Alla Ghilenko (born 12 June 1992) is a

Moldova Moldova ( , ; ), officially the Republic of Moldova ( ro, Republica Moldova), is a Landlocked country, landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Romania to the west and Ukraine to the north, east, and south. The List of states ...

biathlete The biathlon is a winter sport that combines cross-country skiing (sport), cross-country skiing and shooting sports, rifle shooting. It is treated as a race, with contestants skiing through a cross-country trail whose distance is divided into sh ...

. She was born in Varva,

Ukraine Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers approximately . Prior to the ongoing Russian inv ...

. She competed at the 2022 Winter Olympics, in Women's individual, and Women's sprint.

Career

Ghilenko originally competed for Ukraine, and was in their squad for the 2014–15 season. She started competing for Moldova for the 2016–17 skiing season. She qualified for the

FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2017 The FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2017 was the 40th World Championships in nordic skiing and took place in Lahti, Finland from 22 February to 5 March 2017.

where she participated in the women's sprint and placed 64th of 108th and in the qualifying distance 5 kilometre placing 19th of 35 but didn't go on to race the official distance of 10 kilometre. She competed at the

2017–18 Biathlon IBU Cup The 2017–18 Biathlon IBU Cup was a multi-race tournament over a season of biathlon, organised by the International Biathlon Union. IBU Cup is the second-rank competition in biathlon after the Biathlon World Cup. The season started on 22 Novembe ...

and later in the

2020–21 Biathlon World Cup The 2020–21 Biathlon World Cup (BWC) was a multi-race series over a season of biathlon, organised by the International Biathlon Union. The season started on 28 November 2020 in Kontiolahti, Finland and ended on 21 March 2021 in Östersund, Swede ...

s. She finished 37th in the sprint event in

Nové Město na Moravě Nové Město na Moravě (; german: Neustadt in Mähren) is a town in Žďár nad Sázavou District in the Vysočina Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 9,800 inhabitants. It is known as a winter sports resort. The historic town centre is wel ...

, Czech Republic, which was a personal best. In June 2021, she became an ambassador of the

International Biathlon Union The International Biathlon Union (IBU; german: Internationale Biathlon-Union) is the international governing body of biathlon. Its headquarters were in Salzburg, Austria, until May 2020, when the Federation moved to Anif, on the outskirts of the ...

. Ghilenko competed at the

2022 Winter Olympics The 2022 Winter Olympics (2022年冬季奥林匹克运动会), officially called the XXIV Olympic Winter Games () and commonly known as Beijing 2022 (2022), was an international winter multi-sport event held from 4 to 20 February 2022 in Beij ...

. Ghilenko commented: "I am thrilled to have qualified for the Olympics, which is very difficult in biathlon nowadays. For any athlete, qualifying is already the best performance of his career." In March 2022, she sent messages of support to Ukraine following the Russian invasion of the country.

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* 1992 births Living people Moldovan female biathletes Ukrainian female biathletes Biathletes at the 2022 Winter Olympics Olympic biathletes for Moldova Moldovan female cross-country skiers Ukrainian expatriate sportspeople in Moldova People from Varva, Chernihiv Oblast Competitors at the 2013 Winter Universiade {{Moldova-biathlon-bio-stub