Aleksandr Alekseyevich Petrovskiy (also ''Alexander Petrovskiy'', ; born 3 March 1989 in

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, Uzbek SSR) is a Russian professional track cyclist. He shared gold medals with

Evgeny Kovalev Evgeny Kovalev (born 6 March 1989 in Moscow) is a Russian professional cyclist, who last competed with the Russian Helicopters squad. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, he competed in the Men's team pursuit for the national team. His brother Ivan K ...

in men's

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at the 2007 UCI Track Cycling Junior World Championships in

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, Mexico, and later represented his nation Russia at the

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. During his sporting career, Petrovskiy also raced for the under-23 division of Pro Cycling. Petrovskiy qualified for the Russian squad in the men's team pursuit at the

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based on the nation's selection process from the UCI Track World Rankings. He delivered the Russian foursome of

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, Alexander Serov, and

Nikolay Trusov Nikolay Vasilievich Trusov (russian: Николай Васильевич Трусов; born 2 July 1985, in Leningrad) is a Russian professional racing cyclist, who last rode for UCI Continental team . Trusov has been a professional since 2004. ...

an eighth-place time of 4:06.518 in the prelims before his team was later relegated and overlapped to the Brits (led by Olympic time trial champion Bradley Wiggins) in the fourth match round.

Career highlights

;2007 :

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(Madison),

(MEX) : UCI Juniors Track World Championships (Team pursuit with

(MEX) : 2nd UCI European Junior Track Championships (Madison), Cottbus (GER) : 3rd UCI European Junior Track Championships (Team pursuit), Cottbus (GER) ;2008 : 2nd UCI European U23 Track Championships (Team pursuit),

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(POL) : 8th

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( Team pursuit with

, Alexander Serov, and

(CHN) ;2009 : 3rd Stage 1, Grand Prix du Portugal, Paredes (POR) : 3rd Stage 3, Udmurt Republic Stage Race, Udmurtia (RUS)

References

External links

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NBC 2008 Olympics profile
1989 births Living people Russian male cyclists Russian track cyclists Cyclists at the 2008 Summer Olympics Olympic cyclists for Russia Sportspeople from Tashkent 21st-century Russian people {{Russia-cycling-bio-stub