Nikita Kiriltsev
Russian cyclist (born 2005)
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Nikita Vladimirovich Kiriltsev (Russian: Никита Владимирович Кирильцев; born 12 January 2005) is a Russian track cyclist who competes as a sprinter. He was a bronze medalist in the individual sprint competing as an Authorised Neutral Athlete at the 2026 UEC European Track Championships. Prior to that, he was a double gold medalist in the sprint and keirin at the 2023 UCI Junior Track Cycling World Championships and 2025 UEC European U23 Track Championships.
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| Rider type | Sprinter | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Career
He won gold medals in the keirin and individual sprint at the 2023 UCI Junior Track Cycling World Championships in Cali, Colombia. In October of that year, Kiriltsev set a junior men world record in the 200 metres time trial (9.712 seconds) at the Russian Cup.[2] He was runner-up to Artsiom Zaitsau in the 1 kilometre time trial at the Belarus Open Track Cycling Championship the following February.[3]
Competing as an Authorised Neutral Athlete, he reached the last-16 of the men's individual sprint at the 2025 UEC European Track Championships in Heusden-Zolder, Belgium.[4] That year, he won gold medals in the sprint and keirin at the 2025 UEC European U23 Track Championships in Anadia, Portugal.[5][6] He also competed at the 2025 UCI Track Cycling World Championships in Santiago, Chile, in the individual sprint and keirin, in which he was involved in a crash with Nicholas Paul of Trinidad and Tobago in the semi-final, causing both riders to miss the final.[7][8][9]
He won the bronze medal competing at the 2026 UEC European Track Championships in Konya, Turkey in the men's sprint.[10][11][12]