Born | Togliatti, Soviet Union | 16 February 1982
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Nationality | Russian |
Career history | |
Russia | |
1998, 2020 | Vladivostok |
1999–2009, 2014 | Togliatti |
2010 | Oktyabrsky |
Poland | |
1998 | Daugavpils |
1999–2014 | Rivne |
1999–2014 | Opole |
Great Britain | |
2011 | Leicester Lions |
Individual honours | |
2004, 2009 | Russian championship bronze |
Team honours | |
2001–2008 (x8) | Russian Team Speedway Championship |
Ilya Nikolaevich Bondarenko ( Russian: Иль́я Никола́евич Бондаре́нко) is a former Russian motorcycle speedway rider. [1]
Born 16 February 1982 in Togliatti, [2] [3] his brother Pavel is also a former speedway rider, and their uncle Anatoly Bondarenko was twice world ice speedway champion.
He was a three-time youth champion of Russia in team and individual competition during 1997, 1998 and 1999 and first represented Russia in 2006. [4]
He was part of the Mega-Lada Togliatti team that dominated the Russian Team Speedway Championship from 2001 until 2008, winning eight consecutive league titles with the club. [5] Bondarenko also spent four years racing in the Team Speedway Polish Championship from 2007 to 2010. [6]
Bondarenko was twice the bronze medalist of the Russian Individual Speedway Championship in 2004 and 2009. [7]
In 2011, he rode for Leicester Lions in the British Premier League, where he spent the 2011 Premier League speedway season with fellow Russian Sergey Darkin. [1]