Jana Bondar

Jana Bondar
Full name	Jana Ruslaniwna Bondar
Association	Ukraine
birthday	19th February 1991
place of birth	Fursy,  Soviet Union
Career
Admission to the national team	2012
Debut in the European Cup / IBU Cup	2012
status	active
Medal table
JWM medals 0 × 0 × 1 × Winter Universiade 0 × 1 × 0 × EM medals 0 × 0 × 1 ×
Biathlon Junior World Championships bronze 2012 Kontiolahti Season  Winter Universiade silver 2013 Trentino Mixed season  European biathlon championships bronze 2013 Bansko Season bronze 2014 Bansko sprint
World Cup balance
last change: December 17, 2012

Jana Ruslaniwna Bondar ( Ukrainian Яна Русланівна Бондарь ; born February 19, 1991 in Fursy , Kiev Oblast , Ukrainian SSR , USSR ) is a Ukrainian biathlete and former cross-country skier .

Jana Bondar comes from the Fursy settlement, a suburb of Bila Tserkva in the Kiev Oblast . Towards the end of 2008, she contested her first lower-class international cross-country skiing race. First she ran in FIS races and in the Eastern Europe Cup . She only achieved notable placements in 2011 when she was fourth twice in sprint races in Kharkiv . In Praz de Lys Sommand , she took part in the Junior Nordic World Ski Championships for the first time in 2009 and was 53rd in the pursuit and 54th in the 5-kilometer freestyle. In the classic sprint, she was 57. At the European Youth Olympic Festival in Szczyrk , the Ukrainian came in 27th over the 5-kilometer classic and 19th over 7.5-kilometer freestyle. A year later, in Hinterzarten , she was placed 27th in the freestyle sprint, 58 over the 5-kilometer classic and 63 in the pursuit at the Junior World Championships. In Otepää she took part in a Junior World Championship for the third time. Bondar was used in four races. She finished 20th in the 5-kilometer freestyle, 41st in the qualification for the classic sprint, 33rd in the pursuit and 15th in the 4x3.3-kilometer relay.

For the 2011/12 season Bondar switched to biathlon. She contested her first international races in 2012 in Forni Avoltri in the IBU Cup and finished 72nd in her first individual. The first highlight was the junior races of the European Biathlon Championships 2012 in Osrblie , where the Ukrainian finished 27th in the individual, 41st in the sprint and 28th in the pursuit. This was followed by the Biathlon Junior World Championships 2012 in Kontiolahti , where Bondar was 23rd of the individual, 15th of the sprint and 22nd of the pursuer. With the relay she won the bronze medal in the relay race alongside Iryna Warwynez and Alla Hilenko behind the Norwegians and the Italians. Towards the end of the season she won her first point in the IBU Cup in Altenberg as the 40th sprint. Later in the year she ran in the junior races of the Summer Biathlon World Championships 2012 in Ufa , where she was fifth in the sprint and seventh in the pursuit. With the season she was fifth, but was not included in the ranking because it was the second season of her association. In Beitostølen Bondar achieved her first results in the top 20 in the 2012/13 season , at the following IBU Cup station in Ridnaun she repeated her sprint placement as 15th from the previous week and thus her best individual result and was in the mixed- Relay race at the side of Inna Suprun , Roman Pryma and Oleh Bereschnyj behind the Russian representation second. In Antholz , she was able to contest her first race in the biathlon world cup that same season and immediately won world cup points as 37th in a sprint.

At the 2013 European Biathlon Championships in Bansko , she won the relay bronze medal with Julija Dschyma , Iryna Varwynez and Marija Panfilowa . At the 2013 Winter Universiade in Trentino , she won silver with Vitaly Kiltschyzkyj , Dmytro Pidrutschnyj and Iryna Varwynez in the mixed relay.

Biathlon World Cup placements

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

• 1st - 3rd Place: Number of podium placements
• Top 10: Number of placements in the top ten (including podium)
• Points ranks: Number of placements within the point ranks (including podium and top 10)
• Starts: Number of races run in the respective discipline

placement	singles	sprint	persecution	Mass start	Season	total
1st place
2nd place
3rd place
Top 10
Scoring		1	2			3
Starts	1	7th	2			10
Status: February 12, 2015

Web links

• Jana Bondar in the database of the IBU (English)
• Jana Bondar in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Jana Bondar in www.biathlon.com.ua