Sergey Ustiugov

Sergey Ustiugov

Sergey Ustiugov in 2013
Full name Sergey Aleksandrovich
Ustiugov
Born (1992-04-08) 8 April 1992
Height 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)
World Cup career
Seasons 2013
Individual wins 11
Indiv. podiums 26
Overall titles 0 – (2nd in 2017)

Sergey Aleksandrovich Ustiugov (Russian: Сергей Александрович Устюгов; born 8 April 1992) is a Russian cross-country skier, world champion and Tour de Ski winner.

Career

Early career

Sergey Ustiugov started doing cross-country skiing in the biathlon section of the sports school of the settlement Mezhdurechensky in 2001. His main coach was Ivan Gennadievich Vragin.[1][2]

In 2011, Ustiugov won gold in sprint at the Youth World Championships in cross-country skiing in Otepää, Estonia.[3] A year later he became four-times champion of the Youth Championships in Erzurum, Turkey. There he won gold in sprint, 10 km race, skiatlon and as part of the Russian team in the relay event.[4] In 2013, he participated at the Junior Championships in Liberec, Czech Republic in the Under-23 classification, winning there two gold medals in 15 km free style and 30 km skiatlon.[5] At the Junior Championships in Val di Fiemme in 2014 he won gold in individual sprint.[6]

2011–15: World Cup debut and new coaching staff

Ustiugov debuted on 6 February 2011 at the World Cup in the relay event. Overall he reached 22 times the pedestal in World Cup individual events; nine times he championed, six times he became runner-up and seven times he was third-placed. The best overall ranking to date was 4th place in the 2015–16 season.

At the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2013 in Vale di Flemme, Ustiugov with his relay team won bronze. In the individual 15 km free style race he became 47th. In the same year he reached a podium place for the first time in Davos on 15 December, getting third in free style sprint. The next month he won a stage in the Czech Nové Město in free style sprint. He debuted at the 2014 Winter Olympics in sprint, where he became fifth after falling down near the final passage. In May 2014, Ustiugov moved to a separate group of the national team headed by the Swiss-German duo Reto Burgermeister/Isabel Knaute and so left the group headed by Oleg Perevozchikov.[7]

2015–: Tour de Ski champion, World champion

In the 2015–16 WC season, in January 2015, he won the team sprint event with Alexey Petukhov at an World Cup stage in Otepää. In Rybinsk he became runner-up in free style sprint and third in individual 15 km free style. He participated at the 2016 Tour de Ski, reaching third place overall.[8] In the Nove Mesto stage he won silver and bronze in 15 km free style event and relay event, subsequently. In February he won the mass start 15 km free style event in Swedish Falun.[9] At the season-ending Ski Tour Canada he became 2nd overall, reaching five times the pedestal.

In October, Ustyugov and other skiers including Evgeny Belov and Stanislav Volzhentsev got into a conflict with the Swiss-German coaching duo Burgermeister-Knaute, and so President of the Russian Federation of Cross-Country Skiing and main coach of the national Russian team Elena Vyalbe allowed to switch Ustiugov the coaching group; the new coach became German Markus Kramer, who also coached 2014 Olympic Champion Alexander Legkov and other sportsmen.[10]

In the new season, Ustiugov in January won the 2016-17 Tour de Ski. He won the first five stages and only in the 6th stage he lost the crown to Martin Sundby. In the last stage, the final climb, he started first and by saving the handycap won the overall tour. He was the second Russian after Legkov to win the Tour de Ski. Ustiugov also set a record for the most wins in succession (5). Before him, the record were four winning stages in a row, set by Sundby.[11]

At the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2017 he started by winning silver medal in the sprint competition.[12] Then he went on winning his first ever gold medal at the Championships in 30 km skiathlon.[13][14] With Nikita Kriukov he won his second gold medal in team sprint.[15]

Personal life

Sergey Ustiugov was born in Mezhdurechensky as one of the youngest children in a large family; he is of Mansi descent.[16] He has a girlfriend, cross-country skier Elena Soboleva, with whom he is regularly meeting.[1]

World Cup results

All results are sourced from the International Ski Federation (FIS).[17]

World Cup standings

 Season   Age  Season Standings Ski Tour Standings
Overall Distance Sprint Nordic
Opening
Tour
de Ski
World Cup
Final
Ski Tour
Canada
2013 20 55 102 23 36 N/A
2014 21 11 46 6 5 11 N/A
2015 22 26 44 6 47 N/A N/A
2016 23 4 5 6 21 3 N/A 2
2017 24 2 7 5 35 1 N/A
Key: WD denotes withdrawal from the tour.

