SMIRNOVA Irina

Rank	Event	Year	Location
World Championships
1	Women	2018	Netherlands
3	Women	2014	Elblag, POL
European Championships
1	Women	2019	Budapest, HUN
1	Women	2017	Porec, CRO

Athlete

Accounting - St. Petersburg State Agrarian University, Russia

Russian

COP Moscomsport [Moscow, RUS]

Alexander Ovsyannikov [national], RUS

She played for a men's wheelchair basketball club team in St. Petersburg, Russian Federation, when she first got involved in Para sport because the women's team had been disbanded. (Sitting Volleyball VK profile, 09 Jun 2014)

Russian Championship [RUS] (minsport.gov.ru, 30 Dec 2019)

She began playing sitting volleyball in 2006. (Sitting Volleyball's VK profile, 09 Jun 2014)

She took up wheelchair basketball at age 17 and played on a men's team until she discovered a women's team for sitting volleyball. "I had no idea that sitting volleyball would be so technically difficult, but at the same time, that it would be such an interesting and breathtaking sport." (sportsdaily.ru, 20 Aug 2018; Sitting Volleyball VK profile, 09 Jun 2014)

To win gold at the 2020 Paralympic Games in Tokyo. (sportsdaily.ru, 20 Aug 2018)

In 2018 she received the title of Honoured Master of Sport in the Russian Federation. (paralymp.ru, 19 Oct 2018)

She was named Best Blocker at the 2013 European Championships in Elblag, Poland. (paralympic.org, 23 Sep 2013)