Jaan Kirsipuu

Jaan Kirsipuu

Jaan Kirsipuu (born July 17, 1969 in Tartu , Estonian SSR ) is a former Estonian cyclist .

Career

Jaan Kirsipuu came in 1992 as a trainee with the French team Chazal by Vincent Lavenu and in 1993 pro. From 1993 to 2004 Kirsipuu was under contract with the team, which was renamed Petit Casino in 1996 , Casino-ag2r Prévoyance in 1997 and ag2r Prévoyance in 2000 . From 2005 to 2006 he drove for the French team Crédit Agricole . Kirsipuu was considered a sprinter .

In the Tour de France , Kirsipuu won one stage each in 1999 , 2001 , 2002 and 2004 . He also wore the yellow jersey for six days at the 1999 Tour de France . He was the first Estonian to wear the yellow jersey. For a few days he also wore the green jersey . With twelve tour participations, however, Kirsipuu never reached the destination in Paris.

Kirsipuu achieved his victories mainly in smaller races in France. In 1998 he won a stage in the Vuelta a España . In 1999 and 2003 he won the Coupe de France de cyclisme sur route . Between 1987 and 2009 he achieved 26 Estonian championship titles, six of them in road races and nine in the individual time trial. In 1996, 2000 and 2004 he took part in the Summer Olympics in road racing.

At the end of the 2006 season, Kirsipuu temporarily ended his career with the classic Paris-Tours . Up to this point in time he had achieved over 130 professional victories in his career. Even after the temporary end of his professional career, Kirsipuu continued to compete in national races in Estonia. In 2009 Kirsipuu made his comeback in international cycling. In the same year he got seven more victories on four different continents. From 2010 to 2012 Kirsipuu started for the Team Champion System . At the end of the 2012 season he ended his career as a professional cyclist again.

Professional

From 2013 to 2014 Kirsipuu was Sporting Director of the Astana Pro Team . He then became the head coach of the Estonian national cycling team.

Successes - road

1987 Estonian champion - pair time trial Estonian champions - team time trial 1988 Estonian champions - road race 1989 one stage Tour du Hainaut occidental 1990 one stage tour of Sweden Prix ​​des Flandres Françaises 1992 Tro Bro Leon one stage Grand Prix François Faber two stages Cinturón Ciclista Internacional a Mallorca Paris-Mantes-en-Yvelines a stage Paris – Bourges 1993 Grand Prix d'Isbergues a stage four days from Dunkirk three stages Quatre jours de l'Aisne a stage Tour de l'Avenir 1994 two stages Quatre jours de l'Aisne a stage Tour d'Armorique a stage Tour du Poitou-Charentes 1995 a stage Quatre jours de l'Aisne two stages Tour du Poitou-Charentes 1996 GP du Nord-Pas-de-Calais 1997 Grand Prix Cholet-Pays de la Loire two stages tour of Poland Vendée International Classic Paris-Mantes-en-Yvelines one stage tour of Luxembourg two stages Tour du Poitou-Charentes one stage Giro di Puglia 1998 Grand Prix Cholet-Pays de la Loire Grand Prix de Denain a stage of the Étoile de Bessèges Adélie de Vitré route three stages Circuit Cycliste Sarthe a stage four days from Dunkirk Grand Prix de Villers-Cotterêts a stage Route du Sud Estonian champion - individual time trial Estonian champions - road race a stage Tour du Poitou-Charentes a stage Vuelta a España two stages Giro di Puglia

