Valentin Iglinski

Valentin Iglinski ( Russian Валентин Иглинский , born May 12, 1984 ) is a former Kazakh cyclist .

Career

Valentin Iglinski started his career in 2004 with the Kazakh Continental Team Capec . In his first year there, he won the prologue at the Tour of Greece in Greece and a stage at the Tour of Hainan . In the next few years he won the overall ranking of the Tour de Kumano in 2009 and the Tour of Hainan in 2010 and 2011.

In 2010 Iglinski received his first contract with a UCI ProTeam with the Kazakh team Astana , for which he played the Giro d'Italia 2010 and the Vuelta a España 2010 . While he did not finish the Tour of Italy, he was 153rd overall in the Tour of Spain. He did not deny any other grand tours .

In August 2014, Iglinski tested positive for the doping agent EPO . After admitting the offense, his team fired him with immediate effect in September and banned him from the Kazakh Cycling Federation for four years. Shortly thereafter, it was announced that his brother Maxim Iglinski also tested positive for EPO in August.

In the course of the doping investigation by the Public Prosecutor of Padua at the end of 2014, he was suspected of having been a customer of the controversial sports medicine specialist Michele Ferrari .