Aleksandr Legkov

His teammates gave Alexander Legkov the nickname "Cat", and the Norwegians called him "The Red Car". Speaking names were given to the athlete for a reason: the skier has a cat's plasticity and an amazing, "machine" ability to work.

Behind Legkov's back are dozens of sports victories, prestigious awards and merits. He is the vice-champion of the world in the relay-2007, the leader of the ski races of the Tour de Ski-2013, the bronze champion of the relay of the World Cup-2013. Alexander competed in the Olympic Games in Turin, Italy and Vancouver, Canada. / p>

In 2014, Legkov was awarded the title of Honored Master of Sports.

The future athlete was born in the spring of 1983 in the town of Krasnoarmeysk near Moscow in a family where they loved and respected sports. Dad - a former military man - was fond of football and ball hockey. In her youth, my mother won regional athletics competitions, and later became a physical education teacher. The elder brother Viktor Legkov chose his sport - biathlon.

The example of the elders for Sasha turned out to be contagious, but the boy was determined for a long time what he was more attracted to. As a child, he became interested in hockey and, under the guidance of coach Vyacheslav Smekhov, achieved success - he became a striker, and then a team captain.

At the age of 12, Alexander Legkov won the regional championship, but the teenager did not go to training in the capital: they required time and money associated with regular trips to Moscow. Sasha's hockey career was not developed.

Until the 9th grade, Alexander went to hockey training camps, which is why he "moved out" in academic performance. The guy stopped his studies for a short time, but he could not do it for a long time. On the advice of my father, I chose biathlon. Legkov's coach was Vladimir Zagulov, who taught the young biathlete the basics of shooting. Sasha made the coach happy with targeted shooting: hunting trips with his father and brother came in handy.

Ski coach Vladimir Krenev drew attention to a promising biathlete who easily overcomes obstacles on the track. He suggested that Sasha concentrate his strength on skiing. Legkov agreed. So began his sports biography and his ascent to Olympus, the first steps towards which the young man took in the capital's club "Slalomist".

In 2001, Alexander Legkov found himself in the junior team, among the wards of the experienced mentor Yuri Borodavko. Under his leadership, the skier polished his skills until 2010, until Wartko was suspended for 2 years from working with the national team due to a doping scandal.

For the 2010/2011 season, Legkov was prepared by the Swiss coach Reto Burgermeister. The skier trained in a group that was separated from the national team, under the supervision of a physiotherapist from Germany Isabel Knaute.

The 2012/2013 season for the athlete began in Sweden, in Gallivare, where the skier won the third step in the relay. Soon, in Finnish Kuusamo, Alexander was leading the 10 km freestyle race.

Legkov missed stages of the World Cup in Canada due to preparation for the Tour de Ski, a multi-day race that takes place in December-January and ends in the Italian valley of Val di Fiemme. At the stage of the Tour de Ski in Sochi, the skier took the third step, and on the track in Val di Fiemme he became the fourth in the 50 km marathon.

In the same year, Alexander Legkov won a victory in Oslo, having snatched the lead in the Royal Marathon, but was unable to hold on to his position: in the overall standings of the World Cup in Sweden he took 2nd place, losing to Petter Northug.

In the fall of 2014, Legkov opened a sports center in the Moscow region, in the town of Peresvet. It includes a sports complex, a ski track, a sports club for children and a hotel.

The finest hour for Alexander Legkov was the Winter Olympics in Sochi, where he won a gold medal at a 50-kilometer distance and a silver medal in the national team. But in December 2016, the athlete was temporarily suspended from the competition, on suspicion of taking steroids. And in November 2017, the IOC found the skier guilty after finding scratches on a doping test tube from 2014. The Olympic victories of the Russian skier were canceled.

Alexander Legkov admits that if it were not for sports, he would have become an artist. As a child, Sasha parodied stars, and as a teenager he participated in KVN.

Legkov, in addition to sports, has a second specialty, obtained at the Ugra University. In 2009, Alexander was awarded a diploma of an economist in construction enterprises.

The sportsman's favorite hobby is hunting, which he goes on with his father, brother and friends.

The heart of Alexander Legkov has not been free for a long time: in 2012, the athlete took the beautiful Tatyana Guseva down the aisle, who bore him an heir.

Disqualification and a life-long ban on playing games angered Legkov and his family. On his Instagram page, Alexander said that over the past 3-4 years he had been tested for doping one and a half hundred times, and the samples were clean. The skier considers the accusations of the IOC of using the "Rodchenkov cocktail" as absurd, because he was in Europe at the time when he was allegedly taking illegal drugs. There were no complaints about 19 doping tests passed abroad.

The 34-year-old skier asks the rhetorical question of why taking samples if the results are not counted and do not serve as proof of "purity" at such critical moments.

The leader of the Sochi marathon promised to prove his innocence in the European Court that he intends to defend his previous victories and his good name to the end. And he succeeded - the European Court completely dropped the charges against the skier.

2002 - 1st place in the 10 km race in the FIS Race category in Krasnogorsk (Russia) 2003 - 1st place in the 15 km race at the Continental Cup in Krasnogorsk 2006 - World Youth Champion U23 in 15 km + duathlon 15 km (Slovenia, Kranj) 2006 - Bronze medalist of the World Youth Championship U23 in the 15 km classic race (Slovenia, Kranj) 2007 - 1st place in the 15 km race at the Eastern European Cup in Krasnogorsk (Russia) 2007 - Silver medalist of the Tour de Ski (Cavalese, Italy) 2007 - 1st place in the 30 km race at the World Cup in Rybinsk (Russia) 2007 - Silver in the 4x10 km relay at the World Championships in Sapporo (Japan) 2008 - 1st place in the 15 km race in the FIS Race category in Muonio (Finland) 2009 - 1st place in the 15 km race at the World Cup in Lahti (Finland) 2010 - Olympic Games in Vancouver 2010,4th place in skiathlon 2013 - Winner of the Tour de Ski 2012/13 - Winner of the royal ski marathon 50 km at the 12th stage of the World Cup in Holmenkollen (Norway) 2012/2013 - Winner of the stage of the World Cup 2012/2013 in Kuusamo

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