Sergey Ustyugov is an athlete who, despite his rather young age, is already being called one of the most promising skiers in the world. Indeed, Sergei literally burst into professional sports and, judging by everything, is aimed at serious achievements.

Childhood and youth

Ustyugov was born in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, in the small village of Mezhdurechensky on April 8, 1992. In one of the interviews, the athlete admitted that he often annoyed his parents and grew up as a restless child. Sergei became interested in sports in early childhood: mom and dad decided that boxing would become the best view sports for such an active offspring. However, Sergey did not like “waving his fists”.

Some time later, Ustyugov tries his hand at biathlon. Skiing and target shooting appealed to the novice athlete much more than boxing gloves and the ring. The choice has been made. Soon Sergei was already ahead of his peers in speed and accuracy. There was a dream to win serious sports peaks. Interestingly, Sergei's parents were displeased with the choice of their son: training began to distract from studies. However, Sergei himself was determined to move forward.

When Ustyugov was 11 years old, the coach suggested that the boy try cross-country skiing. Sergei did not immediately agree, but decided to heed the advice of his mentor. The first steps in the new sport were not very successful, but after some time Ustyugov already showed enviable results, representing his native city in children's and youth races.

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Quite quickly, the name of Sergei Ustyugov got into the coveted list of candidates for the youth team of the country. Perhaps this moment can be considered the beginning of professional sports biography skier. Ustyugov is included in the national team and successfully performs at the world championship.

The sports season of 2011-2012 was marked for Sergey Ustyugov by the World Championship, which was held in Turkey. Here the athlete seriously declared himself, taking first place in all races. In the same season, Ustyugov performed no less brilliantly at international competitions in Estonia, which earned him a place in the first Russian team.

It seemed that the skier's career would continue to develop just as smoothly, but the next season (2012-2013) prepared an unpleasant surprise for Ustyugov. Sergei moved from the youth division to the youth division, the level of rivals increased, and the skier failed all the races in which he participated. However, sports stubbornness did not allow the young man to give up, and Sergey partially rehabilitated, ending the season with a victory in the 30 km skiathlon and bronze in the team relay.

In 2014, Sergei, as part of the Russian team, went to the first Olympic Games in Sochi. Even before the start of the competition, world experts were inclined to believe that Sergei Ustyugov would become the favorite of this season. However, the athlete did not justify the hopes of coaches and fans: Ustyugov finished the single sprint in fifth position. Later, the skier admitted to reporters that the rivals were stronger than he expected, and what lies ahead - long work over mistakes.

And this work, apparently, was really done. A year later, Sergei Ustyugov and Alexei Petukhov brought the World Cup gold from the Estonian city of Otepää. In addition, Sergey won bronze at the competitions in Rybinsk and became the second in the team standings.

2016 was also a successful year for Sergei Ustyugov. The athlete added to his own piggy bank a bronze medal of the Tour de Ski championship, a victory in the mass start of the World Cup, and a silver medal in the Tour of Canada multi-day race.

The 2016-2017 season turned out to be no less significant: January began with the Tour de Ski. The first five stages Sergey Ustyugov was unconditionally in the lead, and only the sixth race finished second, losing two seconds to the Norwegian Martin Sundby. Last run Sergei Ustyugov went flawlessly, leaving his rivals behind and winning the coveted "gold" of the competition.

It should be noted that Sergey Ustyugov became the second Russian to win the Tour de Ski multi-day race. The first gold medal for Russia was brought by a skier (in the 2012-2013 season). In addition, Ustyugov overtook the previous favorite of the competition, Martin Sundby, in terms of the number of stages of the tour won in a row.

The 2017 season did not end for Sergei Ustyugov: the skier went to Finnish Lahti for the World Championship, from where he brought two “gold” and three silver medals.

The athlete himself has repeatedly admitted in an interview that he owes his own success to two factors. Firstly, these are suitable physical data that were inherited from birth (Sergey Ustyugov's height is 1.84 m, and his weight is 81 kg). And secondly, purposefulness and sports ambition, which makes you forget about fatigue and misses and continue to train.

Personal life

Little is known about the personal life of Sergei Ustyugov. The athlete prefers not to advertise matters of the heart, rightly believing that the relationship concerns only two. For several years, Sergei met with Elena Soboleva. The girl is also a skier. However, there is no information about the details of the novel and the separation of young people.

Fans of the athlete can only follow the news and photos on Instagram and others in social networks in the hope of finding out who became the happy chosen one of Sergei Ustyugov.

