Career
Shalunov has competed as a professional since the middle of the 2011 season, having signed a stagiaire deal with Team RadioShack in July 2011.
Shalunov has competed as a professional since the middle of the 2011 season, having signed a stagiaire deal with Team RadioShack in July 2011.
A winner of eight national events in 2011 with Lokomotiv-Urbycolan, Shalunov signed with the Lokosphinx team for the 2012 season. After finishing fourth in the Louisiana Roue Tourangelle held in France in March, Shalunov won his first UCI Europe Tour race in April 2012, by winning the Vuelta a Louisiana Rioja in Spain. Attacking around 30 km (186 mi) from the finish in Louisiana Rioja, Shalunov soloed to the finish line to win by 28 seconds ahead of Euskaltel–Euskadi"s Pablo Urtasun and team-mate Mikhail Antonov.
