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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 23. Chapters: Olympic cyclists of Russia, Russian Tour de France stage winners, Denis Menchov, Zulfiya Zabirova, Viatcheslav Ekimov, Mikhail Ignatiev, Alexandr Kolobnev, Piotr Ugrumov, Olga Slyusareva, Ksenia Chernykh, Vladimir Gusev, Andrei Sartassov, Alexei Markov, Vladimir Karpets, Evgeni Berzin, Dimitri Konyshev, Vladimir Efimkin, Pavel Tonkov, Nikolay Trusov, Sergei Ivanov, Alexander Serov, Evgeni Petrov, Natalia Boyarskaya, Svetlana Grankovskaya, Sergey Klimov, Elena Tchalykh, Alexander Bocharov, Alexander Efimkin, Irina Kalentieva, Yuri Trofimov, Eduard Gritsun, Alexander Khatuntsev, Andrei Zintchenko, Ivan Kovalev, Boris Shpilevsky, Tamilla Abassova, Anton Foliforov, Nikita Eskov, Gennady Mikhaylov, Nikolay Kuznetsov, Sergey Kolesnikov, Pavel Brutt, Svetlana Bubnenkova, Anton Shantyr, Evgenia Romanyuta, Konstantin Ponomarev, Denis Galimzyanov, Dmitry Kozonchuk, Marat Ganeyev, Artem Ovechkin, Evgeny Sokolov, Vladislav Bobrik, Eduard Vorganov, Ivan Rovny, Alexander Arekeev, Oksana Grishina, Anastasia Chulkova, Anna Ustinova, Nadia Mikriukova, Valeriy Gluhov, Gleb Travin. Excerpt: Denis Nikolayevich Menchov (Russian: , pronounced as Menshov), born 25 January 1978 in Oryol, is a professional Russian road bicycle racer for Geox-TMC. He is a general classification rider and a climber. In 2005 he won the Vuelta a Espana, which he won for a second time in 2007. Menchov also won the centenary Giro d'Italia in 2009, and finished third in the Tour de France in 2010. Menchov started his professional career in 2000 with the Banesto team of Jose Miguel Echevarri. His first success came in 2001, when he won the Tour de l'Avenir, a stage race for young professionals. A year later he won a stage and the King of the Mountains in the Dauphine Libere. In 2003, Menchov had his breakthrough when he finished 11th in the Tour de France, and won ...
