Kanstantsin Sivtsov

Kanstantsin Siutsou

Sivtsov at the 2011 Critérium du Dauphiné
Personal information
Full name	Kanstantsin Siutsou Канстанцін Сіўцоў
Born	(1982-08-09) 9 August 1982 Gomel, Soviet Union
Height	1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight	69 kg (152 lb; 10.9 st)
Team information
Current team	Team Sky
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Rider type	All-rounder
Professional team(s)
2001–2002 2003 2005 2006 2007 2008–2011 2012–	Itera Lokomotiv Fassa Bortolo Acqua & Sapone Barloworld Team High Road Team Sky
Major wins
Grand Tours Giro d'Italia 1 individual stage (2009) 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)
Medal record Road bicycle racing Competitor for Team Sky World Championships Bronze 2013 Tuscany Team time trial
Infobox last updated on 4 January 2014

Kanstantsin Siutsou (Belarusian: Канстанцін Сіўцоў; born 9 August 1982) is a Belarusian professional road bicycle racer for UCI ProTeam team Team Sky.^[1]

Career

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

He joined Barloworld for the 2007 season, and rode the Tour de France for the first time, finishing 32nd overall. Siutsou 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 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 Belarussian National Time Trial Championship for the first time.

He moved to Team Sky for the 2012 season. Siutsou 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. Siutsou 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 his 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]

Palmares

Grand Tours overall classification results timeline

Grand Tour	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013
Giro	—	—	15	—	9	—	37
Tour	31	16	—	39	—	DNF	90
Vuelta	—	—	—	37	DNF	—	—

WD – Withdrew; IP – In Progress

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Kanstantsin Siutsou.

• Kanstantsin Sivtsov profile at Team Sky
• Kanstantsin Sivtsov profile at Cycling Archives