Background
Musgrave was born in Dorset, England, and has also lived in Shetland, Alaska, Aberdeenshire and Norway.
Musgrave was born in Dorset, England, and has also lived in Shetland, Alaska, Aberdeenshire and Norway.
At the 2010 Games in Vancouver, he finished 51st in the 15 km + 15 km double pursuit, 55th in the 15 km freestyle race, and 58th in the individual sprint event.
He has competed in the World Cup since 2008 and represented Great Britain at the 2009 World Championships and the 2010 and 2014 Winter Olympics. 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 2010-2011 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 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 2011-2012 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 2012-2013 Tour de Ski in Val Müstair.
He equalled this result on the 25km freestyle pursuit stage of the 2015 Tour de Ski in Toblach, setting the fastest time of the day.
Two years earlier he came in second on the 15 km freestyle in the Norwegian championships on 26 January 2012. 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 and 53rd in the 50km freestyle.
He is the younger brother of former cross-country skier Posy Musgrave.