Serhiy Honchar
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| Full name | Serhiy Honchar | ||||||||||||||||||
| Born |
July 3, 1970 Rivne, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 72 kg (159 lb; 11.3 st) | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Current team | Retired | ||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Road | ||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||||||
| Rider type | Time trialist | ||||||||||||||||||
| Professional team(s) | |||||||||||||||||||
| 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000–2001 2002 2003–2004 2005 2006–2007 2008 2009 |
Ideal Aki Cantina Tollo-Alexia Alluminio Vini Caldirola Liquigas Fassa Bortolo De Nardi Domina Vacanze T-Mobile Team Preti Mangimi Team Utensilnord | ||||||||||||||||||
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Serhiy Honchar (Ukrainian: Сергій Гончар; born July 3, 1970) is a Ukrainian former professional road racing cyclist. He is a former world time trial champion. In the 2006 Tour de France, Honchar lead the general classification after a time-trial win in stage 7.
In time trialing, Honchar rocks the top of his body to get the most out of a big gear. He beat Landis, Zabriskie, Lang, Rogers, Kloden, Evans and various others in the individual time trials in the 2006 Tour de France.
Honchard 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.[1] On 11 May 2007, Honchar 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 Honchar was not able to find a new team in 2010, he retired.[2]
Results and Teams
- 1996
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National Time Trial Champion - 1997
- 1st Chrono des Herbiers
- 2nd
World Time Trial Championship - 1st stage 18 (ITT) Giro d'Italia
- 1st stage 5 (ITT) Tour de Suisse
- 1998
- National Time Trial Champion
- 1st stage 3b (ITT) Ronde van Nederland
- 1st stage 3b (ITT) Four Days of Dunkirk
- 3rd
World Time Trial Championship - 10th overall Giro d'Italia
- 1st stage 21 (ITT)
- 1st Chrono des Herbiers
- 1999
- 1st Ronde van Nederland
- 1st stage 3b (ITT)
- 7th overall Giro d'Italia
- 1st stage 18 (ITT)
- 1st Coppa delle Nazioni – Memorial Fausto Coppi
- 1st Grand Prix des Nations
- 1st Chrono des Herbiers
- 2000
- National Time Trial Champion
- 1st
World Time Trial Championship - 1st overall Settimana Ciclistica Lombarda
- 1st stage 2
- 9th overall Giro d'Italia
- 1st Coppa delle Nazioni – Memorial Fausto Coppi
- 2nd Chrono des Herbiers
- 2001
- 1st overall Settimana Ciclistica Lombarda
- 1st stage 3
- 4th overall Giro d'Italia
- 2nd overall Ronde van Nederland
- 1st stage 4 (ITT)
- National Time Trial Champion
- 3rd Chrono des Herbiers
- 2002
- 3rd overall Setmana Catalana de Ciclisme
- 1st Coppa delle Nazioni – Memorial Fausto Coppi
- National Time Trial Champion
- 2003
- 8th overall Giro d'Italia
- 1st stage 21 (ITT)
- National Road Race Champion
- 3rd overall Ronde van Nederland
- 3rd Grand Prix des Nations
- 2004
- 2nd overall Giro d'Italia
- 1st stage 13 (ITT)
- 2005
- 1st stage 3 Giro del Trentino
- 6th overall Giro d'Italia
- 3rd Giro del Veneto
- 2006
- 2nd overall Circuit de la Sarthe
- Giro d'Italia
- Held the maglia rosa (after stages 5 and 7)
- Tour de France
- 52nd general classification
- Held the maillot jaune (after stages 7–9)
- 1st stage 7 (ITT)
- 1st stage 19 (ITT)
See also
References
- General
Serhiy Honchar profile at Cycling Archives
- Specific
- ↑ "Vini Caldirola now out of Tour". Cyclingnews. Future Publishing Limited. 19 June 1999. Retrieved 21 August 2011.
- ↑ Haake, Bjorn (19 February 2010). "Honchar retires set to lead Ukrainian National Team". Velonation.
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