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Ukrainian cyclist
"Serguei Gonchar" redirects here. For the Russian ice hockey player, see
Sergei Gonchar .
Serhiy Gonchar
Gonchar in 2011
Full name Serhiy Gonchar Born (1970-07-03 ) 3 July 1970 (age 53)
Rivne ,
Ukrainian SSR , Soviet Union (now
Ukraine )Height 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in) Weight 72 kg (159 lb; 11.3 st) Current team Retired Discipline Road Role Rider Rider type
Time trialist 1996
Ideal–Aster Lichy 1997
Aki–Safi 1998
Cantina Tollo–Alexia Alluminio 1999
Vini Caldirola 2000–2001
Liquigas–Pata 2002
Fassa Bortolo 2003–2005
De Nardi–Colpack 2006–2007
T-Mobile Team 2008
Preti Mangimi 2009 Team Utensilnord
Grand Tours
Tour de France
2 individual stages (
2006 )
Giro d'Italia
5 individual stages (
1997 ,
1998 ,
1999 ,
2003 ,
2004 )
One-day races and Classics
World Time Trial Championships (
2000 )
National Road Race Championships (2003)
National Time Trial Championships (1996, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002)
Serhiy Gonchar (
Ukrainian : Сергій Гончар ; born 3 July 1970) is a
Ukrainian former professional
road racing cyclist . He won the
World Time Trial Championship in
2000 .
Due to a temporary spelling error in his passport, he is often incorrectly called Honchar.
[1]
Career
Gonchar failed a blood health check in the 1999
Tour de Suisse , and was removed from the race. Even though it was only a health check, and not a doping offence, the Tour de France organisation still decided to ban his
Vini Caldirola team from the
1999 Tour de France .
[2]
In the
2006 Tour de France , Gonchar lead the
general classification after a time-trial win in stage 7. In time trialing, Gonchar rocks the top of his body to get the most out of a big gear. He beat
Landis ,
Zabriskie ,
Lang ,
Rogers ,
Klöden ,
Evans and various others in the individual time trials in the
2006 Tour de France .
On 11 May 2007, Gonchar was suspended for 30 days by his T-Mobile team, following blood tests taken at
Liège–Bastogne–Liège and the
Tour de Romandie . On 19 June 2007, the T-Mobile team announced the termination of his contract.
When Gonchar was not able to find a new team in 2010, he retired.
[3]
Major results
1993
1st
Overall
Okolo Slovenska
1997
1st
Chrono des Herbiers
1st Stage 5 (
ITT )
Tour de Suisse
2nd
Time trial ,
UCI Road World Championships
3rd
Grand Prix Eddy Merckx
5th Overall
Giro d'Italia
1st Stage 18 (
ITT )
9th
Gran Premio de Llodio
1998
1st
Time trial , National Road Championships
1st
Chrono des Herbiers
1st Stage 3b (
ITT )
Four Days of Dunkirk
3rd
Time trial ,
UCI Road World Championships
7th Overall
Ronde van Nederland
1st Stage 3b (
ITT )
10th Overall
Giro d'Italia
1st Stage 21 (
ITT )
Held
after Stages 3 & 4
1999
1st
Overall
Ronde van Nederland
1st Stage 3b (
ITT )
1st
Chrono des Herbiers
1st
Grand Prix des Nations
6th
Time trial ,
UCI Road World Championships
7th Overall
Giro d'Italia
1st Stage 18 (
ITT )
2000
1st
Time trial ,
UCI Road World Championships
1st
Time trial , National Road Championships
1st
Overall
Settimana Ciclistica Lombarda
1st Stage 2
2nd
Chrono des Herbiers
4th
GP Industria & Artigianato di Larciano
9th
Time trial ,
Olympic Games
9th Overall
Giro d'Italia
2001
1st
Time trial , National Road Championships
1st
Overall
Settimana Ciclistica Lombarda
1st Stage 3
3rd Overall
Ronde van Nederland
1st Stage 3b (
ITT )
3rd
Giro dell'Appennino
3rd
Chrono des Herbiers
4th Overall
Giro d'Italia
4th
Giro della Romagna
4th
EnBW Grand Prix (with
Denis Zanette )
5th
GP Industria & Artigianato di Larciano
8th Overall
Giro del Trentino
10th
Trofeo Pantalica
2002
1st
Time trial , National Road Championships
3rd Overall
Setmana Catalana de Ciclisme
10th
Grand Prix Eddy Merckx (with
Marco Velo )
2003
National Road Championships
1st
Road race
2nd
Time trial
3rd Overall
Ronde van Nederland
3rd
Grand Prix des Nations
4th
Trofeo Melinda
4th
Gran Premio Bruno Beghelli
4th
Firenze–Pistoia
7th Overall
Giro d'Italia
1st Stage 21 (
ITT )
7th
Giro di Lombardia
8th Overall
Danmark Rundt
9th Overall
Three Days of De Panne
2004
2nd Overall
Giro d'Italia
1st Stage 13 (
ITT )
3rd
Time trial , National Road Championships
4th
Trofeo Laigueglia
5th
Veenendaal–Veenendaal
2005
1st Stage 3
Giro del Trentino
3rd
Giro del Veneto
6th Overall
Giro d'Italia
9th
Coppa Placci
2006
Tour de France
1st Stages 7 (
ITT ) & 19 (
ITT )
Held
after Stages 7–9
2nd Overall
Circuit de la Sarthe
4th
LuK Challenge Chrono (with
Michael Rogers )
Giro d'Italia
Held
after Stages 5 & 7
2008
2nd
Giro del Veneto
National Road Championships
4th
Road race
4th
Time trial
2009
4th
Raiffeisen Grand Prix
10th
Gran Premio Città di Camaiore
Grand Tour general classification results timeline
Legend
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Did not compete
DNF
Did not finish
See also
References
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