Olympic Profiles - Cyclist Vlad Dascălu

olympic profiles - cyclist vlad dascălu Vlad Dascalu will compete in the cross-country mountain bike event at the Olympics

One of the youngest members of Romania's delegation for the Tokyo Olympics due next year is cyclist Vlad Dascălu. He secured qualification to the Olympic Games back in 2019, when he won the World Championship, the World Cup and the European Championship in the under-23 cross-country mountain bike competition.



Vlad Dascălu was born on December 7, 1997 in the village of Buda, near Falticeni, in Suceava County. At 9 years of age he moved to Spain with his parents. It is here that he got his first bike, aged 10. According to the website of the Romanian Olympic and Sports Committee, Vlad first competed in a cycling competition at the age of 14. At 16 he took part in his first cross-country race and he ranked 2nd. This was the moment that would forever shape his sports career. Only a year later, at the Youth European Championship, he came in 6th.



At the age of 18, he came to Romania and won the national mountain bike championship, the cross-country Olympic event, despite being an amateur and having enrolled in the race individually. He was immediately signed by Dinamo BikeXpert Superbet, where he grabbed his first notable performances. He commuted from Spain to Romania to train with his team, he won World Cup points and started being scouted by top-class teams.



In 2018 he was signed by Brujula Bike Racing Team in Spain. In July 2019, in Brno, the Czech Republic, he won the European Youth Championship in the under-23 category. A month later, in Mont Sainte-Anne, Canada, he won the world title in the same category. He also grabbed good performances at the World Cup, winning 4 out of the 7 stages, a feat for which he was designated cyclist of the year 2019 in Romania.

(Translated by V. Palcu)



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