Kristijan Đurasek
Đurasek at the Tour de France 2014 | |
To person | |
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Date of birth | 26th July 1987 (age 33) |
nation | Italy |
discipline | Street |
End of career | 2019 |
doping | |
2019-2023 | Blood doping |
Most important successes | |
Overall ranking Tour of Turkey 2015 |
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Last updated: November 13, 2019 |
Kristijan Đurasek (born July 26, 1987 in Varaždin ) is a former Croatian cyclist .
Career
Đurasek started his international career in 2006 with the Slovenian Continental Team Perutnina Ptuj . By 2018 he was Croatian adult champion seven times: three times in the U23 road race , once in the U23 individual time trial , twice in the elite road race and once in the elite time trial.
In 2013 he drove for the first time in a ProTeam , the Italian team Lampre-Merida : This year, after an attack on the final climb of the Lombard semi-classic Tre Valli Varesine, he achieved his greatest success to date. His first international stage race with the Tour of Turkey . He defended his lead on the last stage despite stomach problems and a slight fever. In the same year he won a stage of the Tour de Suisse , and in 2018 a stage of the Tour of Croatia .
In 2016 Kristijan Đurasek started the road race at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro and finished 18th after finishing 68th at the Games in London four years earlier.
As part of the investigation of the "Operation Aderlass" around the German sports doctor Mark Schmidt , Đurasek came under suspicion in May 2019 of having violated the anti-doping regulations, in particular through blood doping . It was therefore banned for four years by the UCI World Cycling Association in November 2019 . Violations were found in the period from 2016 to 2019.
successes
2007
2008
2009
2011
- Croatian champion - individual time trial
- Croatian champion - road race
- Gran Premio Folignano
- Trofeo Internazionale Bastianelli
2013
2015
- Overall ranking Tour of Turkey
- one stage Tour de Suisse
2017
one stage tour of Croatia
Grand Tour placements
Grand Tour | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 |
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Giro d'Italia | 67 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Tour de France | - | 46 | 76 | 51 | 50 | 40 | - |
Vuelta a España | - | - | 63 | 67 | - | - | - |
Teams
- 2006 Perutnina Ptuj
- 2007 Perutnina Ptuj
- 2008 Perutnina Ptuj
- 2009 Loborika (from May 1st)
- 2010 Loborika
- 2011 Loborika Favorite Team
- 2012 Adria Mobil
- 2013 Lampre-Merida
- 2014 Lampre-Merida
- 2015 Lampre-Merida
- 2016 Lampre-Merida
- 2017 UAE Team Emirates
- 2018 UAE Team Emirates
- 2019 UAE Team Emirates
Web links
- Kristijan Đurasek in the Radsportseiten.net database
- Kristijan Đurasek in the ProCyclingStats.com database
- Kristijan Đurasek in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Durasek shows his talent at Tre Valli Varesine. In: radsport-news.com. August 23, 2013, accessed November 13, 2019 .
- ↑ A dog throws the rebel out of the running, Durasek holds on. In: radsport-news.com. May 3, 2015, accessed November 13, 2019 .
- ↑ New suspects in the doping scandal. In: laola1.at. May 15, 2019, accessed November 13, 2019 .
- ^ Operation bloodletting: UCI bans Durasek for four years. In: radsport-news.com. November 13, 2019, accessed November 13, 2019 .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Đurasek, Kristijan |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Croatian cyclist |
DATE OF BIRTH | July 26, 1987 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Varaždin |