Olena Pidhruschna

Olena Pidhruschna
Full name	Olena Mychajliwna Pidhruschna
Association	Ukraine
birthday	9th January 1987 (age 33)
place of birth	Legnica ,  Poland
size	170 cm
Weight	50 kg
Career
job	politician
society	Kolos Ternopil
Trainer	Ihor Pochynok
Debut in the European Cup / IBU Cup	2005
Debut in the World Cup	2007
World Cup victories	6 (2 individual wins)
status	active
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × 0 × 0 × World Cup medals 1 × 2 × 2 × EM medals 5 × 3 × 0 × JWM medals 0 × 0 × 1 × JEM medals 0 × 1 × 0 × SWM medals 1 × 3 × 1 × JSWM medals 1 × 2 × 1 ×
winter Olympics gold 2014 Sochi Season  Biathlon world championships gold 2013 Nové Město na Moravě sprint silver 2013 Nové Město na Moravě Season bronze 2013 Nové Město na Moravě persecution silver 2017 Hochfilzen Season bronze 2020 Antholz Season  Biathlon Junior World Championships bronze 2006 Presque Isle singles  European biathlon championships gold 2009 Ufa Season silver 2010 Otepää Season gold 2011 Ridnaun Season silver 2011 Ridnaun singles gold 2012 Osrblie sprint gold 2012 Osrblie persecution gold 2012 Osrblie Season silver 2020 Minsk-Raubitschy Super sprint  Biathlon Junior European Championships silver 2007 Bansko Season  Summer biathlon world championships silver 2011 Nové Město Mixed relay bronze 2012 Ufa persecution gold 2016 Otepää sprint silver 2016 Otepää persecution silver 2016 Otepää Mixed relay  Junior Summer Biathlon World Championships gold 2005 Munio Season silver 2006 Ufa persecution silver 2007 Otepää sprint bronze 2007 Otepää persecution
World Cup balance
Overall World Cup	7. ( 2015/16 )
Individual World Cup	5. ( 2016/17 )
Sprint World Cup	5. (2015/16)
Pursuit World Cup	4. ( 2012/13 )
Mass start world cup	7. (2015/16)
Podium placements 1. 2. 3. singles 0 0 1 sprint 2 1 2 persecution 0 1 1 Season 5 10 4th
last change: February 22nd, 2020

Olena Mychajliwna Pidhruschna ( Ukrainian Оле́на Миха́йлівна Підгру́шна ; Russian Елена Михайловна Подгрушная ; born January 9, 1987 in Legnica , Poland ) is a Ukrainian biathlete and politician.

Career

Olena Pidhruschna was already a successful junior athlete. Your first major international event was the 2004 Junior World Championships in the summer biathlon in Osrblie . Twelfth place in the sprint was the best result there. The following winter she competed at the Junior World Championships in Kontiolahti , where a twelfth place in the individual was the best result. In 2005 she also appeared again at the Summer Junior World Championships, this time in Muonio , where she won gold with the relay. There was also eleventh place in the sprint, eighth in the pursuit and four in the mass start. A year later she won bronze in the singles of the Winter Junior World Championships in Presque Isle . At the European Junior Championships 2006 in Langdorf , Pidhruschna missed another medal win as fourth with the relay. The summer world championship also went well again with winning the silver medal in the pursuit after finishing fifth in the sprint. The 2007 Junior World Championships in Martell also brought good results, but not a medal . The best result was sixth place in the sprint. The Ukrainian won silver with her relay at the 2007 European Junior Championships in Bansko . As fourth in the sprint, she missed another medal and finished fifth in the pursuit and individual. She also won silver in the sprint and bronze in the pursuit at the Summer Junior World Championships in Otepää . Your last Junior World Championship in Ruhpolding was less successful than the previous ones. The last European Junior Championship went better in Nové Město na Moravě , where Pidhruschna was fourth in the relay and in the sprint and seventh in the individual and eleventh in the pursuit.

