Biography
Artem Maltsev is a Russian skier, a master of sports of international class. Favorite athlete distance - 15 km skate. At competitions, the Nizhny Novgorod region and the Republic of Mordovia represented.Childhood and youth
Artem Igorevich Maltsev was born on May 24, 1993 in the city of Sarov (Nizhny Novgorod region), and his childhood spent in Nizhny Novgorod. Parents athlete are also skiers, masters of sports: Father Igor worked in the regional federation, and Svetlana's mother in the regional sports department. Great Herman Karachevsky - world champion among juniors, deputy of the local Duma.
Ski The boy first tried in 1.5 years, drove from the Dynamo slide on Schelkovsky farm and did not fall. The choice of profession at the boy as such was not. Since childhood, Artem traveled with his mother Svetlana for fees, looked at how people train, walked through the forest, collecting cones and mushrooms. Gradually began to delve into and when he was 6 years old, the mother advised to go to the coach Nikolay Sedov, a famous tough discipline. The classes went to the closed Sarov, for 200 km from the house, getting a skip every time. The first time it was hard to withstand the army regime, but the parents persuaded to suffer. The results did not make it wait.
Artem Maltsev graduated from the 135th secondary school of Nizhny Novgorod, entered the regional school of the Olympic reserve. The biography of an athlete includes studies at the South Ural University in Chelyabinsk at the "Physical Culture" department and the Dzerzhinsky branch of the Russian Academy of National Economy on the course "State and Municipal Management".
Ski race
At the professional level, Maltsev first started in Krasnogorsk at the Eastern European Cup in 2009, where he took 62nd place at a distance of 15 km freestyle. In Juniors, Artem was walked, although not brilliantly, but very good. At the World Cup in 2010, he became the 20th in Skiathlon. The following year, conquered silver at the European Festival in Czech Libece and won the Cup of Eastern Europe.In 2012, Maltsev again spoke at the World Junior Championships, having received silver in Skiathlon and Gold in the team relay 4x5 km. The following year repeated the achievements by adding an individual silver medal for the race 10 km to them. At the World Championships under the age of 23, he fell to the podium at the stage in Khakassia and completed the season in a tenth place in the overall standings. He continued performances on the international youth level in 2015 and 2016.
The World Cup debuted in 2017 and won bronze in the first race in Korean Phenchan. Got gold in the team sprint at the World War Games in Sochi. At the end of March 2018, Maltsev became the champion of Russia in a racing with a mass start by 50 km. At the Cup of Eastern Europe, he took second place at a distance of 15 km and third in the team sprint.
A breakthrough to the athlete came with the change of coach: Maltsev moved from Nikolai Sedov to German Marcus to the sprame. Preparation in the Sedov team was based on high-speed work. Kramer is the complete opposite, workouts are based on pulse zones.
In 2019, spoke at the World Championships in the Austrian Tyrol and took the 17th place in the sprint. At the World Cup 2018/2019, the athlete became 76th, while in the team competitions won the 3rd place in German Dresden and 1st place in Swedish Ulrisham (in the team with Evgenia Belov, Alexander Immortal and Denis Spintov, bypassing the first Russian national team in Chapter with Sergey Ustyugov). At the same time, the team of Maltsev got a miracle, because by the results he was not displayed there - the competition was so high in the Russian national team, world-class athletes had to run internal competitions to prove their level.
Personal life
Artem Maltsev's personal life was successful: He's husband and father. On May 5, 2017, His wife became Alena Schukin, the daughter of Nizhny Novgorod football player Alexander Schukin, who died in 2000 in a car accident. On August 11, 2017, Maltsev was born the son of Matvey, a year with a little he stood on skis and began to walk along the football field.
Family for Artem is above all and the coaches use: they are released home only if he enters the medal offset. In the instagram account athlete often you can see photos of happy parents and son.
Artem Maltsev now
Season 2020 for an athlete has become very successful. The Alpine Cup in Swiss Ulrichene brought the two victories to Artem - in the sprint and in the race by 15 km, despite the desperate rivalry from the local athlete Yarni Ribbles. At the World Cup 2019/2020, Maltsev entered the twenty of the strongest participants, and in the 2020/2021 season, it took 3rd place at the stage in Swiss Davos, where he went around in the "cut" only two other Russians - Alexander Bolunov and Andrei Melnichenko.Now Artem Maltsev returned to distance specialization after the unexpected role of the sprinter, in which he had to perform last seasons.
"In general, you need to be able to run everything - and sprints, and remote skiing races. It was just that it turned out that I was mostly put on sprints, because there were more free places, "the athlete explained.In March 2021, Artem took the 2nd place in the relay as part of the Russian national team at the World Championships in Oberstdorf. At the end of the same month at the Russian Championship in the individual ski race with a free style with a separate start, he won gold.
Achievements
- 2011 - Silver medalist of the European youthful festival in the sprint
- 2012 - Silver winner of the World Junior Championships in Skiathlon
- 2012 - World Junior Champion in the relay
- 2013 - Silver winner of the World Junior Championships in the race for 10 km
- 2013 - Silver winner of the World Junior Championships in Skiathlon
- 2013 - World Junior Champion in the relay
- 2017 - World War Military Champion in the team sprint
- 2017 - Bronze World Cup winner in team sprint
- 2019 - Bronze Word Cup winner in team sprint
- 2019 - World Cup winner in team sprint
- 2020 - Bronze medalist of the World Cup in the race 15 km