 Đurasek at the2014 Tour de France | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Kristijan Đurasek |
| Born | (1987-07-26)26 July 1987 (age 38) Varaždin,SR Croatia, Yugoslavia |
| Height | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) |
| Weight | 56 kg (123 lb; 8 st 11 lb) |
| Team information | |
| Discipline | Road |
| Role | Rider |
| Rider type | Climber |
| Professional teams | |
| 2006–2008 | Perutnina Ptuj |
| 2009–2011 | Loborika |
| 2012 | Adria Mobil |
| 2013–2019 | Lampre–Merida[1][2] |
| Major wins | |
| Stage races | |
Kristijan Đurasek (born 26 July 1987) is a Croatian professionalroad bicycle racer, who most recently rode forUCI WorldTeamUAE Team Emirates. He has been competing since 2005, and has represented Croatia at twoSummer Olympic Games, in2012 and2016.
In November 2019 he was banned for four years, backdated to May of that year, due to theOperation Aderlass investigation into blood doping.[3]
Đurasek started racing for Slovenian continental teamPerutnina Ptuj in 2006, but his professional career only started in 2008. At the time he did not have much success in international races. He competed for Perutnina Ptuj for three years during which he won five medals at the Croatian road cycling championships.
Đurasek signed a contract with Croatian continental teamLoborika at the beginning of 2009.[4] In 2011, he won his firstUCI Europe Tour race at the GP Folignano. Two days later he repeated his success by winning theTrofeo Internazionale Bastianelli.[5] During those years he won three more medals at the Croatian road cycling championships including both national titles at the 2011 championships.
In 2012, Đurasek competed for continental teamAdria Mobil. His most notable results were third place in theGP Industria & Artigianato di Larciano, seventh place in theGiro dell'Appennino and third place in the Passo della Bocchetta stage in theGiro di Padania. He competed at the2012 Summer Olympics as a late replacement forRobert Kišerlovski, who was injured on the 14th stage of theTour de France.[6][7] He finished 68th in theroad race, 40 seconds behind the race winnerAlexander Vinokourov.
At the end of the 2012 season, Đurasek signed a contract withLampre–Merida for the 2013 season. As a result, he became the third Croatian cyclist ever to ride for aUCI ProTeam.[1][8] His firstUCI World Tour race wasParis–Nice, where he finished 80th overall. His first victory was in theTre Valli Varesine on 23 August 2013. At the end of the 2013 season Đurasek competed at theWorld Championships inmen's road race, but he failed to complete the race. He finished 7th overall at the2014 Tour of Turkey, 45 seconds behind the race winnerAdam Yates.
In 2015, Đurasek awarded himself the leader's jersey of theTour of Turkey on the sixth stage featuring a hilltop finish, taking the lead fromDavide Rebellin.[9] He went on to win the race in the general classification, scoring a historic result for Croatian cycling.[10] In theTour de Suisse, he won the second stage by attacking a leading group of eight other riders, putting four seconds into them.[11] He was named in the start list for the2015 Vuelta a España.[12]
In 2016, Đurasek competed at his second Summer Olympics. At the Games held inRio de Janeiro,Brazil, Đurasek finished 18th, more than 3 minutes behind the race winnerGreg Van Avermaet. As of 2016, 18th place is the best ever Croatian Olympic result across all cycling events. During that year he also took part at theTour de France andVuelta a España.
At the start of the 2017 season, Đurasek logged a stage win at theTour of Croatia, where he outsprintedVincenzo Nibali at theBiokovo mountain finish.
Source:[13]
Road raceTime trial
OverallTour of Turkey| Grand Tour | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Giro d'Italia | 68 | — | — | — | — | — |
 Tour de France | — | 46 | 76 | 51 | ||
 Vuelta a España | — | — | 63 | 67 | — | — |
| — | Did not compete |
|---|---|
| DNF | Did not finish |
| Voided result |
