Alexandr Pliușchin

Alexandre 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. 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 .

Major results

2004

6th Time trial, UCI Junior Road World Championships 2005 1st Classique des Alpes

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

8th Time trial, UCI Under-23 Road World Championships 2008

10th Overall Ster Elektrotoer 2010

1st Duo Normand (with Artem Ovechkin) 2011

2012

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 Points classification 1st Stages 1 & 3 1st Melaka Governor's Cup