Finally Together!

Alexander and Vladimir will now, for the first time, be together on a ProTour team. Alex signed a 2 year contract with AG2R La-Mondiale!

A BIG Congratulation!

Congratulations to Vladimir and Julia Efimkin! On September 19 they had a little baby girl, Veronica! She's 48 cm and weighs 3.080 kg. We wish you all the best!
And congats to Alexander, for now being an uncle. :-)

Tour de Pologne

Sorry I didn't update, but here is Alexanders final result in Tour de Pologne

20 Alexander Efimkin (Rus) Quick Step

Deutschland Tour

Stage 4

32 Alexander Efimkin (Rus) Quick Step

Stage 5

32 Alexander Efimkin (Rus) Quick Step

Stage 6

31 Alexander Efimkin (Rus) Quick Step

Deutschland Tour

Stage 2
82 Alexander Efimkin (Rus) Quick Step

Stage 3
98 Alexander Efimkin (Rus) Quick Step

GC after Stage 3
96 Alexander Efimkin (Rus) Quick Step

new picture

Deutschland Tour

Prologue
136 Alexander Efimkin (Rus) Quick Step

Stage 1
76 Alexander Efimkin (Rus) Quick Step

GC after Stage 1
80 Alexander Efimkin (Rus) Quick Step 10.05

29th Olympic Games

DNF Vladimir Efimkin (Russian Federation)

results

Tour de France Stage 3
34 Vladimir Efimkin (Rus) AG2R La Mondiale

And Alexander did a great job today finishing 7th in Österreich-Rundfahrt!

Tour de France 2

Stage 2
11 Vladimir Efimkin (Rus) AG2R La Mondiale

Tour de France

Stage 1

55 Vladimir Efimkin (Rus) AG2R La Mondiale

Dauphiné Libéré final results

Vladimir finished as no. 24 in Dauphiné Libéré final GC.

Dauphiné Libéré results

Unfortunatly, Vladimir slid down to place no. 49 in GC on Stage 4. Better luck from now on.

Dauphiné Libéré results. stage 1

Luckily, Vladimir kept his 5th place overall and finished as no. 49 on the first stage. Good luck for the rest of the tour!

Dauphiné Libéré results

Apparantly it's only Vladimir who is at the Dauphiné Libéré. But here is the outstanding result from the 5.6 km prologue.
5 Vladimir Efimkin (Rus) AG2R La Mondiale
A BIG congratulation to him! That was brilliant!

Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré

On Sunday both Vladimir and Alexander will be at the startline in France for the Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré. We wish them both the best of luck!

mail

If anyone want to contact me, my mail is jean_b@ofir.dk

The end of the giro

Now the Giro d'Italia is over, and with that amazing 3rd place on stage 19, I'm convinced that Alexander is happy for that result! He finished 68th overall.

Giro results

Today Alexander made a huge effort on the stage, finishing as incredible as no. 3 !!! It was truly amazing! He is now no. 65 in GC. As soon as I have a picture, I will post it! And good luck to Alexander with the last two stages in the Giro! :-)

Volta a Catalunya results

I'm sorry I haven't updated the Giro d'Italia results. But Alexander is now 87 overall after Stage 12. But I have the latest results from VaC:
Stage 2
9 Vladimir Efimkin (Rus) AG2R La Mondiale
Stage 3
11 Vladimir Efimkin (Rus) AG2R La Mondiale
GC after Stage 3
17 Vladimir Efimkin (Rus) AG2R La Mondiale 0.42

That's great! Keep on the good work! :-)

Giro

On Saturday Alexander will start in Giro d'Italia! Best of luck!

Tour de Romandie Stage 1

5 Alexander Efimkin (Rus) Quick Step
GC after Stage 1
22 Alexander Efimkin (Rus) Quick Step

Liege-Bastogne-Liege results

31 Vladimir Efimkin (Rus) AG2R La Mondiale

Vuelta al País Vasco results

Stage 3
15 Alexander Efimkin (Rus) Quick Step
61 Vladimir Efimkin (Rus) AG2r - La Mondiale
Stage 4
12 Alexander Efimkin (Rus) Quick Step
33 Vladimir Efimkin (Rus) AG2r - La Mondiale
Gc after Stage 4
25 Alexander Efimkin (Rus) Quick Step
-A little confusing...
58 Vladimir Efimkin (Rus) AG2r - La Mondiale

Vuelta al País Vasco stage 2

Stage 2
7 Alexander Efimkin (Rus) Quick Step
- You're the greatest!!!

