Ilnur Azatowitsch Sakarin

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Ilnur Zakarin Road cycling
Ilnur Sakarin at the Tour de France (2018)
Ilnur Sakarin at the Tour de France (2018)
To person
Full name Ilnur Azatowitsch Sakarin
Date of birth September 15, 1989
nation RussiaRussia Russia
discipline Street
Driver type Tour driver
To the team
Current team Katusha Alpecin
function driver
doping
2009-2011 Metandienone
Most important successes
Tour de France
2016 - 17th stage
Giro d'Italia
2015 - 11th stage
2019 - 13th stage
Last updated: May 24, 2019

Ilnur Asatowitsch Sakarin , English Ilnur Zakarin , ( Russian Ильнур Азатович Закарин ; born September 15, 1989 in Naberezhnye Chelny , Tatar ASSR , USSR ) is a Russian road cyclist of Tatar descent.

In 2007 Ilnur Sakarin became European champion in the junior class individual time trial . In 2009 he received - before his 20th birthday - a two-year ban for doping with Metandienone . He himself said in 2015: "I was young and stupid, it was a mistake."

In 2012 Sakarin drove for the Russian Continental Team Itera-Katusha . There he won the Grand Prix of Donetsk , two stages and the overall ranking at the Grand Prix of Adygeya and one stage each at the Giro Ciclistico d'Italia and the Tour Alsace . He then drove at the end of the year for the Katusha team as a stagiaire and from 2013 for RusVelo . In the 2013 season Sakarin won the individual time trials at the Grand Prix of Adygeya and the Russian championship. In 2015 he won his first WorldTour race - again for the Katusha team - with the overall ranking of the Tour de Romandie .

In the same year Sakarin achieved his greatest success to date when he won the 11th stage of the Giro d'Italia . Around 20 kilometers from the finish in Imola , he had broken away from a breakaway group and crossed the finish line with a lead of 53 seconds. In the overall standings, he finished 44th. In 2016 he celebrated further successes: He won a stage from Paris – Nice and the 17th stage of the Tour de France , which ended with a challenging mountain finish. He finished 25th on the tour. In the same year and the following year he was again the Russian champion in the individual time trial

Sakarin at the Giro d'Italia 2017

In 2017 Ilnur Sakarin had his breakthrough as an overall rider: he finished fifth at the Giro d'Italia and third at the Vuelta a España . The sporting director of Katusha, Dmitri Konyshev , commented on these achievements: “He also has what it takes to be a leader.” In 2018 Sakarin finished ninth in the Tour de France and twentieth in the general classification at the Vuelta a España . In 2019 he won the 13th stage of the Giro d'Italia . He pulled away from his last companion, Mikel Nieve , two kilometers before the finish line , and won by 35 seconds. With this stage win, he improved from twelfth to third place in the overall ranking.

successes

2007
  • European champion European Champion - Individual Time Trial (Juniors)
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
  • RUS Russian champion - individual time trial
2019

Grand Tour placements

Grand Tour 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
Maglia Rosa Giro d'Italia 44 DNF 5 - 10
Yellow jersey Tour de France - 25th - 9 51
Red jersey Vuelta a España - - 3 20th
Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout.

Web links

Commons : Ilnur Asatowitsch Sakarin  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Teams

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cycling4Fans - Doping: S. In: cycling4fans.de. Retrieved December 1, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Evans, Wiggins, Froome - Sakarin. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung > author = Benjamin Steffen. May 3, 2015, accessed December 1, 2017 .
  3. ↑ E. Tedesco: Ilnur Sakarin goes solo to a stage victory. In: 20min.ch. May 20, 2015, accessed December 1, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Tour de France: Sakarin wins first alpine stage. In: Spiegel Online . July 20, 2016, accessed December 1, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Tom Mustroph: Is Zakarin Ready for a Grand Tour Victory? In: radsport-news.com. September 9, 2017, accessed December 1, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Zakarin now has to make plans for the general classification. In: radsport-news.com. May 24, 2019, accessed May 24, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Sakarin, Ilnur Asatowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Закарин, Ильнур Азатович (Russian); Zakarin, Ilnur (English)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian road cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH September 15, 1989
PLACE OF BIRTH Naberezhnye Chelny , Tatar ASSR , USSR