Eduard Vorganov

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Eduard Vorganov
Eduard Vorganov EB08.jpg
Vorganov at the 2008 Euskal Bizikleta
Personal information
Full nameEduard Vorganov
NicknameVorga
Born (1982-12-07) 7 December 1982 (age 40)
Voronezh, Soviet Union
Height1.77 m (5 ft 10 in)
Weight65 kg (143 lb)
Team information
DisciplineRoad
RoleRider
Professional teams
2004–2005Omnium Dinamo–Moscova
2006–2009 Fundación Ciclismo Galicia
2010–2016 Team Katusha [1]
2017–2019 Minsk Cycling Club
Major wins
National Road Race Championships (2012)

Eduard Vorganov (born 7 December 1982) is a Russian professional road bicycle racer, who last rode for UCI Continental team Minsk Cycling Club. In 2012, Vorganov won the Russian National Road Race Championships.

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On 5 February 2016, he was suspended for a positive test of meldonium in a drug test conducted on 14 January. [2] [3] His provisional suspension was lifted in May 2016, as evidence emerged that athletes who had taken meldonium before January 1, the date the ban started, could have tested positive after the fact. [4] In December 2016, Vorganov joined the Minsk Cycling Club team for the 2017 season. [3]

Major results

2004
1st Overall Circuit des Ardennes
1st Stage 4
1st Memorial Oleg Dyachenko
5th Overall Tour de Normandie
8th Overall Grand Prix de la Somme
8th Grand Prix de la Ville de Lillers
8th Tour de Vendée
9th Overall Circuit de Lorraine
2005
1st Overall Five Rings of Moscow
3rd Overall Okolo Slovenska
3rd Memorial Oleg Dyachenko
4th E.O.S. Tallinn GP
2006
3rd Mayor Cup
4th Five Rings of Moscow
4th Boucle de l'Artois
4th Memorial Oleg Dyachenko
6th Overall Course de Solidarność et des Champions Olympiques
10th Tro-Bro Léon
2007
2nd Clásica de Almería
2008
5th Overall GP CTT Correios de Portugal
10th Overall Vuelta a La Rioja
2010
7th Overall Tour Down Under
10th Trofeo Deià
10th Trofeo Magaluf-Palmanova
2011
2nd Road race, National Road Championships
2012
1st MaillotRusia.PNG Road race, National Road Championships
10th Overall Tour Down Under
10th GP Miguel Induráin
2015
1st Prologue (TTT) Tour of Austria
2017
2nd Overall Tour of Mersin
3rd Overall Tour of Ankara
4th Overall Tour d'Azerbaïdjan
9th Overall Tour of Bulgaria South
2018
1st Overall Tour of Mersin
1st Mountains classification
1st Stage 3
2nd Memoriał Henryka Łasaka
4th Overall Tour of Cartier
5th Overall Five Rings of Moscow
7th Overall Tour of Xingtai
8th Overall Tour of China I

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Grand Tour 200720082009201020112012201320142015
Jersey pink.svg Giro d'Italia 23 37 55
Jersey yellow.svg Tour de France 79 19 48
Jersey red.svg Vuelta a España 70 60 26 43 46 39
Legend
Did not compete
DNF Did not finish

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References

  1. "Team Katusha (KAT) – RUS". UCI World Tour . Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 2 January 2014. Retrieved 2 January 2014.
  2. "Katusha's Eduard Vorganov provisionally suspended by UCI for doping violation". Cyclingnews.com . Immediate Media Company. 5 February 2016. Retrieved 5 February 2016.
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  4. Axelgaard, Emil (2016-12-26). "Vorganov finds new team after being cleared of doping". CyclingQuotes. Retrieved 2018-05-11.

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