49 Vladimir Efimkin (Rus) AG2r - La Mondiale

GC after Stage 2
9 Alexander Efimkin (Rus) Quick Step

57 Vladimir Efimkin (Rus) AG2r - La Mondiale

Vuelta al País Vasco results

Stage 1
31 Alexander Efimkin (Rus) Quick Step

65 Vladimir Efimkin (Rus) AG2r - La Mondiale

A late picture

Bad news

I have some bad news. Unfortunately Vladimir is ill and he won't be riding Settimana Internazionale, which he was scheduled to. We hope for a fast recovery to you! Get well!

Final results T-A

Tirreno-Adriatico Stage 7
59 Vladimir Efimkin (Rus) AG2r - La Mondiale

Final GC
31 Vladimir Efimkin (Rus) AG2r - La Mondiale 9.15

Results Tirreno-Adriatico

Stage 6
37 Vladimir Efimkin (Rus) AG2r - La Mondiale

GC after Stage 6
33 Vladimir Efimkin (Rus) AG2r - La Mondiale

Results

Paris - Nice Stage 7
5 Alexander Efimkin (Rus) Quick Step

Final GC
10 Alexander Efimkin (Rus) Quick Step 3.21

You're the BEST, Alex! Great ride!

Tirreno - Adriatico Stage 5
83 Vladimir Efimkin (Rus) AG2r - La Mondiale

GC after Stage 5
37 Vladimir Efimkin (Rus) AG2r - La Mondiale

Results

Tirreno-Adriatico Stage 3
17 Vladimir Efimkin (Rus) AG2r - La Mondiale

Stage 4
107 Vladimir Efimkin (Rus) AG2r - La Mondiale

GC after Stage 4
37 Vladimir Efimkin (Rus) AG2r - La Mondiale

Paris - Nice Stage 5
43 Alexander Efimkin (Rus) Quick Step

Stage 6
26 Alexander Efimkin (Rus) Quick Step

GC after Stage 6
10 Alexander Efimkin (Rus) Quick Step
- Just one more day, Alex! Keep up the fantastic work!

Picture of Alexander

Results PN and TA

Paris - Nice Stage 4
17 Alexander Efimkin (Rus) Quick Step

GC after Stage 4
8 Alexander Efimkin (Rus) Quick Step
2.30 minutes down on Gesink.

Keep on, Alex! You rock! :-)

Tirreno - Adriatico Stage 2
36 Vladimir Efimkin (Rus) AG2r - La Mondiale

GC after Stage 2
39 Vladimir Efimkin (Rus) AG2r - La Mondiale

Great job!

Sorry, I mean Stage 3 in Paris - Nice!

Results

Paris - Nice Stage 2
18 Alexander Efimkin (Rus) Quick Step

GC after Stage 3
10 Alexander Efimkin (Rus) Quick Step

-You're the best!

Tirreno-Adriatico Stage 1
81 Vladimir Efimkin (Rus) AG2r - La Mondiale

Paris - Nice Stage 1 & 2

Stage 1
20 Alexander Efimkin (Rus) Quick Step

Stage 2
12 Alexander Efimkin (Rus) Quick Step

GC after Stage 2
24 Alexander Efimkin (Rus) Quick Step

Nice job, Alexander! And tomorrow, Vladimir will be in Italy for Tirreno-Adriatico.

Paris - Nice. Prologue

124 Alexander Efimkin (Rus) Quick Step

GP Lugano

20 Vladimir Efimkin (Rus) AG2r - La Mondiale

Here's another picture

Interview!

On this site http://velo101.com/actualite/default.asp?Id=13861 you can find an interview with Vladimir. It's on French, but you can translate it on Google. Enjoy!

picture

AG2R website

Now the AG2R-La Mondiale site finally works.

It's http://www.ag2r-cyclisme.com/

site

If that site doesn't work try this: http://guggi1992.googlepages.com/picturesfrom%22efimkintwinsfansite%22

More pictures

I'm always more than happy to recieve pictures from you, and Stijn sent me some pictures, he took of Alexander in the team presentation. Here's a link where you can see them:

http://pages.google.com/preview/guggi1992/picturesfrom%22efimkintwinsfansite%22?authtoken=cf27106e9298bdbf11f2329e6ddcbe0bbbc1f09f&no-cache=2199421125349913

Quick-Step presentation

Here's a link to a picture of Alexander in his new Quick-Step colors.
http://www.cyclingnews.com/photos.php?id=/photos/2008/features/quickstep_launch08/QSI_0007

new season

Happy new year!

Right now Alexander is in Spain on a training camp. Here's a picture.

Vladimir will go on camp with AG2R-La Mondiale later in January.