Andrew Musgrave

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 and 2018 Winter Olympics.

Andrew Musgrave
Andrew Musgrave at the 2019 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Seefeld
Country	United Kingdom
Born	(1990-03-06) 6 March 1990 Poole, England
Ski club	Huntly Nordic SC / Røa IL
World Cup career
Seasons	2009–
Individual wins	0
Indiv. podiums	2
Team podiums	0
Indiv. starts	167
Team starts	1
Overall titles	0 – (21st in 2019)
Discipline titles	0
Updated on 14 April 2019.

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 an 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.

Olympic results

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

World Championship results

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	—	—	—

World Cup results

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

World Cup standings

Season	Age	Season standings			Ski Tour standings
		Overall	Distance	Sprint	Nordic Opening	Tour de Ski	World Cup Final	Ski Tour Canada
2009	19	NC	NC	NC	N/A	DNP	70	N/A
2010	20	NC	NC	NC	N/A	DNP	DNP	N/A
2011	21	NC	NC	NC	DNP	DNP	DNP	N/A
2012	22	147	95	98	DNP	52	DNP	N/A
2013	23	82	93	50	DNP	52	DNP	N/A
2014	24	65	52	76	DNP	26	DNP	N/A
2015	25	44	38	65	50	19	N/A	N/A
2016	26	43	31	67	16	40	N/A	36
2017	27	23	18	43	29	18	9	N/A
2018	28	22	14	69	28	15	29	N/A
2019	29	21	18	73	15	17	17	N/A
2020	30	70	49	NC	31	32	N/A	N/A

Individual podiums

• 2 podiums – (1 WC, 1 SWC)

No.	Season	Date	Location	Race	Level	Place
1	2016–17	19 March 2017	Quebec City, Canada	15 km Pursuit F	Stage World Cup	2nd
2	2017–18	16 December 2017	Toblach, Italy	15 km Individual F	World Cup	3rd

References

1. Bell, Graham (18 December 2017). "Meet the skier who could put Great Britain on the cross-country podium at the Winter Olympics in February". telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 1 January 2018.
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. 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.
4. "Toblach (ITA): 25 km F Pursuit - Men - Stage World Cup". Federation Internationale de Ski. 8 January 2015. Retrieved 8 January 2015.
5. "Cross-Country Skiing - Musgrave makes history as fastest skier in Tour de Ski 25 km Freestyle Pursuit". Eurosport. 8 January 2015. Retrieved 8 January 2015.
6. Williams, Ollie (17 January 2014). "Sochi 2014 hopeful Andrew Musgrave stuns Norwegian rivals". BBC Sport. BBC. Retrieved 17 January 2014.
7. Ole Kristian Strøm and Jørgen B. Hoff (17 January 2014) Britisk sensasjonsseier i NM-sprinten VG. Retrieved 17 January 2014 (in Norwegian)
8. "Andrew Musgrave Wins Norwegian Championship Alongside Norwegian Club Team Mate Martin Johnsrud Sundby". British Ski & Snowboard. 8 April 2013. Archived from the original on 2 January 2014. Retrieved 15 April 2014.
9. Bangs, Ryan (23 February 2014). "Winter Olympics: Musgrave bids to end on a high". HeraldScotland. Retrieved 25 February 2014.
10. "Sochi 2014: Alexander Legkov wins 50km cross-country gold". bbc.co.uk. 23 February 2014. Retrieved 25 February 2014.
11. "Andrew Musgrave crowned Norwegian cross-country champion". bbc.co.uk. 3 April 2014. Retrieved 15 April 2014.
12. "Andrew Musgrave claims GB's best Nordic skiing result with fourth in 50 km". bbc.co.uk. 5 March 2017. Retrieved 5 March 2017.
13. "Cross Country World Cup: Britain's Andrew Musgrave wins bronze in Italy". BBC Sport. 16 December 2017. Retrieved 16 December 2017.
14. "Winter Olympics: GB's Andrew Musgrave finishes seventh in skiathlon". BBC Sport. 11 February 2018. Retrieved 12 February 2018.
15. "Athlete : MUSGRAVE Andrew". FIS-Ski. International Ski Federation. Retrieved 1 February 2018.

External links

• Andrew Musgrave at the International Ski Federation
• Andrew Musgrave at British Olympic Association
• Interview with Andrew Musgrave