Vladimir Nikolayevich Gusew

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Vladimir Gusev Road cycling
Vladimir Gusev at the 2011 Tour de France
Vladimir Gusev at the 2011 Tour de France
To person
Full name Vladimir Nikolayevich Gusew
Date of birth 4th July 1982
nation RussiaRussia Russia
discipline Street
To the team
Current team Katusha Alpecin
doping
2008 Dismissal from Astana due to abnormal values
(no proof of doping)
Team (s)
2004–2005
2006–2007
2008
2010–2014
2015 		CSC
Discovery Channel
Astana
Team Katusha
Skydive Dubai-Al Ahli Club
Most important successes

Russian time trial champion 2003, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2010
Saxony Tour 2006 Tour of
Belgium 2007

Last updated: December 4th, 2014

Vladimir Nikolajewitsch Gussew ( Russian Владимир Николаевич Гусев ; born July 4, 1982 in Gorki ) is a Russian cyclist .

Career

As an U23 driver, Vladimir Gussew won a stage at the Giro delle Regioni in 2003 , the GP Tell with four stages, as well as the Russian elite time trial championship. In 2004 he became a professional with the Danish team CSC . He celebrated his first professional success in 2005 with a stage win on the Mediterranean Tour . In 2004 and 2005 he finished second and third in the Chrono des Herbiers . He won the Russian time trial championship title for the second time in 2005.

In 2006 and 2007 Gusew rode for the US Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team . At Paris-Roubaix , he initially finished fourth, but was disqualified because he crossed a closed railway barrier together with Peter Van Petegem and his teammate Leif Hoste .

In 2008 he moved to Pro Team Astana , where he was fired in July 2008. Although no doping could be detected, he had irregular blood values ​​during internal team controls. Because of this, the Russian Federation did not let him start at the Olympic Games.

From May 2010 until the end of the 2014 season, Gusev drove for the Russian team Katyusha . There he was once again able to become the Russian time trial champion. In September he also took part in the Vuelta . There he finished 17th in the overall ranking.

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 .

successes

2003

2005

2006

2007

  • Overall ranking and a stage Tour of Belgium
  • a stage and mountain classification Tour de Suisse
  • RussiaRussia Russian champion - individual time trial

2008

  • RussiaRussia Russian champion - individual time trial
  • Overall ranking and a stage Tour of Sochi

2010

  • RussiaRussia Russian champion - individual time trial
2015

Placements in the Grand Tours

Grand Tour 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
Maglia Rosa Giro d'Italia - - - - 45 - - - - 65 60
Yellow jersey Tour de France - - - 38 - - - 23 DNF - -
Red jersey Vuelta a España 93 - 23 - - - 17th - - 62 -
Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout.

Teams

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Samuel Abt: Cycling: Swiss wins Paris-Roubaix. The New York Times, April 9, 2006, accessed January 26, 2014 .
  2. ↑ nzz.ch of July 25, 2008: Team Astana dismissed Gusew
  3. ↑ Gusev off Russia squad after drug test reuters.com August 5, 2008
  4. ^ Gazetta dello Sport: Systematic doping in Astana. radsport-news.com, December 10, 2014, accessed December 11, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Gusew, Vladimir Nikolayevich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Гусев, Владимир Николаевич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH 4th July 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH Gorky