Andrij Vosnjak

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Andrij Vosnjak biathlon
Association UkraineUkraine Ukraine
birthday June 22, 1989
place of birth Wanschuliw,  Soviet UnionSoviet UnionSoviet Union 
Career
status active
Medal table
SEM medals 0 × gold 1 × silver 1 × bronze
JEM medals 1 × gold 1 × silver 1 × bronze
SJWM medals 0 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
IBU Summer biathlon European championships
silver 2011 Martell Mixed
bronze 2011 Martell persecution
IBU Biathlon Junior European Championships
bronze 2008 Nové Město Season
gold 2010 Otepää persecution
silver 2010 Otepää singles
IBU Junior Summer Biathlon World Championships
silver 2010 Duszniki-Zdrój Season
World Cup balance
last change: December 19, 2013

Andrij Wosnjak ( Ukrainian Андрій Возняк , also English Andriy Vozniak ; born June 22, 1989 in Wanschuliw, Ternopil Oblast , Ukrainian SSR , USSR ) is a Ukrainian biathlete .

Andrij Wosnjak made his international debut at the 2007 Biathlon Junior World Championships in Martell . There he was eleventh in the individual, 51st in the sprint, 56th in the pursuit and fifth in the relay. The following year he came in Ruhpolding to ranks 76 in the individual, 21 in the sprint, 13 in the pursuit and 10 in the relay. At the European Junior Championships of the Year in Nové Město na Moravě , he won his first international medal with a relay bronze medal alongside Vitaly Koschuschko, Artem Pryma and Vitaly Kiltschyzkyj . In 2009 he narrowly missed another medal win twice. First at the Junior World Championships in Canmore , where Wosnjak was 52nd in the individual, 22nd in the sprint, 35th in the pursuit and fourth in the relay, later in the year also at the Summer Biathlon World Championships in Oberhof in 2009 , when he was in the cross-country run - Competitions Fifth in the sprint and fourth in the pursuit, on roller skis 20th in the sprint and eighth in the pursuit. Even the 2010 Biathlon Junior World Championships in Torsby did not bring any further medals, with 13th place in the individual and sprint, 18 in the pursuit and eight in the relay, the Ukrainian was nevertheless able to place well. The international breakthrough finally came at the 2010 European Junior Championships in Otepää . Wosnjak initially just missed a medal in fourth place in the sprint, but then ran up to first place in the pursuit race and won his first title. In the individual, he narrowly missed a second gold medal against Andrei Turgenev. With the mixed season he was seventh. The 2010 Summer Biathlon World Championships in Duszniki-Zdrój were the last title fights for the juniors. Vosnjak was seventh in the sprint, eighth in the pursuit and won the silver medal with the relay behind the overpowering Russian representation.

At the start of the 2010/11 season , Wosnjak made his debut for the men in the IBU Cup in Beitostølen and was 76th and 72nd in his first two sprint races. In Ridnaun , the 2011 European Biathlon Championships were followed by their first participation in a major performance event . In the individual the Ukrainian was at the same time with Vid Vončina 36th, in the sprint 54th and in the pursuit race 34th In the further course of the year Wosnjak took part in the Summer Biathlon European Championships 2011 in Martell. Here he was the best non-Russian participant in the sprint as fifth. In the pursuit race he improved by two places and won the bronze medal behind Sergei Balandin and Alexander Katschanowski . In the mixed relay he won the silver medal alongside Switlana Krikontschuk , Lyudmyla Pyssarenko and Andrij Bohaj as the final runner behind the Russian relay.

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