[1] He won the International Sports Prize World Athlete of the Year award in 2018.

[1][3] At the 2013 IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships held in La Molina, Spain, he broke his arm whilst finishing 5th in the slalom.

[1] Competing with his arm in plaster he won silver medals in the standing super combined and giant slalom events.

In his first event, the standing downhill, he won a silver medal behind Markus Salcher of Austria.

[5][6] Bugaev won his first Paralympic gold medal in his third event of the Games, the standing slalom.