Sergey RIDZIK

ROC
Freestyle Skiing
25 Oct 1992
29
Male
MONCHEGORSK
 
Russian Federation
KHIMKI
 
Russian Federation

Events and Medals

Discipline Event Rank Medal
FRS Freestyle Skiing Men's Ski Cross 3 Bronze

Schedule

Start Time Location Event Status
Genting Snow Park P & X Stadium
Men's Ski Cross Seeding
Finished
After 1/8 Final 3 		Genting Snow Park P & X Stadium
Men's Ski Cross 1/8 Final 4
Finished
After Quarterfinal1 		Genting Snow Park P & X Stadium
Men's Ski Cross Quarterfinal 2
Finished
Genting Snow Park P & X Stadium
Men's Ski Cross Semifinal 1
Finished
After Small Final 		Genting Snow Park P & X Stadium
Men's Ski Cross Big Final
Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

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Historical Results

Olympic Games
RankEventYearLocation
3Men's Ski Cross2018PyeongChang, KOR
World Championship
RankEventYearLocation
15Ski Cross Men2015Kreischberg, AUT
32Ski Cross Men2021Idre Fjäll, SWE
36Ski Cross Men2019Park City, USA
World Cup Rankings
SeasonAllSki Cross
2021/202218
2020/202141
2019/202018543
2018/201919739
2017/2018275
2016/201717937
2015/201610125
2014/20153810
2013/201455
World Cup - Best Achievements
SeasonSki Cross MenSki Cross Team Mixed
2021/20221 x 1st1 x 3rd
2020/20211 x 7th
2019/20201 x 16th
2018/20191 x 11th
2017/20181 x 1st
2016/20171 x 6th
2015/20161 x 6th
2014/20152 x 2nd
2013/20141 x 27th
2012/20131 x 36th
Ten Best World Cup Performances in Current Season
RankEventSeasonLocation
1Ski Cross Men2021/2022Secret Garden, CHN
3Ski Cross Team Mixed2021/2022Arosa, SUI
10Ski Cross Men2021/2022Innichen, ITA
14Ski Cross Men2021/2022Idre Fjäll, SWE
17Ski Cross Men2021/2022Val Thorens, FRA
32Ski Cross Men2021/2022Idre Fjäll, SWE
35Ski Cross Men2021/2022Arosa, SUI
47Ski Cross Men2021/2022Val Thorens, FRA
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SereGa (olympedia.org)

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Athlete

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Russian State University of Physical Education, Sport, Youth, and Tourism (Moscow, RUS)

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Wife Nataliia Markova (married May 2019).

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Russian

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Stolitsa Alpine Skiing School

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National: Kireev Konstantin Nikolaevich (RUS)

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Alpine skiing: Competed at the 2011 National and 2008 Junior Championships.

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2013 World Cup in Sochi (Ski cross - 36th)

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May 2018: Meniscus rupture, underwent surgery in June same year. Recovery was about six months, missing the first half of 2019/20 season, including the preparatory period. Missed the 2017 World Championships in Sierra Nevada, Spain. Returned to training in May 2017. (Info 2018)

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2013

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At the age of seven, he began to engage in ski training in Monchegorsk under the guidance of coach Vladimir Shein. In 2011 he became the winner of the open championship of the Murmansk region in alpine skiing. In the same year, at the suggestion of the scouts of the Russian national team, he switched to freestyle. (tass.ru)

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He would like to repeat his PyeongChang 2018 result or be better at Beijing 2022. "I have already reached one step - I won an Olympic medal. My next goals are the World Cup medal at the end of the season and the World Championship medal. We must gradually move towards our goals, gradually achieving them, and not promise everyone mountains of gold." (sport.ria.ru, 27 Feb 2018)

Besides his ambitions in the sport, he is committed to developing his sport in his community through sports tourism. (prisp.ru, May 2019)

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In July 2019 the team trained on rollerblades at a pump track near Moscow: "We tightened up both technique and 'physics'. Such training is as close as possible to preparation on the ski-cross track. Working out such elements as waves, turns, counter-bends is an integral part of my discipline. But to be honest... I don't like to ride on roller skates." (teamrussia.pro, 2019)

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Bronze medal at the PyeongChang 2018 Olympic Winter Games.

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FIS World Cup Rookie of Year (2015)

General Interest

CELEBRATING HIS OLYMPIC MEDAL
“I'm exhausted now and I want to leave here as soon as possible to my room. And after the finish, I cried, to be honest. I cried because I achieved my goal, my dream. What I experienced on the track is beyond words. As you have seen, I left the gate in different ways: sometimes good, sometimes bad. I dedicate the medal to my mother, relatives, and the city of Monchegorsk. There is no time to stop, but I will drink champagne." (gazeta.ru, 26 Feb 2018)

MARRIAGE AND SPORTS CAREER COMBO
"It's harder to go to training, to go to training camps. It's more joyful to come home. I'm trying to get used to it, my wife supports me with all her heart and soul. Both in sports and in other endeavors. She knows, for example, how I experience losses and failures, understands everything." (teamrussia.pro, 2019).

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Milestones

Competed with an injury coming into the ski cross finals at the PyeongChang 2018 Olympic Winter Games, where he collided with Canadian Kevin Drury (whose ski came off), they both fell, but he got up and finished in third, winning the bronze medal, becoming the first Russian freestyle skier to win an Olympic medal in ski cross and their 12th of the Games. “The feeling is colossal from the whole situation that has developed around the Games, there has never been such an Olympics. I see that the medal hangs around my neck, but I still don’t believe that I am the third at the Olympics - the start of my whole life." (gazeta.ru, 26 Feb 2018)

Won his second-straight bronze medal in ski cross at the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games.

Competed at three World Championships (2015, 2019, 2021) and two Junior World Championships (seventh in 2012 and 2013).

Winning the 2017 World Cup in Montafon was his first career podium victory and just the second-ever ski cross World Cup victory for Russian Federation.

In 2015, he finished second in both World Cup races in Arosa.

Russian National ski cross champion in 2015, and two-time silver medallist (2015, 2021).
Legend
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Bronze
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Gold Medal Event
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