Vasily Alexandrovich Davidenko
Wassili Alexandrowitsch Dawidenko ( Russian Василий Александрович Давиденко , also Vassili Davidenko ; born March 17, 1970 in Tbilisi , Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic , Soviet Union ) is a former Soviet and later Russian racing cyclist and current team manager.
Career
Vasily Dawidenko won the silver medal in the junior road race at the road cycling world championship in 1988. In 1991 he won two stages of the International Peace Tour and became a stagiaire in the Spanish team Seur-Otero . In 1993 Dawidenko became a professional with the Italian cycling team Navigare-Blue Storm . In 1996 he moved to Roslotto-ZG Mobili and became the Russian road racing champion. In between he started at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta , where he finished 27th in the road race, and he won the first stage of the Tour of Poland . In 1998, Dawidenko became the Russian national champion in cyclocross .
In 1999, Vasily Dawidenko moved to Georgia, the USA, and was granted US citizenship. From 1999 to 2006 he rode for the US Navigators Cycling Team . There he was able to win the one-day CSC Invitational race, among other things .
In 2001, Davidenko was banned for two months for having been shown to be taking an anabolic steroid .
In 2007, Wassili became sports director in the Navigators Insurance team . Since 2008 he has headed the Type 1 team as team director .
Successes - road
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Successes - cyclocross
- 1998
Teams
- 1993-1995 Navigare Blue Storm
- 1996 Roslotto-ZG Mobili
- 1997 Kross-Montanari-Selle Italia
- 1999–2003 Navigators Cycling Team
- 2004–2006 Navigators Insurance
Remarks
- ↑ Navigators Cycling Team was the forerunner of the UCI Navigators Insurance team .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Museociclismo.it
- ↑ names.whitepages.com ( Memento of the original from December 14, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Ralf Meutgens : Doping im Radsport , Bielefeld 2007, p. 274. ISBN 978-3-7688-5245-6
- ^ Vassili Davidenko. Team Novo Nordisk, accessed December 14, 2013 .
Web links
- Vasily Alexandrowitsch Dawidenko in the database of Radsportseiten.net
- Wassili Alexandrowitsch Dawidenko in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
- Davidenko Coaching website
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SURNAME | Davidenko, Vasily Alexandrovich |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Давиденко, Василий Александрович (Russian); Davidenko, Vassili |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Soviet and Russian cyclocross and road cyclist |
DATE OF BIRTH | March 17, 1970 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Tbilisi , Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic |