Alexandr Kolobnev
 Kolobnev in 2011 |
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| Full name | Alexandr Viktorovich Kolobnev | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | May 4, 1981 Vyksa, Soviet Union |
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| Current team | Team Katusha | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Road | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Rider type | Puncheur/All-rounder | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2002 2003–2004 2005–2006 2007–2009 2010–2011 2012– |
Acqua e Sapone-Cantina Tollo Domina Vacanze Rabobank Team CSC Team Katusha Team Katusha |
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| Paris–Nice, 1 Stage Monte Paschi Eroica (2007) National Road Race Champion (2004, 2010) |
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Alexandr Viktorovich Kolobnev (Russian: Александр Викторович Колобнев[1]) (born May 4, 1981 in Vyksa, Russian SFSR) is a Russian professional road bicycle racer, who rides on the UCI World Tour with Team Katusha.[2] His major victories include winning the 2007 Monte Paschi Eroica, a stage of Paris–Nice and he is a two-time Russian National road Champion. In 2011, he was provisionally suspended after testing positive for a potential drug masking agent.[3][4] He was cleared of intentional doping by the Court of Arbitration for Sport in February 2012,[5] and returned to Team Katusha in March 2012.[2]
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Career [edit]
He spent his neo-pro year in 2002 with Acqua e Sapone-Cantina Tollo. His second season saw him sign with Domina Vacanze. There, he took his first victory in Stage 2 of the Settimana Ciclistica Coppi-Bartali. He stayed with Domina Vacanze through the 2004 season and signed with UCI ProTeam Rabobank. With Rabobank he managed to capture Stage 1 of the Vuelta a la Comunidad Valenciana in 2006. For the 2007 season he transferred to Team CSC, now known as Saxo Bank, capturing Stage 3 of Paris–Nice and second at the UCI Road World Championships.
Kolobnev finished fourth in the road race at the 2008 Olympic Games. Second-place finisher and silver medalist Davide Rebellin later tested positive for Continuous erythropoietin receptor activator, causing the IOC to strip him of his silver medal. Though the UCI considers Kolobnev promoted to third in the race's standings, he has not, as of January 2010, been awarded a bronze medal.[6]
He lives in Dénia, Spain, with his wife Daria and two sons, David and Alexander.
In the 2011 Tour de France he tested positive for the diuretic hydrochlorothiazide, a masking agent that can hide the presence of performance enhancing drugs. He was subsequently pulled from the tour by his team,[7][8] and his results for that stage were annulled.[9] Despite his B sample also testing positive he only received a fine from the Russian cycling federation.[10] However this was later appealed by the UCI to CAS, although he was subsequently cleared of any charges on February 29, 2012.[11] Kolobnev rejoined Team Katusha in March 2012.[2]
In 2012, the International Cycling Union initiated an investigation of Kolobnev and the Kazakh rider Alexandre Vinokourov over allegations brought by the Swiss news magazine L’lllustre and Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera. They accused Vinokourov of cutting a deal with Kolobnev in 2010 to aid him (Vinokourov) in winning Liege-Bastogne-Liege. They alleged 150 thousand euros exchanged hands. The UCI's investigation is still pending.[12]
Career highlights [edit]
- 2003
- 1st Stage 2 Settimana internazionale di Coppi e Bartali
- 2nd Giro dell'Emilia
- 2004
- 1st
National Road Race Champion - 1st Best Young Rider Settimana internazionale di Coppi e Bartali
- 10th Olympic Men's road race
- 2005
- 7th UCI Road World Championships – Men's Road Race
- 2006
- 1st Stage 1 Vuelta a la Comunidad Valenciana
- 2007
- 1st Monte Paschi Eroica
- 1st Stage 3 Paris–Nice
- 1st Stage 2 TTT Deutschland Tour
- 2nd
UCI Road World Championships – Men's Road Race - 2008
- 2nd Clásica de San Sebastián
- 3rd Giro dell'Emilia
- 3rd
Olympic Road Race - 2009
- 2nd UCI Road World Championships – Men's Road Race
- 2nd GP Miguel Indurain
- 3rd Giro di Lombardia
- 3rd Overall Tour de Wallonie
- 4th Overall Tour of Ireland
- 6th Amstel Gold Race
- 9th Liège–Bastogne–Liège
- 2010
- 1st National Road Race Champion
- 2nd Liège–Bastogne–Liège
- 3rd GP Miguel Indurain
- 4th Giro dell'Emilia
- 7th UCI Road World Championships
- 2011
- 2nd GP Miguel Indurain
- 5th Amstel Gold Race
- 2012
- 3rd Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal
- 4th Overall Tour de Pologne
- 2013
- 7th Strade Bianche
References [edit]
- ^ velorama.ru
- ^ a b c "Alexander Kolobnev joins Katusha Team". Team Katusha (Katusha Management SA). March 28, 2012. Retrieved March 28, 2012.
- ^ "Tour de France – First rider fails dope test, sacked". Eurosport (Yahoo!). Reuters. July 11, 2011. Archived from the original on July 12, 2011. Retrieved 2011-07-12.
- ^ Alexandr Kolobnev signs for Team Katusha
- ^ Nigel Wynn. "Alexandr Kolobnev cleared of doping by CAS | Latest News". Cycling Weekly.
- ^ Kolobnev Still Waiting For Olympic Bronze | Cyclingnews.com
- ^ "Press release: Adverse Analytical Finding for Kolobnev". Union Cycliste Internationale. July 11, 2011. Archived from the original on July 12, 2011. Retrieved 2011-07-12.
- ^ "Kolobnev Tour de France's first doping case". Cycling News (Bath, UK: Future Publishing Limited). July 11, 2011. Archived from the original on July 12, 2011. Retrieved 2011-07-12.
- ^ "Sanctions, Period of Ineligibily, Disqualification". UCI. Retrieved January 11, 2012.
- ^ "Kolobnev Not With Katusha In 2012". Cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 2011-12-20.
- ^ BBC Sport – Alexandr Kolobnev escapes doping ban but fined £1,040
- ^ "Vinokourov summoned to UCI regarding his Liege-Bastogne-Liege victory". Tengrinews.kz English. 6 November 2012. Retrieved 13 January 2013.
External links [edit]
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Alexandr Kolobnev |
- Alexandr Kolobnev at Trap-Friis.dk. Archive copy at the Wayback Machine (archived 24 May 2011)
- Palmares on CyclingBase.com
- 1981 births
- Living people
- People from Vyksa
- Russian cyclists
- Olympic cyclists of Russia
- Cyclists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Cyclists at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Cyclists at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Olympic bronze medalists for Russia
- Olympic medalists in cycling
- Doping cases in cycling
- Male cyclists
- Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics
