Serhiy Bilouschenko

Serhiy Olexandrowytsch Bilouschtschenko ( Ukrainian Сергій Олександрович Білоущенко ; born September 16, 1981 in Tschaplynka , Kherson Oblast ) is a former Ukrainian rower . He won an Olympic bronze medal in four-four in 2004 and was runner-up in the 2006 World Cup.

Athletic career

Serhij Bilouschtschenko was in 1999 at the Junior World Championships and 2001 at the U23 World Championships in double sculls , but reached neither the A-final nor the B-final. At the World Championships in 2002 , the 2.01 m tall Bilouschtschenko took fourth place with the double foursome, who competed in the line-up of Kostjantyn Saizew , Serhiy Bilouschtschenko, Oleh Lykow and Leonid Schaposchnykow . In 2003, Saizew and Bilouschtschenko competed in double sculls and reached the A final three times in the Rowing World Cup . At the World Championships in Milan , the two finished 21st place. The following year, the Ukrainian quadruple competed at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens with Serhiy Hryn , Bilouschtschenko, Lykow and Schaposchnykow. After a second place in the preliminary run behind the Czech boat and a third place in the semi-finals behind the Poles and the Germans, the Ukrainians reached third place in the final, two seconds behind the Russians and 1.4 seconds behind the Czechs.

In 2005, the Ukrainian double scull reached the A final in all three regattas of the Rowing World Cup . At the World Championships in Gifu , Shaposchnykow, Bilouschtschenko, Lykow and Hryn took fourth place in the B final and thus tenth place in the overall standings. A year later at the World Championships in Eton rowing Volodymyr Pawlowskyj , Dmytro Prokopenko , Serhiy Bilouschtschenko and Serhiy Hryn in Ukrainian sculls, which the Poles reached one and a half seconds behind in second place and won the silver medal. In the same line-up, the Ukrainian quadruple competed at the 2007 World Championships in Munich and took sixth place. Three weeks after the World Championships, the 2007 European Championships were held in Poznan . The Ukrainians competed with Pavlovskyj, Bilouschtschenko, Lykow and Hryn and finished fourth, one second behind the third-placed Belarusians. Hryn, Pavlovskyj, Lykow and Bilouschtschenko also made up the double foursome, which finished eighth at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. A month after the Olympic Games, the four Ukrainians won the bronze medal at the European Championships in Athens in 2008 .

After a year break, Bilouschenko returned to the double fours in 2010. At the 2010 European Championships in Montemor the Poles won ahead of the Croats, followed by Pawlowskyj, Hryn, Bilouschtschenko and Ivan Dowhodko the bronze medal. At the 2010 World Championships in New Zealand in November 2010, Iwan Futryk , Dowhodko, Pawlowskyj and Hryn took tenth and last place after Bilouschenko was taken out of the boat after the pre-run and hope run. 2011 Bilouschtschenko joined the European Championships in Plovdiv in one and finished 13th. In 2012 Bilouschtschenko rowed with the Ukrainian eighth to fourth place at the European Championships in Varese , a year later he finished tenth with the eighth at the European Championships in Seville . After a 16th place in the four without a helmsman at the European Championships in 2014 , Bilouschtschenko returned to eighth in 2015 and reached seventh place at the European Championships in Poznan . At the 2015 World Championships on Lac d'Aiguebelette, he finished 19th with the four-man without a helmsman. At the European Championships 2016 Bilouschtschenko competed twice, he finished 15th in the two without a helmsman and eighth place with the eighth.

Web links

• Serhij Bilouschtschenko at Worldrowing.com ( FISA database )
• Serhij Bilouschtschenko in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Footnotes

1. ^ Finals of the 2004 Olympic Games at worldrowing.com
2. ↑ European Championship Final 2007 at worldrowing.com