Valery Kaykov (born 7 May 1988) is a Russian former professional

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Track

In 2010 Kaykov won the individual pursuit at the U-23 European Track Championships. He was also part of the Russian team that won the team pursuit. At the

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Kaykov took bronze with the Russian team in the

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. Kaykov was on the Russian team that won the

at the

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. He also took silver with

Artur Ershov Artur Stanislavovich Ershov (russian: Артур Станиславович Ершов; born 7 March 1990) is a Russian professional racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Track Team Marathon–Tula. He rode at the 2015 UCI Track Cycling Wo ...

in the

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event.

Road

Kaykov joined pro continental team RusVelo in 2012. His best result of the season was in the time trail at Russian Championships where he came 3rd, only beaten by

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and Dimitry Sokolov.

Doping

Kaykov tested positive for the black market drug

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in an out-of-competition control on 17 March 2013, and was subsequently handed a two-year ban from sports. He was also sacked by RusVelo.European champion Valery Kaykov sacked for failing drug test
BBC, 11 April 2013

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* 1988 births Living people Doping cases in cycling Russian sportspeople in doping cases Russian male cyclists Place of birth missing (living people) Universiade medalists in cycling Universiade gold medalists for Russia Medalists at the 2011 Summer Universiade {{Russia-cycling-bio-stub