Maxim Mikhailovich Vylegzhanin(October 18, 1982, Sharkan, Udmurt Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, USSR) - Russian skier. Three-time vice-champion of the 2014 Winter Olympics in the relay, team sprint and ski marathon. World champion 2015 in skiathlon. Three-time vice-world champion, winner of the 2007 Winter Universiade, bronze medalist of the 2013 Tour de Ski multi-day ski race, multiple champion of Russia. Honored Master of Sports of Russia. Lives in the city of Izhevsk.
Sports career
Maxim Vylegzhanin is the 2015 world champion in the 30 km skiathlon, a three-time silver medalist at the Olympic Games, and also a three-time vice world champion in individual races: 2009 in the 50 km freestyle mass start, 2011 in the 30 km skiathlon and in the 50 km freestyle mass start.
Winner of the World Universiade (2007) at a distance of 30 km freestyle, bronze medalist in the 15 km pursuit race.
He was a member of the Russian Olympic team at the Vancouver Olympics. The best result is 8th place in the 50 km race.
Three-time champion of Russia at distances of 30 km (duathlon, 2007) and 50 km (2007 - classic style mass start, 2008 - free style mass start).
Maxim Vylegzhanin has two victories at the World Cup stages at a distance of 30 km free style in the 2010/2011 season and at a distance of 15 kilometers classic style at the Tour de Ski stage in Oberhof in the 2012-2013 season.
On February 9, 2014, at the Olympic Games in Sochi, he took 4th place in the skiathlon (15 km classic style + 15 km skating), losing at the finish line to the Norwegian athlete Martin Sondby. On February 16, 2014, he won Olympic silver as part of the relay four (Dmitry Yaparov, Alexander Bessmertnykh, Alexander Legkov, Maxim Vylegzhanin). On February 19, 2014, he won his second silver medal at the Olympic Games in Sochi together with Nikita Kryukov in the team sprint classic. On the last day of the Olympics, Maxim became second in the 50 km freestyle mass start.
World Championships and Olympic Games
| Year | Venue | Discipline | Place |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | World Cup Liberec | Skiathlon 30 km | 24 |
| 2009 | World Cup Liberec | 15 km Kl | 45 |
| 2009 | World Cup Liberec | Marathon 50 km St. | 2 |
| 2011 | World Cup Holmenkollen | Skiathlon 30 km | 2 |
| 2011 | World Cup Holmenkollen | 15 km Kl | 10 |
| 2011 | World Cup Holmenkollen | 4x10 relay | 7 |
| 2011 | World Cup Holmenkollen | Marathon 50 km St. | 2 |
| 2013 | World Cup Val di Fiemme | Skiathlon 30 km | 5 |
| 2013 | World Cup Val di Fiemme | 15 km St. | 57 |
| 2013 | World Cup Val di Fiemme | 4x10 km relay | 3 |
| 2013 | World Cup Val di Fiemme | Marathon 50 km Kl | 8 |
| 2014 | Olympic Games Sochi | Skiathlon 30 km | 4 |
| 2014 | Olympic Games Sochi | 4x10 km relay | 2 |
| 2014 | Olympic Games Sochi | Team sprint 6x1.8 km Class | 2 |
| 2014 | Olympic Games Sochi | Marathon 50 km St. | 2 |
| 2015 | World Cup Falun | Skiathlon 30 km | 1 |
| 2015 | World Cup Falun | 4x10 km relay | 4 |
| 2015 | World Cup Falun | Marathon 50 km | 4 |
Statistics of performances in the World Cup
| 2004-2005 | |||||||||||||||
| Pragelato | Lahti | Oslo | Falun | Results | |||||||||||
| 30 D | KS 6x1.2 Cl | 15 St | 50 Kl | 30 D | E 4x10 | Points | Place | ||||||||
| 37 | 6 | 66 | 6 | 15 | 7 | 56 | 67 | ||||||||
