Yevgeny Romanovich Ustyugov

Yevgeny Ustyugov
Full name	Yevgeny Romanovich Ustyugov
Association	Russia
birthday	4th June 1985 (age 35)
place of birth	Krasnoyarsk, Soviet Union
Career
society	Dinamo
Trainer	Andrei Lenev
Admission to the national team	2008
Debut in the European Cup / IBU Cup	2006
European Cup / IBU Cup victories	1
Debut in the World Cup	2009
World Cup victories	6 (3 individual wins)
status	resigned
End of career	April 6, 2014
Medal table
Olympic medals 2 × 0 × 1 × World Cup medals 0 × 2 × 0 × EM medals 0 × 1 × 0 × JWM medals 2 × 1 × 0 × JEM medals 1 × 0 × 0 ×
winter Olympics gold 2010 Vancouver Mass start bronze 2010 Vancouver Season gold 2014 Sochi Season  Biathlon world championships silver 2011 Khanty-Mansiysk Season silver 2011 Khanty-Mansiysk Mass start  European biathlon championships silver 2009 Ufa sprint Junior World Championship gold 2006 Presque Isle singles gold 2006 Presque Isle persecution silver 2006 Presque Isle Season Junior European Championship gold 2006 Langdorf Season
World Cup balance
Overall World Cup	4th ( 2009/10 )
Individual World Cup	4. ( 2013/14 )
Sprint World Cup	3rd ( 2012/13 )
Pursuit World Cup	4th (2009/10)
Mass start world cup	1st (2009/10)
Podium placements 1. 2. 3. singles 0 0 1 sprint 1 2 2 persecution 1 0 0 Mass start 1 3 1 Season 3 5 4th
last change: December 13, 2019

Evgeni Romanovič Ustjugov ( Russian Евгений Романович Устюгов , scientific transliteration Evgenij Romanovič Ustjugov ; born June 4, 1985 in Krasnoyarsk , Soviet Union ) is a former Russian biathlete . He became an Olympic mass start champion in 2010 .

Career

At his first Junior World Championships in 2005 in Kontiolahti Ustjugow reached the best placement, a 12th place in the individual. A year later in Presque Isle , he won the singles and pursuit titles and silver with the relay. He also missed another medal in fourth place in the sprint. He won the relay title in the same year at the European Junior Championships in Langdorf . There was also a 31st place in the individual, 12th place in the sprint and fourth in the pursuit.

For the 2006/07 season Ustjugow moved to the men's division. Here he competed in the Biathlon European Cup . The Russian contested his first race in Obertilliach , where he finished twelfth in the sprint. In the following pursuer he ran up to second place. He only achieved a comparable result in 2007 in the same place in an individual. He had already started at the 2007 European Biathlon Championships in Bansko , where he was 20th in the sprint and pursuit and fifth in the relay. The greatest success so far was winning the IBU Cup sprint race in Martell in 2008/09 . In the Biathlon World Cup Ustjugow debuted in 2009 in a relay race in Oberhof . With the Russian relay, he ran alongside Maxim Tschudow , Dmitri Yaroshenko and Nikolai Kruglow as the starting runner in second place. The season was later disqualified because Dmitri Yaroshenko was convicted of doping. In the following sprint he finished 44th and missed his first World Cup points by four places. He won this in the next race, a sprint in Ruhpolding , in 28th place. In the sprint race a week later in Antholz , the Russian finished eighth for the first time in a single-digit place. At the beginning of the 2009/10 season, Yevgeny Ustjugow was third in the sprint in Hochfilzen for the first time on the podium and a week later celebrated his first World Cup victory in the pursuit in Pokljuka . In the overall World Cup, the Russian finished fourth in his best season, and he won the overall mass start World Cup.

Yevgeny Ustjugow celebrated his greatest sporting success at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. In the mass start race he was Olympic champion ahead of Martin Fourcade and Pavol Hurajt . In the season he won the bronze medal.

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On February 22, 2014, he was the Olympic champion in the relay competition at the Winter Olympics together with Alexei Volkov , Dmitri Malyschko and Anton Schipulin .

After the 2013/14 season , Ustyugov surprisingly ended his sporting career. At the beginning of December 2018, it was announced that the International Biathlon Union had opened doping proceedings against Ustyugov based on suspicious samples from 2012 to 2015. In December 2019, investigators from the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) re-investigated Ustyugov and 2010 Olympic champion Svetlana Jurjewna Slepzowa .

Biathlon World Cup placements

The table shows all placements (depending on the year, including the Olympic Games and World Championships).

• 1st - 3rd Place: Number of podium placements
• Top 10: Number of placements in the top ten (including podium)
• Points ranks: Number of placements within the point ranks (including podium and top 10)
• Starts: Number of races run in the respective discipline

placement	singles	sprint	persecution	Mass start	Season	total
1st place		1	1	1	3	6th
2nd place		2		3	5	10
3rd place	1	2		1	4th	8th
Top 10	5	20th	12	10	20th	67
Scoring	12	44	34	19th	23	132
Starts	15th	49	35	19th	23	141
Status: End of career 2014

Web links

• Yevgeny Romanowitsch Ustjugow in the IBU database (English)
• Yevgeny Ustjugow in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Profile at the Russian Biathlon Federation (Russian)
• Profile on www.biathlon.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ International Biathlon Union Charges Four Russian Athletes
2. ↑ After Russia ban: biathletes threatened with loss of Olympic gold due to doping (December 13, 2019)