Sergey Ustyugov now

Now Sergey Ustyugov plans to repeat the success of the past season, preparing for the Olympic Games in Pyeongchang. The athlete is the favorite in the personal sprint, in addition, Ustyugov is assigned great expectations during the skiathlon. The skier will also have a traditional team relay race and several classic and freestyle races.

In total, the Russian national cross-country skiing team in 2018 will include 8 women and 12 men. In addition to Ustyugov, Stanislav Retivykh, Gleb Volzhentsev, Nikita Kryukov and other skiers will go to Pyeongchang. Among women, some media call favorites Yulia Chekaleva, Marina Gushchina, Polina Nekrasova.

Awards

• 2013 - bronze medal (Val di Fiemme, 4 × 10 km relay)
• 2016 - bronze medal "Tour De Ski"
• 2017 - gold medal"Tour de Ski"
• 2017 - silver medal (Lahti, individual sprint)
• 2017 - gold medal (Lahti, skiathlon 15+15 km)
• 2017 - gold medal (Lahti, team sprint, classic)
• 2017 - silver medal (Lahti, 4 × 10 km relay)
• 2017 - silver medal (Lahti, 50 km)

According to the Ugra skier Sergei Ustyugov, his main dream is to be the best in his sport. Apparently, he consistently goes to this. In any case, Sergei, for example, was able to overcome the record legendary skier Nortuga, who for his sports career five times won the world championships among juniors and youth. No wonder, because Sergey has such qualities as determination and colossal efficiency. And he does not suffer from the so-called. "star sickness" As it turns out, all his awards - from medals to cups and certificates - he always removes from his eyes away.

From boxing to skiing

Sergei Ustyugov was born in the middle of spring 1992 on the territory of one of the villages of the Khanty-Mansiysk Okrug, which is located 560 km from the center. Accordingly, in childhood he did not have much entertainment, but he worked properly sport school with many sections for local children. At first, Sergey decided to go in for boxing. According to his recollections, he studied the basics of boxing for only a month, although he showed very good results. From

According to Ustyugov, he absolutely did not like boxing, and his friend offered to enroll in the biathlon section. Sergey liked this sport, and he began to purposefully master the basics of biathlon. And there were absolutely no thoughts to change the sport at that time. Moreover, his older brother supported Sergei in every possible way in his endeavors. True, the mother of the future champion was against it, since playing sports had already begun to affect her studies.

Somehow, eleven-year-old Sergei t

Rener recommended to try himself in such a form as cross-country skiing. He believed that there he had much more chances to be in the team of the Khanty-Mansiysk Okrug. In addition, the coach then said that you can always return to biathlon. According to Sergey, he had to seriously think about such a proposal. The young skier nevertheless went to the section suggested by the mentor.

Alas, when the first training camp began, Sergey realized that relations with the new coach did not add up. However,

this was quite understandable - the young man was a hooligan and did not like to be commanded. But, fortunately, something changed in his attitude, he managed to pull himself together and when the second training camp started, he was already ready for potential victories.

Basically, this is what happened. Sergei managed to compete in many ski competitions among young athletes, more than once he attracted close attention to himself, and as a result it was decided to enroll him in the state of the Russian junior ski team, where

he was able to successfully perform at the world championships among juniors.

It takes a lot of work to be at the top level.

In the 2011/12 season, Sergey focused on junior competitions and the World Championships, which took place in Erzurum, Turkey. It was there that he was able to achieve incredible success. Ustyugov won victories in all four starts. And the magnificent performance of the young athlete at the 2011 junior world championship in Estonia turned out to be the reason for his invitation to

the main Russian team. There he not only managed to win the sprint, but also helped the Russian team climb to second place in the relay.

In the 2012-2013 season, the twenty-year-old athlete began a "transitional age". In a word, for the first time Ustyugov had to compete not among juniors. By and large, this is a completely different qualitative level of rivalry. Be that as it may, at the 2013 youth championship, which was held in Liberec, no one promised an athlete an easy and sweet life, but

the rivals dreamed of spoiling the statistics for the Russian upstart. Sergei himself admitted before the start that he would be sincerely glad to have achieved any medal. So it was, but only at the beginning. In the first form of the program, namely, in the classic sprint, in which Ustyugov, in fact, never knew his equal, he lost in the quarterfinals. But then, with a difference of only two days, he became the winner in the skating "cutting" for 15 kilometers and the skiathlon for 30 kilometers. Incidentally, both

behind Sergey left behind a member of the main composition of the Russian team, a well-known starter of the Russian relay team at the world cup stages, Evgeny Belov. After this victory, Sergei, laconic and stingy with emotions, said that last year in Erzurum he performed very well. And, accordingly, in order to perform at least as well in the current rivalry, he had to work hard all year.

