Alexandr Kolobnev
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| Full name | Alexandr Viktorovich Kolobnev | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | May 4, 1981 Vyksa, Soviet Union |
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| Discipline | Road | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Rider type | Puncheur/All-rounder | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2002 2003–2004 2005–2006 2007–2009 2010–2011 |
Acqua e Sapone-Cantina Tollo Domina Vacanze Rabobank Team CSC Team Katusha |
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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 last rode on the UCI ProTour with Team Katusha,[2] and is provisionally suspended after testing positive for a drug masking agent.[3]
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[edit] Career
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.[4]
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,[5][6] and his results for that stage were annulled.[7] Despite his B sample also testing positive he only received a fine from the Russian cycling federation.[8]
[edit] Career highlights
- 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
- 3rd Stage 5 Tour de San Luis
- 4th Stage 2 Paris-Nice
- 4th Giro dell'Emilia
- 7th UCI Road World Championships
- 2011
- 2nd GP Miguel Indurain
- 5th Amstel Gold Race
[edit] References
- ^ velorama.ru
- ^ Alexandr Kolobnev signs for Team Katusha
- ^ "Tour de France – First rider fails dope test, sacked". Eurosport. Reuters (Yahoo!). 2011-07-11. Archived from the original on 2011-07-12. http://www.webcitation.org/607RocDP7. Retrieved 2011-07-12.
- ^ Kolobnev Still Waiting For Olympic Bronze | Cyclingnews.com
- ^ "Press release: Adverse Analytical Finding for Kolobnev". Union Cycliste Internationale. 2011-07-11. Archived from the original on 2011-07-12. http://www.webcitation.org/607TqzrHW. Retrieved 2011-07-12.
- ^ "Kolobnev Tour de France's first doping case". Cycling News (Bath, UK: Future Publishing Limited). 2011-07-11. Archived from the original on 2011-07-12. http://www.webcitation.org/607TfSxj5. Retrieved 2011-07-12.
- ^ "Sanctions, Period of Ineligibily, Disqualification". UCI. http://www.uci.ch/Modules/BUILTIN/getObject.asp?MenuId=MTU3Mjg&ObjTypeCode=FILE&type=FILE&id=NjY5MTE&LangId=1. Retrieved 11 January 2012.
- ^ "Kolobnev Not With Katusha In 2012". Cyclingnews.com. http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/kolobnev-not-with-katusha-in-2012. Retrieved 2011-12-20.
[edit] External links
- Team CSC profile
- Alexandr Kolobnev at Trap-Friis.dk
- Palmares on CyclingBase.com
