Five medals were won by Ukrainian runners with Bulgarian bicycles DRAG in the Youth European road cycling cup, category U23 in Ankara, Turkey 15 to July 18.
Anna Solovey became an European champion for Junior in the individual per suit of 13.5 kilometers with an achievement of 17:42 minutes.
She finished with a lead of more than half a minute.
Another two Ukrainians – Kateryna Zavala and Mariana Russu finished 6 th and 22 nd respectively in this discipline.
Ukraine ranked in the second place in the team standings.
Lesia Kalitovska won the silver in the womens’ 121.5 kilometers equaling the winner’s time of 3:08:21. Elizaveta Oshurkova came in 6th, 6 seconds behind the winner, Valeriya Kononenko finished 26 th, Anna Nahirna-35th and Tetiana Ryabchenko-38th.
Ukraine became the Team Champion.
Lesia Kalitovska took the sixth place in the individual run per suit for women.
Tetiana Ryabchenko and Valeriya Kononenko were 15th and 17th respectively.
Ukraine ranked 3rd in the team standings.
The Ukrainian Women and Junior National team won 6th and 7th place and a total of 5 medals: 2 gold, 2 silver and 1 bronze with DRAG bicycles.

The Ukraine women’s national team won another victory with our Drag Bluebird bicycles on the European Road Bike Championship 2010 in Ankara. In Time Trial - Junior Women category Anna Solovey took first place and become a European champion with an achievement of 00:17:42h, more than half a minute better than the second time in the race.
In the Under 23 Women’s Road Race Lesia Kalitovska finished in a 10sm distance from the first Noortje Tabak and took the silver medal with the same achievement of 03:08:21.

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Bulgarian Drag bicycles score a legendary success through the past year, winning 16 medals for Ukraine women’s national team on world and european competitions. Read more »

Our racers Rosen Kovachev and Todor Angelov took the prize for best Bulgarian bicyclist in categories Cross Country and DH. The winners was named with an inquiry in the specialized Bulgarian site for cycling - Probike. The ceremony was on 14 01 2010, in the presence of bicyclists, trainers, journalists. Read more »

Team Ukraine competed with the Australian trio in the bronze medal ride-off in the Women’s Team Pursuit during day three of 2009 UCI Track World Cup in Melbourne, Australia. Svetlana Galyuk, Lesya Kalitovska and Irina Shpilova finished in 3:30.156 min, a little less for bronze, and placed fourth.

Lesya Kalitovska of the Ukrainian Cycling Team, who rides with bulgarian Drag Bluebird bicycle, finished with third time in women’s 3000m individual pursuit at the Melbourne World Cup round. Britain’s Wendy Houvenaghel took the gold, and New Zealand’s world champion Alison Shanks is silver medalist.

For the first time in our annual “DRAG - Cherni vrah” race (climbing up and down the highest point of Vitosha mountain) the winner this year is a foreign racer – this is Wouter Cleppe from Belgium, who lives in Bulgaria now for a few years with his wife and daughter. His score – 2:51:52h. for the 42 km to the top and back – is a record for all the six issues of the competition. He was first on the top (2290 м AMSL) for a 1:59:26h, and was fastest in getting down for a 52:26 min. Read more »

Todor Angelov from the Drag Team won the last issue of  100km tour around the Vitosha mountain. In a cold and rainy conditions he finished first after 5:03h. Second, 27min. after Angelov finished Stanimir Statev, and the third place took other Drag racer - Feodor Dragolov, with 5:47h.