Krystsina Siarheyeuna Tsimanouskaya or Kristina Sergeyevna Timanovskaya (, Łacinka: Kryscina Siarhiejeŭna Cimanoŭskaja, ; , ; born on November 19, 1996) is a Belarusian and 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
Personal bests
Outdoor
100 metres – 11.04 (+0.7 m/s, Minsk 2018) 200 metres – 22.78 (−1.2 m/s, Minsk 2019) Indoor 60 metres – 7.21 (Mogilyov 2017) 200 metres – 23.62 (Mogilyov 2019)
Personal life
She is 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. A Financial Times interview claims she officially worked for the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Belarus with the rank of Lieutenant.