Vita Semerenko

Wita Olexandriwna Semerenko (Ukrainian Віта Олександрівна Семеренко, scientific transliteration Vita Oleksandrivna Semerenko; born January 18, 1986 in Krasnopillja, Sumy Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR) is a Ukrainian biathlete. In start lists it is usually with the name Vita Semerenko, English transliteration.

Wita Semerenko that starts for Dynamo Sumy and is trained by Hryhorij Schamraj, had her first major appearance at the European Championships in 2005 in Novosibirsk. Besides a few good individual results she won at the side of her twin sister Walentyna Semerenko bronze with the Ukrainian season. In 2005, she also launched for the first time at the Junior World Championships in Kontiolahti where they respectively won the silver medal in the individual competition and team competition. In the same year Semerenko launched in Obertilliach first time in the European Cup, and became an instant fifth in the individual race. After another good results she gave in 2006 in Oberhof with the relay her World Cup debut ( 11 ). In Östersund she ran her first individual race, in which she also took the same as 24 World Cup points. Your first Senior World Championships in Antholz, she contested in 2007, where she was able to demonstrate through several good results. In the individual, in the pursuit and the mass start, she was 20, in the sprint 12 In the Biathlon World Championships 2008 in Ostersund, she was in the mass start surprising Fourth and also won silver in the relay. In Oberhof 2009 she won along with Olena Pidhruschna, Oxana Khvostenko and her sister Walentyna Semerenko in the season her first World Cup race.

Wita Semerenko participated in the 2010 Winter Olympics, where she was able to present a 22nd place in singles and a 6th place in the relay as the best results. Your best results it delivers regularly at World Championships, which is also reflected in the profits of the bronze medals in individual competition 2011 in Khanty-Mansiysk and in the sprint 2012 in Ruhpolding. At the World Championships in 2013 in Nové Město na Moravě she succeeded in sprint repetition of the third place of Ruhpolding and a few days later, she ran with the Ukrainian season as early as 2008 to World Championship silver. At the Olympic Games in Sochi in 2014, she won the bronze and the relay gold medal in the sprint competition.

In addition to winter biathlon Semerenko also operates summer biathlon. 2005 in Muonio they first participated at the Junior World Championships and won gold with the team as well as bronze in the sprint and mass start. In 2007 she took Otepaeae as in 2006 in Ufa bronze in the sprint and also won in the pursuit and the relay, respectively the silver medal.

World Cup Stats

The table shows all placements (depending on the year, including hosting the Olympic Games and World Championships ).