Oleh Bereschnyj

Oleh Bereschnyj
Full name	Олег Миколайович Бережний Oleh Mykolajowytsch Bereschnyj
Association	Ukraine
birthday	January 18, 1984
place of birth	Sumy ,  Soviet Union
Career
job	Manager, aspirant
society	Army Sports Club Sumy
Trainer	Jurij Dmytrenko, M. Serdyuk
Admission to the national team	2002
status	resigned
End of career	2013
Medal table
Junior World Championship 0 × 2 × 2 × Junior European Championship 1 × 3 × 2 × EM 0 × 1 × 0 × Summer World Cup 0 × 2 × 0 × Summer EM 1 × 0 × 1 × Winter Universiade 1 × 1 × 0 ×
Biathlon Junior World Championships silver 2002 Ridnaun singles silver 2003 Kościelisko persecution bronze 2003 Kościelisko Season bronze 2004 Haute Maurienne singles  Biathlon Junior European Championships silver 2004 Minsk Season bronze 2004 Minsk singles gold 2005 Novosibirsk sprint silver 2005 Novosibirsk singles silver 2005 Novosibirsk persecution bronze 2005 Novosibirsk Season  Winter Universiade silver 2009 Harbin sprint gold 2009 Harbin persecution  European biathlon championships silver 2010 Otepää singles  Summer biathlon world championships silver 2007 Otepää Mixed cross-country relay silver 2012 Ufa Mixed relay  Summer biathlon European championships gold 2007 Tysovets Mixed cross-country relay bronze 2007 Tysovets sprint
World Cup balance
last change: November 26, 2013

Oleh Mykolajowytsch Bereschnyj ( Ukrainian Олег Миколайович Бережний , scientific transliteration Oleh Mykolajovyč Berežnyj ; born January 18, 1984 in Sumy , Ukrainian SSR , Soviet Union ) is a former Ukrainian biathlete .

Oleh Bereschnyj was a professional athlete, is a manager for international relations by profession and works as an aspirant at the Sumy National Agricultural University . He trains at Sumy Army Sports Club. Between 2002 and 2005 he took part in a total of four Junior World Championships and four Junior European Championships. At his first World Championships in Ridnaun , he won silver behind Christoph Knie in the individual, and in 2003 in Kościelisko again silver behind Knie, now in the pursuit. He also won bronze with the relay. He also won a medal at his third Junior World Championships in Haute-Maurienne , bronze in the individual. Only at his last World Cup in Kontiolahti , Berezhnyj won no medals. At his first European Championship in Kontiolahti, he was able to achieve sixth place in the individual as the best result. 2003 in Forni Avoltri was a fourth place with the relay best result. In 2004 he won his first European Championship medals in Minsk with bronze in singles and silver in relay. Especially successful for Bereschnyj was the last Junior European Championship in Novosibirsk . He won the sprint title as well as silver in singles and in pursuit (behind Ondřej Moravec ) and bronze with the relay. In Bansko in 2007 he also took part in a senior European championship for the first time. Best result was a 32nd place in the pursuit.

The 2007 Summer Biathlon European Championships in Tyssowez , Ukraine, brought him the gold medal in the mixed relay and the bronze medal in the sprint. At the Summer Biathlon World Championships in 2007 in Otepää , he finished eighth in the mass start and won the silver medal in the mixed cross-country relay. With the relay, this placement was repeated , this time on roller skis , among the eligible relays at the Summer Biathlon World Championships 2012 in Ufa .

In the 2003/04 season Bereschnyj started in the Junior European Cup, where he was second in Ridnaun in the sprint and in Obertilliach individual. Since the 2005/06 season he mostly competed in the European Cup and was able to compete in the first race of this season in the Biathlon World Cup . He was 68th in the Östersund sprint . In the World Cup he was only used very sporadically for two years. At the third World Cup station of the 2007/08 season he finished fourth in a single race in Pokljuka and was able to place in the top of the world for the first time.

At the Winter Universiade in Harbin (China) in 2009, after winning the silver medal in the sprint, he won the pursuit race.

Oleh Bereschnyj is one of the most accurate athletes in the World Cup. In the 2008/2009 season he leads the statistics of the best shooters with 94% hit rate ahead of Simon Eder .

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
• Relay: including mixed relays

placement	singles	sprint	persecution	Mass start	Season	total
1st place
2nd place
3rd place					1	1
Top 10	1				2	3
Scoring	3		1		4th	8th
Starts	7th	15th	2		4th	28
Status: after the 2009/2010 season

Web links

• Oleh Bereschnyj in the IBU database (English)
• Oleh Bereschnyj in the database of the Ukrainian Biathlon Association (Russian, English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hit statistics in the IBU data center. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on February 28, 2014 ; Retrieved January 5, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.