Matija Kvasina

Matija Kvasina

Matija Kvasina (2013)
To person
Date of birth	4th December 1981
nation	Croatia
discipline	Street
To the team
Current team	Team Felbermayr Simplon Wels
function	driver
Last updated: June 24, 2017

Matija Kvasina (born December 4, 1981 in Nova Gradiška ) is a Croatian cyclist .

Career

Matija Kvasina won a stage of the Tour of Hungary in 2003 and then started with the Slovenian cycling team Perutnina Ptuj . In 2004 he became Croatian time trial champion . In the following year he won a stage of the Tour of Serbia and was able to win the overall ranking. In addition, this time he was road champion of his country. In the 2006 season he was able to celebrate only one day's success at the Tour of Cuba and later win the Croatian time trial championship for the second time.

In 2007 he won a stage of the Course de la Solidarité Olympique . In 2008 he won the overall ranking of the Tour of Serbia and competed in the Olympic road race in Beijing .

It was not until 2012 that he had his next important international victory in the Tour of Romania , where he clinched the overall victory. In addition, he won two stages of the Tour of Szeklerland in the same year . In 2014, Kvasina was the overall winner of the Rhône-Alpes Isère Tour . Between 2007 and 2017, Kvasina was national time trial champion seven times.

On July 4, 2017, he was expelled from the UCI and his Welser team for a doping offense based on a sample from the Flèche du Sud stage race in Luxembourg at the end of May .

successes

2004

• Croatian champion - individual time trial

2005

• Overall ranking Tour of Serbia
• Croatian champion - road race

2006

• Croatian champion - individual time trial

2007

• Belgrade-Čačak
• Croatian champion - individual time trial
• a stage of the Course de la Solidarité Olympique

2008

• Overall ranking Tour of Serbia
• Croatian champion - individual time trial

2010

• Croatian champion - individual time trial

2011

• Banja Luka-Belgrade II

2012

• Overall ranking and a stage tour of Romania
• two stages Tour of Szeklerland

2013

• Croatian champion - individual time trial
• one stage Okolo Jižních Čech

2014

• Overall ranking Rhône-Alpes Isère Tour

2015

• Croatian champion - individual time trial

2016

• Overall ranking Tour of Croatia
• Croatian champion - individual time trial

2017

• Mountain classification Rhône-Alpes Isère Tour
• Overall ranking Flèche du Sud
• Croatian champion - individual time trial

Teams

• 2004 Perutnina Ptuj
• 2005 Perutnina Ptuj
• 2006 Perutnina Ptuj
• 2007 Perutnina Ptuj
• 2008 Perutnina Ptuj
• 2009 Amica Chips Knob (until May 29th)
• 2009 Loborika (from May 30th)
• 2010 Zheroquadro Radenska
• 2011 Loborika Favorite Team
• 2012 Loborika Favorit Team (until May 31st)
• 2012 Tusnad Cycling Team (from June 1st)
• 2013 Gourmetfein Simplon
• 2014 Gourmetfein Simplon Wels
• 2015 Team Felbermayr Simplon Wels
• 2016 Synergy Baku Cycling Project
• 2017 Team Felbermayr Simplon Wels

Web links

Commons : Matija Kvasina  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Matija Kvasina in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Matija Kvasina in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Matija Kvasina in the ProCyclingStats.com database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Caught in a stage race in Luxembourg. orf.at, July 4, 2017, accessed on the same day.