Yury Navarenko

Yury Navarenko
Date of birth	September 10, 1979
place of birth	Kiev , Ukrainian SSR
size	172 cm
Weight	75 kg
position	defender
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
1995-1996	SchWSM Kiev
1997-1998	HK Berkut Kiev
1998-2001	HK Sokil Kiev
2002-2004	CH Jaca
2004-2006	HK Sokil Kiev
2006-2008	HK Vitebsk
2008-2009	HK Sokil Kiev
2010	HK Vitebsk
2010-2011	HK Liepājas Metalurgs
2011-2013	HK Shakhtsor Salihorsk
2013-2015	HK Homel

Jurij Olexandrowytsch Nawarenko ( Ukrainian Юрій Олександрович Наваренко ; English transcription Yuri Alexandrovich Nawarenko * 10. September 1979 in Kiev , Ukrainian SSR , Soviet Union ) is a former Ukrainian hockey player , who last until 2015 when HK Gomel in Belarus Extraliga was under contract.

Career

Jurij Navarenko began his career as a hockey player in the youth department of HK Sokil Kiev in his native city. From 1995 to 2001 he played for several clubs from Kiev in the East European Hockey League , which he won in 1999 with his home club Sokil Kiev. In the middle of the 2001/02 season he left his hometown and moved to Spain, where he played for the CH Jaca in the Superliga . With the team from Aragon he won the Spanish championship title in 2003 and 2004, and the cup competition in 2002 and 2003 . In 2004 he returned to Kiev for two years and played for Sokil in the Belarusian extra league for two years . He was also used in the playoff finals for the Ukrainian championship , for which Sokil had been set, and was able to win the Ukrainian title in 2005 (against Dniprovskje Wolki Dnipropetrovsk ) and 2006 (against HK Berkut Kiev ). After these successes moved to the Belarusian league competitor HK Vitebsk , who also played for two years. In 2008 he went back to Sokil, who now played in the Russian Wysschaja Liga , but moved back to Belarus after a season with his club in the extra league. After he had played again in Vitebsk in the back series of the 2009/10 season, he joined the Latvian top club HK Liepājas Metalurgs for the following season , who also played in Belarus. With eight appearances in the second team of the club from the Baltic Sea coast, he also contributed to the title win of the Metalurgs Reserve in the Latvian league . Since 2011, Navarenko played again in Belarus. After two years at HK Schachzjor Salihorsk , where he was the league's best goal setter in 2013, he moved to HK Homel , where he ended his career in 2015.

International

In the junior division, Navarenko first stood for his home country at the U18 B European Championship in 1996 , when he was the best assists in the tournament, and after winning the U18 A European Championship in 1997 , as the Ukrainians with a 2-1 win after extra time in the decisive third playdown game against the German team the relegation succeeded on the ice. At the U20 B World Cup in 1999 , he and his team were promoted to the A group.

For the Ukrainian national ice hockey team for men, however, Navarenko was first nominated for the 2006 World Cup when he was 26 years old. He and his team finished twelfth among 16 teams in the top division. In the following year , however, he had to accept relegation with the Ukrainians. It was possible to win 3-2 in the relegation round against Norway , but the other two games against Latvia (0-5) and relegated Austria (4-8) were lost, so that in the end only the last place remained. In 2008 , 2009 , 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2014 and 2015 , when he led his team onto the ice as captain, he then played with his team in Division I.

He was also in his country's squad for the qualifying tournaments for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver and 2014 in Sochi .

Achievements and Awards

• 1996 Promotion to the A group at the U18 B European Championship
• 1996 Best assists in the U18 B European Championship
• 1999 promotion to the A group at the U20 B European Championship
• 1999 won the East European Hockey League with HK Sokil Kiev
• 2002 Spanish cup winner with HC Jaca
• 2003 Spanish champion and cup winner with HC Jaca
• 2004 Spanish champion with HC Jaca
• 2005 Ukrainian champion with HK Sokil Kiev
• 2006 Ukrainian champion with HK Sokil Kiev
• 2011 Latvian master with the HK Liepājas Metalurgs
• 2013 Best assists in the Belarusian extra league

Extraliga statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
Extraliga main round	10	473	70	256	326	749
Extraliga playoffs	9	63	3	36	39	92

(Status: end of the 2014/15 season)

Web links

• Jurij Nawarenko at eliteprospects.com (English)