| Ilya Bondarenko | |
| Nationality: | Russian |
| Birth Date: | 16 February 1982 |
| Birth Place: | Togliatti, Soviet Union |
| Career1: | Russia |
| Career2: | Vladivostok |
| Years2: | 1998, 2020 |
| Career3: | Togliatti |
| Years3: | 1999–2009, 2014 |
| Career4: | Oktyabrsky |
| Years4: | 2010 |
| Career5: | Poland |
| Career6: | Daugavpils |
| Years6: | 1998 |
| Career7: | Rivne |
| Years7: | 1999–2014 |
| Career8: | Opole |
| Years8: | 1999–2014 |
| Career9: | Great Britain |
| Career10: | Leicester Lions |
| Years10: | 2011 |
| Indivhonour1: | Russian championship bronze |
| Indivyear1: | 2004, 2009 |
| Teamhonour1: | Russian Team Speedway Championship |
| Teamyear1: | 2001–2008 (x8) |
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]