Eugeni Berzin

Infobox Cyclist
ridername = Evgeni Berzin


fullname = Evgeni Berzin
nickname =
dateofbirth = birth date and age|1970|6|6
country = RUS
currentteam = Retired
discipline = Road
role = Rider
ridertype = All-rounder
amateuryears =
amateurteams =
proyears = 1993
1994–1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
1999
2000
proteams = Mecair-Ballan
Gewiss-Ballan
Gewiss-Playbus
Batik-Del Monte
La Française des jeux
Amica Chips-Costa de Almeria
Mobilvetta Design-Rossin
Mobilvetta Design-Formaggi Trentini
majorwins = Liège-Bastogne-Liège (1994)
Giro d'Italia Winner (1994); 5 stages
Tour de France: 1 stage
updated = December 31, 2007

Evgeni Berzin (Lang-ru|Евгений Берзин; born June 6, 1970 in Vyborg, Russia) is a Russian cyclist whose best year was 1994, when he won the Giro d'Italia and Liège-Bastogne-Liège. Only 24 at the time, Berzin was then tipped as being a future megastar in cycling, but he was never quite able to live up to the results of 1994. In 1995, he was second at the Giro d'Italia. In 1996, he won the first time trial of the Tour de France and took the yellow jersey, only to lose it next day to Bjarne Riis. On October 19, 1997 he attempted to break the hour record in Bordeaux, but he abandoned after 17 minutes, being already too far from Chris Boardman's record.Berzin never won a professional race again, and eventually retired in 2000.

Major victories

;1988:RUS National Junior Track Team Pursuit Championship:flagiconUCI World Junior Team Track Pursuit Championship;1989:RUS National Amateur Track Team Pursuit Championship;1990:RUS National Amateur Track Team Pursuit Championship:flagiconUCI World Amateur Track Pursuit Championship:flagiconUCI World Amateur Team Track Pursuit Championship;1991:flagiconUCI World Amateur Team Track Pursuit Championship;1992:Course de la Solidarité Olympique:Ruban Granitier Breton;1994:RUS National Time Trial Championship:Giro d'Italia:::Wearing pink jersey for 19 days:: Winner overall classification::::Winner stages 4, 8 and 18:Giro dell'Appennino:Liège-Bastogne-Liège;1995:Giro d'Italia:::2nd place overall classification::Winner stage 21:Crema:Euskal Bizikleta;1996:Tour de France:::Winner stage 8::Wearing yellow jersey for 2 days:Giro d'Italia:::10th place overall classification::Winner stage 19

External links

*cyclingwebsite|1997
* [http://www.letour.fr/HISTO/TDF/riders/us/812.html Official Tour de France results for Eugeni Berzin]

ee also

* List of doping cases in cycling

Persondata
NAME= Berzin, Evgeni
ALTERNATIVE NAMES=
SHORT DESCRIPTION=Road bicycle racer
DATE OF BIRTH= 1970-06-06
PLACE OF BIRTH=Vyborg, Russia
DATE OF DEATH=
PLACE OF DEATH=