Ski club Sdusor 81 Individual wins 2 Name Nikita Kriukov Height 1.84 m Skis Skis Rossignol | Seasons 2006– Indiv. podiums 13 Role Cross-country skier Weight 74 kg Total podiums 13 | |
Full name Nikita Valeryevich Kriukov Similar People Alexander Panzhinskiy, Maxim Vylegzhanin, Teodor Peterson, Emil Jonsson, Petter Northug | ||
Cross country skiing nikita kriukov beat petter northug in kuusamo 2012
Nikita Valeryevich Kriukov (Russian: Никита Валерьевич Крюков; born 30 May 1985) is a Russian cross country skier who has competed since 2005. He is a sprint specialist who has won an Olympic Gold and Olympic silver, three World Championship gold medals, six World cup gold medals (three stage races, three individual World Cups), all in the sprint events. He is arguably the fastest skier ever when it comes to double-poling on the flat in sprints. He generally favors 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 is also very strong in the freestyle sprint.
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- Cross country skiing nikita kriukov beat petter northug in kuusamo 2012
- Men s sprint finale val di fiemme 2013 nikita kriukov vs petter northug
- Career highlights
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The highlights of his career were at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics where he beat his teammate from behind with a late closing sprint, in a photo finish that took minutes to determine. And at the 2013 World Championships where he won golds in both the individual classic sprint and the team freestyle sprint. A late fall by another team that impeded his closing 200 metres likely cost him a 2nd Olympic Gold in the Team Sprint in Sochi where he took silver.
He plans the 2018 Olympics to be his final major event appearance.