Maxim Michailowitsch Vylegschanin

Maxim Wylegschanin
Maxim Wylegschanin with Vladimir Putin (2014)
Full name	Maxim Michailowitsch Vylegschanin
nation	Russia
birthday	18th October 1982 (age 37)
place of birth	Sharkan ,  Soviet Union
size	173 cm
Weight	68 kg
Career
job	Police officer
society	SC Dynamo
status	active
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 2 × 0 × World Cup medals 1 × 3 × 1 × National medals 5 × 2 × 0 ×
winter Olympics silver 2014 Sochi Team sprint silver 2014 Sochi 50 km freestyle  Nordic World Ski Championships silver 2009 Liberec 50 km freestyle silver 2011 Oslo Skiathlon silver 2011 Oslo 50 km freestyle bronze 2013 Val di Fiemme Season gold 2015 Falun Skiathlon
Placements in the cross-country skiing world cup
Debut in the World Cup January 22, 2005  World Cup victories in individual 5 ( details )  World Cup victories in the team 4 ( details )  Overall World Cup 5th ( 2012/13 )  Sprint World Cup 25. ( 2012/13 )  Distance World Cup 4th ( 2009/10 )  Tour de Ski 3rd ( 2012/13 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Distance races 5 4th 6th  Stage race 0 0 1  Season 2 4th 1  Team sprint 2 0 0
Placements in the Continental Cup (COC)
Debut in the Continental Cup December 27, 2003
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  COC individual race 0 1 1  EEC individual races 1 2 0
last change: March 9, 2019

Maxim vylegzhanin ( Russian Максим Михайлович Вылегжанин * 18th October 1982 in Scharkan , Udmurt ASSR , Russian SFSR , USSR ) is a Russian cross-country skiers udmurtischer origin.

Career

Wylegschanin, who starts for the ski club Dynamo, made his debut on January 22, 2005 in Pragelato in a pursuit race in the World Cup . In the team sprint the following day, he finished sixth with Dimitri Egoschin. In the victory of Andrus Veerpalu , the young Russian surprised over 50 kilometers on Holmenkollen with a sixth place. It was followed by 7th place in the relay and 15 in the mass start in Falun. The following 2005/06 season was consistently disappointing. His best result in the World Cup was a 29th place in Oslo. In the 2006/07 season , the only significant result in the World Cup was a sixth place over the 50 kilometers from Oslo . The Universiade , on the other hand, went very well , where he won a mass start and a bronze medal in the double pursuit. Wylegschanin also emerged as the winner in the long distances of the Russian championships. In this 2007/08 season Wylegschanin ran the Tour de Ski, in which he showed consistently constant performance and was positioned in the final ranking in 21st place. He disappointed at the World Cups in Canmore , Otepää , Liberec , Falun and Oslo. The best result was a 20th place in the Canmore pursuit. However, he was able to defend his title at the national championships.

In the first World Cup races of the 2008/09 season Wylegschanin had big problems and good results were missing. At the Tour de Ski 2008/09 he was able to achieve a strong position in the distance race of Val di Fiemme with 9th place, the day after in the mountain pursuit he was ninth. That meant a 15th place in the final ranking. At the Nordic World Ski Championships in Liberec in 2009 , Wylegschanin only had to admit defeat to Petter Northug and won silver in front of Tobias Angerer. Then he finished sixth in Lahti over 15 kilometers, in the classic fifties in Trondheim he was fourth behind the winner Sami Jauhojärvi , Tobias Angerer and Alex Harvey . At the World Cup final in Sweden, Wylegschanin didn't look more than a 27th place.

With a second place in the relay and a fifth place in the sprint, the Russian started the new 2009/10 season well. A second place in Kuusamo , a ninth place in the Davos sprint and a third place in the Rogla mass start followed. Maxim Wylegschanin did not finish a Tour de Ski that had started well. At the 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver , he was eighth over 50 kilometers classic and ninth over 15 kilometers freestyle.

Wylegschanin achieved his first World Cup victory in the 2010/11 season in La Clusaz over 30 kilometers freestyle (mass start) when he won the sprint against Petter Northug . Before starting the de Ski Tour 2010/11 Wylegschanin was due to excessive hemoglobin with a five-day protective barrier was occupied, so he that is not on the tour to attend. At the Nordic World Ski Championships in Oslo in 2011 , he finished second behind Petter Northug in the pursuit race. The duel Northug against Wylegschanin took place again in the fifties. And again the Norwegian had the better end for himself. Then there were two fourth places in Lahti and a fourth place at the World Cup final. he also regained his title at the Russian championships.

