After first podium finishes in FIS races, Maitakow won the bronze medal in slalom at the 2010 Junior World Championships in France. Shortly afterwards he took part in the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver , where he started in slalom, giant slalom and Super-G, but only finished 40th in giant slalom. A week after the Olympic Games he won his first points in the European Cup with 20th place in the slalom in Kranjska Gora , and at the end of the season he was Russian champion in giant slalom and Super-G. The next season 2010/2011 came to an early end for Maitakow. After his World Cup debut on January 16, 2011 in the Wengen slalom , in which he did not qualify for the second run, he was unable to participate in any races during the rest of the winter due to injury.
At the beginning of the 2011/2012 season Maitakow achieved his first top 10 placements in the European Cup and on January 18, 2012 he celebrated his first European Cup victory in the giant slalom in Lenzerheide . With two more victories, he secured the giant slalom classification. On March 9, 2013, he won the first World Cup points by finishing 26th in the giant slalom in Kranjska Gora .
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