Aleksandr Vlasov (cyclist)

Aleksandr Vlasov (cyclist)
Aleksandr Anatolyevich Vlasov (born 23 April 1996) is a Russian cyclist who rides for UCI WorldTeam .
Career
Astana (2020–21)
In October 2020, he was named in the startlists for the Giro d'Italia and the Vuelta a España, where he finished 11th overall. In 2021, he finished second in Paris–Nice, and finished just off the podium in the Giro d'Italia.
Bora–Hansgrohe
In August 2021, Vlasov was announced to be moving to the team, signing an initial three-year contract from 2022. Vlasov made his first start with the team at January's Challenge Mallorca, finishing third in the Trofeo Pollença – Port d'Andratx. In his first stage race with the team, the Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana, Vlasov won the third stage which finished on the . He assumed the overall race lead, which he held to the end of the race. He took four further top-five results over the next two months, placing fourth overall at the UAE Tour, second at the GP Miguel Induráin, third overall at the Tour of the Basque Country, and third at La Flèche Wallonne. Following this run of results, Vlasov next competed at the Tour de Romandie, where he was third overall going into the final stage, behind Rohan Dennis and Juan Ayuso. The final stage was a primarily uphill individual time trial between the World Cycling Centre in Aigle and the ski resort of Villars-sur-Ollon; Vlasov won the stage by more than half a minute from his next closest challenger Simon Geschke, and with Ayuso and Dennis each losing more than a minute, Vlasov also won the overall general classification.
In preparation for the Tour de France, Vlasov aimed for a 3rd stage race victory of 2022 in the Tour de Suisse, and won the 5th stage to Novazzano, taking the race lead before the first mountain stages. However, Vlasov along with several other riders had to abandon the race the next day after testing positive for Covid 19, hindering his Tour de France preparation.
He went into the 2022 Tour de France, his first Tour entry, with high GC aspirations, but ran into bad luck early in the race. Before the serious mountain stages even started his chances for a high finish took a severe hit. As the race progressed he moved back up in the standings. He made his final jump up to 5th place overall by riding considerably better than Quintana and Meintjes, who were ahead of him to start the day, in the individual time trial on stage 20.
Major results
2014
1st Overall GP Général Patton
1st Stage 2
6th Overall Trofeo Karlsberg
2015
3rd Coppa della Pace
2016
6th GP Capodarco
9th Giro del Medio Brenta
2017
4th Gran Premio di Poggiana
9th Overall Giro della Valle d'Aosta
9th Piccolo Giro di Lombardia
9th Trofeo Città di San Vendemiano
2018
1st Overall Giro Ciclistico d'Italia
2nd Overall Toscana-Terra di Ciclismo
1st Mountains classification
1st Stage 2
3rd Overall Sibiu Cycling Tour
4th Overall Tour de l'Avenir
6th Giro del Belvedere
2019 (2 pro wins)
1st Road race, National Road Championships
2nd Overall Tour of Almaty
3rd Overall Tour of Slovenia
1st Mountains classification
3rd Overall Vuelta a Asturias
4th Overall Giro di Sicilia
5th Overall Tour of Austria
1st Stage 6
8th Overall Vuelta a Andalucía
8th Overall Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali
9th Coppa Agostoni
10th Overall Tour of the Alps
2020 (3)
1st Giro dell'Emilia
1st Mont Ventoux Dénivelé Challenge
2nd Overall Tour de la Provence
1st Young rider classification
1st Stage 2
3rd Overall Route d'Occitanie
3rd Giro di Lombardia
4th Gran Piemonte
5th Overall Tirreno–Adriatico
1st Young rider classification
2021 (1)
1st Time trial, National Road Championships
2nd Overall Paris–Nice
1st Young rider classification
3rd Overall Tour of the Alps
4th Overall Giro d'Italia
6th Classic Sud-Ardèche
10th Overall Tour de la Provence
2022 (5)
1st Overall Tour de Romandie
1st Stage 5 (ITT)
1st Overall Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana
1st Stage 3
1st Stage 5 Tour de Suisse
2nd GP Miguel Induráin
3rd Overall Tour of the Basque Country
3rd La Flèche Wallonne
3rd Trofeo Pollença–Port d'Andratx
4th Overall UAE Tour
5th Overall Tour de France
5th Coppa Sabatini
2023
2nd Overall Vuelta a Burgos
3rd Clásica de San Sebastián
3rd Tre Valli Varesine
4th Giro di Lombardia
5th Overall Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana
6th Giro dell'Emilia
7th Overall Vuelta a España
9th Overall Tirreno–Adriatico
General classification results timeline
Classics results timeline
References
External links
1996 births
Living people
Russian male cyclists
Sportspeople from Vyborg
Olympic cyclists for Russia
Cyclists at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Tour de Suisse stage winners
Russian State University of Physical Education, Sport, Youth and Tourism, Department of Chess alumni