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.

He won the Peace Race twice, in both 1979 and 1984. Sukhoruchenkov won the 1990 edition of the Vuelta Ciclista de Chile.

Sergei Sukhoruchenkov

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.

Sergei Sukhoruchenkov

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

References

1956 births

Living people

Sportspeople from Bryansk

Russian male cyclists

Soviet male cyclists

Olympic cyclists for the Soviet Union

Olympic gold medalists for the Soviet Union

Cyclists at the 1980 Summer Olympics

Olympic medalists in cycling

Medalists at the 1980 Summer Olympics

Recipients of the Order of Friendship of Peoples

Honoured Masters of Sport of the USSR

Sportspeople from Bryansk Oblast

Sergei Sukhoruchenkov