Dmitry Yaroshenko
Dmitri Vladimirovich Yaroshenko (Russian: Дмитрий Владимирович Ярошенко, * November 4, 1976 in Makarov, Soviet Union ) is a retired Russian biathlete.
Career
Dmitri Yaroshenko operates since 1987 Biathlon. The officer of the Russian army made its debut towards the end of the 1998/1999 season at Holmenkollen in Oslo in the World Cup. He reached the 66th place and was subsequently not used long time. Only at the end of the 2002/2003 season, he started once again in the World Cup, but first since the 2005/2006 season, he is regularly used. With the Season Yaroshenko was founded in 2005 in Novosibirsk European champions the year before European vice champion in singles at the European Championships in Minsk. He won in the 2005/2006 season the European Cup the biathletes.
His breakthrough in the world's top he had at the beginning of the 2006/2007 season, when he reached in sprint and pursuit after a 13th place in the individual race at Östersund two second places behind Ole Einar Bjørndalen. In the Biathlon World Championships in Anterselva 2007 he became world champion with the Russian squadron. He also won at the end of the season 2006/2007 the World Cup discipline persecution.
The 2007/2008 season began for Yaroshenko with a tragic mishap: In the first race of the season, the individual race in Kontiolahti, he shot the second prone on the wrong discs. Despite five hits him regularly meet five penalty minutes were added, so that he finished the race in 82. Much more successful, however, ran the next two races in which he finished 2nd and 3rd place. At the next World Cup stop in Hochfilzen he succeeded in the sprint race in which he had the fastest run time, after the first World Cup victory of his career. On 29 December 2007 he won with his partner Ekaterina Jurjewa the World Team Challenge at the Veltins - Arena. At the 2008 World Championships Yaroshenko won again with the Russian relay gold medal. In addition, he was able to prove with the mixed relay to third place. The same mishap as in the singles in Kontiolahti happened to him in the last sprint race of the season at Holmenkollen, he was instead Fifth counted as 96 and last. He was convicted of abuse of rhEPO and in February 2009 Jurjewa first preliminary and in August definitely locked simultaneously with Albina Achatowa and Yekaterina for two years, until December 3, 2010 by three doping samples from the 3rd, 4th and December 5th, 2008. Yaroshenko continued to train and became active again after the lock. First, he took part with mediocre success at race of the IBU Cup and came in mid-January 2011 in Ruhpolding with a single back to a World Cup competition. He only reached the 68th place. and then did not come back into use in the World Cup.
Yaroshenko grew up in Yelizovo on the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia. He now lives in Novosibirsk, where he will start for Dinamo Novosibirsk and is coached by Valeri Sakharov. Married is Yaroshenko with the Russian ( Summer ) biathlete and World silver medalist Marina Yaroshenko.
Sporting successes
- 2007: 1x Gold (season )
- 2008: 1x Gold (season ), 1x Bronze ( Mixed)
Biathlon World Cup rankings
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