Olena Petrova

This article deals with the biathlete, for the judoka see Jelena Vladimirovna Petrowa .

Olena Petrova
Full name	Olena Yuriyivna Petrova
Association	Ukraine
birthday	September 24, 1972
place of birth	Moscow,  Soviet Union
Career
job	Trainer
Debut in the World Cup	1992
status	resigned
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 1 × 0 × World Cup medals 0 × 4 × 6 ×
winter Olympics silver Nagano 1998 singles  Biathlon world championships bronze Ruhpolding 1996 Season bronze Ruhpolding 1996 singles silver Ruhpolding 1996 team bronze Osrblie 1997 team silver Kontiolahti 1999 Mass start bronze Oslo 2000 Season bronze Pokljuka 2001 Season silver Khanty-Mansiysk 2003 sprint silver Khanty-Mansiysk 2003 Season bronze Oberhof 2004 singles
World Cup balance
Mass start world cup	2. ( 1999/2000 )

Olena Jurijiwna Petrowa ( Russian Елена Юрьевна Петрова , Ukrainian Олена Юріївна Петрова ; also Elena Petrova ; born September 24, 1972 in Moscow ) is a former Russian-Ukrainian biathlete .

Olena Petrowa has been involved in biathlon since 1989 . She is trained by Roman Bondaruk and starts for Dinamo Kiev . The sportswoman, who lives in Sumy, made her debut in the 1992 biathlon World Cup and finished eleventh in the individual. Despite the good result, she was only used sporadically in a strong Russian team. In her third World Cup appearance in 1994 in Ruhpolding , she came eighth in the individual for the first time under the top 10. Her best placement was achieved in 1999 in Pokljuka when she came second. She achieved this rank three more times. In the overall World Cup she achieved a seventh place in 1998/99, a ninth place in 1999/00 and 15th place in each case from 1994/95 to 1997/98.

From 1993 in Borovets to 2006 in Pokljuka , she took part in 12 world championships . She achieved very good results several times. In 1996 in Ruhpolding she won the bronze medal in the sprint, which she repeated in 2004 in Oberhof . At Holmenkollen in 1999 in the mass start and 2003 in Khanty-Mansiysk in the sprint, she won the silver medal. She was also very successful with the relay and won silver in 2003 and bronze in 1996, 2000 and 2001.

Since 1994 she has participated in the Olympic Games in Lillehammer four times. When she first took part, she did not finish in her individual start, but finished fifth in the relay. 1998 in Nagano were their most successful games. In the individual she won the silver medal behind Ekaterina Dafowska and was eleventh in the sprint and again fifth in the relay. The following two games were less successful for Petrowa.

After the 2007/08 season , Petrowa ended her active career and became a coach in the youth field of Ukraine.

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	team	Season	total
1st place						1	1
2nd place	1	2		1		3	7th
3rd place	3	3	2	3	1	9	21st
Top 10	13	16	11	4th	1	36	81
Scoring	34	47	26th	11	1	41	160
Starts	47	73	34	11	1	41	207

Web links

• Olena Petrowa in the IBU database (English)
• Olena Petrowa in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )