Kanstantsin Sivtsov

Kanstantsin Sivtsov

Personal information
Full name Kanstantsin Sivtsov
Канстанцін Сівцов
Nickname Kosta
Born (1982-08-09) 9 August 1982
Gomel, Belarussian SSR, Soviet Union
Height 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight 69 kg (152 lb; 10.9 st)
Team information
Current team Team Dimension Data
Discipline Road
Role Rider
Rider type All-rounder
Professional team(s)
2001–2002 Itera
2003 Lokomotiv
2005 Fassa Bortolo
2006 Acqua & Sapone
2007 Barloworld
2008–2011 Team High Road
2012–2015 Team Sky
2016– Team Dimension Data
Major wins

Grand Tours

Giro d'Italia
1 individual stage (2009)
1 TTT stage (2013)

Stage races

Tour de Georgia (2008)

One-day races and Classics

Under-23 World Road Race Championships (2004)
National Road Race Championships (2006)
National Time Trial Championships (2011, 2013)
Infobox last updated on
7 January 2015

Kanstantsin Sivtsov (Belarusian: Канстанцін Сівцов), born 9 August 1982, is a Belarusian professional road bicycle racer for UCI ProTeam team Team Dimension Data.[1]

Career

Sivtsov was born in the Belarusian city of Gomel in 1982. He shot to prominence in 2004, winning the Under-23 World Road Race Championships, and the senior Belarusian championships in 2006.

He joined Barloworld for the 2007 season, and rode the Tour de France for the first time, finishing 32nd overall. Sivtsov moved to Team High Road for 2008, where he took his first stage race overall victory at the Tour de Georgia, and came 16th overall in the Tour de France. In the 2009 Giro d'Italia, he won his first two Grand Tour stages, the team time trial on stage one and a successful solo breakaway in stage eight.

Siutsou at the 2012 Paris-Nice

Sivtsov enjoyed his most successful year to date in 2011. He finished tenth overall in the Giro d'Italia – again winning the team time trial stage – with an eighth-place finish in the Critérium du Dauphiné, and won the Belarusian National Time Trial Championship for the first time.

He moved to Team Sky for the 2012 season. Sivtsov was part of the teams that helped Richie Porte win the Volta ao Algarve, Bradley Wiggins win Paris–Nice, the Tour de Romandie and Critérium du Dauphiné, and Michael Rogers win Bayern-Rundfahrt. Sivtsov was selected to ride the Tour de France as one of Wiggins' main domestiques, but crashed out on stage three with 50 kilometres (31 mi) remaining with a fractured left tibia, the first retirement of the 2012 Tour.[2]

Sivtsov claimed a solo win on stage two of the 2013 Giro del Trentino.[3]

In October 2015 he announced that he would be leaving Team Sky after four seasons to join Team Dimension Data for 2016, with the team describing his role as being a super-domestique and mentor to the team's younger riders.[4]

Palmares

Grand Tours overall classification results timeline

Grand Tour 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
Pink jersey Giro  —  — 15  — 9  — 37 WD 26
Yellow jersey Tour 31 16  — 39  — WD 90  —  —
red jersey Vuelta  —  —  — 37 WD  —  — 43  —

WD – Withdrew; IP – In Progress

References

  1. ↑ "Sivtsov to Team Sky". Cycling News (Future Publishing Limited). 6 October 2011. Retrieved 6 January 2012.
  2. ↑ "Tour de France: Peter Sagan earns his second Tour stage win". BBC Sports. BBC. 3 July 2012. Retrieved 4 July 2012.
  3. ↑ Wynn, Nigel (17 April 2013). "Kanstantsin Sivtsov wins Giro del Trentino stage two". Cycling Weekly (London: IPC Media). Retrieved 18 April 2013.
  4. ↑ Wynn, Nigel (25 November 2015). "Kanstanstin Siutsou leaves Sky for Team Dimension Data". Cycling Weekly. Retrieved 25 November 2015.
  5. ↑ "Mallorca Challenge: Cummings wins on Mirador d'Es Colomer". cyclingnews.com. 30 January 2015. Retrieved 2 February 2015.

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