Career
She represented her country at the 2012 Olympics in London, finishing fifth in the women"s marathon. Born in Ternopil, she started her career in athletics as a middle-distance runner. After 2009 she began to compete over longer distances and began to have her first successes.
She placed fourth over 5000 metres at the Ukrainian Championship in 2010, running a time of 16:16.55, and placed third at the Koscian half marathon.
The 2012 season was a career breakthrough for Hamera-Shmyrko. She broke the Ukrainian record at the Osaka Women"s Marathon with a run of 2:24:46, ending the race as runner-up to Risa Shigetomo.
After that, she ran a series of personal bests: she ran 33:25 at the World"s Best 10K, 1:12:15 at the Prague Half Marathon, and 32:50.13 for the 10,000 metres at the Prefontaine Classic. Yet another followed at her first Olympics for Ukraine as she performed beyond expectations to take fifth place at the 2012 London Olympics in another national record time of 2:24:32.
Hamera-Shmyrko claimed a second consecutive Osaka International Ladies Marathon title in January 2014, winning in a time of 2:24:37.
Disqualification
On 25 November 2015, she was disqualified by the Ukrainian Athletic Federation since 30 September 2015 till 29 September 2019 due to doping rules violation. All her results from 26 August 2011 to 30 September 2015 were annulled, including the national record of 2:22:09, set at the Osaka Marathon in January 2015.
