Valery Kaykov (born 7 May 1988) is a Russian former professional

racing cyclist Cycle sport is competitive physical activity using bicycles. There are several categories of bicycle racing including road bicycle racing, cyclo-cross, mountain bike racing, track cycling, BMX, and cycle speedway. Non-racing cycling spo ...

Track

In 2010 Kaykov won the individual pursuit at the U-23 European Track Championships. He was also part of the Russian team that won the team pursuit. At the 2011 European Track Championships Kaykov took bronze with the Russian team in the

team pursuit The team pursuit is a track cycling event similar to the individual pursuit, except that two teams, each of up to four riders, compete, starting on opposite sides of the velodrome. Race format Both men's and women's events are competed over ...

. Kaykov was on the Russian team that won the

at the 2012 European Track Championships. He also took silver with Artur Ershov in the madison event.

Road

Kaykov joined pro continental team RusVelo in 2012. His best result of the season was in the time trail at Russian Championships where he came 3rd, only beaten by

Denis Menchov Denis Nikolayevich Menshov (often mistakenly romanized as Menchov, ; born 25 January 1978) is a former professional Russian road bicycle racer, who rode as a professional between 2000 and 2013. He was best known as a general classification rider ...

and Dimitry Sokolov.

Doping

Kaykov tested positive for the black market drug GW501516 in an out-of-competition control on 17 March 2013, and was subsequently handed a two-year ban from sports. He was also sacked by RusVelo.European champion Valery Kaykov sacked for failing drug test
BBC, 11 April 2013

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* 1988 births Living people Doping cases in cycling Russian sportspeople in doping cases Russian male cyclists Place of birth missing (living people) Summer World University Games medalists in cycling FISU World University Games gold medalists for Russia Medalists at the 2011 Summer Universiade 21st-century Russian sportsmen {{Russia-cycling-bio-stub