1999 one stage tour of Sweden Grand Prix Cholet-Pays de la Loire one stage tour of Poland two stages of the Étoile de Bessèges one stage tour of the Mediterranean a stage Paris – Nice Tour de Vendée two stages Four days from Dunkirk Overall ranking and a stage Tour de l'Oise one stage tour of Luxembourg Estonian champion - individual time trial Estonian champions - road race a stage Tour de France a stage Tour du Poitou-Charentes a stage of the Giro della Provincia di Lucca 2000 three stages tour of Poland a stage of Setmana Catalana de Ciclisme one stage tour of the Mediterranean three stages Étoile de Bessèges Classic Haribo a stage Paris – Nice Tour de Vendée a stage four days from Dunkirk one stage tour of Denmark 2001 two-stage Mediterranean tour Adélie de Vitré route two stages Circuit Cycliste Sarthe Grand Prix de Denain four stages Four days from Dunkirk a stage Tour de l'Oise Tartu Tänavasõit one stage tour of Luxembourg Estonian champion - individual time trial a stage Tour de France one stage tour of Denmark a stage Tour du Poitou-Charentes one stage tour of Poland a stage of the Giro della Provincia di Lucca 2002 two stages of the Étoile de Bessèges Classic Haribo Kuurne – Brussels – Kuurne Tartu Tänavasõit Estonian champion - individual time trial Estonian champions - road race a stage Tour de France

2003 Gran Premio Costa degli Etruschi a stage of the Étoile de Bessèges Classic Haribo Overall classification and a stage Three days of West Flanders Tour de Vendée a stage four days from Dunkirk Tartu Tänavasõit Estonian champion - individual time trial one stage tour of Denmark a stage Tour du Poitou-Charentes a stage Paris – Corrèze 2004 two stages of the Étoile de Bessèges two stages Three days of West Flanders Estonian champion - individual time trial a stage Tour de France a stage Tour de Wallonie a stage Paris – Corrèze 2005 Estonian champion - individual time trial Estonian champions - road race a stage Tour du Poitou-Charentes one stage tour of Poland 2006 two stages of the Étoile de Bessèges Estonian champion - individual time trial 2007 Estonian champion - multi-day individual race Estonian champions - multi-day race team Estonian champion - individual time trial 2008 Estonian champion - multi-day individual race Estonian champions - multi-day race team Estonian champions - road race 2009 one stage Tour du Cameroun a stage Tour du Maroc two stages FBD Insurance Rás Estonian champions - multi-day race team two stages Tour de Hokkaidō one stage Herald Sun Tour 2011 one stage Tour de Korea Jūrmala Grand Prix

Successes - mountain bike

2006

• Estonian champions - marathon

2007

• Estonian champions - marathon

2008

• Estonian champions - marathon

2009

• Estonian champions - marathon

2010

• a stage and category Masters 2 Crocodile Trophy

Teams

• 1992-1995 Chazal
• 1996 Petit Casino
• 1997–1999 Casino-ag2r Prévoyance
• 2000–2004 ag2r Prévoyance
• 2005-2006 Crédit Agricole
• 2007–2008 CFC / Ruutmeeter
• 2009 Geofco-Jartazi (until May 31)
• 2009 LeTua Cycling Team (from June 1st)
• 2010 CKT TMIT Champion System
• 2011 Champion System
• 2012 Champion System Pro Cycling Team

Web links

• Jaan Kirsipuu in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Jaan Kirsipuu in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Jaan Kirsipuu in the rad-net.de database
• Jaan Kirsipuu in the Tour de France database(French / English )
• Kirsipuu, Jaan. Eesti spordi biograafiline leksikon, November 14, 2014, accessed on August 23, 2015 (Estonian). 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ AG2R-La Mondiale. (No longer available online.) Amaury Sport Organization , 2015, archived from the original on September 5, 2015 ; accessed on August 23, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ^ Samuel Abt: Cycling: Noisy adieu for a quiet veteran - Sports - International Herald Tribune. The New York Times , October 9, 2006, accessed August 23, 2015 . 
3. ↑ Kirsipuu: After Paris Tours it's over. Radsport-News.com, October 5, 2006, accessed August 23, 2015 . 
4. ↑ Jaan Martinson: Jaan Kirsipuu lahkus Astanast, treenib noori ja loob profiklubi. Postimees , November 14, 2014, accessed August 23, 2015 (Estonian). 
5. ↑ News - Estonians dominated the Tour of Estonia 2017. In: tourofestonia.ee. May 25, 2019, accessed July 3, 2019 . 
6. ↑ Overall Results Crocodile Trophy 2010. World Wide Sport Agency, archived from the original on January 2, 2011 ; accessed on August 23, 2015 .