Andriy Deryzemlya

Andriy Deryzemlya
Deryzemlya at the World Championships in 2008.
Personal information
Full nameAndriy Vasylovych Deryzemlya
Born (1977-08-18) 18 August 1977
Height1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Sport
Professional information
SportBiathlon
World Cup debut7 December 1996
Olympic Games
Teams5 (1998, 2002, 2006, 2010, 2014)
Medals0
World Championships
Teams17 (1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013)
Medals2 (0 gold)
World Cup
Seasons18 (1996/97–2013/14)
Individual victories1
All victories1
Individual podiums8 (1 gold, 1 silver, 6 bronze)
All podiums13 (1 gold, 3 silver, 9 bronze)
Medal record
Men's biathlon
Representing  Ukraine
World Championships
2011 Khanty-Mansiysk 4 × 7.5 km relay
2007 Antholz-Anterselva 10 km sprint
European Championships
2002 Kontiolahti 20 km individual
2003 Forni Avoltri 12.5 km pursuit
2005 Novosibirsk 12.5 km pursuit
2005 Novosibirsk 10 km sprint
2005 Novosibirsk 4 × 7.5 km relay
2006 Langdorf 4 × 7.5 km relay
Winter Universiade
2003 Tarvisio 10 km sprint
2003 Tarvisio 15 km mass start
2005 Innsbruck 12.5 km pursuit
2005 Innsbruck Relay
2003 Tarvisio 12.5 km pursuit

Andriy Vasylovych Deryzemlya (Ukrainian: Андрій Васильович Дериземля; born 18 August 1977) is a former Ukrainian biathlete who competed at the top level for eleven seasons before winning his first international medal, a bronze medal at the 2007 World Championship. In 2008 together with Oksana Khvostenko he won World Team Challenge.

Deryzemlya retired from the sport after the end of the 2013–14 season, starting a political career. In the 2014 parliamentary election Deryzemlya took part at the single-mandate district No. 205 in Chernihiv Oblast and failed them having finished second with 14.1% of votes. Before that he had founded the Centre for Support of Army in August 2014. On 29 November 2014, Deryzemlya donated his own plot of land in the city of Chernihiv so that it could be given instead to the family of a Ukrainian soldier who had been killed in the war in Donbas.