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| Full name | Alexandr Viktorovich Kolobnev | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | May 4, 1981 Vyksa, Soviet Union |
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| Discipline | Road | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Rider type | Puncheur/All-rounder | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2002 2003–2004 2005–2006 2007–2009 2010–2011 |
Acqua e Sapone-Cantina Tollo Domina Vacanze Rabobank Team CSC Team Katusha |
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| Infobox last updated on 3 January 2012 |
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Alexandr Viktorovich Kolobnev (Russian: Александр Викторович Колобнев[1]) (born May 4, 1981 in Vyksa, Russian SFSR) is a Russian professional road bicycle racer, who last rode on the UCI ProTour with Team Katusha,[2] and is provisionally suspended after testing positive for a drug masking agent.[3]
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He spent his neo-pro year in 2002 with Acqua e Sapone-Cantina Tollo. His second season saw him sign with Domina Vacanze. There, he took his first victory in Stage 2 of the Settimana Ciclistica Coppi-Bartali. He stayed with Domina Vacanze through the 2004 season and signed with UCI ProTeam Rabobank. With Rabobank he managed to capture Stage 1 of the Vuelta a la Comunidad Valenciana in 2006. For the 2007 season he transferred to Team CSC, now known as Saxo Bank, capturing Stage 3 of Paris–Nice and second at the UCI Road World Championships.
Kolobnev finished fourth in the road race at the 2008 Olympic Games. Second-place finisher and silver medalist Davide Rebellin later tested positive for Continuous erythropoietin receptor activator, causing the IOC to strip him of his silver medal. Though the UCI considers Kolobnev promoted to third in the race's standings, he has not, as of January 2010, been awarded a bronze medal.[4]
He lives in Dénia, Spain, with his wife Daria and two sons, David and Alexander.
In the 2011 Tour de France he tested positive for the diuretic hydrochlorothiazide, a masking agent that can hide the presence of performance enhancing drugs. He was subsequently pulled from the tour by his team,[5][6]. Despite his B sample also testing positive he only received a fine from the Russian cycling federation.[7]