’s more of a habit and a lifestyle in general. So, there won’t be that many changes. And for us, CHRISTMAS is really a holiday of family and enjoying a magical atmosphere that cannot be conjured up at any other time of the year. We do not perceive them as a holiday “at the table” and in no case do we overeat with sweets and potato salad. Many times during Christmas time, the whole family is away from home, on training camps where there is a lot of snow and we “take our Christmas with us on the road”.
Have you already tried modeling, what else do you enjoy besides training and sports?
I love experimenting in the kitchen and upgrading an old recipe, and I can also relax well if I’m not pressed for time. I love my little garden, which my daughter and I take care of, and the flowers on the windows of our house, which we change according to the season. .
But because of top sports, I didn’t have the time, opportunity or space for my other dreams, which include, for example, playing the piano or guitar, horses, tennis, golf, dancing and fashion or modeling.
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Nastya Kuzminová fulfilled her old dream, she tried modeling Photo source/ IG: nastja.kuzminova Source: Instagram
The last one was fulfilled by the girls from the creative group LaVie, which operates in Banská Bystrica, and the fashion designer Vierka Futáková, whom I greatly admire, offered me to step on the catwalk during the fashion show in her pieces as a surprise of the evening. I can always choose something from her collections in which I am different, but at the same time I am as natural as possible. I fulfill my other dreams through my children. For example, my son played tennis as a primary school student, he refused the guitar. And the daughter is learning to play the piano, attends a dance school and has been working with horses for over 2 years.
Did you have time to follow the competition, where has biathlon moved in four years?
During the past four years, I have really been a biathlon fan “in front of the screen” and watched the entire development of world and domestic biathlon “from a distance”. It is not easy to evaluate the current state of the competition when I am not there.
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However, it can be seen that our biathlon, as well as the world biathlon, is currently undergoing a generational change, during which we see new names of young, courageous female athletes. During these changes, I would very much like to try to pass on my experience to our youth in the best and most effective way possible.
I really miss the energy and emotions of the biathlon round, and I believe that all the fans who are already going to Osrblio for the EC at the end of January, so that we can experience them there together. You can see more photos of Anastasia Kuzminová from private life in our photo gallery, especially her photos with her daughter are beautiful:
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2023-12-25 19:29:28
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