Olena Pidhrushna

Olena Mychajliwna Pidhruschna (Ukrainian Олена Михайлівна Підгрушна; Russian Елена Михайловна Подгрушная; born January 9, 1987 in Legnica, Poland) is a Ukrainian biathlete and politician.

Olena Pidhruschna was a successful junior athlete. Their first major international event was the Junior World Championships 2004 at the Summer Biathlon in Osrblie. There was twelve best place in the sprint result. The following winter she went to at the Junior World Championships in Kontiolahti where a twelfth place in the single best result was. In 2005, she also appeared again at the Summer Junior World Championships, this time in Muonio, to where it won gold in the relay. Added to this was in eleventh place in the sprint, eight in the pursuit and four in the mass start. A year later she won in Presque Isle Bronze in the singles of the Winter Cup for Juniors. At the Junior European Championship 2006 in Langsdorf Pidhruschna missed as fourth in the relay another medal win. The summer 's World Cup was by winning the silver medal in the pursuit after a fifth place in the sprint again positive. No medal, but good results also brought the Junior World Championships in 2007 in Martell. Best result was sixth place in the sprint. Silver won the Ukrainian with their relay at the European Junior Championships in 2007 in Bansko. As fourth in the sprint she missed another medal and finished fifth in pursuit and in singles. Also in the summer World Junior Championship in Otepaeae she won silver in the sprint and bronze in the pursuit. Your last Junior World Championships in Ruhpolding was less successful than the previous one. Better was the last European Junior Championships in Nove Mesto na Moravě where Pidhruschna fourth in the relay and the sprint was and seventh in singles and eleventh in the pursuit.

Her debut in the adult area was Pidhruschna 2005 Biathlon European Cup. In her first race, a sprint in Windischgarsten, it was 18 for the first time in the Biathlon World Cup 2007 the Ukrainian in Lahti, where she finished 44th in the sprint and 45 in the pursuit. First World Cup points as they won 29 in a single to kick off the 2008/09 season in Ostersund. Her first World Cup victory, she was able to celebrate 2009 in Oberhof with the Ukrainian season. The first top- ten finish managed Olena Pidhruschna with tenth place in the individual at the World Cup kick-off 2009 in Ostersund. Your best-ever World Cup placement is ranked seventh, also reached in Östersund, in the sprint race. In 2009 she won the European Championship with the Ukrainian Season, 2010, she was again in the relay Vice European Champion. Olena Pidhruschna took part in the 2010 Olympic Winter Games. Her best individual result was the twelfth place in the mass start. With the season they finished sixth. At the start of the World Cup 2012/2013 Ostersund to Olena Pidhruschna was first presented on the stage of the Biathlon World Cup. In the sprint, they took second place. She repeated this success in the rest of the season with a pursuit race behind Tora Berger in Antholz. With Secht top ten results in 14 races, rank 33 as worst result and eighth place in the overall standings at the time it was best biathlete of their country. In addition Oberhof she won at the side of Julija Dschyma, Valj and Vita Semerenko again a race with the season in Hochfilzen, they had to admit defeat to Norway before. Her first single victory she succeeded at the Biathlon World Championships in 2013, when she won before Tora Berger the gold medal in the sprint and then took another bronze in pursuit race and silver in the Ukrainian season.

At the 2014 Olympic Games she won the gold medal with the Ukrainian season.

During the breaks in the spring of 2014 in the Ukaine, Pidhruschna was appointed as Deputy Minister for Culture and Sports of Ukraine.

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