Krjukow started at the beginning of the 2006/07 season for the first time in the cross-country skiing world cup . At the sprint in Kuusamo , however, he narrowly failed as 31st in qualifying for the finals. After winning the silver medal in the sprint at the Russian championships, he was nominated again for the World Cup. In his home town of Rybinsk he survived the qualification and won his first World Cup points with 25th place. In the following year he was able to convince with several successes in the Eastern Europe Cup and surprised at the World Cup in Kuusamo when he reached the final run and celebrated his first top ten placement in the World Cup with fifth place. At the U23 World Cup in Mals , however, he was eliminated in the semifinals and finished eleventh overall. At the end of the season, he secured the Russian championship title in the sprint competition. In the final accounts of the 2007/08 season , Krjukow finished 22nd in the Sprint World Cup and won the overall ranking in the Eastern Europe Cup with four wins this season. Also in the 2008/09 season Krjukow asserted himself in the extended world elite and sprinted several top ten results in the World Cup, so that at the end of the season he was able to improve to tenth place in the overall ranking of the Sprint World Cups. At the Nordic World Ski Championships in 2009 he reached the final in the team sprint together with Andrei Parfjonow . However, the duo had to be content with fourth place. In the following winter he regularly ran into the semifinals of the sprint races and with third place in Kuusamo he achieved his first podium place, also in Otepää and Rybinsk he came third. He secured his nomination for the 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver . There the Norwegian Ola Vigen Hattestad was favorite together with Petter Northug and Øystein Pettersen and the fastest in the qualification, Krjukow's compatriot Alexander Panschinski . Although Panschinski was clearly in the lead at the beginning, Krjukow managed to catch up on the home straight, the two Russians had the advantage of the longer rest period after the first semi-final. Northug was nine seconds behind, Hattestad was involved in a fall with the Kazakhs Alexei Poltoranin and Pettersen was also behind. Krjukow beat his compatriot after the photo finish and became Olympic champion. At the beginning of the 2010/11 season Krjukow was only used at the World Cup in Düsseldorf , fifth place in the team sprint with Parfjonow was there for him. In January 2011 he again achieved third place in the sprint in Otepää. At the Nordic World Ski Championships in Oslo in 2011 , he won bronze in the team sprint together with Alexander Panschinski . At the end of the season he was Russian champion in the sprint discipline. In the Tour de Ski 2011/12 , which he did not finish, he won the sprint race in Oberstdorf . In March 2012 he reached his next podium finish with third place in the sprint in Lahti . In the 2012/13 season he was able to achieve several podium positions in the sprint and team sprint. At the Nordic World Ski Championships 2013 in Val di Fiemme , he won gold in the sprint and gold together with Alexei Petuchow in the team sprint. He finished the season in third place in the sprint classification. In March 2013 he became the Russian sprint champion in Syktyvkar . At the beginning of the 2013/14 season , he won the sprint in Asiago and thus his first World Cup race. In January 2014 he won the team sprint in Nove Mesto again together with Maxim Wylegschanin . At the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi , he came in 13th place in the sprint. In the team sprint, he and Maxim Wylegschanin won silver in the team sprint. He finished the season in fifth place in the sprint classification. At the 2015 Nordic World Ski Championships in Falun , he and Alexei Petuchow won silver in the team sprint. In the individual sprint, he achieved fourth place.
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