| 2005-2006 | |||||||||||||||
| Kuusamo | Nove Mesto na Morave | Otepää | Falun | Oslo | Results | ||||||||||
| 15 Kl | 15 St | C 1.2 St | 15 St | 15 Kl | 20 D | 50 St | Points | Place | |||||||
| 59 | 29 | 32 | DNS | 42 | 49 | 29 | 7 | 152 | |||||||
| 2006-2007 | |||||||||||||||
| Gällivare | Kuusamo | Val d'Aosta | La Clussa | Oslo | Falun | Results | |||||||||
| 15 St | E 4x10 | With 1.2 Cl | 15 Kl | 30 St. Mst | E 4x10 | 50 Kl | 30 D | Points | Place | ||||||
| 33 | 13 | 54 | 78 | 65 | 8 | 7 | 22 | 45 | 79 | ||||||
| 2007-2008 | |||||||||||||||
| Beitoshtolen | Davos | Rybinsk | Tour de Ski | Canmore | Otepää | Liberec | Falun | Oslo | Results | ||||||
| 15 St | E 4x10 | 15 Kl | E 4x10 | 30 St. Mst | 102 cm | 30 D | With 1.2 Cl | 15 St | C 1.2 St | 15 Kl | 11.4 St | 30 D | 50 St | Points | Place |
| 62 | 11 | 45 | 12 | 16 | 21 | 20 | 56 | 53 | 60 | 53 | 52 | 48 | 37 | 127 | 51 |
| 2008-2009 | |||||||||||||||
| Gällivare | Kuusamo | La Clussa | Davos | Tour de Ski | Rybinsk | Lahti | Trondheim | Falun KM Final | Results | ||||||
| 15 St | E 4x10 | 15 Kl | 30 St. Mst | 15 Kl | 102 cm | 15 St. Mst | 15 St | 50 Kl Mst | 40 cm | Points | Place | ||||
| 41 | 14 | 35 | 38 | 41 | 15 | 28 | 6 | 4 | 27 | 290 | 25 | ||||
| 2009-2010 | |||||||||||||||
| Beitoshtolen | Kuusamo | Davos | Rogla | Canmore | Lahti | Oslo | Falun KM Final | Results | |||||||
| 15 St | E 4x10 | 15 Kl | C 1.0 St | 30 Kl Mst | 15 St | C 1.7 Cl | 30 D | E 4x10 | 50 St Mst | 40 cm | Points | Place | |||
| 50 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 3 | 49 | 16 | 4 | 4 | 18 | 4 | 532 | 8 |
Disqualification
On December 27, 2016, President of the Russian Ski Racing Federation Elena Vyalbe announced that Maxim Vylegzhanin was temporarily suspended from participation in competitions due to suspicion of violating anti-doping rules.
Equipment
Uses Fischer skis. Adidas clothing
Awards and titles
- Order of Honor (February 24, 2014) - for his great contribution to the development of physical culture and sports, high sporting achievements at the XXII Olympic Winter Games 2014 in Sochi.
- Honored Master of Sports of Russia (February 17, 2014).
Maxim Vylegzhanin, or “Prince Serebryany”, as he is called for his large number of silver awards, is an all-around skier, three-time Olympic medalist in Sochi, world champion and vice-champion. The Udmurt athlete worthily continues the victorious traditions of his fellow countrymen - Galina Kulakova and Tamara Tikhonova.
Childhood and youth
Maxim Vylegzhanin comes from the village of Sharkan in the Republic of Udmurtia, where he was born in October 1982. The family is simple: father Mikhail is an employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, after retirement he works as an ambulance driver, mother Rufima is in charge of a children's library. The children - daughter Natalya, sons Maxim and Alexander - were accustomed to hard village labor from an early age.
Little Maxim started skiing at the age of 9. I really wanted to play sports, but there were no other sections in the village. In the summer the boy played football and was also interested in photography. A year later, Vylegzhanin won the first race in his biography. As the skier said, he ran the distance, took his skis and went home. I only found out that I had won two days later.
