Yuri Ilyich Burlakov

	Yuri Ilyich Burlakov
nation	Soviet Union Switzerland;
birthday	31st January 1960 (age 60)
place of birth	Khabarovsk , Russian SFSR
size	180 cm
Weight	74 kg
Career
society	CSKA Khabarovsk
status	resigned
End of career	1997
Medal table
Nordic World Ski Championships
Nordic Junior Ski World Championships
	Placements in the cross-country skiing world cup
Overall World Cup	7th ( 1982/83 )

Yuri Iljitsch Burlakow ( Russian Юрий Ильич Бурлаков ; born January 31, 1960 ) is a former Soviet and later Swiss cross-country skier .

Career

Burlakow had his first international success at the Junior World Championships in 1980 in Örnsköldsvik . There he won the silver medal over 15 km and the gold medal with the relay. The following year he won silver over 15 km at the Winter Universiade in Candanchú . At the Nordic World Ski Championships in Oslo in 1982 Burlakov won the title in the 4 × 10 km relay race together with the team from Norway together with Vladimir Nikitin , Oleksandr Batjuk and Alexander Sawjalow . In the race over 50 km in classic style, he secured the silver medal behind the Swede Thomas Wassberg . Since the race was also counted as a World Cup race, with this podium he also achieved his best result in a distance World Cup. He finished the 1981/82 season with 56 points in tenth place in the overall World Cup ranking.

In the following season 1982/83 Burlakow started with a third place over the 15 km in Davos . Over the 50 km in Kawgolowo he was again on the podium in third place. At the end of the season he was in seventh place in the overall World Cup ranking.

At the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo , he finished eleventh in the 30 km race. In the overall World Cup Burlakow had to settle for 14th place in the 1983/84 season . As a result, he was only able to build on these successes to a limited extent. Although he regularly won World Cup points, there were no major successes. Only in the 1985/86 season he was able to land in the top 20 of the overall standings and came in 18th place.

At the Nordic World Ski Championships in 1987 in Oberstdorf , Burlakow started again over the 15 km in classic style and reached 10th place, 52.4 seconds behind the winner Marco Albarello from Italy. At the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary , he reached 12th place over the 30 km individual distance and 26th place over the 50 km distance. In his last World Cup season in 1988/89, he only won one World Cup. Point and was only 57th overall.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union , Burlakow switched to the Swiss Ski Association and again competed in several FIS races in Switzerland between 1996 and 1997 .

successes

World Cup placements

season	space	Points
1981/82	10.	56
1982/83	07th	82
1983/84	14th	54
1984/85	36.	18th
1985/86	18th	21st
1986/87	40.	09
1987/88	43.	04th
1988/89	57.	01

Web links

Juri Iljitsch Burlakow in the database of the International Ski Federation (English) (only results as Swiss)
Yuri Iljitsch Burlakow in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
Yuri Iljitsch Burlakow on The-Sports.org

Individual evidence

^ Result JWM 1980 15 km on skisport365.com
^ Result JWM 1980 relay on skisport365.com
↑ Cross-Country Ski Race To Wassberg of Sweden . The New York Times . February 28, 1982. Retrieved February 9, 2015.

personal data
SURNAME	Burlakov, Yuri Ilyich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Бурлаков, Юрий Ильич (Russian); Burlakov, Yury (English)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Soviet-Swiss cross-country skier
DATE OF BIRTH	January 31, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH	Khabarovsk , Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic , Soviet Union

[1] Result JWM 1980 15 km on skisport365.com

[2] Result JWM 1980 relay on skisport365.com

[3] Cross-Country Ski Race To Wassberg of Sweden . The New York Times . February 28, 1982. Retrieved February 9, 2015.