Alexander Sergeevich Foliforov
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Full name | Alexander Sergeevich Foliforov |
Date of birth | March 8, 1992 |
nation | Russia |
discipline | Street |
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Current team | Gazprom-RusVelo |
function | driver |
Most important successes | |
a stage of the Giro d'Italia 2016 |
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Last updated: September 18, 2016 |
Alexander Sergejewitsch Foliforow ( Russian Алекса́ндр Серге́евич Фоли́форов , also transcribed Alexander Foliforov ; born March 8, 1992 in Kowrow ) is a Russian cyclist .
Career
Foliforow began his international career in 2012 with the Continental Team Itera-Katusha , for which he won the junior competition of the Tour of Serbia that year . In 2013 he won the fourth stage of the Grand Prix of Adygeya for Helicopters and thus his first race on the international calendar. At the U23 stage race Ronde de l'Isard 2014 , he again won two stages for Itera , won the points and the mountain classification and was sixth overall. For the Russian national team, he was fourth overall in the U23 Nations Cup Tour de l'Avenir in the same year .
In 2015 Foliforow switched to the Professional Continental Team RusVelo and achieved his first international tour victory at the Grand Prix of Sochi . With the Giro d'Italia 2016 he contested his first Grand Tour and achieved his greatest success to date. He surprisingly won the mountain time trial of the 15th stage ahead of Steven Kruijswijk , whom he beat by a split second.
successes
- 2012
- Young talent tour of Serbia
- 2013
- one stage Grand Prix of Adygeya
- 2014
- one stage Grand Prix of Adygeya
- two stages, points classification and Ronde de l'Isard mountain classification
- 2015
- Overall ranking and one stage Grand Prix of Sochi
- 2016
- a stage of the Giro d'Italia
- 2017
- Mountain classification Tour of the Alps
Teams
- 2012: Itera-Katusha
- 2013: Helicopters
- 2014: Itera-Katusha
- 2015: RusVelo
- 2016: Gazprom-RusVelo
- 2017: Gazprom-RusVelo
Individual evidence
- ↑ Foliforov: "Mountain time trial is my chocolate discipline". radsport-news.com, May 23, 2016, accessed on September 17, 2016 .
Web links
- Alexander Sergejewitsch Foliforow in the ProCyclingStats.com database
- Alexander Sergejewitsch Foliforow in the database of Radsportseiten.net
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SURNAME | Foliforov, Alexander Sergejewitsch |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Фолифоров, Александр Сергеевич (Russian); Foliforov, Alexander (English) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian cyclist |
DATE OF BIRTH | March 8, 1992 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Kovrov |