Dmitry Yaroshenko

Who is Dmitry Yaroshenko?

Dmitry Vladimirovich Yaroshenko is a Russian biathlete who has won once in Biathlon World Cup, Hochfilzen sprint in 2007. He broke through during the 2006–07 season at the age of 30, after winning a European Championship silver medal in 2004.

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 silver in the individual distance at the European Championships in Minsk.

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.

Yaroshenkoo 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, Iarochenko appeared in eight World Cup races that season, with a best place of 13th in Holmenkollen, and with an overall place of 61st.