Biography of the skier of Ustyugov

Born on April 8 in the village. Mezhdurechensky Tyumen region. Russian skier. Olympic champion Honored Master of Sports of Russia Sergey Ustyugov was born on April 8 in the village of Mezhdurechensky Tyumen Region. By nationality - Mansi. Some sources are reported about his relationship with the famous Russian biathlete, two -time Olympic champion Yevgeny Ustyugov.

However, they are only namesakes and family ties between them. Sergey is the youngest child in the family. From an early age, I fell in love with sports. Started with boxing. From the year he concentrated on ski races, Ivan Bragin became his first coach. Ustyugov quickly began to show the results very high for his age and win at various starts. As Sergey Ustyugov admitted, he grew up a hooligan, and if it weren’t for the sport, his fate could have been completely different: “I just didn’t communicate with some childhood friends.

Someone was sitting in prison. Someone was in prison. And I was able to rebuild. I was rebuilt. I studied very badly. Mom said to me: "Tie with sports." Now I understand that if it were not for the sport, I would have finished how my childhood friends - in prison or worse. "From an early age I was very hard work in training, determination and perseverance in achieving the goal.

He himself said:" In childhood, I had a very specific and conscious dream - to get into the country's national team. In general, having reached one goal, I put new ones in front of myself. At the same time, Sergey has a difficult character, because of excessive freedom could remain outside the sport: “The main negative in me is my character. And most importantly, they wanted to drive me positive from my first fees.

I wrote three explanatory. Violation of the regime, and all that. I did not like that they were crushing me, ”he recalled. Sergey Ustyugov in childhood, the first great success came to him in the year when Sergey Ustyugov won gold in a sprint on the junior championship of ski race in Drafy Estepy. In the year, Sergey Ustyug became a four -time winner of the world in Erzurum Türkiye.

Then he won gold in a sprint, a 10 km race, a skiathlon and as part of the relay. In the year at the world championship in ski sports among juniors and youth in Liberets, the Czech Republic Sergei Ustyugov in the category under 23 years old won two gold medals - in the race for 15 km free style and in a 30 km skiathlon. At the World Cup, in Val-Di-Femma, together with the team, he became a bronze medalist in the relay, in an individual race was M at a distance of 15 km free style.

At the podium at the stages of the World Cup, he first hit the stage in Davos on December 15, taking 3rd place in the sprint with a free style. The next month I won the stage in the Czech Novo-Mesto-on-Morav in a sprint with a free style. In the year, at the Youth Championship in Val-Di-Femm, he won gold in an individual sprint. At the Olympic Games of the year in Sochi in the final of a personal sprint, being one of the main applicants for victory, he took fifth place, falling in the final.

According to Ustyugov, skis for him is a lifestyle, not a means of making money: “I never thought that I had come into skis in order to earn money. I am not going to work. "In May, it was announced that Sergei Ustyugov was moving from the Russian remote team, led by Oleg Perevoschikov, to a separate group of the Russian national team under the leadership of the Swiss-German duo of the Reto Burgermaister and Isabelle Knauta.

In January, he also won the team sprint in the stage of the World Cup in the council. At the stage in Rybinsk, he took 2nd place in the sprint with a free style and 3rd place in a 15 km free-style race. In the year, he took 3rd place in the Tour de Ski at the stage in the new one at a distance of 15 km with a free style and a relay, respectively, in February, at the stage of the World Cup in the Swedish pharmacy.

In March, the mass-old-year-old mass start-up on the Tour of Canada took second place, having fallen on the podium in five rounds of the tour and yielding only to Martin Sundbu. Stanislav Volzhentsev. The President of the Russian Ski Race and the head coach of the Russian national team Elena Vyalbe allowed the skiers to move from the group of Burgermaster-Knaut to the group of another German specialist Marcus Kramer, who at that time had already trained the Olympic champion of the year Alexander Legkov and a number of other strong skiers.

At all stages, he performed perfectly: he won the first 5 stages and at the sixth stage of 15 km ks, the mass start took 2nd place, losing 2.2 sec Martin Sundbu. Before the last seventh stage, Sergey had the first position and 1 min 12 secs of advantages over the closest of the pursuers, Norwegian Martin Sundbu. Confidently having a last race with an upholstered Alp de Chermis, Sergei Ustyugov retained the handicap and won the tour.Thus, Ustyugov became the second after Alexander Legkov by a Russian skier who won the tour de sk.

Sergei Ustyugov also set a record for the number of victories in a row at the stages of one round - 5 before that the largest number of Turks 4 won the Norwegian Sundbey. At the World Sports Championship on February 23, he won a silver medal in his personal sprint with a free style, losing only to the summer Italian Federico Pellegrino. A few kilometers to the finish of the Ustyugs and Sundbu created a gap from the main group.

On one of the last ascents, Sundbu undertook acceleration, but broke the stick. As a result of this, the Norwegian fell behind Ustyugov by several tens of meters and could not compete with Sergey for gold at the finish line. Thus, Sergey Ustyugov for the first time in his career won the title of world champion. At the last stage, Ustyugs fled from Russia. 30 seconds before the finish, he walked the fourth after the Norwegian Emil Iversen, Finn Ivo Niskanen and the world champion of the year in the personal sprint of Italian Federico Pellegrino.

At the same time, the Norwegian and Finn walked ahead, and the Russian and Italian skiers were somewhat lagging behind. At the rolling out to the stadium, Finn approached the Norwegian, and during the rebuilding on another Iversen skiing, the athletes collided. Both skiers fell, the Norwegian broke the stick, and Pellegrino and Ustyugs traveled to the fallen rivals. At the finish, Sergei undertook a powerful acceleration and confidently won gold, ahead of the Italian by 2.14 seconds, the third was finished by Niskanen.

Ustyugov won his second gold medal at the World Cup, and Kryukov was the first three -time world champion in the history of Soviet and Russian sports. The next race of the championship, 15 km from a separate start with a classic style, missed Ustyugov. After 3 stages, Russia lagged behind Norway by approximately 17 seconds, Ustyugov was able to reduce the backlog to 4 seconds, but could not compete for victory, winning his 2 medal in relay championships.

The last championship race was a 50 km marathon free style, which Ustyugov, in his words, fled only in his career for the second time. About a kilometer to the finish line, the trinity of the Canadian Alex Kharvi, Ustyugov and Sundbu came from the main group. As a result of the finish, Spurt won Harvey, Ustyugov became the second, and the Bronze Medal was won by Finn Matty Heikkinen, Sundbe became only the fifth.

According to the results of the entire tournament, Sergei Ustyugov repeated the Norwegian Björn Delhi and Peter Northuga record in the number of medals at one world championship - 5 medals 2 gold and 3 silver. Sergei also equalized in the number of world championships with Alexei Prosecutorov six medals. During his career, more than twenty times in personal races fell on the podium of the World Cup stages.

On the account of Ustyugov nine victories, six times he was the second and seven times the third.

It's like a car, it reaches a red cut off, behind which the engine explodes. And you also have such a cut -off. And you cross it, even realizing that it is deadly. I brought myself to such a state. This all goes automatically: you start and drove. And you get high from such a state, ”said Sergey Ustyugov. At the Olympics of the year in Beijing in a ski male relay race, together with Alexander Bolshunov, Alexei Chervotkin, Denis Spittsov won the Golden Olympic medal.

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