Individual podiums

No. Season Date Location Discipline Level Place
1 2013–14 15 December 2013  Switzerland  Davos, Switzerland 1.5 km Sprint F World Cup 3rd
2 11 January 2014 Czech Republic Nové Město, Czech Republic 1.6 km Sprint F World Cup 1st
3 2014–15 23 January 2015 Russia Rybinsk, Russia 15 km F Individual World Cup 3rd
4 24 January 2015 Russia Rybinsk, Russia 1.3 km Sprint F World Cup 2nd
5 2015–16 1 January 2016  Switzerland  Lenzerheide, Switzerland 1.5 km Sprint F Stage World Cup 2nd
6 5 January 2016 Germany Oberstdorf, Germany 1.5 km Sprint C Stage World Cup 2nd
7 1–10 January 2016 Tour de Ski Overall Standings World Cup 3rd
8 23 January 2016 Czech Republic Nové Město, Czech Republic 15 km F Individual World Cup 3rd
9 14 February 2016 Sweden Falun, Sweden 15 km F Mass Start World Cup 1st
10 1 March 2016 Canada Gatineau, Canada 1.7 km Sprint F Stage World Cup 1st
11 2 March 2016 Canada Gatineau, Canada 17.5 km C Mass Start Stage World Cup 3rd
12 4 March 2016 Canada Quebec City, Canada 1.7 km Sprint F Stage World Cup 3rd
13 5 March 2016 Canada Quebec City, Canada 15 km F Pursuit Stage World Cup 1st
14 9 March 2016 Canada Canmore, Canada 15+15 km C/F Skiathlon Stage World Cup 2nd
15 1–12 March 2016 Canada Ski Tour Canada Overall Standings World Cup 2nd
16 2016–17 3 December 2016 Norway Lillehammer, Norway 10 km F Individual Stage World Cup 3rd
17 11 December 2016  Switzerland  Davos, Switzerland 1.6 km Sprint F World Cup 1st
18 31 December 2016  Switzerland  Val Müstair, Switzerland 1.5 km Sprint F Stage World Cup 1st
19 1 January 2017  Switzerland  Val Müstair, Switzerland 10 km C Mass Start Stage World Cup 1st
20 3 January 2017 Germany Oberstdorf, Germany 10+10 km C/F Skiathlon Stage World Cup 1st
21 4 January 2017 Germany Oberstdorf, Germany 15 km F Pursuit Stage World Cup 1st
22 6 January 2017 Italy Toblach, Italy 10 km F Individual Stage World Cup 1st
23 7 January 2017 Italy Val di Fiemme, Italy 15 km C Mass Start Stage World Cup 2nd
24 31 December 2016
 8 January 2017
Tour de Ski Overall Standings World Cup 1st
25 18 February 2017 Estonia Otepää, Estonia 1.6 km Sprint F World Cup 3rd
26 8 March 2017 Norway Drammen, Norway 1.2 km Sprint C World Cup 3rd

Olympic results

  Year    Age   15 km 
individual
 30 km 
 skiathlon 
 50 km 
mass start
 Sprint   4 x 10 km 
 relay 
 Team 
 sprint 
2014 21 5

World Championship results

  Year    Age   15 km 
individual
 30 km 
 skiathlon 
 50 km 
mass start
 Sprint   4 x 10 km 
 relay 
 Team 
 sprint 
2013 20 47 3
2015 22 28 16
2017 24 1 2 2 2 1

References

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  2. Краснов А. (2017-01-08). "Сергей Устюгов: «Я выиграл этот Тур не только ради себя, но и ради тех ребят, которых от него отстранили»" (in Russian). Lyzhnyy Sport. Retrieved 2017-01-07.
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  6. "Сергей Устюгов выиграл спринтерскую гонку на ЧМ среди юниоров и молодёжи" (in Russian). 2014-01-29.
  7. "Елена Вяльбе: у меня не было сомнений, идти или нет на второй срок в качестве президента Федерации лыжных гонок России" (in Russian). Sports Information Agency "Ves' Sport". 2014-05-21. Retrieved 2017-02-26.
  8. N. Maryanchik (2016-02-10). "Бронзовый «Тур» Устюгова" (in Russian). Sport-Express. Retrieved 2016-01-11.
  9. "Сергей Устюгов победил на шведском этапе Кубка мира в лыжной гонке на 15 км с масс-старта!" (in Russian). Sports Information Agency "Ves' Sport". 2016-02-14. Retrieved 2017-02-26.
  10. "Устюгов, Белов и Волженцев перешли к Крамеру". Openski (in Russian). 2016-10-14. Retrieved 2017-02-26.
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  12. Men's sprint results Lahti 2017
  13. Men's skiathlon results Lahti 2017
  14. Устюгов вырвал у Сундбю золото чемпионата мира в Лахти
  15. Men's team sprint results Lahti 2017
  16. Darya Shchekotova (2014-02-11). "В лыжных гонках болеем сегодня за бывшего биатлониста и боксера Сергея Устюгова" (in Russian). Regional TV Company "Yugra". Retrieved 2017-01-07.
  17. "Sergey Ustiugov". FIS-Ski. International Ski Federation. Retrieved 3 March 2017.
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