Evgeny Shalunov
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- Evgeny Vladimirovich Shalunov
- Евгений Владимирович Шалунов
Saint Petersburg, Russia
.JPG) Shalunov in 2016 | |
| Personal information | |
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| Full name |
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| Born | 8 January 1992 Saint Petersburg, Russia |
| Height | 1.8 m (5 ft 11 in) |
| Weight | 70 kg (154 lb) |
| Team information | |
| Current team | Retired |
| Discipline |
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| Role | Rider |
| Amateur teams | |
| 2011 | Lokomotiv–Urbycolan |
| 2011 | Team RadioShack (stagiaire) |
| Professional teams | |
| 2012–2015 | Lokosphinx[1] |
| 2016–2021 | Gazprom–RusVelo[2][3][4] |
Evgeny Vladimirovich Shalunov (Russian: Евгений Владимирович Шалунов; born 8 January 1992) is a Russian former professional road and track bicycle racer.
Shalunov has competed as a professional since the middle of the 2011 season, having signed a stagiaire deal with Team RadioShack in July 2011.[5]
A winner of eight national events in 2011 with Lokomotiv–Urbycolan, Shalunov signed with the Lokosphinx team for the 2012 season. After finishing fourth in the La Roue Tourangelle held in France in March,[6] Shalunov won his first UCI Europe Tour race in April 2012, by winning the Vuelta a La Rioja in Spain.[7] Attacking around 30 km (18.6 mi) from the finish in La Rioja, Shalunov soloed to the finish line to win by 28 seconds ahead of Euskaltel–Euskadi's Pablo Urtasun and teammate Mikhail Antonov.[8]
He was named in the start list for the 2017 Giro d'Italia.[9]
