Valery Kiriyenko started for CSKA Murmansk . The teacher started biathlon in 1980. He made his international debut for the Soviet Union in the mid-1980s, starting at the Junior World Championship in Egg am Etzel , where he won the sprint race in 1985. During this time he also started in the biathlon world cup for the first time . Already in the 1985/86 season he was 30th overall. The first major event was the 1991 biathlon world championships in Lahti , where he was used in singles and came twelfth. The next major event was the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville , where Kiriyenko competed as part of the United Team . In the sprint, he just missed an individual medal in fifth place. in the individual he finished eleventh. With Valeri Medvedzew , Alexander Popow and Sergei Tschepikow , he also took part in the third competition as a starting runner and won the silver medal. The 1993 Biathlon World Championships in Borovets were also very successful . He started at that time for the now independent Russia. In the sprint, Kirijenko finished eighth, with Medvedzew, Sergei Tarasow and Tschepikow he won the relay silver behind the Italian representation. With Alexei Kobelew , Sergei Loschkin and Tschepikow there was also a second medal in the team competition behind Germany. In 1994 the Russian took part in the Winter Olympics again. At the competitions of Lillehammer he was 35th of the individual, 16th of the sprint and with Vladimir Dratschow , Tarasow and Tschepikow again second in the relay race behind the German representation. At the non-Olympic team race in Canmore , he won the silver medal again behind Italy with Drachev, Kobelev and Tarasov. After the Games, he achieved his best World Cup result in Hinton as a runner-up individual behind Wilfried Pallhuber . In the overall standings of the 1993/94 season Kirijenko was fourth. Up until 1996 , further appearances in the World Cup followed, with performance falling on average.
Nationally, Kirijenko won the Soviet title in 1991 in singles.
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 relay
placement
singles
sprint
persecution
Mass start
team
Season
total
1st place
2nd place
1
2
3
6th
3rd place
1
1
2
Top 10
3
4th
2
3
12
Scoring
9
12
2
3
26th
Starts
16
19th
2
3
40
Status : data not complete, with Olympic and World Cup results
Soviet Union CIS / United Team Russia
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