Evgeny Ustyugov

In the pursuit event, Ustygov became 23rd, 3 minutes and 37 seconds behind Prokunin.

The third stage took place in Obertilliach, Austria, where he was 2nd at the individual event, making two misses.

The winner was Frenchman Jean Frederic, who was four seconds behind Ustyugov.

In sprint, he became 32nd with two misses, half a minute behind the Norwegian Kokon Andersen.

At the second sprint event, Ustyugov was 36th, producing four misses and being 2 minutes behind the winner, the German Daniel Graf.

In the second stage of the championships, in Torsby, Sweden, he also participated on all events.

In the sprint event he became 37th with two misses, 2 minutes behind the Russian Andrei Prokunin.

Evgeny Romanovich Ustyugov (Евгений Романович Устюгов; born 4 June 1985) is a Russian former biathlete.

Born to cross-country skiers, Ustyugov was introduced to biathlon at the age of three.

Evgeny Ustyugov was born in Krasnoyarsk, Soviet Union, on 4 June 1985, to an athletic family; his mother Olga Rudolfovna and father Roman Valeryevich were professional cross-country skier.

Ustygov and his brother Alexander began skiing at the age of three.

Ustyugov did not participate on club sports as they were too distant from home.

For a long time skiing, and also climbing and Alpine skiing were his hobbies.

In school he often participated on sport events.

He discovered biathlon in the 1997 event "Pionerskaya Pravda" (Пионерская Правда).

His family agreed upon Ustygov's wish to become a professional biathlete; his first coach was Viktor Ermakov.

He started his career in junior tournaments in 2005, before going professional three years later in the European Championships.

Ustyugov competed his first junior championship in Kontiolahti, Finland, in 2005, reaching 12th place in the individual and 42nd and 36th in the sprint and pursuit competitions, respectively.

At the Biathlon Youth World Championships in Presque Isle, Maine he was second in the relay, first in the individual and pursuit, and fourth in the sprint.

At the European Championships in Langdorf-Arbersee Ustyugov won the relay competition.

The first junior "Izhevsk Rifle" (Ижевская винтовка), a national individual tournament, took place in December 2007.

Ustyugov was second, with two misses and +0:39 time difference between himself and the winner, Andrey Dubasov.

At the first stage of the new season, Ustyugov participated in all events at the European Championships in Geilo, Norway.

In April 2008, Ustyogv was part of the Krasnoyarsk Krai relay composed of Nikolay Kozlov, Kiril Sherbakov and Oleg Milovanov.

They were awarded the silver medal at the 2008 Russian Championships.

In this season, Ustyugov only competed on two stages at the European Championships – at the second in Obertilliach, and at the third in Martell, Italia.

In Obertilliach, he was fourth in the individual competition, 1 minute and 48 seconds behind the winner Lars Berger, missing three targets.

He is an Olympic champion in the men's 15 km mass start event at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Prior to the 2010 Olympic Games, his best World Championship finish in an individual event was 20th place.

As a sprinter Ustyugov was 12th, missing one target and being 1 minute and 7 seconds ahead of the winner, Prokunin.

After the end of the 2013–14 World Cup, Ustyugov announced his retirement.

In sprint he became 13th, missing 3 targets.

First was the Norwegian Hans Martin Gjedrem, who was 1 minute and 31 seconds ahead Ustyugov.

In Martell he skipped the pursuit and only started in the sprint event.

He won the sprint competition, without making any misses.

Second was the Norwegian Frode Andresen, who was 16 and a half seconds behind the champion.

Ustyugov left out the pursuit competition as he was on the way to the "Izhevsk Rifle".

Together with Anton Shipulin, Alexey Volkov and Dmitry Malyshko he won the gold medal in the men's relay at the 2014 Winter Olympics, in Sochi, Russia.

In February 2020, it was announced that because of a doping violation he had been disqualified from all results in the 2013–14 season, including the 2014 Olympics.

In October 2020 it was revealed that due to new testing his Vancouver 2010 medal would also be revoked due to doping.