Leanid Karneyenka
Leanid Leanidawitsch Karnijenka (White Russian Леанід Леанідавіч Карніенка; born August 20, 1987 in Klimawitschy ) is a former White Russian cross-country skiers.
Career
His international debut Karnijenka in January 2005 at the European Youth Olympic Festival in Monthey. There, he won the 10 km individual race in free style bronze medal. About 7.5 km in the classical style, he finished in the target rank 16 In the following Nordic Junior World Ski Championships in Rovaniemi, he missed a top ranking. After Rank 59 in the 2 x 10 km pursuit, he reached rank 20 in individual over 10 km.
A year later Karnijenka was able to improve slightly at the Junior World Championships in 2006 in Kranj, Slovenia, but a medal success was on. Best result was the 16th place in the persecution. On 17 December 2006 he was at the Relay World Cup in La Clusaz his debut at the Cross Country World Cup. As 14 the Belarusian season but remained as expected chance.
In February Karnijenka started at the Nordic World Ski Championships 2007 in Sapporo. After he had retired there in single race over 30 km, he won over 10 km surprising the Silver medal behind Norwegian Lars Berger. Helped had him while changing weather conditions that came to meet him as a starter with low start number. In his last race of the World Cup of the season, reached the rank of 13
At the beginning of the 2007/08 season started Karnijenka in Beitostølen the first time in a single World Cup. However, he fell far short of the points. In December, he started for two races in Krasnogorsk in Eastern Europe Cup, but came there not space 50. In the following U-23 World Cup cross-country skiing in the Italian times he could reach as tenth in the sprint for the first time a top- 10 ranking in the World Youth Championship. In the 15 -km individual race, he retired early from the 30-km individual race he finished in 17th
On December 14, 2008, he succeeded as 15th in the sprint of Davos for the first time running in the points. Also in January the Russian Rybinsk he succeeded as 29 In the following Nordic World Ski Championships 2009 in Liberec, he missed the repeat his success of 2007 significantly. The cross-country season, he finished ranked 128 of the overall World Cup ranking and rank 74 of the Sprint World Cup overall standings.
At the start of his final season 2009/10 he managed with the relay in Beitostølen ninth season for the first time a ranking among the top ten teams in the world. Also in January, he managed a ninth place in the team sprint in Rybinsk. Then he got a place at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver. In the sprint race, he was ranked 51 before he finished the single race over 15km than 63. In the team sprint, he left in the semifinals.
After the games Karnijenka denied even a contest as part of the Military Sport runs in Cogne. He then ended his cross-country career.
Achievements
World Cup Stats
The table shows the achieved placings in detail.
- Place 1st-3rd. Number of podiums
- Top 10: Number of placings in the top ten
- Points ranking: number of placements within the points positions
- Start: Number overflowed race in the respective discipline