Baranovskyy won the 2005 edition of the annual
Fukuoka Marathon, clocking 2:08:29 on December 4, 2005. He set his personal best of 2:07:15 at the competition the following year, but was beaten into the runner-up spot by
Haile Gebrselassie. He was also the winner of the
10,000 metres gold medal at the
2001 European Athletics U23 Championships. He returned to Fukuoka in 2011 and came seventh, the second European to finish after
Dmitriy Safronov. ==Achievements==