The Russian team for Tour de Ski 2021/22 is once again very competitive but one of the favourites is not included in the team.
Etusuora: 25.12.2021 10:30Cross country skiing
Photo: Teemu Moisio (Ruka Nordic -kuvapankki)
Sergey Ustjugov (nro 5).
The Russian men’s team is very strong and many skiers have potential to finish in the top six. Yet one of the biggest Tour favourites is absent as Sergey Ustiugov is not included in the Russian team. Ustiugov has decided to concentrate on the Beijing Winter Olympics where he wants to put the Olympic disappointmets behind him and win his first Olympic medals.
Ustiugov would have been one of the favourites on the Tour alongside Bolshunov and Johannes Hösflot Kläbo. Ustiugov has participated on the Tour four times and has finished in the top three every time. He won the Tour in 2016/17.
Team Russia for Tour de Ski 2021/22
Women | Men |
Natalia Nepryaeva | Alexander Bolshunov |
Taiana Sorina | Aleksei Chervotkin |
Yulia Stupak | Ivan Yakimushkin |
Anastasia Rygalina | Denis Spitsov |
Veronika Stepanova | Artem Maltsev |
Lilia Vasilieva | Alexander Terentev |
Yana Kirpichenko | Ilia Semikov |
Ekaterina Smirnova | Andrey Melnichenko |
Gleb Retivykh |
See also: Tour de Ski 2021/22 schedule, timetables and other teams
Source: flgr.ru