Sergey Ustiugov
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Sergey Ustiugov in 2013
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| Full name | Sergey Aleksandrovich Ustiugov |
| Born | 8 April 1992 |
| Height | 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in) |
| World Cup career | |
| Seasons | 2013– |
| Individual wins | 11 |
| Indiv. podiums | 26 |
| Overall titles | 0 – (2nd in 2017) |
Sergey Aleksandrovich Ustiugov (Russian: Сергей Александрович Устюгов; born 8 April 1992) is a Russian cross-country skier, world champion and Tour de Ski winner.
Sergey Ustiugov started doing cross-country skiing in the biathlon section of the sports school of the settlement Mezhdurechensky in 2001. His main coach was Ivan Gennadievich Vragin.
In 2011, Ustiugov won gold in sprint at the Youth World Championships in cross-country skiing in Otepää, Estonia. A year later he became four-times champion of the Youth Championships in Erzurum, Turkey. There he won gold in sprint, 10 km race, skiatlon and as part of the Russian team in the relay event. In 2013, he participated at the Junior Championships in Liberec, Czech Republic in the Under-23 classification, winning there two gold medals in 15 km free style and 30 km skiatlon. At the Junior Championships in Val di Fiemme in 2014 he won gold in individual sprint.
Ustiugov debuted on 6 February 2011 at the World Cup in the relay event. Overall he reached 22 times the pedestal in World Cup individual events; nine times he championed, six times he became runner-up and seven times he was third-placed. The best overall ranking to date was 4th place in the 2015–16 season.
At the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2013 in Vale di Flemme, Ustiugov with his relay team won bronze. In the individual 15 km free style race he became 47th. In the same year he reached a podium place for the first time in Davos on 15 December, getting third in free style sprint. The next month he won a stage in the Czech Nové Město in free style sprint. He debuted at the 2014 Winter Olympics in sprint, where he became fifth after falling down near the final passage. In May 2014, Ustiugov moved to a separate group of the national team headed by the Swiss-German duo Reto Burgermeister/Isabel Knaute and so left the group headed by Oleg Perevozchikov.
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