Evgeny Ustyugov

Yevgeny Romanovich Ustjugow (Russian: Евгений Романович Устюгов, scientific transliteration Evgenij Romanovic Ustjugov; born June 4, 1985 in Krasnoyarsk, Soviet Union ) is a retired Russian biathlete. He was Olympic champion in 2010 in the mass start.

In his first Junior World Championship 2005 in Kontiolahti to Ustjugow could apart from rank 12 in a single place is not good. A year later, in Presque Isle, he won the title in singles and tracking as well as silver in the relay. He also missed another medal in the sprint in fourth place. Season the title he won in the same year at the Junior European Championships in Langsdorf. In addition, a 31 ranking in singles, No. 12 arrived there in the sprint and four in pursuit.

For the 2006/07 season Ustjugow joined the men range. Here he took up biathlon in the European Cup. His first race denied the Russians in Obertilliach, where he finished 12th in the sprint. In the subsequent pursuers before he ran up to second place. He reached a similar result again until 2007 at the same place in a single. Even before he started at the Biathlon World Championships 2007 in Bansko, where he was 20th in the sprint and pursuit and fifth in the relay. The biggest success so far was winning the IBU Cup sprint race in Martell in 2008/09. In the Biathlon World Cup Ustjugow 2009 debuted in a relay race in Oberhof. With the Russian squadron he ran to the side of Maxim Chudov, Dmitry Yaroshenko and Nikolai Kruglov as first runner to second place. The squadron was later disqualified because Dmitri Yaroshenko was found guilty of doping. In the following sprint he finished 44th and missed so four places his first World Cup points. This he won the next race, a sprint in Ruhpolding, as 28 The sprint race a week later in Antholz ended the Russian eighth for the first time on a digit place. At the beginning of the 2009/10 season was Yevgeny Ustjugow with 3rd place in the sprint in Hochfilzen first on the podium and celebrated a week later in Pokljuka in pursuit of his first World Cup victory. In the overall World Cup, the Russian was fourth in his best season, the Mass Start World Cup he could win.

His greatest athletic success celebrated in Vancouver Yevgeny Ustjugow at the Olympic Winter Games 2010. In the mass start race he was Olympic champion Martin Fourcade before and Pavol Hurajt. In the season he won the bronze medal.

On February 22, 2014 he became. At the Olympic Winter Games together with Alexei Volkov, Dmitri Malyschko and Anton Schipulin Olympic champion in relay competition

After the 2013/14 season Ustjugow finished surprising his athletic career.

Biathlon World Cup rankings

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