Yuliya Shamshurina

Yuliya Shamshurina
Medal record
Women's cross country skiing
World Championships
1989 Lahti 4 x 5 km

Yuliya Shamshurina (Russian: Ю́лия Шамшу́рина) (born July 16, 1962) is a Soviet cross country skier who competed from 1982 to 1989, training at VSS Urozhay in Ustinov. She won a silver medal in the 4x5 km at the 1989 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Lahti and had her best individual finish of fourth in the 10 km event at those same championships.

At the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, Shamshurina (then known as Yuliya Stepanova), she finished fourth in the 4 x 5 km and had her best individual finish of eighth in the 10 km event.

Her lone career victory was in a 10 km event in Switzerland in 1988.

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