Vasil Kiryienka
 Kiryienka at the 2011 Giro d'Italia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Vasili Vasilyevich Kiryienka | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname | Robocop[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | (1981-06-28) 28 June 1981 Rečyca, Byelorussian SSR, Soviet Union | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 75 kg (165 lb; 11.8 st) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Current team | Team Sky | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Road and Track | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rider type | Time trialist/ Domestique | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2006 | OTC Doors | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2006 | Rietumu Banka–Riga | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2007–2008 | Tinkoff Credit Systems | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2009–2012 | Caisse d'Epargne | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2013– | Team Sky[2] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Grand Tours
Stage races
One-day races and Classics
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Medal record
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Vasili Vasilyevich Kiryienka (Belarusian: Васіль Васілевіч Кірыенка; Łacinka: Vasil Vasilevič Kiryjenka) (born 28 June 1981) is a Belarusian racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Team Sky.[3]
Contents
1 Career
1.1 Early years
1.2 Caisse d'Epargne (2009–2012)
1.3 Team Sky (2013–present)
2 Career achievements
2.1 Major results
2.2 Grand Tour general classification results timeline
3 References
4 External links
Career
Early years
Born in Rečyca in the Belorussian S.S.R. in 1981, Kiryienka won his first national time trial championship in 2002. His early career focused mainly on the track, where he won the Points Race at the 2008 UCI Track Cycling World Championships. Later that season Kiryienka won Stage 19 of the Giro d'Italia, a mountainous affair leading to Presolana, after spending the day on the attack and registering more than 6 hours and a half in the saddle. He attacked his six breakaway companions at the foot of the Monte Para climb and soloed to the finish for the win, by a margin of over four minutes.[4]
Caisse d'Epargne (2009–2012)
Kiryienka competing in the time trial at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London
Kiryienka moved to the Spanish Caisse d'Epargne squad for the 2009 season.
In 2010 he finished second in the tenth stage of the Tour de France after he was outsprinted at the line in Gap by Sérgio Paulinho (Team RadioShack) after the pair's decisive attack with 14 kilometres (8.7 miles) remaining.[5]
On 23 May 2011, during the Giro d'Italia, Kiryienka's Movistar Team team mate Xabier Tondo was killed in a freak accident at home while preparing to train with teammates. He was reportedly crushed between his car and a garage door.[6] Five days later, Kiryienka rode to victory in a solo effort on Stage 20, a mountain top finish at Sestriere, and he dedicated the stage victory to Tondó, pointing skyward as he crossed the finish line.[7] The team had met to consider withdrawing from the race after Tondó's death, but instead the riders unanimously voted to ride on.[8] Kiryienka commented that the squad at the Giro hoped to get a further stage win (as Francisco Ventoso's win had come before Tondó's death) to honor him, while other members of the team grieved with Tondó's family.[9]
In September 2012, Kiryienka finished third in the individual time trial at the road world championships.[10]
Team Sky (2013–present)
Kiryienka at the 2014 Tour de France
Kiryienka left Movistar Team at the end of the 2012 season, and joined Team Sky on an initial three-year contract from the 2013 season onwards.[2]
In May 2015, Kiryienka won the individual time trial of the Giro d'Italia, which was 59.5 kilometres (37.0 miles) long and relatively rolling.[11] In June 2015, he won the individual time trial at the inaugural European Games in Baku, Azerbaijan.[12] On 23 September 2015, Kiryienka won the individual time trial at the road world championships in Richmond, Virginia, United States.[13]
Kiryienka had the honor to carry the flag of his native Belarus at the opening ceremony of the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, where he competed in the men's individual time trial event; he finished in 17th place.
