Maxim Burtassow made his international debut at the 2010 European Biathlon Championships in Otepää , where he competed in the junior races. He missed the top ten as eleventh in the individual, then won the sprint title and came second in the pursuit race behind Andrij Wosnjak . Also in the mixed relay race he was with Larissa Kuznetsova , Anastasia Kalina and Evgeny Petrow as the final runner in the junior race behind the relay of France the silver medal. In the further course of the year he took part in the junior races of the Summer Biathlon World Championships 2010 in Duszniki-Zdrój and won with Kalina, Svetlana Perminova and Petrov again as the final runner of the relay the title with the mixed relay and in the pursuit race, after he won the sprint race Andrei Turgenew had to give up.
Towards the end of the 2010/11 season , Burtassow made his debut in Osrblie in the IBU Cup and won points straight away as 23rd of a single. At the start of the 2011/12 season , the debut in the World Cup followed in Östersund . As 92nd of the sprint, he missed the pursuit race by more than 30 places and initially did not make any further appearances in the World Cup due to strong competition in the Russian team and was downgraded to the IBU Cup . There he reached the top ten ranks for the first time as fourth place in individual and sprint on the fourth cup station in Forni Avoltri and thus only just missed a first podium finish. Burtassow reached his first podium a week later in Haute-Maurienne when he finished second behind Lars Helge Birkeland in the pursuit . In the Oslo sprint, Maxim Burtassow returned to the Russian World Cup team, where he finished 38th and won his first World Cup points.
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
Russia
