Ilya Grigoryevich Chernousov

Ilya Chernousov
Ilya Chernousov, Tour de Ski 2010
Full name	Ilja Grigorjewitsch Tschernoussow Russian Илья Григорьевич Черноу́сов
nation	Russia
birthday	7th August 1986 (age 34)
place of birth	Novosibirsk ,  Soviet Union
size	175 cm
Weight	75 kg
Career
National squad	since 2006
status	active
Medal table
Olympic games 0 × 0 × 1 × World Cup medals 0 × 0 × 1 × JWM medals 1 × 1 × 0 × U23WM medals 0 × 2 × 0 ×
winter Olympics bronze 2014 Sochi 50 km mass start free style  Nordic World Ski Championships bronze 2011 Oslo 30 km pursuit
Placements in the cross-country skiing world cup
Debut in the World Cup November 18, 2006  World Cup victories in individual 1 ( details )  World Cup victories in the team 1 ( details )  Overall World Cup 6. ( 2012/13 )  Distance World Cup 5th ( 2012/13 )  Tour de Ski 7. ( 2013/14 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Distance races 1 4th 2  Season 1 1 1
last change: March 2nd, 2014

Ilja Grigoryevich Tschernoussow [ tʃʲɛr.nɔ.'u.sɔv ] ( Russian Илья Григорьевич Черноу́сов ; born August 7, 1986 in Novosibirsk ) is a Russian cross-country skier .

Athletic career

Chernousov had his first international assignment in April 2004 at the Continental Cup in Murmansk . He finished 16th there over 15 kilometers classic. At the Junior World Championships 2005 in Rovaniemi , he was 19th over 10 kilometers freestyle. With the Russian relay he won the gold medal. The following year he won the silver medal in the pursuit competition at the Junior World Championships 2006 in Kranj . Over 10 kilometers in classic he finished fifth. Chernousov made his first appearance in the cross-country skiing world cup in the 2006/07 season in Gällivare , where he secured his first world cup points as the 26th over 15 kilometers freestyle. At the Tour de Ski 2006/07 he fought for 18th place. He secured his first podium with the Russian relay, which won the World Cup in Davos . At the U23 World Championships in Tarvisio , he won the silver medal over 15 kilometers of freestyle. He finished fifth and fourth in the sprint and pursuit competition. In Mals he again won the silver medal at the U23 World Championship in 2008 over the distance of 30 kilometers freestyle (mass start). In the 2008/09 season he won a race in the cross-country Eastern Europe Cup in Rybinsk for the first time . At the Russian championships, he secured the silver medal in the pursuit competition.

At the Nordic World Ski Championships 2011 in Oslo he was third in the pursuit race. Also in 2011 he won the Arctic Circle Race, which runs over 160 km in three stages . After only getting mediocre results in the 2011/12 season , he went to the Alpine Cup for two races and won sprints and singles in St. Ulrich am Pillersee .

Back in the World Cup, Chernousov finished the Tour de Ski 2011/2012 in 10th place. After finishing eighth in Otepää , Chernousov reached the podium twice in Rybinsk, finishing second. He narrowly missed another podium with fourth place in Szklarska Poręba . He started the 2012/13 season with fifth place at the season opener in Kuusamo . In the Tour de Ski 2012/2013 , Chernousov again reached 10th place overall. At the skiathlon in Sochi , he was second on the podium again.

At the Nordic World Ski Championships 2013 in Val di Fiemme , Chernousov clearly missed top placements. In the skiathlon he finished 25th. In the individual over 15 km he was only 40th. At the end of the season in Falun , he finished sixth again. He finished the Tour de Ski 2013/2014 in seventh place at the beginning of the 2013/14 season .

At the 2014 Winter Olympics , Chernousov just missed his first Olympic medal in the skiathlon in fifth. In the 50 km race he won the bronze medal. At the beginning of the 2014/15 season, he finished 30th at the Nordic Opening in Lillehammer . In the further course of the season he won the Engadin Skimarathon , the Russian Avacha Ski Marathon and the Icelandic Fossavatn Ski Marathon over 50 km in the classic technique. At the Nordic World Ski Championships 2015 in Falun , he came in 15th place in the skiathlon. In the 2016/17 season he won at La Diagonela and finished second at La Sgambeda and thus reached eighth place in the overall ranking of the Ski Classics . In the following season he took third place in the Kaiser-Maximilian-Lauf , second place at La Diagonela and first place at Marcialonga, eighth place in the overall Ski Classic ranking. At the end of April 2018 he won the Fossavatn Ski Marathon.

