Adelina Ibatullina | |
Birth Date: | 26 January 1999 |
Birth Place: | Ufa, Russia |
Country: | Russia |
Sport: | Modern pentathlon |
Club: | CSKA Moscow |
Coach: | Yevgeny Zinkovsky |
Adelina Ibatullina (Russian: Аделина Ибатуллина; born 26 January 1999)[1] is a Russian modern pentathlete.
Adelina Ibatullina was born on 26 January 1999, in Ufa, and she is Bashkir.[2] She has been a vegetarian since 2014.[3]
Ibatullina competed at the 2014 Youth Olympics and finished sixth individually. She also competed with Radion Khripchenko from Kyrgyzstan in the mixed relay, and they finished seventh.[4] She then won the gold medal at the 2017 U19 World Championships.[5]
Ibatullina won the gold medal at the 2019 Russian Championships in the individual event and in the team event with the Moscow team.[6] She competed at the 2019 European Championships where she finished eleventh and qualified a spot to the 2020 Olympic Games.[7] [8] She won the individual gold medal at the 2019 European Junior Championships.[9] At the 2019 Junior World Championships, she won three gold medals: in individual pentathlon, in the relay with Kseniia Fraltsova, and in the team event.[10] She also competed at the 2019 World Championships at the senior level where she finished nineteenth in her qualification group.[11]
Ibatullina won a silver medal in the team event at the 2021 European Championships alongside Sophia Kozlova and Gulnaz Gubaydullina. Although she had qualified a spot for the 2020 Olympic Games, the Russian Olympic Committee had qualified three athletes but were only permitted to send two, and Gubaydullina and Uliana Batashova were chosen to compete.[12]