Andrij Vynokurow

Andrij Vynokurow

Andrij Wynokurow (2017)
To person
Date of birth	August 14, 1982
nation	Ukraine
discipline	Train (short term)
Most important successes
UEC European Rail Championships (U23) 2004 - Keirin 2001 - Keirin, Sprint
Last updated: November 15, 2019

Wynokurow in the sprint tournament of the European Track Championships 2017, left Vasilijus Lendel

Andrij Wynokurow , also Andrii or Andrij Vynokurov ( Ukrainian Андрій Винокуров ; born August 14, 1982 in Kharkiv , Ukrainian SSR , Soviet Union ) is a Ukrainian cyclist. He is the dominant athlete in his country in the short-term disciplines on the track in the 2010s.

Athletic career

In 2000 Andrij Wynokurow won two medals at the Junior World Track Championships: a silver one in the 1000 meter time trial and a bronze one in the sprint . In 2001 he won the title of U23 European Champion in Sprint and Keirin and in 2004 in Keirin. In 2005 and 2006 he won the Keirin competitions in the races of the Track Cycling World Cup in Moscow . In 2008 Wynokurow started at the Olympic Games in Beijing , but retired in the Keirin in the hope run after the first round.

In the following years Wynokurow could not build on his previous achievements. In 2015 he became three-time Ukrainian champion in sprint, 1000-meter time trial and team sprint . In 2016 he was runner-up in the European Keirin and finished third in the sprint. At the second run of the Track Cycling World Cup in Apeldoorn , he won the gold medal in the keirin and the silver medal in the sprint, after winning bronze in the keirin in the first run in Glasgow .

successes

2000

• Junior World Championship - 1000 meter time trial
• Junior World Championship - Sprint

2001

• European Championship (U23) - Sprint, Keirin

2004

• European Championship (U23) - Keirin

2005

• Track Cycling World Cup in Moscow - Keirin

2006

• Track Cycling World Cup in Moscow - Keirin

2008

• Ukrainian champion - sprint, keirin

2015

• Ukrainian champion - sprint, keirin, 1000 meter time trial, team sprint (with Andrij Kuzenko and Andrij Sach )

2016

• Track Cycling World Cup in Apeldoorn - Sprint
• European Championship - Keirin
• European Championship - Sprint
• Ukrainian champion - Keirin, team sprint (with Volodymyr Buchynysky and Andrij Kuzenko )

2017

• Track Cycling World Cup 2016/17 - Sprint overall ranking
• European Championship - Keirin
• Ukrainian champion - sprint, keirin, 1000 meter time trial, team sprint (with Volodymyr Buchynysky and Andrij Kuzenko )

2018

• Track Cycling World Cup 2017/18 - overall ranking Keirin
• Ukrainian champion - sprint, keirin, team sprint (with Oleksandr Moschenskiy and Sergii Bilyi )

Web links

Commons : Andrij Wynokurow  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Andrij Wynokurow in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Andrij Wynokurow in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )