Alexandre Pliușchin Explained

Alexandre Pliușchin
Birth Date:	13 January 1987
Height:	1.80 m
Weight:	66 kg
Role:	Rider
Amateuryears1:	2004–2005
Amateurteam1:	World Cycling Centre
Amateuryears2:	2006
Amateurteam2:	Team Hörmann
Amateuryears3:	2007
Amateuryears4:	2020
Amateurteam4:	CC Palafrugell
Amateuryears5:	2021–2023
Amateurteam5:	Abu Dhabi CC
Proyears1:	2008–2009
Proyears2:	2010–2011
Proyears3:	2012
Proyears4:	2013
Proteam4:	^[1]
Proyears5:	2014
Proteam5:	^[2]
Proyears6:	2015
Majorwins:	National Road Race Championships (2008, 2010–2012)

Alexandre Pliușchin (Russian: Александр Плюшкин, Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan: Alexandru Pliușchin; born 13 January 1987) is a Moldovan former professional road bicycle racer, who rode professionally between 2008 and 2015. He still competes as an amateur, having last rode for Abu Dhabi CC in 2023.^[3] He is a four-time National Road Race Champion; winning in 2008, 2010, 2011 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 at the 2014 Sharjah International Cycling Tour, a race he won whilst riding for .^[4]

Major results

2004

3rd Scratch, UCI Junior Track World Championships

6th Time trial, UCI Junior Road World Championships

2005

1st Classique des Alpes

2nd Time trial, UCI Juniors World Championships

2nd Overall Giro della Toscana

2006

9th Overall Grand Prix Guillaume Tell

2007

1st Ronde Van Vlaanderen Beloften

1st Stage 2 Grand Prix Guillaume Tell

1st Mountains classification Grand Prix du Portugal

3rd Road race, UCI B World Championships

8th Time trial, UCI Under-23 Road World Championships

2008

1st National Road Championships

10th Overall Ster Elektrotoer

2010

1st National Road Championships

1st Duo Normand (with Artem Ovechkin)

2011

1st National Road Championships

2012

1st National Road Championships

2nd Overall Tour Alsace

3rd Overall Tour de Normandie

3rd Overall Boucles de la Mayenne

7th Overall Flèche du Sud

8th Overall Le Triptyque des Monts et Châteaux

9th Duo Normand (with Fábio Silvestre)

2014

1st Overall Sharjah International Cycling Tour

1st Points classification

1st Stages 1 & 3

1st Melaka Governor's Cup

Notes and References

News: IAM Cycling announces 2013 roster. 24 September 2012. Cycling News. Future Publishing Limited. 20 September 2012.
News: Skydive Dubai, arriva anche Pliuschin . Italian . Skydive Dubai, also comes Pliuschin . 22 November 2013 . 24 December 2013 . Spazio Ciclismo . Tutto Mercato . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20131225122639/http://www.spaziociclismo.it/ciclomercato/skydive-dubai-arriva-anche-pliuschin-33357 . 25 December 2013 .
Web site: Alexandre Pliuschin . FirstCycling.com . 12 August 2023.
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