In 2015, when Vylegzhanin won gold at the World Championship, the Sharkan Youth Sports School named him after an outstanding graduate.
After school, Maxim entered the police school, and then he began to take skiing more seriously. Successes allowed me to get a place at the Institute of Physical Education in Izhevsk. If not for sports, Maxim would have chosen the Suvorov School and a military career.
Sport
The skier's sports career was difficult. At the very beginning, he was invited to the national team for the summer training camp, and in the winter, when the main competitions began, he was excluded from the team. Nevertheless, Maxim did not give up and continued to win a place, first in the youth team, then in the main team.
Serious starts for Maxim Vylegzhanin began in 2005 with performances at the World Cup. The skier, as they say, harnessed slowly. The first season finished in 67th place, the next one was even worse - 152nd in the overall standings. Over the next three seasons, Maxim gradually increased his pace. The best result in the World Cup was the 2009-2010 season and 8th place in the overall table of ranks. Then he put 2 silver medals and one bronze into his piggy bank.
The 2007 Universiade was more successful. In Turin, Italy, Maxim conquered the highest step of the podium and also received a bronze medal. The skier did not go to the Olympics, held in the same city.
The World Championships turned out to be more generous in awards. In 2009 in the Czech Republic and in 2011 in Norway, Vylegzhanin won 3 silver medals - in skiathlon and 50 km marathon race. In 2013, in the Italian Val di Fiemme, Maxim won bronze in the relay.
Maxim won his favorite skiathlon and the world championship in Finnish Falun in 2015. This time, Nikita Kryukov and Alexey Petukhov, who competed in the team sprint, supported him with silver. The main pool of awards was taken away by colleagues from Germany and Norway.
At the Vancouver Olympic Games, the skier achieved only 8th place in the marathon. But the home Olympics in Sochi gave the audience an enchanting finish in the 50 km race, when Russian skiers Maxim Vylegzhanin and Ilya Chernousov occupied the entire podium.
In addition, the athlete could receive bronze in skiathlon. But at the finish line the skier was cut off by a representative of the Norwegian team, Martin Sundby. Despite the fact that the Viking clearly violated the rules, the panel of judges did not heed the protest of the Russian team and limited themselves to only a warning.
But following the results of the team sprint competition, Vylegzhanin spoke out against filing a protest. This time, towards the end of the relay, a German skier fell, knocked over the Finn and hit Nikita Kryukov, who lost speed. Even in this situation, the Finnish team came to the finish line first. Germany lodged a protest. Maxim considered that the fall was an accident from which no one was safe. As a result, the Russians received a silver medal.
However, by the Olympic medalist’s own admission, he remembers the year of the Games not by medals, but by an event that happened in the family - the birth of his son.
In February 2016, at the Holmenkollen Marathon, Vylegzhanin won a bronze medal at a distance of 50 km and won the World Cup in Lahti. In addition to skiing, Maxim pays attention to other sports. Also in 2016, the skier received a silver award at the Russian Amateur Triathlon Championship.
At the end of 2016, the Russian won the 10 km race and the classic sprint at international competitions in Finland. Based on the results of the competition, the national team for the World Cup was formed.
At the same time, the International Olympic Committee announced the start of an investigation into anti-doping rule violations committed at the Sochi Olympics. The subsequent press release did not name the athletes under investigation.
However, the names of six athletes suspended by the International Ski Federation from international competitions very quickly appeared on the Internet. The IOC's claims, according to the Russian Ski Federation, consisted of mechanical damage to containers with doping samples. The name of Maxim Vylegzhanin was also on the list.
The Udmurt athlete twice appealed to the International Federation, and both times it was rejected. For this reason, Maxim missed the World Championships in Lahti. Subsequently, guided by the report of the World Anti-Doping Agency, the IOC completely imposed a lifelong disqualification on the skier and annulled the results of the Sochi Games, which automatically meant deprivation of awards.
