Swetlana Chandohina made her international debut at the Junior World Championships in 1999 in Pokljuka , where she was 36th of the individual, eighth with the relay and 24th in the sprint. She did not finish the chase. With much more success she started in the junior races of the European Championships 2000 in Kościelisko . She was eleventh in the individual, won silver in the relay, bronze in the sprint and was ninth in the pursuit. Shortly afterwards she took part again in the Junior World Championships 2000 in Hochfilzen and just barely missed another international medal as fourth with the relay. In the sprint she was tenth, in the pursuit race 12th and in the individual 22nd. Later in the year Chandohina also started at the junior races of the Summer Biathlon World Championships 2000 in Khanty-Mansiysk , she won relay silver and was 13th in the sprint and eighth in the pursuit.
Chandohina made her debut among women at the 2001 European Championships in Haute-Maurienne . The Belarusian was 28th in the individual and 34th in the sprints, in the pursuit race she was eliminated as a lapped runner. Further international appearances followed again in the 2003/04 season in the European Cup . She started at the Military World Ski Championships in 2004 in Östersund and ran to 37th place in the sprint. In the military patrol race, she was eighth with the representation of Belarus. Chandohina had her last missions with her greatest international successes at the 2004 Summer Biathlon World Championships in Osrblie . At the side of Jekaterina Ivanova , Lyudmila Kalintschyk and Wolha Nasarawa she won the world championship title as the starting runner of the relay, in the sprint race she was third behind Wolha Nasarawa and Oksana Neupokoyewa , in the pursuit race she only had to admit defeat to Nasarawa. Only in the mass start race did Chandohina miss a medal in fifth.
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