Instead of an epilogue

Now Ugra athlete Sergey Ustyugov is considered a skier

ohm world class. Since his debut performance in 2011, he has been climbing the rating scale. In January 2014, he managed to win the freestyle sprint at the next stage of the World Cup. It took place in the Czech Republic. The Winter Olympic Games in Sochi are about to start. Perhaps this will be a great chance to express yourself once again. Over the past three years, he has been moving towards this responsible start. He always wanted to be the best. It seems that these dreams will sooner or later come true.

Many biathlon fans are well aware of Evgeny Ustyugov, the famous Olympic champion. When they hear about Sergei, who shares the same last name and is a current cross-country skiing star, they think they are related. Is it so?

Sergei Ustyugov - brother of Evgeny Ustyugov?

This question is immediately asked by biathlon fans, especially given their small age difference. As it turned out in one of Sergey's early interviews, they have no family ties, and they are united only by a common Siberian origin and love for winter sports.

Evgeny Romanovich Ustyugov is a world-famous biathlete, born on June 4, 1985 in the city of Krasnoyarsk. From childhood, following the example of his father and mother, he was engaged in skiing. Eugene came to his main sport, biathlon, at the age of 12. His first coach was Viktor Ivanovich Ermakov.

Sergei Alexandrovich Ustyugov - famous Russian skier, was born on April 8, 1992 in the village of Mezhdurechensky, Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug. Here, in his small homeland, he began to study cross-country skiing at the age of 9 under the guidance of Ivan Bragin.

Achievements of Evgeny Ustyugov

Evgeny Ustyugov achieved the greatest success in Olympic Games: in 2010 in Vancouver, he first won a gold medal in the 15 km mass start discipline. The peculiarity of this race is that only 30 of the best riders in the world take part in it. Thanks to his impeccable shooting, having hit all the targets, he left far behind such recognized masters ski run and rifles like Ole Einar Björndalen, Michael Greis and Emil Svendsen. Here, in Vancouver, but already as part of the relay four, he got his second, this time bronze, medal.

In the future, Evgeny Ustyugov confirmed the non-randomness of the victories: in the 2010 season, he was the best in the sprint race in Oberhof, helped the Russian team win the relay race in Ruhpolding. Over the next 4 years, Eugene often took a place on the podium in World Cup races.

Evgeny Ustyugov won the next gold of the Olympic Games in the team race in 2014 in Sochi. This season was the last in his professional career. After the end of the Race of Champions, surrounded by his many fans and biathlon stars, the Olympian announced his retirement from the sport.

The famous Mansi

Sergei Ustyugov is unique in everything. He is a representative of a small people living on the territory of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug, the number of which is less than 20 thousand people.

He began to show excellent results in cross-country skiing from his youth - he has 8 gold medals in the junior world championships. Moving to the adult category, he continued his brilliant performance.

For many years recognized leaders in ski competitions are Norwegians. This is not surprising, since the entire population of Norway is fond of winter sports. This country was glorified on the world arenas by such famous athletes as Bjorn Deli, Petter Nortug, Martin Sundby. Sergey Ustyugov, despite his young age, has already managed to repeat the records of the first two skiers and repeatedly defeated the third.

On account of the "flying" Mansi 9 wins at the World Cup, 2 medals the highest standard at the 2017 Cross Country Skiing World Championships held in Lahti, Finland. In January 2017, he became the second in history Russian sports winner of the prestigious Tour de Ski. At this race, he showed his undeniable advantage over Martin Sundby, "bringing" more than 1 minute at the finish line. Among the achievements of Sergei Ustyugov, it can be noted that it is equally easy for him to both short distances and marathons.

namesakes in Sochi

Sergei Ustyugov and Evgeny Ustyugov went their own ways to fame, which is not surprising, because they represented different types sports. But there was one common event in their career - participation in the Olympic Games in Sochi. Evgeny Ustyugov, a biathlete, again conquered the sports Olympus in that memorable year. For Sergei, such competitions were the first in his career. Unfortunately, the success of the namesake Evgeny was prevented by an unfortunate fall in the finals of the sprint. As a result, Sergei became only the fifth.

In 2014 Evgeny Ustyugov left big sport. His young and promising namesake, on the contrary, continues his triumphant march in ski competitions. It remains to be hoped that in a few years Sergey Ustyugov will again write this glorious name in the history of the Winter Olympics.

