Nikita Kryukov
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Nikita Valeryevich Kryukov (Russian: Никита Валерьевич Крюков; born 30 May 1985) is a Russian former cross-country skier who competed internationally between 2006 and 2018. He was a sprint specialist who won an Olympic gold medal, three World Championship gold medals, six World cup gold medals (three stage races, three individual World Cups), all in the sprint events. He was arguably the fastest skier ever when it came to double-poling on the flat in sprints. He generally favoured classic skiing and classic sprints over freestyle, but as he showed in winning the team sprint in the 2013 World Championship, in Val di Fiemme, he was also very strong in the freestyle sprint.
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Country | Russia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Full name | Nikita Valeryevich Kryukov | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | (1985-05-30) 30 May 1985 (age 39) Dzerzhinsky, Moscow Oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ski club | Sdusor 81 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
World Cup career | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Seasons | 12 – (2007–2018) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Starts | 92 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Podiums | 14 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Wins | 5 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Overall titles | 0 – (21st in 2010) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Discipline titles | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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