Dmitri Fofonov

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Dmitri Fofonov Road cycling
Dmitri Fofonov at the 2007 Tour de France
Dmitri Fofonov at the 2007 Tour de France
To person
Date of birth 15th August 1976
nation KazakhstanKazakhstan Kazakhstan
discipline Train, road
To the team
Current team Astana
doping
2008 Heptaminol ( TdF )
Team (s)
1999
2000
2001–2005
2006–2008
2010–2012
Collstrop
Besson Chaussures
Cofidis
Crédit Agricole
Astana
Most important successes

Kazakh champion sprint 1998, 2000
a stage Dauphiné Libéré 2008

Team (s) as sporting director
2013- Astana
Last updated: December 13, 2015

Dmitri Fofonow (Kazakh-Cyrillic Дмитрий Фофонов ; born August 15, 1976 in Alma-Ata ) is a former Kazakh cyclist and later sports director .

Career

Dmitri Fofonow began his career in 1999 with the Belgian cycling team Collstrop. In 2000 he drove for Besson Chaussures and was Kazakh champion in sprinting on the track for the second time after 1998. In 2001 he moved to the French Équipe Cofidis .

In 2004 he took part in the Tour de France for the first time and made it to a third stage place, eleven seconds behind the winner Juan Miguel Mercado . From 2006 Fofonow drove for the French ProTeam Crédit Agricole . On July 27, 2008 it was announced that Fofonow had tested positive for the stimulant heptaminol after the 18th stage of the Tour de France 2008 . He was then suspended from his team and banned for three months.

In 2010 he was signed by Team Astana after being out of contract in 2009 but still getting good results. After the 2012 season, Fofonow ended his racing career. In the course of his sporting career, he won a total of twelve national titles on track and road.

He then became sporting director at Team Astana and replaced Giuseppe Martinelli as team manager at the end of the 2015 season .

successes

1998
  • KazakhstanKazakhstan Kazakh champion - sprint
2000
  • KazakhstanKazakhstan Kazakh champion - sprint
2008
2009

Grand Tour overall ranking

Grand Tour 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
Maglia Rosa Giro d'Italia - - - - 89 - - - - - - -
Yellow jersey Tour de France - - - 87 - - 26th 19th - - 106 63
Red jersey Vuelta a España 57 - - - - 32 - - - 57 - -

Teams

Individual evidence

  1. Fourth case: Fofonov tested positive for doping. In: Spiegel.de. July 27, 2008, accessed July 23, 2015 .
  2. Cycling doping cases 2007 on cycling4fans.de
  3. ^ Martinelli to leave post as general manager in Astana. cyclingnews.com, December 13, 2015, accessed December 13, 2015 .

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