Aleksandr Vlasov: 2026 team, palmarès and profile

Team (2026): Red Bull–BORA–hansgrohe
Nationality: Russia
Born: 23 April 1996, Vyborg, Russia
Profile: Climber and stage racer
Pro since: 2018
Previous teams: Gazprom–RusVelo (2018–2019), Astana (2020–2021)

Facts checked on 20 October 2026. Every fact has a source, listed at the bottom of this page.

2026 season

8 February 2026Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana7th overall Source
22 February 2026Vuelta a Andalucía7th overall Source
24 April 2026Tour of the Alps9th overall Source
31 May 2026Giro d'Italia25th overall Source
14 June 2026GP Gippingen2nd Source
9 August 2026Tour de Pologne10th overall Source
13 September 2026Trofeo Matteotti9th Source

Palmarès

2018Giro Ciclistico d'Italia (under-23 Giro)1st overall Source
2019Russian National Road Race Championships1st Source
2020Giro dell'Emilia1st Source
2020Il Lombardia3rd Source
2021Paris–Nice2nd overall Source
2021Giro d'Italia4th overall Source
2022Tour de Romandie1st overall (1st on stage 5) Source
2022Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana1st overall (1st on stage 3) Source
2022Tour de France5th overall Source
2024Tour de Romandie2nd overall Source

Biography

Aleksandr Vlasov is a Russian road cyclist who rides for Red Bull–BORA–hansgrohe. He was born on 23 April 1996 in Vyborg and is 1.86 m tall. He is a climber and a stage racer.

He rode for the amateur team Viris Maserati–Sisal–Matchpoint from 2015 to 2017. In 2018 he won the Giro Ciclistico d’Italia and finished fourth overall at the Tour de l’Avenir, and he turned professional with Gazprom–RusVelo, with which he rode in 2018 and 2019. In 2019 he became Russian road race champion and took third overall at the Tour of Slovenia. He joined Astana for 2020 and 2021. In 2020 he won the Giro dell’Emilia and the Mont Ventoux Dénivelé Challenge, was third at Il Lombardia and 11th overall at the Vuelta a España. In 2021 he was second overall at Paris–Nice, won the Russian time trial title and finished fourth overall at the Giro d’Italia.

In August 2021 Bora–Hansgrohe announced that he would join the team from 2022 on a three-year contract. He won the Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana overall with a stage win in his first stage race for the team, and added the Tour de Romandie, where he won the final time trial on stage 5. In June he won a stage of the Tour de Suisse before testing positive for COVID-19 and leaving the race. At his first Tour de France later that year he finished fifth overall.

In 2023 he was second overall at the Vuelta a Burgos, third at the Clásica de San Sebastián, fourth at Il Lombardia and seventh overall at the Vuelta a España. In 2024 he was second overall at the Tour de Romandie, fourth at the Volta a Catalunya and fifth at Paris–Nice, where he won stage 7, and sixth at the Critérium du Dauphiné. In 2025 he won the mountains classification at the Tour de Suisse.

In 2026 he started the Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana in a team that also included Remco Evenepoel, who won the race, and finished seventh overall. He was also seventh at the Vuelta a Andalucía in February. He finished 9th at the Tour of the Alps, 25th overall at the Giro d’Italia, second at the GP Gippingen, tenth overall at the Tour de Pologne and ninth at the Trofeo Matteotti. ProCyclingStats lists him with the team for 2027 as well.