Alexander Legkov

Alexander Gennadiyevich Legkov, born on 7 May 1983, is a retired Russian cross-country skier who competed internationally between 2002 and 2017. He took part in three Winter Olympic Games, in 2006, 2010 and 2014, and at Sochi in 2014 he won the gold medal in the 50 km freestyle and the silver medal in the 4 x 10 km relay. He has five individual World Cup victories, including the overall Tour de Ski title of 2012 and 2013, which he won ahead of Dario Cologna, Maxim Vylegzhanin and Petter Northug. In 2017 the International Olympic Committee disqualified him for doping offences and annulled his 2014 results, but in February 2018 the Court of Arbitration for Sport reinstated them, and the Swiss Federal Tribunal later rejected the appeal against that decision. He also served as a deputy of the Moscow Oblast Duma from 2016.