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Earlier in the season, he had finished third in the Summer Grand Prix events in Khanty-Mansiysk, on roller skis.
Earlier in the season, he had finished third in the Summer Grand Prix events in Khanty-Mansiysk, on roller skis.
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 2012-2013 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.
Present at that meet were four of the six medallists from the 2004 World Championships. 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 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. Also, Yaroshenko had been part of the Russian relay team all season, and after three races they led the relay Cup by eleven points.
On 13 February 2009, the IBU announced Yaroshenko and teammates Ekaterina Iourieva and Albina Akhatova, tested positive for EPO during the World Cup in Östersund.
Each were banned for two years, with all results that season being struck. Yaroshenko returned in 2010, but he could never repeat his former success.
On 31 March 2013 Yaroshenko had his last start (in Tyumen). He had earlier announced his retirement.
All results are sourced from the International Biathlon Union.
World Championships
3 medals (2 gold, 1 bronze)
*During Olympic seasons competitions are only held for those events not included in the Olympic program Individual victories
1 victory (1 Sp).