Vasil Kiryienka

From Infogalactic: the planetary knowledge core
Jump to: navigation, search
Vasil Kiryienka
File:Vasil Kiryienka Giro 2011.jpg
Kiryienka at the 2011 Giro d'Italia
Personal information
Full name Vasili Vasilyevich Kiryienka
Nickname Robocop[1]
Born (1981-06-28) 28 June 1981 (age 43)
Rečyca,
Byelorussian SSR, Soviet Union
Height 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight 75 kg (165 lb; 11.8 st)
Team information
Current team Team Sky
Discipline Road and Track
Role Rider
Rider type Time trialist/ Domestique
Professional team(s)
2006 OTC Doors (May–)
2006 Rietumu-Riga (–June)
2007–2008 Tinkoff Credit Systems
2009–2012 Caisse d'Epargne
2013– Team Sky
Major wins
Grand Tours
Giro d'Italia
3 individual stages (2008, 2011, 2015)
Vuelta a España
1 individual stage (2013)

Stage races

Route du Sud (2011)

One-day races and Classics

World Time Trial Championships (2015)
National Time Trial Championships
(2002, 2005, 2006, 2015)
European Games Individual Time Trial (2015)
Infobox last updated on
23 September 2015

Vasili Vasilyevich Kiryienka (Belarusian: Васіль Кірыенка) (born 28 June 1981) is a Belarusian racing cyclist, racing for UCI ProTeam Team Sky.[2] Kiriyenka is the reigning World, European & National champion in the time trial discipline.

Career

Early years

Born in Rečyca in the Belorussian S.S.R. in 1981, Kiryienka won his first national time trial championship in 2002. His early career focused mainly on the track, where he won the Points Race at the 2008 UCI Track Cycling World Championships. Later that season Kiryienka won Stage 19 of the 2008 Giro d'Italia, a mountainous affair leading to Presolana, after spending the day on the attack and registering more than 6 hours and a half in the saddle. He attacked his six breakaway companions at the foot of the Monte Para climb and soloed to the finish for the win, by a margin of over four minutes.[3]

Caisse d'Epargne (2009-2012)

File:Vasil Kiryienka, London 2012 Time Trial - Aug 2012.jpg
Kiryienka competing in the time trial at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London

Kiryienka moved to the Spanish Caisse d'Epargne squad for the 2009 season.

In 2010 he finished second in the tenth stage of the 2010 Tour de France after he was outsprinted at the line in Gap by Sérgio Paulinho (Radioshack) after the pair's decisive attack with 14km remaining.[4]

On 23 May 2011, during the 2011 Giro d'Italia, Kiryienka's Movistar Team team mate Xabier Tondo was killed in a freak accident at home while preparing to train with teammates. He was reportedly crushed between his car and a garage door.[5] Five days later, Kiryienka rode to victory in a solo effort on Stage 20, a mountain top finish at Sestriere, and he dedicated the stage victory to Tondó, pointing skyward as he crossed the finish line.[6] The team had met to consider withdrawing from the race after Tondó's death, but instead the riders unanimously voted to ride on.[7] Kiryienka commented that the squad at the Giro hoped to get a further stage win (as Francisco Ventoso's win had come before Tondó's death) to honor him, while other members of the team grieved with Tondó's family.[8]

In September 2012, Kiryienka finished third in the individual time trial at the road world championships.[9]

Team Sky (2013-)

File:Tour de France 2014, kyrienka (14869718485).jpg
Kiryienka at the 2014 Tour de France

Kiryienka left Movistar Team at the end of the 2012 season, and joined Team Sky on a three-year contract from the 2013 season onwards.[2]

In May 2015, Kiryienka won the individual time trial of the Giro d'Italia, which was 59.5-km long and relatively rolling.[10] In June 2015, he won the individual time trial at the inaugural European Games in Baku, Azerbaijan.[11] On 23 September 2015, Kiryienka won the individual time trial at the road world championships in Richmond, Virginia, United States.[12]

Palmares

<templatestyles src="Div col/styles.css"/>

2002
1st MaillotBielorrusia.PNG National Time Trial Championships
2003
UCI Track Cycling World Cup– Aguascalientes
1st Individual pursuit
3rd Team pursuit
European Under-23 Track Championships
3rd Individual pursuit
3rd Team pursuit
2004
3rd Individual pursuit, UCI Track Cycling World Cup – Aguascalientes
6th Overall Presidential Cycling Tour of Turkey
2005
1st MaillotBielorrusia.PNG National Time Trial Championships
1st Points Race, UCI Track World Cup – Manchester
1st Coppa della Pace
1st Giro del Casentino
1st Coppa Comune Castelfranco di Sopra
1st Stage 3 Giro della Toscana (Under-23)
1st Coppa Mobilio Ponsacco – Cronometro
2006
1st MaillotBielorrusia.PNG National Time Trial Championships
UCI Track Cycling World Cup- Sydney
1st Scratch Race
3rd Points race
2nd Overall Scandinavian Week
1st Stage 3
2nd UCI Track Cycling World Cup- Moscow, Points race
2nd Scandinavian Open
3rd Bronze medal blank.svg Points Race-UCI Track Cycling World Championships
3rd Riga GP
4th EOS Tallinn GP
4th Szlakiem Walk Majora Hubala
5th Overall Five Rings of Moscow
8th Overall Course de la Solidarité Olympique
1st Stage 6
2007
1st Stage 3 Ster Elektrotoer
1st Stage 5 Vuelta a Burgos
2nd Overall Étoile de Bessèges
2nd Eindhoven Team Time Trial
7th Overall Tirreno–Adriatico
8th Overall Tour of Austria
9th Tour du Haut Var
9th Grand Prix de Fourmies
2008
1st Jersey rainbow.svg Points Race - Track Cycling World Championships
1st Stage 1 (TTT) Settimana Ciclistica Lombarda
1st Stage 19 Giro d'Italia
2nd Overall Ster Elektrotoer
2nd GP di Camaiore
7th Overall Vuelta a Murcia
2011
1st Jersey orange.svg Overall Route du Sud
1st Stage 20 Giro d'Italia
2nd Overall Critérium International
1st Points classification
9th Overall Vuelta a Murcia
10th Overall Tour of the Basque Country
1st Stage 2
2012
3rd Bronze medal blank.svg Time trial, Road World Championships
6th Overall Critérium du Dauphiné
2013
1st Stage 18 Vuelta a España
Road World Championships
3rd Bronze medal blank.svg Team time trial
4th Time trial
2014
1st Stage 1b (TTT) Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali
3rd Overall Bayern-Rundfahrt
4th Time trial, Road World Championships
Combativity award Jersey red number.svg Stage 11 Vuelta a España
2015
1st MaillotMundialCrono.PNG Time trial, Road World Championships
1st MaillotBielorrusia.PNG National Time Trial Championships
1st Gold medal blank.svg Time trial, European Games
1st Stage 14 (ITT) Giro d'Italia
1st Chrono des Nations

Grand Tours overall classification results timeline

Grand Tour 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
Pink jersey Giro 35 73 37 25  —  —  — 84
Yellow jersey Tour  —  — 60 DNF 77 DNF 86  —
red jersey Vuelta 34 16  —  —  — 73 110 83

WD – Withdrew; IP – In Progress; DNF – Did not finish

References

  1. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  3. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  4. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  5. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  6. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  7. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  8. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  9. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  10. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  11. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  12. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.

External links

Retrieved from "https://infogalactic.com/w/index.php?title=Vasil_Kiryienka&oldid=712308542"