Andrew Musgrave

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Andrew Musgrave
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Andrew Musgrave at the 2019 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Seefeld
CountryFlag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom
Born (1990-03-06) 6 March 1990 (age 34)
Poole, England
Ski clubHuntly Nordic SC / Røa IL
World Cup career
Seasons16 – (2009–present)
Starts248
Podiums4
Wins0
Overall titles0 – (12th in 2023 )
Discipline titles0
Updated on 7 January 2024.

Andrew "Andy" Musgrave (born 6 March 1990) is a British cross-country skier. He has competed in the World Cup since 2008 and represented Great Britain at the 2009 World Championships and the 2010, 2014, 2018, and 2022 Winter Olympics.

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Personal life and education

Musgrave was born in Dorset, England, to parents Frank and Hilary. Frank worked in the oil industry, and his family lived all over the world due to his employment: they left Dorset when Andrew was one year of age, and he has subsequently lived in Shetland, Alaska, Aberdeenshire and Norway. He originally started competing as an alpine skier after his family moved to Alaska when he was five years old; however, he subsequently switched to snowboarding and cross-country skiing. After moving to Aberdeenshire at the age of 11, he started to focus on cross-country skiing on a serious basis alongside friends Andrew Young and Callum Smith. [1]

He is the younger brother of former cross-country skier Posy Musgrave. [2] He also has another older sister, Heather, and an older brother, Ben. [1] He is a member of Oslo-based sports club Røa IL. [3]

Career

At the 2010 Games in Vancouver, Musgrave finished 51st in the 15 km + 15 km double pursuit, 55th in the 15 km freestyle race, and 58th in the individual sprint event. Musgrave's finishes at the 2009 world championships were 14th in the 4 x 10 km relay, 17th in the team sprint, 45th in the 15 km + 15 km double pursuit, 56th in the 15 km, and 65th in the sprint event.

His best World Cup finish in the 2010–11 season was 31st in a sprint event in Drammen in February 2011. He was only 5/100 behind the 30th place in the qualification race. At the Junior World Championships in Otepää in 2011, he finished 6th in the 15 km freestyle event; two years later, in Liberec, he came fourth in the same event, only 14.1 seconds behind the bronze medal winner.

At the 2011 World Championships of Oslo, the Freestyle sprint event, Musgrave qualified in 26th place for the heats. In the Men's 50 Kilometre Freestyle, on his 21st birthday, Musgrave finished 59th, with a time of 2:23:54.

Musgrave scored his first World Cup points in the 3.75 km prologue race of the 2011–12 Tour de Ski on 29 December 2011 in Oberhof, where he finished 28th. To date, his best World Cup result is 11th place in the freestyle sprint stage of the 2012–13 Tour de Ski in Val Müstair. He equalled this result on the 25 km freestyle pursuit stage of the 2015 Tour de Ski in Toblach, setting the fastest time of the day. [4] [5]

In the Norwegian championships freestyle sprint on 17 January 2014, Musgrave won. [6] Two years earlier he came in second on the 15 km freestyle in the Norwegian championships on 26 January 2012. Musgrave did not receive any medals due to his British citizenship. [6] [7] However, Musgrave did take a gold medal at the 2013 Norwegian championships, where he won the team sprint alongside club teammate Martin Johnsrud Sundby (teams at the Norwegian championships may include one foreign competitor). [8]

At the 2014 Winter Olympics, Musgrave qualified in 27th place in the individual sprint, the best-ever performance by a British cross-country skier, but failed to progress from his quarter-final. He then finished 44th in the 15km classical [9] and 53rd in the 50km freestyle. [10] After the Games, Musgrave backed up his victory in the freestyle sprint at the Norwegian championships earlier in the season to win the overall national title. [11]

At the 2017 World Championships in Lahti, Finland, Musgrave scored the best-ever result for a British Nordic skier when he finished fourth in the Men's 50 kilometre freestyle, following an 11th place in the 30 kilometre skiathlon and a 12th in the 15 kilometre classic earlier in the championships. [12] On 16 December 2017, in a 15 kilometre World Cup competition in Toblach, Italy, Musgrave finished in third place. [13]

At the 2018 Winter Olympics, he produced the best-ever finish by a British athlete in Olympic cross-country skiing by finishing seventh in the skiathlon. [14] He repeated that position in the same event at the 2019 World Championships in Seefeld.

Cross-country skiing results

All results are sourced from the International Ski Federation (FIS). [15]

Olympic Games

 Year  Age  15 km 
 individual 		 30 km 
 skiathlon 		 50 km 
 mass start 		 Sprint  4 × 10 km 
 relay 		 Team 
 sprint 
2010 19 55 51 — 58 — DNF
2014 23 44 — 53 29 — DNF
2018 27 28 7 37 — — 12
2022 31 46 17 12 [a] — — —

aDistance reduced to 30 km due to weather conditions.

World Championships

 Year  Age  15 km 
 individual 		 30 km 
 skiathlon 		 50 km 
 mass start 		 Sprint  4 × 10 km 
 relay 		 Team 
 sprint 
2009 18 56 45 — 65 14 17
2011 20 50 58 59 28 15 22
2013 22 28 38 41 — — —
2015 24 16 12 34 — — —
2017 26 12 11 4 — — —
2019 28 8 7 8 — — —
2021 30 10 7 7 — — —
2023 32 9 14 34 — — —

World Cup

Season standings

 Season  Age Discipline standingsSki Tour standings
OverallDistanceSprintNordic
Opening		Tour de
Ski		Ski Tour
2020		World Cup
Final		Ski Tour
Canada
2009 19NCNCNC———70—
2010 20NCNCNC—————
2011 21NCNCNC—————
2012 221479598—52———
2013 23829350—52———
2014 24655276—26———
2015 254438655019———
2016 264331671640——36
2017 272318432918—9—
2018 282214692815—29—
2019 292118731517—17—
2020 307049NC313245——
2021 312016606DNF———
2022 323015NC—29———
2023 3312881—19———
2024 3419890—DNF———

Individual podiums

  • 4 podiums – (3 WC, 1 SWC)
No.SeasonDateLocationRaceLevelPlace
1 2016–17 19 March 2017 Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Quebec City, Canada15 km Pursuit FStage World Cup2nd
2 2017–18 16 December 2017 Flag of Italy.svg Toblach, Italy15 km Individual FWorld Cup3rd
3 2022–23 10 December 2022 Flag of Norway.svg Beitostølen, Norway10 km Individual CWorld Cup3rd
4 2023–24 16 December 2023 Flag of Norway.svg Trondheim, Norway10 km + 10 km Skiathlon C/FWorld Cup2nd

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  2. ↑ Scott-Elliot, Robin (9 February 2014). "Winter Olympics 2014: Sochi calling for Clash quartet with Andrew Musgrave ready to take centre stage" . independent.co.uk . Archived from the original on 7 May 2022. Retrieved 25 February 2014.
  3. ↑ Haugli, Kurt (5 March 2017). "Her blir han Røa ILs beste mann på VM-femmila, og han heter ikke Sundby" [Here is Røa IL's best man at the World Championship 50 km, and his name is not Sundby]. aftenposten.no (in Norwegian). Retrieved 6 March 2017.
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