At the beginning of the 2010/11 season there were no results worth mentioning. The Russian finished eighth in the Tour de Ski. He won the World Cup in Rybinsk and finished second and third in Nove Mesto. At the Lahti skiathlon he finished seventh. At the Holmenkollen he just missed the podium in fourth place. He was also able to defend the title at the national championships again. The 2012/13 season was quite successful for Wylegschanin. At the beginning of the season he finished second at the Nordic Opening, which shows that he was in good shape early on. After a break from competition, the Russian showed again during the Tour de Ski. With a victory over 15 kilometers and a strong performance on the Alpe Cermis, he finished third. In the test competition for the Olympic Games in Sochi, Wylegschanin and his partner Japarow were able to secure victory. Further good results followed, which ultimately made Wylegschanin fifth in the overall World Cup.

Thanks to a strong performance in the final 15 kilometer freestyle hunting race, the Russian positioned himself, as in the previous year, in second place in the overall ranking of the Nordic Opening 2013/14 in Kuusamo. He also led the Russian relay in Lillehammer to a safe victory against Norway. With regard to the Olympic Games, the Russian skipped the Tour de Ski and then won the team sprint with Nikita Krjukow in Nove Mesto. He was also in first place at the mass start in Szklarska Poreba, where he won safely in the absence of the Norwegians. Everyone was excited about the Olympic Games. The first race for the 31-year-old was disappointing. He finished the race in fourth place. Since Martin Johnsrud Sundby changed the corridor and thus obstructed Wylegschanin, a complaint was filed, but to no avail. In a season that had already been thought lost, Alexander Legkow brought the Russians back into the race. Despite a break-in, Wylegschanin saved a second place over the finish line. Wylegschanin and Nikita Krjukow were favorites in the team sprint. In a final with a chaotic final round, the two won a silver medal behind Finland. The third silver medal went to Vylegschanin in the mass start, in a Russian triumph.

At the beginning of the 2014/15 season , Wylegschanin reached 14th place at the Nordic Opening . He finished the Tour de Ski 2015 in ninth place. In January 2015 he won the skiathlon in Rybinsk . At the 2015 Nordic World Ski Championships in Falun , he finished fourth in the relay and in the 50 km classic mass start race. He won gold in the 30 km skiathlon race. As in the previous year, he finished the season in tenth place in the overall World Cup and eighth in the Distance World Cup. In the 2015/16 season he took 11th place at the Nordic Opening in Ruka and 25th place at the 2016 Tour de Ski . In February 2016 he finished third in Oslo in the 50 km mass start race and won the 10 km classic in Falun. At the end of the season he finished 18th in the Ski Tour Canada and reached 13th place in the overall World Cup and ninth place in the Distance World Cup.

In the 2018/19 season, Wylegschanin took 25th place in the Lillehammer Triple and 19th place in the Tour de Ski 2018/19 . He also finished second in the 50 km mass start race in Oslo and at the end of the season he finished 30th in the overall World Cup. At the Nordic World Ski Championships 2019 in Seefeld in Tirol , he ran in 33rd place over 15 km classic. In April 2019, he became Russian champion in the 50 km mass start race in Kononovskaya .

Doping allegations

In December 2016, the FIS suspended six Russian cross-country skiers who, based on the results of the McLaren report, were allegedly involved in doping offenses during the 2014 Winter Olympics, including Maxim Wylegschanin. The IOC canceled his results from the 2014 Winter Olympics in November 2017 and banned him for life; he lost both silver medals for doping. The International Sports Court lifted the sanctions in February 2018 due to insufficient evidence and recognized the Olympic placements again.

successes

Victories in world cup races

World Cup victories in individual

No.	date	place	discipline
1.	December 18, 2010	La Clusaz	30 km freestyle mass start
2.	5th February 2012	Rybinsk	2 × 15 km skiathlon
3.	19th January 2014	Szklarska Poreba	15 km classic mass start
4th	January 25, 2015	Rybinsk	2 × 15 km skiathlon
5.	February 13, 2016	Falun	10 km classic individual start

Stage victories in world cup races

No.	date	place	discipline	run
1.	December 2, 2012	Kuusamo	15 km pursuit classic 1	Nordic Opening 2012
2.	December 30, 2012	Oberhof	15 km classic pursuit 2	Tour de Ski 2012/13

¹ Counted as the winner due to the fastest running time.

