Alexander Legkov
Alexander Gennadjewitsch Legkow (Russian Александр Геннадьевич Легков; born July 5, 1983 in Krasnoarmeysk, Moscow Oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union ) is a Russian cross-country skiers.
Legkow made his international debut at the Junior World Championships in early 2002 in Schonach, where he was 30, over 10 kilometers. At the end of the year he won his first FIS race in Krasnoyarsk and a week was first used it in Kawgolowo in the Cross Country World Cup. In this 19 -kilometer race Legkow came on the 48th. Nearly a year later, he came up with the Russian squadron as sixth -placed in Davos for the first time in the top 10 in a World Cup race. Shortly before the turn of the year to 2004, he won the first time in Krasnoyarsk, a European Cup races. In February 2005 Legkow took in Oberstdorf first part of the Nordic World Ski Championships. Best finish was a 48th place in the 15 -kilometer race. In 2006 he started for the first time at the Olympics and was 37th in the pursuit race and 20th in the 50 -kilometer race.
His international breakthrough of Russian in the season 2006/07. In the Swedish Gällivare Legkow came in November than seventh in the 15 -kilometer race for the first time in a single race in the top ten. In December, he came in the 30 -kilometer race from La Clusaz to second place and won the squadron its first World Cup race. In the inaugural Tour de Ski, he reached behind Tobias Angerer second place, he has handled this course well in the pursuit race and in the mountain stage. The next 30 -kilometer race in Rybinsk, he won, and thus his first individual World Cup races. At the end of the season, he finished as in the Tour de Ski behind Angerer finished second overall in the World Cup, World Cup, he finished sixth in the distance. In the Nordic World Ski Championships 2007 in Sapporo Legkow reached over 15 kilometers in pursuit sixth places, with the season he won the silver medal.
In the 2012/2013 season Legkow started with a victory in the 10-kilometer freestyle race in Kuusamo in the season. At the turn of 2012/2013 he won with the victory in the final mountain pursuit in Val di Fiemme the Tour de Ski. At the Olympic Games in Sochi in 2014, he won on the final day of the 50 -km freestyle competition in front of two other Russian defectors.
The sportsman lives in the West Siberian Khanty-Mansiysk and starts for the club Dynamo.