Marharyta Dorozhon

Personal life

Dorozhon was born on 4 September 1987 in Dnipropetrovsk, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, in the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union.

Competitive history

Dorozhon is coached by Alexander Drigol, and her agent is Jose Praia. She competes for the Israeli club Hapoel Emek Hefer.

Competitor for Ukraine At the 11th IAAF World Junior Championships, on 19 August 2006 in the Chaoyang Sports Centre in Beijing, China, Dorozhon came in third with a throw of 57.68 m. At the time, it was a personal best.

She won the István Gyulai Memorial meet in Budapest, Hungary, with a throw of 61.31 m in early July 2013. In late July, Dorozhon won the Ukrainian Championships with a throw of 62.01 m. She won the 2014 IAAF World Challenge Seiko Golden Grand Prix in Tokyo, Japan, with a throw of 59.15 m.

Competitor for Israel

Dorozhon married Alex Bugoslavsky, an Israeli, and became an Israeli citizen in December 2014. In April 2015, in her first competition representing Israel, Dorozhon set a new Israeli national record with a throw of 63.34 m at the Hadassah Youth Cup in Hadassah Neurim, Israel.

On 26 May 2015, Dorozhon won the IAAF World Challenge Golden Spike Ostrava javelin throw in Ostrava, the Czech Republic, with a winning throw of 63.85 m in the second round. In winning the event, she upset favorites 2008 and 2012 Olympic champion Barbora Spotakova of the Czech Republic and 2011 world champion Mariya Abakumova of Russia. It was her second Israeli national record of 2015. The throw was her personal best. The throw was the eighth-best in the world to that point in 2015, and equaled the distance of the fourth-place throw at the 2012 Summer Olympics.

In September 2015 she won an IAAF World Challenge in Berlin, Germany. She defeated world champion Katharina Molitor in her home country with a throw of 63.24m.

In June 2017 she won a bronze medal at the IAAF World Challenge meeting in Hengelo, the Netherlands, with a throw of 60.63m.

At the 2017 Maccabiah Games, Dorozhon won the women's competition with a throw of 63.07m, qualifying her for the 2017 World Championships in Athletics.