² Being the first to cross the finish line counts as the winner.

World Cup victories in the team

No.	date	place	discipline
1.	February 6, 2011	Rybinsk	4 × 10 km relay 3
2.	3rd February 2013	Sochi	6 × 1.8 km team sprint classic 4
3.	December 8, 2013	Lillehammer	4 × 7.5 km relay 5
4th	January 12, 2014	Nové Město na Moravě	6 × 1.6 km team sprint classic 6

³With Yevgeni Below , Pyotr Sedov and Alexander Legkow .

^4thWith Dmitri Japarov .

⁵With Dmitri Japarow, Alexander Bessmertnych and Alexander Legkow.

^6thWith Nikita Kryukov .

Victories in Continental Cup races

No.	date	place	discipline	series
1.	February 9, 2018	Krasnogorsk	15 km classic	Eastern Europe Cup

Participation in World Championships and Olympic Winter Games

Olympic games

• 2010 Vancouver : 8th place relay, 8th place 50 km classic mass start, 9th place 15 km freestyle, 17th place 30 km skiathlon
• 2014 Sochi : 2nd place team sprint classic, 2nd place relay, 2nd place 50 km freestyle mass start, 4th place 30 km skiathlon

Nordic World Ski Championships

• 2009 Liberec : 2nd place 50 km freestyle mass start, 24th place 30 km skiathlon, 45th place 15 km classic
• 2011 Oslo : 2nd place 50 km freestyle mass start, 2nd place 30 km skiathlon, 7th place relay, 10th place 15 km classic
• 2013 Val di Fiemme : 3rd place relay, 5th place 15 km skiathlon, 8th place 50 km classic mass start, 57th place 15 km freestyle
• 2015 Falun : 1st place 30 km skiathlon, 4th place 50 km classic mass start, 4th place relay
• 2019 Seefeld in Tirol : 33rd place, 15 km classic

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	1		4th			7th	2	2
2nd place			2		1	2		2	7th		4th
3rd place	2		1	2	2	2		1	10		1
Top 10	5	4th	15th	3	8th	26th	7th	9	77	3	14th
Scoring	12	9	39	7th	11	51	19th	24	172	3	18th
Starts	13	10	60	11	12	58	44	24	232	3	18th
Status: end of season 2018/19

^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
2004/05	56	67.	56	42.	-	-
2005/06	7th	152.	7th	110.	-	-
2006/07	45	79.	45	47.	-	-
2007/08	127	51.	44	51.	43	51.
2008/09	297	23.	218	16.	7th	96.
2009/10	532	8th.	337	7th	95	25th
2010/11	512	11.	386	6th	-	-
2011/12	911	7th	657	4th	56	39.
2012/13	935	5.	437	7th	54	39.
2013/14	489	10.	232	8th.	7th	92.
2014/15	488	10.	330	8th.	6th	86.
2015/16	652	13.	488	9.	40	50.
2016/17	56	81.	16	77.	16	60.
2017/18	267	27.	155	26th	-	-
2018/19	282	30th	222	20th	-	-

Web links

• Maxim Michailowitsch Wylegschanin in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Maxim Michailowitsch Wylegschanin in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Profile on sports.ru (Russian)
• Profile at eurosport.ru (Russian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Suspicion of doping casts shadows over the Tour de Ski . www.zeit.de. January 2, 2011. Archived from the original on April 5, 2015. Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 6, 2011. 
2. ↑ Temporary suspension: Legkov, Vylegzhanin and Belov not for the Tour de Ski
3. ↑ Doping: IOC bans four other Russian cross-country skiers for life . In: Spiegel Online . November 9, 2017 ( spiegel.de [accessed November 9, 2017]).
4. ↑ The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) delivers its decisions in the matter of 39 Russian athletes v. the IOC: 28 appeals upheld, 11 partially upheld. (PDF (313 kB)) International Sports Court , February 1, 2018, accessed on May 8, 2018 (English).