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Valj Semerenko

Valentyna Semerenko
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Full name Valentyna Oleksandrivna Semerenko
Born (1986-01-18) 18 January 1986 (age 31)
Krasnopillia, Sumy Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union, now Ukraine
Height 160
Ski club Dynamo
Personal best 2
World Cup career
Seasons 2005–
Individual wins 2
Indiv. podiums 9

Valentyna Oleksandrivna Semerenko (Ukrainian: Валентина Олександрівна Семеренко), known also as Valya Semerenko (About this sound listen ) and featuring in statistics as Valj Semerenko (born 18 January 1986) is a Ukrainian biathlete.

She represented Ukraine at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. She won the silver medal in 4×6 km relay event at the Biathlon World Championships 2008.

Together with Juliya Dzhyma, Vita Semerenko and Olena Pidhrushna she won the gold medal in the Women's relay at the 2014 Winter Olympics, in Sochi, Russia. In 2014 together with Serhiy Semenov she won World Team Challenge.

Biathlete Vita is her twin sister.


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