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Andrew Young (skier)

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Indiv. podiums
  
1

Weight
  
90 kg

Name
  
Andrew Young

Parents
  
Roy Young


Role
  
Cross-country skier

Total podiums
  
1

Height
  
1.94 m

Siblings
  
Sarah Young

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Born
  
12 February 1992 (
1992-02-12
)

Profiles

Andrew Young (born 12 February 1992) is a Scottish cross-country skier. He competed for Great Britain in the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, finishing in 74th place in the 15 km freestyle. In 2008 he became the youngest skier to compete in a World Cup event.

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At the 2010 Games, Young finished 14th in the team sprint and 60th in the individual sprint event. For the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2009, he finished 14th in the 4 x 10 km relay and 98th in the individual sprint event.

Young also competed in the 2014 Winter Olympics, where he finished 37th in the 15km classical competition.

Young took his first top 10 finish in the Cross-Country Skiing World Cup in December 2015, when he finished in ninth at a freestyle sprint competition in Davos, Switzerland. On 19 December 2015 he took Great Britain's first World Cup podium when he finished third in a sprint event in a 2015–16 FIS Cross-Country World Cup event in Toblach, Italy.

References

Andrew Young (skier) Wikipedia


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