Dmitri Yaroshenko
Yaroshenko in Östersund in 2008.
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| Full name | Dmitri Vladimirovich Yaroshenko | ||||||||||||||||||
| Born |
4 November 1976 Makarov, RSFSR, Soviet Union |
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| Height | 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Biathlon | ||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Dinamo | ||||||||||||||||||
| World Cup debut | 12 March 1999 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Teams | 2 (2007, 2008) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Medals | 3 (2 gold) | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Seasons |
8 (1998/99, 2002/03, 2004/05–2008/09, 2010/11) |
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| Individual victories | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
| All victories | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Individual podiums | 10 | ||||||||||||||||||
| All podiums | 21 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline titles |
1: 1 Pursuit (2006–07) |
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Dmitri Vladimirovich Yaroshenko (Russian: Дмитрий Владимирович Ярошенко; born 4 November 1976) is a Russian former biathlete.
He broke through during the 2006–07 season at the age of 30, after winning a European Championship silver medal in 2004. He won one victory in the Biathlon World Cup, the Hochfilzen sprint in 2007.
However, ahead of the 2009 World Championships, it was announced that Yaroshenko had tested positive for a banned substance. Yaroshenko subsequently received a two-year ban from competition. After being unable to return to his former level and the World Cup, bar one race, after the end of the ban, Yaroshenko retired after the 2012–13 season.
Yaroshenko is a military officer, and resides in Novosibirsk. He has been a biathlete since 1987, but it was in 2004 that he took his first major success, with the forementioned silver medal.
The following season, he took his first World Cup points in a race in Khanty-Mansiysk in 2005, aged 28. Earlier in the season, he had finished third in the Summer Grand Prix events in Khanty-Mansiysk, on roller skis. Present at that meet were four of the six medallists from the 2004 World Championships. He also won an individual European Cup race in Garmisch-Partenkirchen.
Yaroshenko won three European Cup sprints in the 2005–06 season, and won the European Cup that year. He got one start in the World Cup before the 2006 Winter Olympics, finishing 24th and as the sixth-best Russian in a sprint in Oberhof. In total, Yaroshenko appeared in eight World Cup races that season, with a best place of 13th in Holmenkollen, and with an overall place of 61st.
Yaroshenko was selected for the World Cup team from the opening race of the 2006–07 season, and with a flawless shooting he entered the podium in his second start of the season, 15.5 seconds behind winner Ole Einar Bjørndalen in a sprint race in Östersund. Yaroshenko finished as runner-up in two more races before the Christmas break, and was second in the overall World Cup after two weeks of competition. A poor performance in the third World Cup meet moved him down to third, but he was back to second after fifth and second place in Oberhof in the first meet after the break. At this point, he also led the pursuit Cup, where three of his four-second places had been achieved. Also, Yaroshenko had been part of the Russian relay team all season, and after three races they led the relay Cup by eleven points.
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