Krystsina Tsimanouskaya

Krystsina Siarheyeuna Tsimanouskaya or Kristina Sergeyevna Timanovskaya (, Łacinka: Kryscina Siarhiejeŭna Cimanoŭskaja, ; , ; born on November 19, 1996) is a Polish sprinter. 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.

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. Belarusian sports representatives just did not make enough doping tests for other 4 × 400 m relay race sprinters. But Tsimanouskaya has never run in this event as a sprinter. 

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

International events
Representing 2015European Junior ChampionshipsEskilstuna, Sweden6th100 m11.8517th (h)200 m24.512017European Indoor ChampionshipsBelgrade, Serbia12th (sf)60 m7.39European U23 ChampionshipsBydgoszcz, Poland2nd100 m11.544th200 m23.322018World Indoor ChampionshipsBirmingham, United Kingdom31st (h)60 m7.37European ChampionshipsBerlin, Germany13th (sf)100 m11.3410th (sf)200 m23.032019European Indoor ChampionshipsGlasgow, United Kingdom7th60 m7.26UniversiadeNaples, Italy6th100 m11.441st200 m23.00World ChampionshipsDoha, Qatar26th (h)200 m23.22European GamesMinsk, Belarus2ndteamTBC2021European Indoor ChampionshipsToruń, Poland –60 mDQ2020 Summer OlympicsTokyo, Japan38th (h)100 m11.47 –200 mRepresenting 2023Polish Indoor Athletics ChampionshipsToruń, Poland2nd60 m7.25

 Personal bests
Outdoor
100 metres – 11.04 (+0.7 m/s, Minsk 2018)
200 metres – 22.75 (+1,0 m/s Warsaw 2023)

Indoor
60 metres – 7.21 (Mogilyov 2017, Minsk 2019, Luxembourg 2024)
200 metres – 23.45 (Toruń 2023)

 Personal life 
She was married to sprinter Arseniy Zdanevich. He was afraid of getting in trouble over his wife's words and went to Ukraine in August 2021. 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.

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Category:1996 births
Category:Living people
Category:Competitors at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Category:Olympians for Belarus
Category:Refugees
Category:Sprinters