Alexei Mikhailovich Markov

Alexei Markov
	Alexei Markow 2016
To person
Full name	Alexei Mikhailovich Markov
Date of birth	May 26, 1979
nation	Russia
discipline	Train / street
To the team
Current team	Gazprom-RusVelo
function	Sports director
Most important successes
	Olympic Summer Games 1996 - team pursuit 2000 - points race 2008 - two-man team driving UCI track world championships 1997 - Individual pursuit 1999 - team pursuit UEC European Rail Championships 2012 European Champion - Team Pursuit
Team (s) as sporting director
since 2012	RusVelo
	Last updated: November 13, 2015

Alexei Markow at the Euskal Bizikleta 2007

Alexei Michailowitsch Markow ( Russian Алексей Михайлович Марков ; Alexey / Alexei Markov ; born May 26, 1979 in Moscow ) is a former Russian cyclist . He started at five Olympic Games .

Career

Markow became a professional cyclist in 2001. He achieved his first successes in 2004 on the Normandy Tour for his team CCC-Polsat . In 2005 he then moved to the Spanish-Portuguese team Milaneza-Maia . There he won several stages in Portuguese stage races . Among other things, on the Algarve Tour and the Grande Prémio Correios de Portugal . In 2006 and 2007 he drove for the Spanish ProTeam Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears and in 2008 for the Russian team Katjuscha Continental Team .

Five times - 1996 , 2000 , 2004 , 2008 and 2012 - Markow started at the Olympic Games in various disciplines on the track and won a total of three medals. 1996 in Atlanta with the track four ( Eduard Gritsun , Nikolai Kuznetsov and Anton Schantyr ) silver in the team pursuit . In 2000 in Sydney he won the bronze medal in the points race and eight years later in Beijing also bronze together with Michail Ignatjew in the two-man team race .

From 2012 Markow drove for RusVelo . At the end of the 2012 season he ended his career as a professional cyclist. Since then he has worked as the sporting director for RusVelo.

Alexei Markov is the son of the 2012 deceased cyclist Mikhail Markov , who at the 1967 UCI Track Cycling World Championships behind Bruno Walrave vice-champion of the Amateur - stayer was.

Successes - road

1997

Junior World Championships - Individual Time Trial

1999

a stage Vuelta a Navarra

2000

three stages Cinturón a Mallorca

2002

two stages of the Grande Prémio Internacional de Torres Vedras
two stages Grande Prémio CTT Correios de Portugal

2004

two stages Tour de Normandie

2005

one stage Algarve tour
Overall standings and two stages of the Grande Prémio CTT Correios de Portugal
a stage Grande Prémio Internacional de Torres Vedras

2006

a stage Vuelta a La Rioja

2008

one stage Tour of Sochi

2010

one stage Tour of Hainan

2011

a stage of the Flèche du Sud
one stage tour of China

Successes - rail

1996

Olympic Games - Team Pursuit (with Eduard Gritsun , Nikolai Kuznetsov and Anton Schantyr )

1997

World Championships - Individual Pursuit

1999

World Championships - Team Pursuit (with Wladislaw Borissow , Eduard Gritsun , and Denis Smyslow )

2000

Olympic Games - points race

2004

European Champion - Omnium

2007

European Championships - two-man team driving (with Michail Ignatjew )

2011

World Championships - Team Pursuit with ( Iwan Kowaljow , Jewgeni Kowaljow and Alexander Serow )
RussiaRussian champion - team pursuit with Iwan Kowaljow , Evgeni Kowaljow and Alexander Serow
Russia Russian champion - Madison with Alexander Serow
World Cup Astana - Team Pursuit (with Iwan Kowaljow, Jewgeni Kowaljow and Alexander Serow)

2012

European Champion - Team Pursuit (with Artur Jerschow , Valeri Kaikow and Alexander Serow )

Teams

Web links

Alexei Markow in the database of Radsportseiten.net
Alexei Markow in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

^ Rusvelo (RVL) - a team from Russia. (No longer available online.) In: strassenradsport.com. April 1, 2013, archived from the original on November 17, 2015 ; accessed on November 13, 2015 .

personal data
SURNAME	Markov, Alexei Michailowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Марков, Алексей Михайлович (Russian); Markov, Alexey; Markov, Alexei (alternative spellings)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Russian cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH	May 26, 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH	Moscow

[1] Rusvelo (RVL) - a team from Russia. (No longer available online.) In: strassenradsport.com. April 1, 2013, archived from the original on November 17, 2015 ; accessed on November 13, 2015 .