Alexandru Pliuşchin
Alexandru Pliușchin ( Cyrillic Александр Плюшкин ; born January 13, 1987 in Chișinău ) is a former Moldovan cyclist .
Career
Juniors
Alexandru Pliuşchin won the bronze medal in scratch at the 2004 junior track cycling championships in Los Angeles and was thus able to attract international attention at a young age. In 2005, when he was able to become European champion in the single pursuit on the track, he achieved his first important successes on the road, where he competed for the Swiss team GS Schumacher: Among other things, he came second in the overall ranking of the Giro di stage race Toscana (juniors), won the one-day races Classique des Alpes (juniors) and Giro del Mendrisiotto (juniors) and secured the silver medal in the individual time trial at the junior road cycling world championship in Salzburg .
U23
During his first season in the U23 age group in 2006, Pliuşchin won the Upper Fricktal Grand Prix and also came second in the overall ranking of the Alsace Tour . Then in 2007, when he drove for ag2r Chambéry, the cadre forge of what would later become his first professional team, Pliuşchin made the breakthrough, as he first won the U23 edition of the Tour of Flanders in a convincing manner and then won the bronze medal in the road race and the gold medal in the One pursuit on the track at the B World Championship in Cape Town secured.
Elite rider
In the 2008 season, Pliuşchin became a professional with the French team ag2r-La Mondiale . In his first year with this team, he was able to become Moldovan road racing champion. He repeated this success in 2010 and 2011 in the jersey of the Katusha team . In 2012 he switched to the Leopard-Trek Continental Team and won his country's road championship one more time. In 2014 he won the Sharjah Tour in Dubai for the Skydive Dubai Pro Cycling Team . After it became known that a "non-negative" doping test for Salbutamol was present at this stage race , the Synergy Baku Cycling Project , which had signed him for the 2015 season , suspended him . He was banned until September 1, 2015. After his suspension, he took part in the European Road Championships and finished 32nd in the individual time trial . He did not start in the subsequent road race . After that, no more international results are available.
successes
- 2004
- 2005
- European Champion - Single Pursuit (Juniors)
- Classique des Alpes (Juniors)
- Giro del Mendrisiotto (Juniors)
- 2007
- UIV Cup Stuttgart (U23)
- Tour of Flanders (U23)
- B World Champion - Individual Pursuit
- one stage Grand Prix Tell (U23)
- 2008
- 2010
- Moldovan champion - road race
- Duo Normand (with Artyom Owetschkin )
- 2011
- 2012
- 2014
- Melaka Chief Minister's Cup
- Overall standings and two stages Sharjah Tour
Teams
- 2008-2009 Ag2r
- 2010–2011 Katusha team
- 2012 Leopard-Trek Continental Team
- 2013 IAM Cycling
- 2014 Skydive Dubai Pro Cycling Team
- 2015 Synergy Baku Cycling Project
Individual evidence
- ↑ Synergy Baku temporarily suspends Alexandr Pliuschin. rad-net.de, February 26, 2015, accessed on March 1, 2015 .
Web links
- Alexandru Pliușchin in the ProCyclingStats.com database
- Alexandru Pliușchin in the Radsportseiten.net database
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Pliuşchin, Alexandru |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Плюшкин, Александр |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Moldovan cyclist |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 13, 1987 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Chișinău , Republic of Moldova |