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Internationally, Ovechkin has participated in several competitions on behalf of Russia. His first IIHF tournament was the 2002 World U18 Championship. The following year he made a debut at the World Junior Championship to help Russia win the gold medal. He played for two years at the world youth team and again joined the world U18 championship. Ovechkin 's first high - level event was the 2004 World Championship, and he also participated in that year' s World Cup. Ovechkin also played in Russia at the 2006, 2010 and 2014 Winter Olympics. Overall, Ovechkin won the world championship three times in 11 career championships and 3 Olympics in his career, representing Russia.
Ovechkin participated in the 2014 IIHF World Championship, and Russia won the gold medal. After the game, he asked Vladimir Putin to reward the Russian hockey team based on equality with the 2014 Olympic champion. The World Championship was considered not to be important compared to the Olympic gold medal, and Russia was criticized as it failed to win with Sochi at the beginning of that year. He also joined the Russian team at the IIHF World Championship in 2015 and the Russian team won the silver medal. Ovechkin is a 2K Sports Hockey Analog Video Game NHL 2K10 Cover Player and is an EA Sports NHL 07 Cover Player. On 11th June 2008 Ovechkin began his own CCM designer street wear collection. On July 6, 2009, Ovechkin was appointed ambassador of the 2014 Winter Olympic Games held in Sochi, Russia. At the end of 2009, he was chosen as the 48th powerful figure of GQ in Washington, DC.