Belugin, Maxim Eduardovich

Maxim Belugin was born on March 5, 1985 in the city of Krasnokamensk , Trans-Baikal Territory . He was fond of sports since childhood, was actively involved in athletics, in particular, performed in the shot put and even received the title of master of sports in this discipline. The first coach of the athlete was Igor Ivanovich Brazhnik ^[1] .

In 2007, he decided to try his hand at bobsleigh, was selected for the national team and joined her as a dispersal. Then, as part of a four-seater crew, Alexander Kasyanov made his debut in the European Cup, showing the fifteenth result on the German Königssee track. The following season for the first time participated in the World Cup races, at the stage in Winterberg in the two with the pilot Alexei Gorlachev closed the twenty strongest. In January 2009, he finished sixth at the Junior World Cup with a double, successfully performed at the stages of the European Cup - once stopped a step away from the prize positions, reaching the finish line with a fourth time.

In 2010, he became the champion of Russia among double crews, won three bronze medals at the stages of the European Cup and took fifth place in the youth world championship in St. Moritz, Switzerland. In the next season, together with Kasyanov, they took part in almost all stages of the World Cup, and usually they were in the top ten, and on the American Park City highway in the fours program they were fourth, not reaching the bronze position. At the 2011 World Championships in Königssee, Belugin was seventeenth in doubles, tenth in fours and sixth in mixed bobsleigh and skeleton competitions. A year later, the athlete defended the title of champion of Russia, overtaking even the recognized leaders of the national team Alexander Zubkov and Dmitry Trunenkov ^[2] , generally speaking at the same high level, at the stage in Canadian Whistler he won his first medal from the World Cup - silver. In February 2012, on the track of the American Lake Placid, he participated in the races of the world championship, finished sixteenth with a two and eleventh with a four.

On December 22, 2017, by a decision of the International Olympic Committee, for the violation of anti-doping rules, the results obtained at the 2014 Olympic Games in Sochi were canceled and suspended for life from participating in the Olympic Games ^[3] .

• Maxim Belugin - on the website of the Russian Federation of bobsled and skeleton
• Maxim Belugin (German) (English) - page on the FIBT website

• Maxim Belugin on the website of the Ministry of Defense of Russia