Pidhruschna in January 2018 at the World Cup in Oberhof

Pidhruschna made her adult debut in 2005 in the European Biathlon Cup . In her first race, a sprint in Windischgarsten , she was 18th. For the first time in the biathlon world cup , the Ukrainian competed in 2007 in Lahti , where she finished 44th in the sprint and 45th in the pursuit. She won her first World Cup points in 29th place at the start of the 2008/09 season in Östersund . She celebrated her first World Cup victory with the Ukrainian relay team in Oberhof in 2009 . Olena Pidhruschna achieved her first top ten placement with tenth place in the individual at the 2009 World Cup opener in Östersund. Her best World Cup position so far is seventh in the sprint race, also achieved in Östersund. In 2009 she won the European Championship with the Ukrainian relay, and in 2010 she was again vice European champion with the relay. Olena Pidhruschna took part in the 2010 Winter Olympics. Her best individual result was twelfth place in the mass start. With the relay she finished sixth. At the start of the 2012/2013 World Cup in Östersund, Olena Pidhruschna was able to present herself on the podium of the Biathlon World Cup for the first time. In the sprint, she took second place. She repeated this success later in the season in a pursuit behind Tora Berger in Antholz . With six top ten results in 14 races, 33rd as the worst result and eighth overall, she was the best biathlete in her country at the time. In Oberhof she won another race with the relay alongside Julija Dschyma , Valj and Vita Semerenko , in Hochfilzen they had previously only been beaten by Norway. She achieved her first individual victory at the Biathlon World Championships in 2013 when she won the gold medal in the sprint ahead of Tora Berger and then took bronze in the pursuit race and silver with the Ukrainian relay.

At the 2014 Olympic Games , she won the gold medal with the Ukrainian relay team.

In the course of the upheavals in Ukraine , Pidhruschna was appointed Deputy Minister for Culture and Sport of Ukraine in spring 2014.

Just one year later, for the 2015/16 season , she returned to the Biathlon World Cup.

statistics

World Cup victories

All victories at biathlon world cups, listed separately according to individual and relay races. The columns can be sorted by clicking the symbol in the table header.

Single race	Relay race
No. date place discipline 1. 0Feb 9, 2013  Nové Město na Moravě (World Cup) sprint 2. 0Feb 5, 2016  Canmore sprint	No. date place discipline 1. 0Jan. 7, 2009  Oberhof Season 1 2. 0Jan. 3, 2013  Oberhof Season 2 3. 0Dec 7, 2013  Hochfilzen Season 2 4th Jan. 17, 2016  Ruhpolding Season 3 1with Walentyna Semerenko , Wita Semerenko and Oxana Chwostenko 2with Julija Dschyma , Walentyna and Wita Semerenko 3with Iryna Varwynez , Julija Dschyma, and Walentyna Semerenko

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		2			5	7th
2nd place		1	1		10	12
3rd place	1	2	1		4th	8th
Top 10	5	17th	13	5	44	84
Scoring	26th	55	41	25th	45	192
Starts	30th	76	50	25th	48	229
Status: 02/22/2020

World championships

Results at Biathlon World Championships:

World Championship		singles	sprint	persecution	Mass start	Season	Mixed relay	Single mixed relay
year	place
2009	Pyeongchang	16.	-	-	-	DNF	-
2011	Khanty-Mansiysk	24.	30th	18th	23.	DSQ	-
2012	Ruhpolding	14th	-	-	-	6th	-
2013	Nové Město	11.	1.	3.	11.	2.	-
2016	Oslo	DNF	16.	5.	18th	5.	4th
2017	Hochfilzen	10.	34.	DNS	-	2.	5.
2020	Antholz	-	4th	13.	-	3.	-	-

winter Olympics

Pidhruschna with the gold medal from the relay race in Sochi

Results at Olympic Winter Games:

winter Olympics		singles	sprint	persecution	Mass start	Season	Mixed relay
year	place
2010	Vancouver	32.	17th	20th	11.	6th
2014	Sochi	8th.	26th	22nd	7th	(1.)	-

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  Special stamp for winning the gold medal in Sochi

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  Special stamp for winning the gold medal in Sochi

Web links

Commons : Olena Pidhrushna  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Olena Pidhruschna in the IBU database (English)
• Olena Pidhruschna in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Profile on biathlon.com.ua (Russian / English)
• Short profile (Russian)

Single receipts

1. ↑ Olena Pidhrushna. Eurosport , accessed February 23, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Olena Pidhrushna appointed Deputy Minister of youth and Sports in Ukraine!