Walentyna Semerenko

Walentyna Semerenko
Full name	Walentyna (Walja) Olexandriwna Semerenko Валентина (Валя) Олександрівна Семеренко
Association	Ukraine
birthday	18th January 1986 (age 34)
place of birth	Krasnopillja ,  Ukrainian SSR Soviet Union
Career
job	PE teacher
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	6 (2 individual wins)
status	active
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × 0 × 0 × World Cup medals 1 × 2 × 3 × EM medals 7 × 3 × 1 × SWM medals 4 × 6 × 0 ×
winter Olympics gold 2014 Sochi Season  Biathlon world championships silver 2008 Östersund Season bronze 2013 Nové Město na Moravě singles silver 2013 Nové Město na Moravě Season gold 2015 Kontiolahti Mass start bronze 2015 Kontiolahti sprint bronze 2019 Östersund Season  European biathlon championships bronze 2007 Bansko Season gold 2008 Nové Město na Moravě Season gold 2009 Ufa Season gold 2010 Otepää sprint silver 2010 Otepää Season gold 2011 Ridnaun Season gold 2012 Brezno Season silver 2012 Brezno sprint silver 2012 Brezno persecution gold 2015 Otepää Season gold 2020 Minsk-Raubitschy Mixed relay  Summer biathlon world championships gold 2007 Otepää sprint gold Otepää persecution silver 2007 Otepää Season gold 2011 Nové Město sprint silver 2011 Nové Město persecution silver 2011 Nové Město Mixed relay silver 2012 Ufa Mixed relay silver 2014 Tyumen Mixed relay silver 2014 Tyumen persecution gold 2019 Minsk Super sprint
World Cup balance
Overall World Cup	3. ( 2014/15 )
Individual World Cup	2. ( 2010/11 )
Sprint World Cup	5. (2014/15)
Pursuit World Cup	3. (2014/15)
Mass start world cup	2. (2014/15)
Podium placements 1. 2. 3. singles 0 0 2 sprint 0 0 4th persecution 1 1 2 Mass start 1 0 0 Season 4th 7th 6th
last change: end of season 2018/19

Walentyna (Valya) Olexandriwna Semerenko ( Ukrainian Валентина (Валя) Олександрівна Семеренко , scientific. Transliteration Valentyna (Valja) Oleksandrivna Semerenko * 18 January 1986 in Krasnopillja , Sumy , Ukrainian SSR , Soviet Union ) is a Ukrainian biathlete . In start lists she is usually named Valj Semerenko .

Career

Walentyna Semerenko is a sports teacher who, like her twin sister Wita Semerenko , who is also active in the World Cup, has been involved in biathlon since 2003 . The athlete , who started for Dynamo Sumy and trained by Hryhorij Shamraj, has been part of the Ukrainian national team since 2005 . She made her debut in the biathlon world cup in 2005 in a sprint (47th) in Osrblie . At the 2006 World Cup in Hochfilzen , she was able to place herself in the top ten (7th) in the individual race for the first time and thus in the top ten. At the 2006 Olympic Games she was used in singles (47th). In the 2008 World Championship in Sweden Ostersund she won silver medal in the relay. At the 2009 World Cup in Oberhof , she achieved the first World Cup victory of her career with the relay.

Semerenko took part in the 2010 Winter Olympics. Her best result was 13th place in the individual. With the relay she finished sixth. At the 2013 World Championships in Nové Město , she won the bronze medal in the individual competition and also won silver with the Ukrainian relay. At the 2014 Olympic Games in Sochi , she won the gold medal with the relay. Since 2015 she has been the most successful participant in European championships with six titles and ten medals won. In the gender-adjusted leaderboard, it is in third place. At the 2015 World Championships , she secured the bronze medal after just one mistake in the sprint. In the mass start she stayed clear and won the gold medal.

Semerenko is also successful in summer biathlon. In 2007 she became double world champion in sprint and pursuit.

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. Dec 15, 2013  Annecy persecution 2. 15th Mar 2015  Kontiolahti ( WM ) Mass start	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 Olena Pidhruschna , Wita Semerenko and Oxana Chwostenko 2with Julija Dschyma , Wita Semerenko and Olena Pidhruschna 3with Iryna Varwynez , Julija Dschyma, and Olena Pidhruschna

World Cup statistics

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			1	1	4th	6th
2nd place			1		7th	8th
3rd place	2	4th	2		6th	14th
Top 10	12	19th	19th	9	54	113
Scoring	25th	72	54	38	60	249
Starts	36	102	62	40	63	303
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	36.	-	-	-	-	-
2008	Ostersund	32.	16.	20th	18th	2.	-
2009	Pyeongchang	26th	15th	38.	16.	DNF	11.
2011	Khanty-Mansiysk	11.	10.	23.	15th	DSQ	-
2012	Ruhpolding	49.	57.	DNF	-	6th	-
2013	Nové Město	3.	22nd	43.	DNF	2.	-
2015	Kontiolahti	15th	3.	19th	1.	5.	11.
2016	Oslo	44.	80.	-	26th	5.	4th
2017	Hochfilzen	-	80.	-	-	-	-
2019	Ostersund	36.	29	38.	-	3.	-	-

winter Olympics

Special stamp for winning the gold medal in Sochi

Results at Olympic Winter Games:

winter Olympics		singles	sprint	persecution	Mass start	Season	Mixed relay
year	place
2006	Turin	46.	-	-	-	-
2010	Vancouver	13.	23.	23.	19th	6th	-
2014	Sochi	19th	12.	5.	12.	1.	-
2018	Pyeongchang	25th	46.	DNS	19th	-	-

Web links

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

• Walentyna Semerenko in the IBU database (English)