Oleksandr Bilanenko

Oleksandr Bilanenko
Full name	Олександр Вікторович Біланенко Oleksandr Viktorovich Bilanenko
Association	Ukraine
birthday	January 8, 1978
place of birth	Sumy,  Soviet Union
Career
job	Sports soldier
society	Army Sports Club Sumy
Trainer	Jurij Dmytrenko, M. Serdyuk
Admission to the national team	1999
status	resigned
End of career	2014
Medal table
WM 0 × 0 × 1 × EM 1 × 3 × 0 × Winter Universiade 2 × 1 × 2 × Summer World Cup 4 × 5 × 0 × Summer EM 1 × 1 × 0 ×
Biathlon world championships bronze 2011 Khanty-Mansiysk Season  European biathlon championships silver 2002 Kontiolahti Season gold 2003 Forni Avoltri singles silver 2005 Novosibirsk Season silver 2006 Langdorf Season  Winter Universiade gold 2003 Tarvisio singles bronze 2003 Tarvisio Season gold 2005 Innsbruck singles silver 2005 Innsbruck sprint bronze 2005 Innsbruck persecution  Summer biathlon world championships silver 1998 Osrblie Season gold 2003 Forni Avoltri persecution gold 2003 Forni Avoltri Mass start gold 2003 Forni Avoltri Season gold 2007 Otepää sprint silver 2007 Otepää Mixed season silver 2011 Nové Město na Moravě sprint silver 2011 Nové Město na Moravě persecution silver 2011 Nové Město na Moravě Mixed season  Summer biathlon European championships gold 2007 Tysovets Mixed season silver 2007 Tysovets sprint
World Cup balance
Podium placements 1. 2. 3. sprint 0 0 4th persecution 0 1 0 Mass start 1 0 0
last change: November 27, 2013

Oleksandr Wiktorowytsch Bilanenko ( Ukrainian Олександр Вікторович Біланенко ; born January 8, 1978 in Sumy , Ukrainian SSR , Soviet Union ) is a former Ukrainian biathlete .

Career

Oleksandr Bilanenko has been involved in biathlon since 1990 . He is a sports soldier and is trained by Jurij Dmytrenko and M. Serdyuk. He has been a member of the Ukrainian national biathlon team since 1999. In the same year he made his debut in the Biathlon World Cup at an individual in Hochfilzen (60th) . In 2004 in a pursuit in Östersund , he achieved his best result so far in a single race.

In 2002 in Salt Lake City , 2006 in Turin and 2010 in Vancouver , Oleksandr Bilanenko took part in the Winter Olympics. He achieved his best results in 2002 and 2006 with seventh rank of the relay, while in individual disciplines it was only enough for lower ranks. In 2010 his best result was 22nd place in the individual. With the relay, he finished eighth.

Between 2000 and 2013 he took part in all biathlon world championships . In addition to the team silver medal in 2011, the most successful for him were the title fights in 2004 in Oberhof , where he successfully competed in the individual (8th), the sprint (9th), the mass start (9th) and the relay (7th). At the end of the 2004/2005 season, he was one of the top 20 biathletes. In his prime, he won a total of 5 medals at the Winter Universiades 2003 and 2005, including a complete set in 2005. At the Biathlon European Championships between 2001 and 2008 he was successful with one title in the individual and three silver medals in the relay (2002, 2005 and 2006).

In terms of the number of medals, Bilanenko was most successful at the World and European Championships in summer biathlon , where he received a total of 5 gold and 6 silver medals throughout his career.

Oleksandr Bilanenko was one of the most accurate athletes in biathlon. His hit rate was regularly well over 85%. For the 2007/2008 season he was second in the list of the best shooters. Weak runner shape prevented most of the front positions.

Private

Oleksandr Bilanenko is married with two sons and lives in Sumy.

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					1	1
3rd place					1	1
Top 10	3	2	1	2	44	52
Scoring	16	28	26th	5	53	128
Starts	39	82	47	5	54	227
As of November 27, 2013

Web links

• Olexander bilanenko in the database of the IBU (English)
• Oleksandr Bilanenko in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Oleksandr Bilanenko in the database of the Ukrainian Biathlon Association (Russian, English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hit statistics Olexander Bilanenko. Retrieved May 11, 2009 . 
2. ↑ Hit statistics 2007/08 ( Memento from February 18, 2009 in the Internet Archive )