Larissa Yevgenevna Lasutina

Larissa Lasutina
Full name	Larissa Yevgenevna Lasutina
nation	Russia
birthday	June 1, 1965 (age 55)
place of birth	Kondopoga ,  Soviet Union
Career
status	resigned
End of career	2002
Medal table
Olympic medals 5 × 1 × 1 × World Cup medals 11 × 1 × 2 ×
winter Olympics gold 1992 Albertville Season gold 1994 Lillehammer Season gold 1998 Nagano Season gold 1998 Nagano persecution gold 1998 Nagano 5 km classic silver 1998 Nagano 15 km classic bronze 1998 Nagano 30 km freestyle  Nordic World Ski Championships gold 1987 Oberstdorf Season bronze 1987 Oberstdorf 20 km classic silver 1989 Lahti 30 km freestyle gold 1993 Falun Season gold 1993 Falun 5 km classic silver 1993 Falun persecution gold 1995 Thunder Bay 5 km classic gold 1995 Thunder Bay persecution gold 1995 Thunder Bay 15 km classic gold 1995 Thunder Bay Season gold 1997 Trondheim Season gold 1999 Ramsau Season gold 1999 Ramsau 30 km classic gold 2001 Lahti Season silver 2001 Lahti persecution bronze 2001 Lahti 10 km classic
Placements in the cross-country skiing world cup
World Cup victories in individual 21 ( details )  Overall World Cup 1. (1989/90, 1997/98)  Sprint World Cup 2. (1997/98)  Distance World Cup 1. (1997/98, 1999/00)
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Distance races 21st 19th 22nd

Larissa Evgenjewna Lasutina ( Russian Лариса Евгеньевна Лазутина ; born June 1, 1965 in Kondopoga ; birth name Ptitsyna ) is a former Russian cross-country skier . At the beginning of her career she started for the Soviet Union , in 1992 under the colors of the CIS , then for Russia.

Career

Lasutina won gold at the 1992 Olympic Games in Albertville with the 4x5-kilometer cross-country relay. She was able to repeat this triumph in 1994 at the games in Lillehammer . She celebrated her greatest successes at the 1998 Winter Games in Nagano , when she won gold over 5 km classic, in the 10 km pursuit race and with the Russian relay and also took silver over 15 km classic and bronze over 30 km in free technique.

Lasutina won a total of 14 medals at world championships between 1987 and 2001: eleven gold, one silver and two bronze medals. She won five of her gold medals with the relay. In the 1989/1990 and 1997/1998 seasons, she won the overall World Cup . In addition, she won 22 world cup races. In 1998 she was named Europe's Sportswoman of the Year , Hero of the Russian Federation and the Holmenkollen Medal .

At the 2002 Olympic Games in Salt Lake City , she became the most successful cross-country skier ever, until the gold medal over 30 km and the silver medal over 15 km and in the 10 km pursuit race were revoked again because of doping .

successes

winter Olympics

• 1992 in Albertville : Gold with the relay
• 1994 in Lillehammer : Gold with the relay
• 1998 in Nagano : Gold over 5 km, gold in the pursuit race, gold with the relay, silver over 15 km, bronze over 30 km.

World championships

• 1987 in Oberstdorf : gold with the relay, bronze over 20 km
• 1993 in Falun : Gold over 5 km, gold with the relay, silver in the pursuit race
• 1995 in Thunder Bay : gold over 5 km, gold over 15 km, gold in the pursuit race, gold with the relay
• 1997 in Trondheim : Gold with the relay
• 1999 in Ramsau : Gold over 30 km, gold with the relay
• 2001 in Lahti : gold with the relay, bronze over 10 km

World Cup victories in individual

No.	date	place	discipline
1.	December 15, 1989	Thunder Bay	15 km classic
2.	February 21, 1993	Falun 1	5 km classic
3.	March 20, 1994	Thunder Bay	5 km classic
4th	February 11, 1995	Oslo	30 km classic
5.	March 10, 1995	Thunder Bay 2	15 km classic
6th	March 12, 1995	Thunder Bay 2	5 km classic
7th	March 14, 1995	Thunder Bay 2	15 km pursuit
8th.	December 17, 1995	Santa Caterina	10 km classic
9.	November 22, 1997	Beitostølen	5 km freestyle
10.	December 16, 1997	Val di Fiemme	15 km freestyle
11.	March 11, 1998	Falun	5 km freestyle
12.	March 14, 1998	Oslo	30 km classic
13.	February 28, 1999	Ramsau am Dachstein 3	30 km classic
14th	March 7, 1999	Lahti	10 km classic
15th	March 13, 1999	Falun	30 km classic
16.	December 12, 1999	Sappada	7.5 km freestyle
17th	January 12, 2000	Nové Město	10 km classic
18th	February 5, 2000	Lillehammer	5 + 5 km freestyle
19th	March 5, 2000	Lahti	15 km classic
20th	March 10, 2001	Oslo	30 km classic
21st	March 18, 2001	Falun	10 km classic

¹ Nordic World Ski Championships 1993.

² Nordic World Ski Championships 1995.

³ Nordic World Ski Championships 1999.

Victories in Continental Cup races

No.	date	place	discipline	series
1.	April 6, 1995	Kalix	5 km classic	Continental Cup
2.	January 27, 1996	Krasnogorsk	10 km classic	Continental Cup
3.	February 15, 1997	Berkåk	5 km freestyle	Continental Cup

World Cup overall placements

season	total		Long distance		sprint
	Points	space	Points	space	Points	space
1983/84	6th	49.	-	-	-	-
1984/85	-	-	-	-	-	-
1985/86	12	25th	-	-	-	-
1986/87	46	13.	-	-	-	-
1987/88	-	-	-	-	-	-
1988/89	89	5.	-	-	-	-
1989/90	146	1.	-	-	-	-
1990/91	-	-	-	-	-	-
1991/92	45	11.	-	-	-	-
1992/93	519	4th	-	-	-	-
1993/94	458	5.	-	-	-	-
1994/95	785	3.	-	-	-	-
1995/96	732	3.	-	-	-	-
1996/97	366	8th.	136	6th	130	10.
1997/98	773	1.	293	1.	480	2.
1998/99	648	5.	343	3.	305	6th
1999/2000	1008	3.	360 553	1. 3. 4	95	15th
2000/01	893	3.	-	-	103	15th
2001/02	44	54.	-	-	-	-

^4th Middle distance world cup.

See also

• List of the most successful Winter Olympians

Web links

• Larissa Evgenjewna Lasutina in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Larissa Evgenjewna Lasutina in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bans against Lasutina and Danilowa confirmed. Neue Zürcher Zeitung , November 29, 2002, accessed on April 21, 2018 .