Sergey Ustyugov is a young sportsman. It is rightfully considered one of the most promising skiers of our time. Despite his age, he managed to win several significant awards.

early years

Sergei was born in April 1992 in the Khanty-Mansiysk Okrug. As a child, he was an active child and often caused problems for his parents. I was never particularly interested in sports, but already in early age went to the boxing section. He showed pretty good results, but he did not like to wave his fists at all. The guy decides to try himself in biathlon, and he liked it. He will be happy to attend training and become one of the best among his peers. After some time, he realizes that he would like to connect his life with skiing. The mother of the future champion was against it, because the training did not allow him to fully concentrate on his studies. Despite everything, Sergey Ustyugov continued to study and hoped to grow into a real professional.

At the age of eleven, he gets the opportunity to go directly to cross-country skiing. The coach who suggested this to him was sure that here the guy would be able to fully realize his potential and be able to quickly break into the district team. For some time, the young man pondered the proposal and, as a result, agreed. Initially, things didn't go well for him. Due to the complex nature of the athlete, he often clashed with the new mentor, and therefore did not demonstrate the expected results. After some time, he completely changes his attitude to business and begins to consistently perform at various children's and youth competitions. That's how Sergei Ustyugov started. Photos from his first competition today occupy an important place in the home collection of awards.

Career in "youth" and "youth"

After successful performances at the district championships, Sergey is included in the list of candidates for the Russian youth team. Very soon he was enrolled in national team, and the athlete performed quite successfully at the junior world championship.

In the 2011-2012 season Sergei Ustyugov (skier), whose biography is full of many different episodes, goes to the World Cup in Turkey. He managed to demonstrate an amazing result and became the first in absolutely all starts in which he performed. In the same year he takes part in international tournament in Estonia. Here he again showed himself excellently, after which he was enrolled in the first team.

In 2012-2013 the skier had a rather difficult time, because he had to move from "boys" to "youth". There was a completely different level of athletes here, and he fully felt it at the very first competitions in Liberec. This tournament took place in 2013, and he completely failed. It is noteworthy that all this happened in the classic sprint, where he had no equal before. A few days later, the young man is fully rehabilitated and becomes the first in the "cutting" for fifteen kilometers and wins the skiathlon for thirty kilometers. Even then, they began to talk about the Russian as one of the most promising athletes in Europe.

adult career

A rather interesting person is Sergey Ustyugov (skier). His biography, although not so rich due to his age, nevertheless, there is something to read in it. A career at the highest level deserves special attention.

The debut at the World Cup took place in 2011. Even then he gets into the top ten. In the world championship in 2013, he won bronze in the team relay. Unfortunately, in the individual race he managed to become only forty-seventh.

At the stages of the World Cup, he first climbed the podium in December 2013 in Davos. Sergey Ustyugov became the third in the sprint. A few months later, he took first place in the Czech Republic.

In 2015, together with Petukhov, he won the gold of the World Cup in the city of Otepää. In Rybinsk, he became second with the team and third in the individual freestyle race. In 2016 he went to the Tour de Ski, where he eventually became the owner of an honorary bronze medal.

At the championships of Russia represents the sports society "Dynamo". The skier is trained by the Swiss specialist Reto Burgermeiser.

Performances at the Olympic Games

For the first time Sergey went to such a tournament in 2014. He was one of the favorites. Leading world experts agreed with this. Absolutely everyone was sure that the Russian would at least finish his performances with medals. Unfortunately, it was not possible to justify the hopes. The young man made it to the finals of the single sprint without any problems, where he became only fifth. To the credit of the athlete, he did not look for excuses and agreed that the rivals were really stronger.

Sergey Ustyugov: height, weight

To understand why a twenty-three-year-old skier demonstrates so successful results, you should definitely familiarize yourself with its physical data. It weighs quite a bit - only eighty-one kilograms. For power athletes, this figure is far from the highest. It is thanks to this that he manages to develop high speed in sprint races. It should be noted that quite high Sergey Ustyugov. His height is one hundred and eighty-four centimeters. Thanks to this growth, he has a good range of hands, which allows him to always be among the leaders.

Brief description of personality

The young man strives to always be the best in everything. It is thanks to this character trait that he became what he is today. In fact, he has absolutely all the qualities that will help him repeatedly win the world championships, continental championships, as well as the Olympic Games.

Here he is Sergey Ustyugov. An ordinary Russian guy who managed to prove to everyone that thanks to hard work you can reach any height.