Maxim Alekseyevich Burov (; born 5 June 1998) is a Russian freestyle skier. A three-time World Champion, he won back-to-back titles in individual aerials, in 2019 and 2021, becoming the first Russian and the fourth male aerial skier to do that. He participated at two Winter Olympics and competed in the men's aerials by representing Olympic Athletes from Russia in 2018 and Russian Olympic Committee in 2022.
His elder brother, Ilya Burov, is a fellow freestyle aerials skier and has competed at the 2014 Winter Olympics, 2018 Winter Olympics and in the 2022 Winter Olympics. The brothers competed at the men's aerials freestyle skiing event in the 2018 Winter Olympics, with Ilya winning a bronze medal in the event while Maxim Burov finished in 15th position. Four years later they competed at the same event in the 2022 Winter Olympics, with Ilya winning a bronze medal again while Maxim finished in 16th position.
World Cup podiums
Individual podiums 14 wins 17 podiums Season Date Location Place2016–17 14 January 2017 Lake Placid, United States 3rd 4 March 2017 Moscow, Russia 3rd2017–18 12 January 2018 Deer Valley, United States 1st 20 January 2018 Lake Placid, United States 1st2018–19 19 January 2019 Lake Placid, United States 1st 23 February 2019 Minsk, Belarus 1st2019–20 22 December 2019 Shimao Lotus Mountain, China 2nd 23 February 2019 Deer Valley, United States 1st2020–21 4 December 2020 Ruka, Finland 1st 16 January 2021 Yaroslavl, Russia 1st 17 January 2021 Yaroslavl, Russia 1st 23 January 2021 Moscow, Russia 1st 30 January 2021 Minsk, Belarus 1st2021–22 2 December 2020 Ruka, Finland 1st 3 December 2021 Ruka, Finland 1st 10 December 2021 Ruka, Finland 1st 11 December 2021 Ruka, Finland 1st
Team podiums 3 wins 5 podiums Season Date Location Place Teammate(s)2016–17 18 December 2016 Beida Lake, China 1st Alexandra OrlovaLiubov Nikitina2017–18 17 December 2017 Beijing/Secret Garden, China 3rd Liubov NikitinaIlya Burov2019–20 22 December 2019 Shimao Lotus Mountain, China 1st Liubov NikitinaPavel Krotov2020–21 17 January 2021 Yaroslavl, Russia 1st Anastasia PrytkovaPavel Krotov2021–22 3 December 2021 Ruka, Finland 2nd Liubov NikitinaStanislav Nikitin
Season titles 3 titles Season Discipline 2018 Aerials 2021 2022
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