Sergei Nikolaevich Sukhoruchenkov (, born 10 August 1956) is a former Soviet and Russian cyclist and Olympic Champion. He won the gold medal at the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow, in the road race.Profile: "Sergey Sukhoruchenkov" – databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on 18 January 2008)
He won the Peace Race twice, in both 1979 and 1984. Sukhoruchenkov won the 1990 edition of the Vuelta Ciclista de Chile.
His daughter Olga Zabelinskaya is also a cyclist and won two bronze medals in the 2012 Olympic Games, in both the road race and the individual time trial; as well as the silver medal in the individual time trial of the 2016 Olympic Games.
Major results
1978 1st Overall Tour de l'Avenir 1st Stages 1, 6a & 9 1st Overall Vuelta a Cuba 1st Stages 2 & 7 1st Stage 5 Milk Race 1979 1st Overall Tour de l'Avenir 1st Stage 6 1st Overall Peace Race 1st Stages 4 & 5 1st Overall Giro delle Regioni 1st Stage 6 1980 1st Road race, Summer Olympics 1st Stage 9 Milk Race 1st Stage 4 Giro delle Regioni 2nd Overall Okolo Slovenska 2nd Overall Tour de l'Avenir 1st Stages 8 & 11 3rd Overall Milk Race 1981 1st Overall Giro delle Regioni 1st Stages 1 & 5 1st Stage 4 Tour de Luxembourg 2nd Overall Peace Race 1st Stage 8 2nd Overall Tour de l'Avenir 1982 1st Stage 8 Grand Prix Guillaume Tell 1st Stage 4 Circuit de la Sarthe 1984 1st Overall Peace Race 1st Stage 8 1990 1st Overall Vuelta Ciclista de Chile 1st Stage 3
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