Biography of Terentyev skier

Comments won the medal in the sprint. Alexander Terentyev - bronze medalist of the Olympic Games in Sprint. The debutant of the competition was lost only by Johannesu Clabo and Federico Pellegrino. For a summer skier, this is an incredible achievement, given that everyone learned about him only this season. When he won in a brilliant style in the same type of program with a classic at the stage of the World Cup in his hand, he even trembled Clabo with his famous run into the rise.

The Norwegian did not work out at the Olympics, but Terentyev still has everything ahead: a sprint is his element. Sport24 talks about the skier that is already becoming the star of the Russian national team, and very soon there will be a world celebrity. The start of his career Alexander Terentyev is from the northern city of Naryan-Mar. This is the land of fishermen, hunters, reindeer herders and skiing.

In the Terentyev family, everyone is somehow connected with skiing. Sasha’s grandfather and great -grandfather went on long distances. Father has a second category. So do not believe in the hereditary factor. So at three years the skis overtook Alexander. And a year later, he, along with his father, overcame serious distances. But all this was just for the sake of pleasure.

Parents did not even think that skis could develop into something more. But the second happened. In the third grade, he first took part in the competition and immediately took third place. There Andrei Rechkov noticed him. He invited Tatyana to study in the group of his wife and rushed. At first, Terentyev did not stand out. He was always only the third. And it seems to be quite satisfied.

And then he first won. The barrier broke down, and Sasha realized that the taste of victory is much cooler than third places. And no one else was inferior to anyone. The talented athlete got the steps of selection to the Junior Russian national team in December after the All -Russian skiing competitions among boys and girls of 17-18 years old, who served as selection.

The first success at international starts was bronze in a sprint of a free style in the XIII European youth of the Olympic Winter Festival in Turkey. A month later, Sasha won two gold medals at the Winter Spartakiad of Russia's students. There he also fulfilled the standard of the master of sports of Russia in skiing. There were selection ahead for the first world championship in Swiss Gomez.

He won two races in Tyumen at all -Russian competitions among juniors: a kilometer race with a separate start and a sprint of a free style. After that, he went to feel the serious soil. Not everything turned out. In the sprint qualification, he was the first, but in the final, only m. Luck smiled at the Naryanmartz in the relay. There, the quartet of Russians took third place.

Until the next attempt to get to the Junior World Cup, he took a couple of medals at the Continental Cup of Eastern Europe. And then he made a brilliant hat-trick in the same Tyumen a sprint, 10 kilometers with a separate start and a kilometer mass-old classic. Now Terentyeva was waiting for Finland. While everyone was resting after the tour de sk, the young and impudent chance got a chance.

In Sprint, Sasha showed the result, and in the relay race, together with his partner, he took 5th place. For the debut, not bad, given the specifics of the route. There you need to be tactically competent and flexible. Physics is the second business. In Lahti, the Russian forum went to the world forum an unconditional first number. And the bets on this world championship were already much higher than a year ago.

In addition to the medal by a bonus, for excellent performances, participation in the World Cup was part of the foundation. Sprint classical style is the most stable discipline of Terentyev. There, miracles began to go on in qualifications. He brought the Norwegian to Ansgar to Evenson for more than 6 seconds. For a sprint, this is an abyss. Even Clabo does not bring so much opponents.

The Russian one overcame the stage of the quarterfinals and semi-finals without any difficulties.

And in the final, the advantage of Sasha over Eversen and his compatriot Hokon Scabs was about 3 seconds. And in addition to gold in the sprint, Terentyev added silver on a kilometer and in the relay piggy bank to the piggy bank. The continuation of success was then the Universiade in Krasnoyarsk. There, the Russian also did not have worthy competitors. Sprint and team mixed sprint with Christina Matsokina, he won without problems.

After that, it became much more often to take it to the World Cup, despite the fact that Alexander did not show any outstanding results there. He went to another world championship in his age, won a sprint there, took silver in the relay, and then went to an adult forum. It was not possible to show off, but something changed in the offseason. At the start of the season in Terentyev’s hand, it was not to know what was Yuri Borodavko’s merit.

Then everyone was taken aback by his victory because he invented a new style of race uphill, which Clabo does not own. Chuyka did not let her down. Now Terentyev has a game medal, as well as a chance to add one more to the collection. The command sprint with Bolshunov run to him and only to him.