The Most Famous
CYCLISTS from Moldova
This page contains a list of the greatest Moldovan Cyclists. The pantheon dataset contains 1,214 Cyclists, 1 of which were born in Moldova. This makes Moldova the birth place of the 56th most number of Cyclists behind Costa Rica and Ethiopia.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Moldovan Cyclists of all time. This list of famous Moldovan Cyclists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Alexandre Pliușchin (1987 - )
With an HPI of 24.86, Alexandre Pliușchin is the most famous Moldovan Cyclist. His biography has been translated into 16 different languages on wikipedia.
Alexandre Pliușchin (Russian: Александр Плюшкин, Romanian: Alexandru 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 Synergy Baku 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 Skydive Dubai Pro Cycling.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as cyclists born between 1987 and 1987. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living cyclists include Alexandre Pliușchin.
