Victoria Baranova

2011 European champion ( U23 ) Keirin and Sprint

Viktoriya Alexeyevna Baranowa, Viktoria Baranova, (Russian Виктория Алексеевна Баранова; born 6 February 1990 in Zhukovsky ) is a Russian track cyclist.

2007 Viktoriya Baranowa was in Aguascalientes junior world champion in keirin and third in the team sprint, with Elena Melnischenko. In the same year she was at the track European Championships for the next generation in Cottbus on the podium twice, by being second in the sprint and third in the 500 -meter time trial. At the Junior World Championships 2008 in Cape Town, she took second place in the time trial and the sprint and team sprint ( with Melnischenko ) each finished third. In the web - Europe Junior Championships in the same year in Pruszków she was European champion in the sprint, second in the time trial and third in the team sprint ( with Melnischenko ).

2010 started Baranowa first time in the elite, finishing in the track world championships in seventh place in the sprint, the eighth in the team sprint ( with Olga Strelzowa ) and in the keirin on the 19th Place. In 2011 she was Russian champion in keirin and double European champion ( U23 ) in the Keirin and sprint, time trial, she was third. The UEC - track European Championships 2011 in Apeldoorn, she won the bronze medal in the sprint.

Before the 2012 Olympics Baranowa was tested at a doping - control training on 24 July 2012 in Belarus positive for testosterone and canceled their planned Olympic start after they had admitted their guilt. It was then for two years, until the beginning of August 2014, locked.