Slovakian Anastasia Kuzmina, the one lady to win biathlon gold at three totally different Olympics, introduced she is ending a four-plus-year retirement at age 39.

Kuzmina mentioned her first competitors again shall be January’s European Championships, according to the International Biathlon Union (IBU). Slovakia hosts the championships in Osrblie.

“I have no idea what results I could achieve there, but I’m not just coming back to greet the fans,” Kuzmina mentioned at a Tuesday press convention, in accordance with the IBU. “It will be very, very difficult because I would like to bring joy to the people again and not disappoint them.”

Kuzmina, a mom of two, final competed in March 2019, ending that World Cup season with a circuit-leading 5 victories, plus profitable her first world title.

At the Olympics, she received the dash in 2010 and 2014 and the mass begin in 2018 to turn out to be the primary lady to win biathlon gold at three totally different Games.

Come the 2026 Winter Games, she shall be greater than two years older than any earlier feminine Olympic biathlete, in accordance with Olympedia.org.

Kuzmina was born in Russia and represented that nation till being dropped from its World Cup roster in 2007.

She then married an Israeli-born former biathlete who had relocated to Slovakia. After having a son, she returned to biathlon in 2008 competing for Slovakia.

NBC Olympic analysis contributed to this report.