Wita Semerenko

Wita Semerenko
Full name	Vita Olexandriwna Semerenko Віта Олександрівна Семеренко
Association	Ukraine
birthday	18th January 1986 (age 34)
place of birth	Krasnopillja ,  Ukrainian SSR , Soviet Union
Career
society	Dynamo Sumy
Trainer	Hryhorij Shamraj
Admission to the national team	2003
Debut in the European Cup / IBU Cup	2005
Debut in the World Cup	2006
World Cup victories	3 relay victories
status	active
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × 0 × 1 × World Cup medals 0 × 2 × 5 × EM medals 5 × 1 × 1 × UV medals 3 × 0 × 0 × SWM medals 1 × 4 × 2 ×
winter Olympics gold 2014 Sochi Season bronze 2014 Sochi sprint  Biathlon world championships silver 2008 Östersund Season bronze 2011 Khanty-Mansiysk singles bronze 2012 Ruhpolding sprint silver 2013 Nové Město na Moravě Season bronze 2013 Nové Město na Moravě sprint bronze 2019 Östersund Season bronze 2020 Antholz Season  European biathlon championships bronze 2007 Bansko Season gold 2008 Nové Město na Moravě Season gold 2009 Ufa Season silver 2010 Otepää Season gold 2010 Otepää persecution gold 2011 Ridnaun Season gold 2012 Osrblie Season  Winter Universiade gold 2011 Erzurum sprint gold 2011 Erzurum persecution gold 2011 Erzurum Mixed relay  Summer biathlon world championships silver 2007 Otepää persecution bronze 2007 Otepää sprint silver 2007 Otepää Season gold 2012 Ufa persecution silver 2012 Ufa sprint silver 2012 Ufa Mixed relay bronze 2018 Minsk persecution
World Cup balance
Overall World Cup	10. ( 2012/2013 )
Individual World Cup	7th ( 2008/09 , 2010/11 )
Sprint World Cup	10. (2008/09, 2012/2013, 2017/18 )
Pursuit World Cup	11. (2017/18)
Mass start world cup	3. (2012/2013)
Podium placements 1. 2. 3. singles 0 0 2 sprint 0 2 3 persecution 0 0 3 Mass start 0 2 0 Season 3 8th 2
last change: end of season 2018/19

Wita Olexandrivna Semerenko ( Ukrainian Ві́та Олекса́ндрівна Семеренко , scientific transliteration Vita Oleksandrivna Semerenko ; born January 18, 1986 in Krasnopillja , Sumy Oblast , Ukrainian SSR , USSR ) is a Ukrainian biathlete . In start lists it is usually with the name Vita Semerenko , the English transcription.

Career

Wita Semerenko, who starts for Dynamo Sumy and is coached by Hryhorij Shamraj, made her first major appearance at the 2005 European Championships in Novosibirsk . In addition to a few good individual results, she won bronze with her twin sister Walentyna Semerenko with the Ukrainian relay. In 2005 she started for the first time at the Junior World Championships in Kontiolahti , where she won the silver medal in the individual races and with the relay. In the same year, Semerenko started in Obertilliach for the first time in the European Cup and immediately finished fifth in the individual race. After further good results, she made her World Cup debut (11th) with the relay in Oberhof in 2006 . In Östersund she ran her first individual race, in which she also took World Cup points as 24th. She contested her first senior world championships in 2007 in Antholz , where she was able to show several good results. In the individual, in the pursuit and in the mass start she was 20th, in the sprint 12th. At the Biathlon World Championships in 2008 in Östersund , she surprisingly came fourth in the mass start and also won silver in the relay. In Oberhof 2009 she won her first relay World Cup race together with Olena Pidhruschna , Oxana Chwostenko and her sister Walentyna Semerenko .

Wita Semerenko took part in the 2010 Winter Olympics, where her best results were 22nd place in the individual and 6th place in the relay. She regularly delivers her best results at world championships, which is also reflected in the bronze medals in the individual races in 2011 in Khanty-Mansiysk and in the sprint in 2012 in Ruhpolding . At the 2013 World Championships in Nové Město na Moravě , she succeeded in repeating third place in Ruhpolding in the sprint and a few days later she ran with the Ukrainian relay team, as in 2008, to silver medal. At the 2014 Olympic Games in Sochi , she won the bronze medal in the sprint competition and the gold medal in the relay.

In addition to winter biathlon, Semerenko also runs summer biathlon . In 2005 in Muonio she took part in the Junior World Championships for the first time and won gold with the team as well as bronze in sprint and mass start. In Otepää 2007, like in Ufa in 2006, she won bronze in the sprint and also won the silver medal in the pursuit and with the relay.

Semerenko missed the 2014/15 season due to a herniated disc . Due to the birth of her first child, she did not take part in the following season either. Only after a three-year break from competition did she contest international biathlon races again at the IBU Cup in Otepää in March 2017 . In the sprint, she placed ninth, with the Ukrainian team she achieved a podium finish in two mixed relay races with a third place each. From the beginning of the 2017/18 World Cup season , she was again an integral part of the Ukrainian team. With two third places at the World Cups in France and in Oberhof , she again achieved podium positions in individual races and two second places in relay races. Semerenko also took part in the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang , but clearly missed the medal ranks. In the relay race, the team could not repeat their success from 2014, together with Irina Petrenko , Julija Dschyma and Anastassija Merkuschyna , Semerenko finished eleventh. At the beginning of 2019, she won the bronze medal behind the teams from Norway and the host country Sweden at the World Championships in Östersund with Dschyma, Merkushyna and her twin sister Walentyna .

statistics

World Cup victories

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

¹with Olena Pidhruschna , Walentyna Semerenko and Oxana Chwostenko

²with Julija Dschyma , Walentyna Semerenko and Olena Pidhruschna

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					3	3
2nd place		2		2	8th	12
3rd place	2	3	3		2	10
Top 10	6th	20th	13	15th	45	99
Scoring	24	61	42	31	50	208
Starts	26th	79	53	31	52	241
Status: end of season 2018/19

World championships

Results at Biathlon World Championships:

World Championship		singles	sprint	persecution	Mass start	Season	Mixed relay	Single mixed relay
year	place
2007	Antholz	20th	12.	20th	20th	9.	-
2008	Ostersund	13.	35.	DNS	4th	2.	-
2009	Pyeongchang	12.	26th	19th	4th	DNF	-
2010	Khanty-Mansiysk (Mixed Relay World Championship)						6th
2011	Khanty-Mansiysk	3.	17th	17th	-	-	6th
2012	Ruhpolding	16.	3.	8th.	7th	6th	14th
2013	Nové Město	5.	3.	9.	4th	2.	-
2019	Ostersund	-	76.	-	-	3.	7th	-

winter Olympics

Special stamps for winning the gold medal in Sochi

Results at Olympic Winter Games:

winter Olympics		singles	sprint	persecution	Mass start	Season	Mixed relay
year	place
2010	Vancouver	22nd	34.	42.	-	6th
2014	Sochi	29	3.	10.	16.	1.	-
2018	Pyeongchang	63.	14th	18th	24.	11.	-

Web links

Commons : Wita Semerenko  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Wita Semerenko in the IBU database (English)