Personal

Tschernoussow has been in a relationship with the Swiss biathlete Selina Gasparin since October 2011 and has been married to her since the beginning of June 2014. The civil wedding took place in his hometown Novosibirsk . Both kept their family names. They live in S-chanf , the destination of the Engadin Skimarathon, and have been the parents of a daughter since the end of February 2015.

successes

Victories in world cup races

World Cup victories in individual

No.	date	place	discipline
1.	February 4, 2011	Rybinsk	2 × 10 km skiathlon

World Cup victories in the team

No.	date	place	discipline
1.	February 4, 2007	Davos	4 × 10 km relay 1

¹With Sergei Novikow , Iwan Babikow and Sergei Schirjajew .

Victories in Continental Cup races

No.	date	place	discipline	series
1.	February 17, 2009	Rybinsk	2 × 15 km skiathlon	Eastern Europe Cup
2.	December 11, 2010	Alta Badia	15 km classic individual start	Alpine Cup
3.	December 16, 2011	St. Ulrich am Pillersee	Sprint freestyle	Alpine Cup
4th	December 17, 2011	St. Ulrich am Pillersee	10 km classic individual start	Alpine Cup
5.	December 21, 2014	Hochfilzen	10 km freestyle individual start	Alpine Cup

Victories in Worldloppet Cup races

Note: Before the 2015/16 season, the Worldloppet Cup was still called the Marathon Cup .

No.	date	place	run	discipline
1.	March 8, 2015	Maloja - S-chanf	Engadin ski marathon	42 km freestyle mass start

Victories in ski classics races

No.	date	place	run	discipline
1.	January 21, 2017	Zuoz	La Diagonela	50 km classic mass start
2.	January 28, 2018	Val di Fiemme / Val di Fassa	Marcialonga	70 km classic mass start

Placements in the World Cup

World Cup Statistics

The table shows the placements achieved in detail.

• 1st – 3rd place: Number of podium placements
• Top 10: Number of places in the top ten
• Points ranks: Number of placements within the point ranks
• Starts: Number of races run in the respective discipline
• Note: In the distance races, the classification is based on the FIS.

placement	Distance races a					Skiathlon pursuit	sprint	Stage race b	total	Team c
	≤ 5 km	≤ 10 km	≤ 15 km	≤ 30 km	> 30 km					sprint	Season
1st place	1					1			2		1
2nd place			1			4th			5		1
3rd place				1	1	1			3		1
Top 10	7th	2	6th	3	2	18th	4th	7th	49		10
Scoring	11	6th	18th	13	3	34	13	14th	112		13
Starts	14th	10	36	18th	3	46	29	16	172		13
Status: end of season 2017/18

^a including individual starts and mass starts according to FIS classification

^bEntire race, not individual stages, e.g. B. Tour de Ski, Nordic Opening, season finale

^c Possibly incomplete due to a lack of suitable sources before 2001

World Cup overall placements

season	total		distance		sprint
	Points	space	Points	space	Points	space
2006/07	57	66.	5	98	-	-
2007/08	33	88	33	55.	-	-
2008/09	19th	124.	19th	74.	-	-
2009/10	260	29	209	16.	1	117.
2010/11	503	12.	342	9.	23	67.
2011/12	750	9.	567	6th	51	41.
2012/13	845	6th	508	6th	63	30th
2013/14	409	13.	189	14th	40	49.
2014/15	176	38.	137	33.	37	47.
2015/16	56	76.	56	46.	-	-

Web links

Commons : Ilja Grigoryevich Tschernoussow  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Ilja Grigoryevich Tschernoussow in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Ilya Grigoryevich Tschernoussow on Sochi2014.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Arctic Circle Race 2011 Final Results ( English ) Arctic Circle Race. 2011. Retrieved August 23, 2011.
2. ^ Result of the Avacha Ski Marathon 2015
3. ^ Result of the Fossavatn Ski Marathon 2015
4. ^ Result of the Fossavatn Ski Marathon 2018
5. ↑ Selina Gasparin just married. (No longer available online.) Swiss-Ski, June 10, 2014, archived from the original on June 15, 2014 ; Retrieved June 10, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
6. ↑ Locals win the Engadin Skimarathon 2015  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. suedostschweiz.ch, article from March 8, 2015  
7. ↑ Engadin Skimarathon NZZ , article from March 8, 2015