Career achievements
Major results
- 2002
- 1st
Time trial, National Road Championships - 2003
UCI Track World Cup
- 1st
Individual pursuit – Aguascalientes - 3rd
Team pursuit – Aguascalientes
- 1st
UEC European Under–23 Track Championships
- 3rd
Individual pursuit - 3rd Team pursuit
- 3rd
Time trial, National Road Championships
Individual pursuit – Aguascalientes
Team pursuit – Aguascalientes
Individual pursuit- 2004
- 3rd Individual pursuit – Aguascalientes, UCI Track World Cup
- 6th Overall Tour of Turkey
- 2005
- 1st Time trial, National Road Championships
- 1st Points race – Manchester, UCI Track World Cup
- 1st Coppa della Pace
- 1st Giro del Casentino
- 1st Coppa Comune Castelfranco di Sopra
- 1st Stage 3 Giro della Toscana Under–23
- 1st Coppa Mobilio Ponsacco – Cronometro
- 2006
- 1st Time trial, National Road Championships
UCI Track World Cup
- 1st Scratch race – Sydney
- 2nd
Points race – Moscow - 3rd Points race – Sydney
- 1st
- 2nd Overall Scandinavian Week
- 1st Stage 3
- 2nd Scandinavian Open
- 3rd Points race, UCI Track World Championships
- 3rd Riga Grand Prix
- 4th Tallinn–Tartu GP
- 4th Szlakiem Walk Majora Hubala
- 5th Overall Five Rings of Moscow
- 8th Overall Course de la Solidarité Olympique
- 1st Stage 6
Points race – Moscow- 2007
- 1st Stage 3 Ster Elektrotoer
- 1st Stage 5 Vuelta a Burgos
- 2nd Overall Étoile de Bessèges
- 2nd Eindhoven Team Time Trial
- 7th Overall Tirreno–Adriatico
- 8th Overall Tour of Austria
- 9th Tour du Haut Var
- 9th Grand Prix de Fourmies
- 2008
- 1st
Points race, UCI Track World Championships
- 1st Stage 19 Giro d'Italia
- 1st Stage 1 (TTT) Settimana Ciclistica Lombarda
- 2nd Overall Ster Elektrotoer
- 2nd GP di Camaiore
- 7th Overall Vuelta a Murcia
- 2011
- 1st
Overall Route du Sud
- 1st Stage 20 Giro d'Italia
- 2nd Overall Critérium International
- 1st
Points classification
- 1st
- 9th Overall Vuelta a Murcia
- 10th Overall Tour of the Basque Country
- 1st Stage 2
Overall Route du Sud
Points classification- 2012
- 3rd Time trial, UCI Road World Championships
- 6th Overall Critérium du Dauphiné
- 2013
- 1st Stage 18 Vuelta a España
UCI World Road Championships
- 3rd Team time trial
- 4th Time trial
- 3rd
- 2014
- 1st Stage 1b (TTT) Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali
- 3rd Overall Bayern–Rundfahrt
- 4th Time trial, UCI Road World Championships
Combativity award Stage 11 Vuelta a España
- 2015
- 1st
Time trial, UCI Road World Championships
- 1st Time trial, National Road Championships
- 1st Time trial, European Games
- 1st Stage 14 (ITT) Giro d'Italia
- 1st Chrono des Nations
- 2016
- 1st Chrono des Nations
- 2nd Time trial, UCI World Road Championships
- 2017
UCI Road World Championships
- 3rd Team time trial
- 5th Time trial
- 3rd
- 6th GP Miguel Indurain
- 2018
- 1st Time trial, National Road Championships
- 9th Time trial, UCI Road World Championships
Combativity award Stage 11 Vuelta a España
Time trial, UCI Road World Championships
Grand Tour general classification results timeline
Grand Tour | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 |
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 Giro d'Italia | 35 | 73 | 37 | 25 | — | — | — | 84 | — | 102 | DNF |
 Tour de France | — | — | 60 | DNF | 77 | DNF | 86 | — | 103 | 112 | — |
 Vuelta a España | 34 | 16 | — | — | — | 73 | 110 | 83 | — | — | — |
| — | Did not compete |
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DNF | Did not finish |
References
^ Mills, Benjamin. "Team Sky Photo Gallery". Team Sky. BSkyB. Retrieved 11 July 2012..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#33aa33;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}
^ ab "Kiryienka to Sky for three years". Cycling News. Future Publishing Limited. 18 August 2012. Retrieved 20 August 2012.
^ "Team Sky". Cyclingnews.com. Immediate Media Company. Archived from the original on 5 January 2019. Retrieved 5 January 2019.
^ Gregor Brown (2008-05-30). "Contador proves tough under Di Luca's pressure". Cycling News. Retrieved 2009-11-28.
^ "Sergio Paulinho snatches Tour de France stage win". BBC Sport. BBC. 14 July 2010. Retrieved 23 September 2015.
^ "Xavier Tondo dies in domestic accident". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. 23 May 2011. Archived from the original on 27 June 2014. Retrieved 17 August 2011.
^ Felix Lowe (28 May 2011). "Kiryienka remembers Tondo with win". Eurosport. Yahoo! News Network. Archived from the original on 27 June 2014. Retrieved 17 August 2011.
^ "Movistar to continue in Giro in the wake of Tondo's death". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. 23 May 2011. Archived from the original on 27 June 2014. Retrieved 24 May 2011.
^ Jean-François Quénet (28 May 2011). "Kiryienka paid tribute to Xavier Tondo". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. Archived from the original on 5 June 2013. Retrieved 31 May 2011.
^ "Road World Championships: Tony Martin retains time trial title". BBC Sport. BBC. 19 September 2012. Retrieved 23 September 2015.
^ "Contador powers back into Giro lead in stage 14 ITT won by Kiryienka". VeloNews. Competitor Group, Inc. 23 May 2015. Retrieved 1 June 2015.
^ "Kiryienka, Van Dijk win European Games time trials". Cyclingnews.com. Immediate Media Company. 18 June 2015. Retrieved 23 September 2015.
^ "Kiryienka wins time-trial gold at World Championships". BBC Sport. BBC. 23 September 2015. Retrieved 23 September 2015.
External links
 | Wikimedia Commons has media related to Vasil Kiryienka. |
Vasil Kiryienka profile at Team Sky
Vasil Kiryienka at Cycling Archives
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| Preceded by Max Mirnyi | Flagbearer for  BelarusRio de Janeiro 2016 | Succeeded by Incumbent |
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