Serhiy Honchar

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Serhiy Honchar
Personal information
Full name Serhiy Honchar
Date of birth July 3, 1970
Country Flag of Ukraine Ukraine
Team information
Current team T-Mobile Team
Rider type Time trialist
Professional team(s)
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000-2001
2002
2003-2004
2005
2006-present
Ideal
Aki
Cantina Tollo
Vini Caldirola
Liquigas
Fassa Bortolo
De Nardi
Domina Vacanze
T-Mobile Team
Major wins
2 stages Tour de France

5 stages Giro d'Italia
1x Eneco Tour of Benelux

1x Cycling World Championship

Serhiy Honchar (Ukrainian: Сергій Гончар; translit.: Serhiy Honchar; Polish: Serhey Honczar; Russian: Сергей Гончар; translit.: Sergey Gonchar) (born July 3, 1970 in Rivne) is a Ukrainian professional road racing cyclist. He is a former World Time Trial Champion. In the 2006 Tour de France, Honchar wore the maillot jaune after a time-trial win in stage 7.

His name is commonly Latinized as "Honchar", but his name is pronounced as "Gonchar"[1]. This error occurs because in Ukrainian "Г" is pronounced as "h" and in Russian "Г" as "g". Although Ukrainian, Honchar himself pronounces his name as a Russian would, i.e. "Sergey Gonchar".

His Time Trialing position has been criticised but it is nevertheless very effective. Honchar rocks and rolls the top part of his body to get the most out of a big gear. He is one of the top Time Trialists in the World and this was evident as he beat Landis, Zabriskie, Lang, Rogers, Kloden, Evans and various others in the TT's in this yr's Tour.

[edit] Results and Teams

2006 — T-Mobile Team
2005 — Domina Vacanze
2004 — De Nardi
2003 — De Nardi-Colpack
  • 8th overall and Stage 21 win – Giro d'Italia
  • Flag of Ukraine Ukraine National Road Race Champion
  • 2nd — Circuit de la Sarthe
2002 — Fassa Bortolo
2001 — Liquigas
2000 — Liquigas
1999 — Vini Caldirola
1998 — Cantina Tollo
1997 — AKI
1996
  • Flag of Ukraine Ukraine National Time Trial Champion

[edit] References

  1. ^ http://www.cbc.ca/cp/sports/060708/s070860.html. Retrieved on July 13, 2006.


UCI World Time Trial Champions
1994: Chris Boardman - 1995: Miguel Indurain - 1996: Alex Zülle - 1997: Laurent Jalabert
1998: Abraham Olano - 1999: Jan Ullrich - 2000: Serhiy Honchar - 2001: Jan Ullrich (2) - 2002: Santiago Botero
2003: Michael Rogers - 2004: Michael Rogers (2) - 2005: Michael Rogers (3) - 2006: Fabian Cancellara
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