Sergei Alexandrovich Ustyugov

Sergei Ustyugov
Sergei Ustyugov (2019)
Full name	Sergei Alexandrovich Ustyugov
nation	Russia
birthday	8th April 1992 (age 28)
place of birth	Meshdurechensky , Russia
size	184 cm
Career
status	active
Medal table
World Cup medals 2 × 4 × 1 × U23 medals 3 × 1 × 0 × JWM medals 5 × 1 × 0 × National medals 0 × 1 × 0 ×
Nordic World Ski Championships bronze 2013 Val di Fiemme Season gold 2017 Lahti Skiathlon gold 2017 Lahti Team sprint silver 2017 Lahti sprint silver 2017 Lahti Season silver 2017 Lahti 50 km freestyle silver 2019 Seefeld Season  Cross-country skiing U23 world championships gold 2013 Liberec 15 km freestyle gold 2013 Liberec Skiathlon gold 2014 Val di Fiemme Sprint freestyle silver 2014 Val di Fiemme 15 km classic  Nordic Junior Ski World Championships gold 2011 Otepää Classic sprint silver 2011 Otepää Season gold 2012 Erzurum Sprint freestyle gold 2012 Erzurum 10 km classic gold 2012 Erzurum Skiathlon gold 2012 Erzurum Season Russian championships silver 2013 Syktyvkar sprint
Placements in the cross-country skiing world cup
Debut in the World Cup 19th January 2013  World Cup victories in individual 4 ( details )  World Cup victories in the team 2 ( details )  World Cup victories in stages 11 ( details )  Overall World Cup 2. ( 2016/17 )  Sprint World Cup 5. (2016/17)  Distance World Cup 5. ( 2015/16 )  U23 World Cup 2. ( 2014/15 )  Tour de Ski 1. ( 2016/17 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Sprint races 2 2 3  Distance races 2 6th 3  Stage race 11 9 5  Season 1 3 0  Team sprint 1 0 0
Placements in the Continental Cup (COC)
Debut in the Continental Cup November 20, 2010  Continental Cup victories 3 ( details )  EEC overall rating 7th ( 2011/12 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  OPA individual race 1 1 0  EEC individual races 2 2 0
last change: January 5th, 2020

Sergei Alexandrowitsch Ustjugow ( Russian Сергей Александрович Устюгов ; born April 8, 1992 in Meschduretschenski , Khanty and Mansi Autonomous Okrug / Ugra ) is a Russian cross-country skier .

Career

At the Nordic Junior World Ski Championships in 2011 and 2012, Ustyugov won a total of five gold and one silver. In January 2013 he celebrated his World Cup debut in La Clusaz , before he secured his first top ten place in the World Cup with fourth place in Sochi a few days later . Shortly thereafter, he won the bronze medal at the Nordic World Ski Championships 2013 in Val di Fiemme as the final runner in the Russian cross-country relay . In the 2013/2014 season he was able to celebrate his first podium place with a third place in the freestyle sprint in Davos and finally his first World Cup victory - also in the freestyle sprint - in Nové Město. At the U23 World Championships in 2014 in Val di Fiemme , he won gold in the sprint and silver over 15 km classic. He finished fifth in the sprint at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. He finished the season in 11th place in the overall World Cup and sixth in the sprint classification.

In the 2014/15 season, Ustjugow won in Otepää together with Alexei Petuchow in the team sprint and took third place in the 15 km freestyle and second place in the sprint in Rybinsk . At the Nordic World Ski Championships 2015 in Falun , he came in 28th place over 15 km freestyle and 16th place in the sprint. He finished the season in sixth place in the Sprint World Cup and second in the U23 classification. After 21st place at the beginning of the 2015/16 season at the Nordic Opening in Ruka , he took third place at the 2016 Tour de Ski . It took second place in the sprint stages in Lenzerheide and Oberstdorf . At the following World Cup in Nové Město he came back on the podium with third place over 15 km freestyle and second place with the relay. In February 2016 he won his second individual World Cup victory in the 15 km mass start race in Falun. At the end of the season he was second overall in the Ski Tour Canada . He came on the podium five times and got two wins. He achieved sixth place in the Sprint World Cup, fifth place in the Distance World Cup and fourth place in the overall World Cup. In March 2016 he was the Russian champion over 15 km classic and sprint.

At the beginning of the 2016/17 season, Ustjugow finished 35th in the World Cup mini tour in Lillehammer . He achieved third place in the 10 km freestyle. This was followed by a second place in La Clusaz with the relay and a victory in the sprint in Davos . At the Tour de Ski 2016/17 he won five of the seven stages and came in second once and thus reached first place in the overall standings. At the following World Cups he achieved placements outside the ten. In mid-February 2017, he came back on the World Cup podium for the first time in Otepää with third place in the sprint. At the season highlight of the Nordic World Ski Championships 2017 in Lahti , he won the silver medal in the 50 km mass start race, in the sprint and with the relay and the gold medal in the skiathlon and together with Nikita Krjukow in the team sprint. In March 2017 he came third in the sprint in Drammen and at the end of the season he reached seventh place in the distance world cup, fifth place in the sprint world cup and second place in the overall world cup. In the same month he became Russian champion in skiathlon, sprint and over 15 km freestyle. In April 2017 he won the Ugra Ski Marathon over 50 km freestyle. After 23rd place in the Ruka Triple at the beginning of the 2017/18 season, he took second place in the sprint in Lillehammer and second place over 15 km freestyle in Davos. At the Tour de Ski 2017/18 , which he ended prematurely, he won the sprint in Lenzerheide and took second place in the pursuit there. In February 2018 he came in third place over 50 km classic at Toblach-Cortina . The following month he became Russian champion in skiathlon and sprint in Syktyvkar . He finished the season in 12th place in the overall World Cup and Sprint World Cup and in tenth place in the Distance World Cup.

