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) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Team information | |||||||||||||||||||
| Current team | Retired | ||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Road | ||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||||||
| Rider type | Time trialist | ||||||||||||||||||
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| 1996 | Ideal | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1997 | Aki | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1998 | Cantina Tollo–Alexia Alluminio | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1999 | Vini Caldirola | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2000–2001 | Liquigas | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2002 | Fassa Bortolo | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2003–2005 | De Nardi-Colpack | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2006–2007 | T-Mobile Team | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2008 | Preti Mangimi | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2009 | Team Utensilnord | ||||||||||||||||||
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Medal record
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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 (2000).
Career
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]
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.
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]
Major results
- 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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