Personal life
Maxim has a reliable rear. His wife Albina and son Artem provide comprehensive support. The skier’s wife is a well-known Izhevsk journalist, works as a news editor on the “My Udmurtia” TV channel, and has repeatedly reported on the famous athlete. At first, the contacts were working - interviews and nothing more. The wedding of famous people, which took place in 2012, turned out to be an expensive and spectacular event.
Albina took her husband’s last name six months later, explaining that it was difficult for a journalist who had already earned a name for himself to sign with a different last name. The girl surprised her husband - by the end of the World Championship she became Vylegzhanina. Son Artem was born in June 2014. The athlete admits that for the sake of his son he started a page on "Instagram" to post his first photos there. In addition, fans constantly asked to publish something from training or competitions.
Maxim collects figurines of skiers, but his main passion, hobby and work at the same time remains ski racing. In the athlete’s homeland, Izhevsk, all-Russian roller ski competitions are held for the prizes of Maxim Vylegzhanin.
Maxim Vylegzhanin now
In the pre-Olympic season, the Udmurt skier was included in the Russian national team.
In November 2017, 11 months after the announcement of the disqualification, Maxim competed at international competitions included in the FIS schedule. In an emotional post on Instagram, the skier said that the competition turned out to be spontaneous, he did not think about the results, the main thing was to put on his number, go out on the ski slopes and again feel the spirit of competition.
Meanwhile, the Court of Arbitration for Sport considered the appeal of the Russian ski federation. The IOC decision to disqualify Vylegzhanin and 27 more of his colleagues, the medals were returned to the athletes.
Now the Federation and the athletes intend to take legal action to recover moral and material damage caused by the unfounded accusation of doping. In addition, previously suspended skiers are planned to participate in the World Cup and Continental Cup.
Awards and achievements
- Honored Master of Sports of Russia
- Knight of the Order of Honor
- 2009 - silver medalist at the World Championships
- 2011 - twice silver medalist at the World Championships
- 2013 - bronze medalist at the World Championships
- 2014 - three times silver medalist at the Olympic Games
- 2015 - world champion in skiathlon
“Prince Silver”, three-time Sochi Olympic medalist, world champion, all-around skier Maxim Vylegzhanin is 36 years old. And traditionally we remember how the birthday boy began his sports career.
Biography
Maxim Mikhailovich Vylegzhanin was born on October 18, 1982 in the Udmurt village of Sharkan in an ordinary working-class family. Father Mikhail worked in the ambulance, mother Rufima in the children's library. Maxim is not the only child in a large family - he also has a brother, Sasha, and a sister, Natasha. Maxim spent his childhood in a village environment - from childhood, like all village children, the boy was accustomed to hard work. The boy started skiing at the age of 9. Why skis? It’s just that in the village where Maxim lived there were no other sports sections. In the summer, like all the boys, he kicked a ball in the yard, and in the winter he did cross-country skiing. The boy also loved everything beautiful and therefore became addicted to photography. Already at the age of 10, Maxim became the first in the ski race, and how he won - he simply ran the required distance and went home. And only a few days later I found out that he had won.
Already in 2015, many years after his first ski race, Maxim Vylegzhanin will glorify his village by becoming a world champion.
After graduating from school, Maxim went to enter police school. And here sport played into Maxim’s hands, thanks to his success on the track, Maxim Vylegzhanin became a student at the Institute of Physical Education. Maxim was very reverent about a military career, but, fortunately, he chose sports.
In fact, Maxim’s sports career was not at all easy. At first, it even happened that in the summer Maxim successfully trained as part of the national team, and in the winter, when the main tournaments began, Maxim was quickly removed from the team. But the stubborn young man did not give up and continued to fight for his place in the sun. After a while, his work was appreciated and soon Maxim Vylegzhanin was included in the youth team, and later in the base.
Since 2005, Maxim Vylegzhanin began to confidently conquer all world tournaments. The efficient Maxim was in no hurry to immediately become a queen. Maxim finished his first World Cup only in 67th place in the standings, but soon began to pick up the pace. 4 years later, Maxim was already 8th in the World Cup.
