# Kristijan Đurasek

Kristijan Đurasek (born 26 July 1987) is a Croatian professional road bicycle racer, who most recently rode for UCI WorldTeam UAE Team Emirates. He has been competing since 2005, and has represented Croatia at two Summer Olympic Games, in 2012 and 2016.
In November 2019 he was banned for four years, backdated to May of that year, due to the Operation Aderlass investigation into blood doping.

## Professional career
### Perutnina Ptuj (2006–2008)

Đurasek started racing for Slovenian continental team Perutnina Ptuj in 2006, but his professional career only started in 2008. At the time he did not have much success in international races. He competed for Perutnina Ptuj for three years during which he won five medals at the Croatian road cycling championships.

### Loborika (2009–2011)

Đurasek signed a contract with Croatian continental team Loborika at the beginning of 2009. In 2011, he won his first UCI Europe Tour race at the GP Folignano. Two days later he repeated his success by winning the Trofeo Internazionale Bastianelli. During those years he won three more medals at the Croatian road cycling championships including both national titles at the 2011 championships.

### Adria Mobil (2012)

In 2012, Đurasek competed for continental team Adria Mobil. His most notable results were third place in the GP Industria & Artigianato di Larciano, seventh place in the Giro dell'Appennino and third place in the Passo della Bocchetta stage in the Giro di Padania. He competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics as a late replacement for Robert Kišerlovski, who was injured on the 14th stage of the Tour de France. He finished 68th in the road race, 40 seconds behind the race winner Alexander Vinokourov.

### Lampre–Mérida (2013–2019)

At the end of the 2012 season, Đurasek signed a contract with Lampre–Merida for the 2013 season. As a result, he became the third Croatian cyclist ever to ride for a UCI ProTeam. His first UCI World Tour race was Paris–Nice, where he finished 80th overall. His first victory was in the Tre Valli Varesine on 23 August 2013. At the end of the 2013 season Đurasek competed at the World Championships in men's road race, but he failed to complete the race. He finished 7th overall at the 2014 Tour of Turkey, 45 seconds behind the race winner Adam Yates.
In 2015, Đurasek awarded himself the leader's jersey of the Tour of Turkey on the sixth stage featuring a hilltop finish, taking the lead from Davide Rebellin. He went on to win the race in the general classification, scoring a historic result for Croatian cycling. In the Tour de Suisse, he won the second stage by attacking a leading group of eight other riders, putting four seconds into them. He was named in the start list for the 2015 Vuelta a España.
In 2016, Đurasek competed at his second Summer Olympics. At the Games held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Đurasek finished 18th, more than 3 minutes behind the race winner Greg Van Avermaet. As of 2016, 18th place is the best ever Croatian Olympic result across all cycling events. During that year he also took part at the Tour de France and Vuelta a España.
At the start of the 2017 season, Đurasek logged a stage win at the Tour of Croatia, where he outsprinted Vincenzo Nibali at the Biokovo mountain finish.

## Major results

Source:

### 2007

    2nd Time trial, National Road Championships

### 2008

    National Road Championships
       1st Under-23 time trial
       3rd Road race
    4th Overall Tour de Serbie

### 2009

    2nd Tour of Vojvodina II
    6th GP Capodarco
    7th Trofeo Internazionale Bastianelli
    10th Overall Tour de Serbie

### 2010

    2nd Trofeo Internazionale Bastianelli
    2nd Tour of Vojvodina II
    3rd Overall Oberösterreich Rundfahrt
    5th Overall Giro del Friuli-Venezia Giulia
    8th Trofeo Gianfranco Bianchin
    10th Banja Luka–Belgrade I

### 2011

    National Road Championships
       1st Road race
       1st Time trial
    1st GP Folignano
    1st Trofeo Internazionale Bastianelli
    3rd Overall Okolo Slovenska
    4th Memoriał Henryka Łasaka

### 2012

    National Road Championships
       2nd Road race
       2nd Time trial
    3rd GP Industria & Artigianato di Larciano
    4th Overall Istrian Spring Trophy
    7th Giro dell'Appennino
    8th Banja Luka–Belgrade II
    9th Overall Giro di Padania

### 2013

    1st Tre Valli Varesine

### 2014

    7th Overall Tour of Turkey
    7th Tre Valli Varesine

### 2015

    1st Overall Tour of Turkey
    1st Stage 2 Tour de Suisse

### 2017

    1st Stage 2 Tour of Croatia

### 2018

    9th Overall Tour of California

### Grand Tour general classification results timeline

| Grand Tour | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 |
| Giro d'Italia | 68 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Tour de France | — | 46 | 76 | 51 | 50 | 40 |
| Vuelta a España | — | — | 63 | 67 | — | — |
Legend :
| — | Did not compete |
| DNF | Did not finish |
| No. | Voided result |