Kristijan Đurasek (born 26 July 1987) is a

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n professional road bicycle racer, who is currently suspended from the sport. He has been competing since 2005, and has represented Croatia at two Summer Olympic Games, in

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and

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. In November 2019 he was banned for four years due to the Operation Aderlass investigation into blood doping.

Professional career

Perutnina Ptuj (2006–2008)

Đurasek started racing for Slovenian continental team 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 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 at the beginning of 2009. In 2011, he won his first

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race at the GP Folignano. Two days later he repeated his success by winning the

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. 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 . His most notable results were third place in the

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, seventh place in the

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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

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. 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 for the 2013 season. As a result, he became the third Croatian cyclist ever to ride for a

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. His first

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race was Paris–Nice, where he finished 80th overall. His first victory was in the

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on 23 August 2013. At the end of the 2013 season Đurasek competed at the

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in men's road race, but he failed to complete the race. He finished 7th overall at the

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, 45 seconds behind the race winner Adam Yates. In 2015, Đurasek awarded himself the leader's jersey of the

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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

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, 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

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. In 2016, Đurasek competed at his second Summer Olympics. At the Games held in

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, Đurasek finished 18th, more than 3 minutes behind the race winner

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. 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

and

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. At the start of the 2017 season, Đurasek logged a stage win at the

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, where he outsprinted

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at the

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mountain finish.

Major results

;2007 : 2nd

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, National Road Championships ;2008 : National Road Championships ::1st MaillotCroacia

Under-23 time trial ::3rd Road race : 4th Overall

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;2009 : 2nd Tour of Vojvodina II : 6th GP Capodarco : 7th

: 10th Overall

;2010 : 2nd

: 2nd Tour of Vojvodina II : 3rd Overall

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: 5th Overall

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: 8th

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: 10th Banja Luka–Belgrade I ;2011 : National Road Championships ::1st MaillotCroacia

Road race ::1st MaillotCroacia

: 1st GP Folignano : 1st

: 3rd Overall Okolo Slovenska : 4th Memoriał Henryka Łasaka ;2012 : National Road Championships ::2nd Road race ::2nd

: 3rd

: 4th Overall

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: 7th

: 8th Banja Luka–Belgrade II : 9th Overall Giro di Padania ;2013 : 1st

;2014 : 7th Overall

: 7th

;2015 : 1st MaillotCyan

Overall

: 1st Stage 2

;~~2017~~ :1st Stage 2
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;~~2018~~ :9th Overall
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Grand Tour general classification results timeline

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Durasek, Kristijan Croatian male cyclists 1987 births Living people Sportspeople from Varaždin Cyclists at the 2012 Summer Olympics Cyclists at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic cyclists of Croatia Tour de Suisse stage winners Presidential Cycling Tour of Turkey winners