But the Universiade 2007 turned out to be much more successful. Maxim Vylegzhanin went home with two trophies at once - gold and bronze.
The World Championships in 2009 and 2011 gave Maxim 3 silver trophies at once. In 2013, Maxim Vylegzhanin became a bronze medalist in the relay.
In 2015, Maxim Vylegzhanin became the best in the world championship and skiathlon. It was a real success!
But at the Olympics in Vancouver, Maxim was unable to take a podium place, finishing only 8th, but at the Olympics in Sochi he “resuscitated”. The entire podium was occupied by our athletes - Maxim Vylegzhanin took second place next to the race leader Alexander Legkov and bronze medalist Ilya Chernousov.
In the winter of 2016, Maxim became the bronze medalist of the Holmenkollen Marathon in the 50 km distance, and also took gold at the cup stage in Lahti. The skier also managed to compete in triathlon; in the same year, for example, he took silver at the amateur national triathlon championship.
Maxim Vylegzhanin ended the 2016 season with a brilliant victory at the international tournament in Finland, finishing first in the 10-kilometer race and classic sprint. Successful performances allowed Maxim to join the team for the World Cup. But then, unexpectedly for the entire sports community, anti-doping investigations began. Among the Russian athletes suspended from tournaments by the International Ski Federation was the name of Maxim Vylegzhanin. The appeals filed by Maxim were unsuccessful, and the athlete was forced to miss the international tournament in Lahti. After a while, the IOC completely disqualified the athlete for life, and also canceled all awards from the Sochi Olympics. But Maxim continued to fight injustice. In 2017, Maxim Vylegzhanin was nevertheless included in the national team. And almost a year after the announced disqualification, Maxim Vylegzhanin finally returned to the track. According to him, “the result was not important, after such a break, the main thing for me was just to put on the number and feel the spirit of the team.” Soon the appeal of the Russian athletes was considered and the IOC decision was overturned.
About personal
Maxim Vylegzhanin is not only a successful athlete, but also a happy family man. Spouses Maxim and Albina Vylegzhanin are raising their son Artem together. Albina, a journalist for the “My Udmurtia” TV channel, repeatedly made reports about the famous athlete, and that’s how the couple met. The wedding took place in 2012, and in the summer of 2014, the family’s first child, son Artem, was born.
Vylegzhanin Maxim Mikhailovich
International Master of Sports in cross-country skiing, world champion.
Born on October 18, 1982 in the village of Sharkan. Mother is a librarian, father is a law enforcement officer. His parents say that he has always been very hardworking and purposeful, and now he has a great ability to work. I became interested in skiing in the third grade. He was very lucky with his coach - at the Sharkan Sports School he met Oleg Perevozchikov, the current senior coach of the country's men's ski team.
Until 2003, he took part only in Russian competitions. He made his international debut at the World Cup in January 2005. Success did not come immediately, but persistent training brought results. In 2007, he became the winner of the World Universiade at a distance of 30 km freestyle, and a bronze medalist in the 15 km pursuit race.
In 2009, at the World Championships in Liberec (Czech Republic), he became a silver medalist, almost displacing the famous Norwegian Peter Northug, whose advantage was only seven-tenths of a second. He was a member of the team at the Vancouver Olympics (Canada, 2010. 8th place in the 50 km race - the best result among our skiers). Three-time Russian champion at distances of 30 and 50 km (2007, 2008). Three-time silver medalist at the 2014 Olympic Games - in the relay, team sprint and ski marathon. Three-time world vice-champion in individual races: in 2009 in the 50 km freestyle mass start, in 2011 in skiathlon (15 km classic and 15 km freestyle) and 50 km mass start. In 2015, Maxim won the skiathlon at the World Cup in Rybinsk (Russia) and won gold (his first!) in the skiathlon at the World Cup in Falun (Sweden).
