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Alexandre Pliușchin (, ; born 13 January 1987) is a
Scratch, 
Road race, UCI B World Championships
: 8th 
National Road Championships
: 10th Overall National Road Championships
: 1st National Road Championships
;2012
: 1st National Road Championships
: 2nd Overall 
Overall Sharjah International Cycling Tour
::1st Points classification
::1st Stages 1 & 3
: 1st Melaka Governor's Cup
Moldova
Moldova, officially the Republic of Moldova, is a Landlocked country, landlocked country in Eastern Europe, with an area of and population of 2.42 million. Moldova is bordered by Romania to the west and Ukraine to the north, east, and south. ...
n former professional road bicycle racer
Road bicycle racing is the cycle sport discipline of road cycling, held primarily on paved roads. Road racing is the most popular professional form of bicycle racing, in terms of numbers of competitors, events and spectators. The two most com ...
, who rode professionally between 2008 and 2015. He still competes as an amateur, having last rode for Abu Dhabi CC in 2023. He is a four-time National Road Race Champion; winning in 2008
2008 was designated as:
*International Year of Languages
*International Year of Planet Earth
*International Year of the Potato
*International Year of Sanitation
The Great Recession, a worldwide recession which began in 2007, continued throu ...
, 2010
The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...
, 2011
The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ...
and 2012. Pliuschin also represented Moldova in the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, having participated in the Men's Road Race and the Men's Individual Pursuit.
On 25 February 2015, Pliușchin's team announced it had suspended him for a non-negative test for salbutamol
Salbutamol, also known as albuterol and sold under the brand name Ventolin among others, is a medication that opens up the medium and large airways in the lungs. It is a short-acting β2 adrenergic receptor agonist that causes relaxation of ...
at the 2014 Sharjah International Cycling Tour, a race he won whilst riding for .
Major results
;2004 : 3rd Scratch, UCI Junior Track World Championships
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: 6th Time trial, UCI Junior Road World Championships
;2005
: 1st Classique des Alpes
: 2nd Time trial
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, UCI Juniors World Championships The UCI Juniors World Championships were a set of UCI World Championships events for junior cyclists in 2005 to 2009. In 2010 it was divided into:
*The Junior men's road race at the UCI Road World Championships
*The UCI Junior Track Cycling World C ...
: 2nd Overall Giro della Toscana
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;2006
: 9th Overall Grand Prix Guillaume Tell
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The UCI Unde ...
;2007
: 1st Ronde Van Vlaanderen Beloften
: 1st Stage 2 Grand Prix Guillaume Tell
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The UCI Unde ...
: 1st Mountains classification Grand Prix du Portugal
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: 3rd Road race, UCI B World Championships
: 8th Time trial
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, UCI Under-23 Road World Championships
;2008
: 1st National Road Championships
: 10th Overall Ster Elektrotoer
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;2010
: 1st National Road Championships
: 1st Duo Normand
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(with Artem Ovechkin)
;2011
: 1st National Road Championships
;2012
: 1st National Road Championships
: 2nd Overall Tour Alsace
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The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing co ...
: 3rd Overall Tour de Normandie
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: 3rd Overall Boucles de la Mayenne
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: 7th Overall Flèche du Sud
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The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing competitions which were introduced in 2005 b ...
: 8th Overall Le Triptyque des Monts et Châteaux
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List of winners
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: 9th Duo Normand
The Duo Normand is a two-man team time trial (against the clock) for elite racing cyclists. Held annually at Marigny-le-Lozon in Normandy
Normandy (; or ) is a geographical and cultural region in northwestern Europe, roughly coextensive wi ...
(with Fábio Silvestre)
;2014
: 1st Overall Sharjah International Cycling Tour
::1st Points classification
::1st Stages 1 & 3
: 1st Melaka Governor's Cup
References
External links
* * * * * * Moldovan male cyclists 1987 births Living people Cyclists at the 2008 Summer Olympics Olympic cyclists for Moldova Doping cases in cycling {{Moldova-cycling-bio-stub