Alexander Alexandrovich Efimkin

Alexander Alexandrovich Efimkin

Alexander Alexandrowitsch Jefimkin ( Russian Александр Александрович Ефимкин ; Latin transcription Alexander Efimkin; born December 2, 1981 in Kuibyshev ) is a former Russian cyclist .

Alexander Jefimkin started his career in 2005 with the Professional Continental Team Barloworld . For this team he won the Giro del Capo and Settimana Ciclistica Lombarda stage races in 2007 . He also competed for Barloworld with the Tour de France 2007, his first Grand Tour , which he finished in 99th place. As a member of the ProTeams Quick Step and Ag2r La Mondiale , he contested other major national tours, with his best result being 19th place at the 2010 Giro d'Italia . In his last two years as an active, he rode with Team Type 1-Sanofi in 2011 and 2012 and won the Presidential Cycling Tour of Turkey in 2011 .

After his career as a cyclist, Alexander Jefimkin u. a. active in the Professional Continental Team RusVelo as sports director .

Alexander's twin brother Vladimir was also a professional cyclist.

successes

2007

• Overall ranking and one stage Giro del Capo
• Overall ranking and one stage Settimana Ciclistica Lombarda

2011

• Overall ranking Presidential Cycling Tour of Turkey

Grand Tour placements

Grand Tour	2007	2008	2009	2010
Giro d'Italia	-	68	37	19th
Tour de France	99	-	-	-
Vuelta a España	-	-	DNF	-

Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout.

Teams

• 2005 Barloworld-Valsir
• 2006 Barloworld
• 2007 Barloworld
• 2008 Quick Step
• 2009 Ag2r La Mondiale
• 2010 Ag2r La Mondiale
• 2011 Team Type 1-Sanofi Aventis
• 2012 Team Type 1-Sanofi

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Rusvelo 2014. radsportseiten.net, accessed on February 28, 2015 . 

Web links

• Alexander Alexandrowitsch Efimkin in the database of Radsportseiten.net