Valentina Shevchenko

Walentyna Shevchenko (Ukrainian Валентина Шевченко; born October 2, 1975 in Hanniwka, Chernihiv Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR) is a Ukrainian cross country skier.

Walentyna Shevchenko is a police officer and starts for Dynamo Kiev. She is married, has one child and lives in Brovary. Since 1989 she has been active. Her first big race she contested at the Junior World Championships in 1994 in Breitenwang, where the best placement, rank 19 was about 5 km, still no mention of the subsequent career. In January 1995, she was in Nové Město their debut in the Cross Country World Cup and was 60th in the 15 -kilometer race. Then it was first launched at the Universiade in Candanchú and in Thunder Bay at a Nordic World Ski Championships. With two big events they reached no appreciable results. In March 1996, she won about 15 km in Falun first World Cup points. It was not until December 1997 that she first came in Davos about 15 km in eighth in the top ten. In 1998, the first launch at the Olympic Games. In Nagano, she launched in four races, the best result it reached as eleventh on their parade route, the 15 -kilometer race.

The first very good result at a Nordic World Ski Championships 1999 Shevchenko managed in Ramsau, where she was sixth over 5 kilometers. In the following years it abolished the Ukrainian, always further stabilize and improve. She sat firmly in the world rankings and often achieved good results in the World Cup. At the Olympic Games in 2002 in Salt Lake City, they met again in four races. Her best they reached as fifth-placed on the longest distance over 30 kilometers. In Tarvisio she appeared again in 2003 at a Universiade, this time she won the race over 15 kilometers. Very successful if at the end without winning a medal, was the Nordic World Ski Championships 2003 In three of four starts she finished in the top ten rankings. ( 15 km Sixth; 30 km: Seventh; tracking: Ninth ).

In November of 2003, at the start of the following season, Shevchenko could win their first World Cup race in Kuusamo in a race for ten kilometers, shortly after she won a race in Davos at the same distance. Between November 2003 and March 2004, she ran in 16 World Cup races in a row to single-digit rankings. In the overall World Cup rankings of the season 2003/ 04 they finished third. The next major event with good finishes the Ukrainians were the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin. At the Olympic race in Pragelato Plan, she joined, as in their previous two matches in four races. Twice, in eighth in the relay and finished seventh over 30 kilometers, she finished top- ten finishes. Again, a very good season Shevchenko was 2006/07. She won twice places on the podium and finished seventh overall World Cup standings. In the inaugural Tour de Ski 2006/2007, the policewoman was third. The top result at the season's peak, the Nordic World Ski Championships 2007 was the eighth place in the 10 -kilometer race from Sapporo.

So far (as of January 2008), Shevchenko win in about 130 World Cup races three times and nine times more running on the podium. More than 50 times they placed in the Top Ten. Eleven times she competed in the Olympic race.

Shevchenko is a member of Skinfit Racing Team.