In the 2018/19 season Ustjugow came second in Ulricehamn with the relay and second place in the Tour de Ski 2018/19 . He won the stage over 15 km freestyle in Toblach and also took second and third place twice. At the season highlight of the Nordic World Ski Championships 2019 in Seefeld in Tyrol , he won the silver medal with the relay. He finished the season in 17th place in the Distance World Cup and in tenth place in the overall World Cup. At the beginning of the following season he achieved tenth place in the Ruka Triple, second place over 15 km freestyle in Davos and won in Lillehammer with the relay. At the Tour de Ski 2019/20 he finished second with two wins and three second places, and at the end of the season he finished eighth in both the overall World Cup and the Distance World Cup.

Doping and suspension

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) decided in early 2018 that he would be banned from the 2018 Winter Games. The lock was triggered by the McLaren report .

successes

Victories in world cup races

World Cup victories in individual

No.	date	place	discipline
1.	January 11, 2014	Nové Město	1 mile sprint freestyle
2.	February 14, 2016	Falun	15 km freestyle mass start
3.	December 11, 2016	Davos	1 mile sprint freestyle
4th	January 8, 2017	Tour de Ski	Overall rating

Stage victories in world cup races

No.	date	place	discipline	run
1.	March 1, 2016	Gatineau	1.7 km sprint freestyle	Ski Tour Canada 2016
2.	5th March 2016	Quebec	15 km pursuit freestyle 1	Ski Tour Canada 2016
3.	December 31, 2016	Val Müstair	1.5 km sprint freestyle	Tour de Ski 2016/17
4th	January 1, 2017	Val Müstair	10 km classic mass start	Tour de Ski 2016/17
5.	January 3, 2017	Oberstdorf	20 km skiathlon	Tour de Ski 2016/17
6th	4th January 2017	Oberstdorf	15 km pursuit freestyle 1	Tour de Ski 2016/17
7th	January 6, 2017	Toblach	10 km freestyle individual start	Tour de Ski 2016/17
8th.	December 30, 2017	Lenzerheide	1.5 km sprint freestyle	Tour de Ski 2017/18
9.	December 30, 2018	Toblach	15 km freestyle individual start	Tour de Ski 2018/19
10.	December 28, 2019	Lenzerheide	15 km freestyle mass start	Tour de Ski 2019/20
11.	December 31, 2019	Toblach	15 km freestyle individual start	Tour de Ski 2019/20

¹ Being the first to cross the finish line counts as the winner.

World Cup victories in the team

No.	date	place	discipline
1.	January 18, 2015	Otepää	6 × 1.5 km team sprint freestyle 2
2.	December 8, 2019	Lillehammer	4 × 7.5 km relay 3

²With Alexei Petuchow .

³With Iwan Jakimuschkin , Evgeni Below and Ilja Poroschkin .

Victories in Continental Cup races

No.	date	place	discipline	series
1.	December 26, 2012	Krasnogorsk	15 km freestyle	Eastern Europe Cup
2.	December 23, 2013	Krasnogorsk	Sprint freestyle	Eastern Europe Cup
3.	20th December 2014	Hochfilzen	10 km classic	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.	April 8, 2017	Khanty-Mansiysk	Ugra Ski Marathon	50 km freestyle mass start

Participation in World Championships and Olympic Winter Games

Olympic games

• 2014 Sochi : 5th place sprint freestyle

Nordic World Ski Championships

• 2013 Val di Fiemme : 3rd place relay, 47th place 15 km freestyle
• 2015 Falun : 16th place sprint classic, 28th place 15 km freestyle
• 2017 Lahti : 1st place team sprint classic, 1st place 30 km skiathlon, 2nd place sprint freestyle, 2nd place relay, 2nd place 50 km freestyle mass start
• 2019 Seefeld in Tirol : 2nd place relay, 9th place 30 km skiathlon

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
	≤ 5 km	≤ 10 km	≤ 15 km	≤ 30 km	> 30 km					sprint	Season
1st place		2	4th			3	5	1	15th	1	1
2nd place			4th			5	5	3	17th		3
3rd place		1	4th				5	1	11
Top 10		6th	20th	1	1	13	27	7th	75	1	7th
Scoring	1	7th	33	2	1	23	42	10	119	2	8th
Starts	1	9	36	2	2	28	49	13	140	2	8th
Status: end of season 2019/20

^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

World Cup overall placements

season	total		distance		sprint
	Points	space	Points	space	Points	space
2012/13	95	55.	3	102.	92	23.
2013/14	480	11.	68	46.	274	6th
2014/15	297	26th	76	44.	221	6th
2015/16	1479	4th	605	5.	294	6th
2016/17	1176	2.	454	7th	322	5.
2017/18	560	12.	388	10.	156	12.
2018/19	633	10.	258	17th	55	35.
2019/20	908	8th.	435	8th.	101	19th

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.sportschau.de/olympia/vier-russische-top-sportler-fuer-olympia-gesperr-100.html

Web links

• Sergei Alexandrowitsch Ustjugow in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)