Sinaida Stahurskaya

Zinaida Vladimirovna Stahurskaja ( Russian Зинаида Владимировна Стагурская * 9. February 1971 in Vitebsk , † 25 June 2009 ibid) was a Belarusian cyclist .

Sinaida Stahurskaja won the road race title at the UCI Road World Championships in 2000 in Plouay, France . In the same year she won the overall ranking of the Giro della Toscana ; In 2002 she finished second in this stage race as well as in the Giro d'Italia Feminile . Also in 2002 she was able to win the Grande Boucle Féminine . In addition, she recorded numerous stage victories in tours for herself.

Stahurskaya also took part in road races at the Olympic Games three times, in 1992 , 1996 and 2004 , but could not take any top places.

In 2005, Sinaida Stahurskaja tested positive for the doping substance stanozolol and was banned for two years. During a search of her home in Italy - she was married to an Italian - numerous prohibited drugs were found. In 2009 she was killed in a training accident in her homeland, Belarus, where she was staying for the national championships, when she was hit by a car.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Cyclingnews.com: "Stahurskaya gets two-year ban" accessed on April 14, 2010 (English)
2. ↑ kleinezeitung.at: "Ex-bike world champion Stahurskaja had a fatal accident" ( memento of November 11, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on April 14, 2010

Web links

• Sinaida Stahurskaja in the database of Radsportseiten.net
• Sinaida Stahurskaja in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )