Career Petukhov also finished ninth in the sprint event at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2009 in Liberec.
Achievements His best World Cup finishes were two second places, both in sprint events in 2009, until December 2011, when he won a skate sprint in Davos, Switzerland. Petukhov won bronze with Nikolay Morilov in the Team Sprint at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.