Now Maxim is one of the strongest skiers in the world, successfully performing in both classical and free style. The “king” of skiing, Norwegian Peter Northug, admitted in one of his interviews that he considers Vylegzhanin his main competitor at the Olympics in Sochi. Trainers: Oleg Orestovich Perevozchikov, Yuri Viktorovich Borodavko.
He graduated from the Izhevsk branch of the Nizhny Novgorod Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation and the sports department of Udmurt State University. Awarded the Order of Honor (2014). Honored Master of Sports of Russia (2014). Works as a police inspector. He actively works to promote a healthy lifestyle and participates in charity projects on a volunteer basis. Married, has a son.
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MOSCOW, March 9 – RIA Novosti, Sergey Smyshlyaev. Three-time Olympic silver medalist in cross-country skiing Maxim Vylegzhanin ended his professional career with a podium finish at the “royal distance” - a 50-kilometer marathon at the World Cup in Oslo.
Russian skier Alexander Bolshunov won the 50-kilometer classic style race at the World Cup in Oslo on Saturday. Bolshunov finished first with a time of 2 hours 23 minutes 49.8 seconds. Vylegzhanin, for whom this was the last race of his career, became second with a delay of a second. Third place was taken by another representative of Russia Andrey Larkov (+1.6 seconds). The fourth was Russian Ilya Semikov (+2.0).
After the scandal with his suspension and then exclusion from the Olympic Games in Pyeongchang, Vylegzhanin decided to compete in the current season, stipulating in advance that this year would be his last as a professional skier. The athlete announced that he would end his career in Oslo at the World Championships in Seefeld after the 15 km classic style race. In that start, the 36-year-old skier became only 33rd.
“Max was undermined by the situation with the courts and scandals,” noted Elena Vyalbe, president of the Russian Ski Racing Federation (FLGR), at the time. “Maxim turned out to be internally strong, he was ready to run. He qualified for the World Championships absolutely honestly, without concessions. I respect him very much as an athlete. He is very competent, efficient, he is an example for many, many people. But a sports age, unfortunately, cannot last 20 years. To be a leader and then become an outsider is wrong. I respect his decision, but we will have contact. on another level."
Wishes from Vylegzhanin
Of course, both he himself and his coach Oleg Perevozchikov would like the Oslo marathon to end with Vylegzhanin’s victory, but, as the skier himself emphasized after the race, he showed the result for which he was ready.
“I would like to say that I would wish everyone to end their careers like this, with a World Cup medal,” Vylegzhanin said by phone. “I’m happy that I ended my career like this. No, there is no disappointment because of a missed victory, what I was ready for, I showed “Of course, I’m happy with my career, there are podiums and medals in all competitions.”
According to Vyalbe, for her Vylegzhanin will always remain one of the greatest skiers.
“Maxim has always been very hardworking, purposeful, and I’m sorry that the era where he and Sasha Legkov competed is passing away. But in sports it doesn’t happen otherwise. In general, this is a very significant moment - the 50-kilometer race in Norway, where he managed to climb to the podium “I wish Maxim good luck in his new life. For me, he will remain one of the greatest skiers,” she said.
Bold dot
Member of the FLGR Presidium Sergei Kryanin stated that Vylegzhanin confirmed his status as the strongest classicist in the world.
“Today Maxim Vylegzhanin put the finishing touches on and proved that he is the strongest classist in the world. This is great! I think Max is finishing the big sport in a good mood. You just have to be happy for Maxim, the main thing is that he is in the prizes today,” said Kryanin.
For the last couple of kilometers, Vylegzhanin was leading the race, but Bolshunov overtook him in the last meters. “We know that Sasha Bolshunov is stronger at the finish line,” noted Kryanin. “In sports, the strongest should always win. We don’t welcome letting (his colleague) pass ahead. What if a Norwegian sat behind Bolshunov? After fifty kilometers at the end of the race, it’s very tense It’s a struggle, in the last meters everyone gives their all.”
