Kanstanzin Siuzou

Kanstanzin Siuzou

Kanstanzin Siuzou (2011)
To person
Date of birth	9th August 1982 (age 38)
nation	Belarus
discipline	Street
End of career	2018
doping
9 / 2019–9 / 2022	EPO
Team (s)
2005 2006 2007 2008–2011 2012–2015 2016 2017–2018	Fassa Bortolo Acqua & Sapone Barloworld Team Columbia / HTC-Highroad Team Sky Team Dimension Data Bahrain-Merida
Most important successes
a stage of the Giro d'Italia 2009
Last updated: June 23, 2020

Kanstanzin Siuzou (also Kanstantsin Siutsou , Belarusian Канстанцін Сіўцоў , / siwˈtsɔw /; in Russian form Константин Сивцов / Konstantin Siwzow , born August 9, 1982 in Homel ) is a former Belarusian cyclist .

Career

Siuzou won the U23 road race title at the 2004 World Championships in Verona . The following year he received his first contract with an international cycling team at Fassa Bortolo , for which he won his first international elite race in his first year at a stage of the Settimana Internazionale .

Siuzou won the Tour of Georgia for Team Columbia in 2008 and the eighth stage as a soloist at the Giro d'Italia 2009 . At the Giro d'Italia 2009 he was also twelfth overall and in 2011 ninth. He then moved to Team Sky and was in the Tour de France roster of this team in 2012 and 2013 for the eventual winners Bradley Wiggins and Chris Froome . In 2016 he switched to Dimension Data and , by finishing tenth in the Giro d'Italia 2016 , he built on his individual successes as a tour driver.

Between 2011 and 2016 Siuzou was three times Belarusian champion in the individual time trial ; Also national road champion in 2016.

In 2018 Siuzou fell while inspecting the track for the opening time trial of the Giro d'Italia in Jerusalem and broke a neck vertebra. In July of the same year he was tested positive for EPO in a doping control and suspended from his Bahrain-Merida team . After the end of the 2018 season, he ended his cycling career. In June 2020 it was banned by the UCI , the World Cycling Federation, for four years from 2018 until September 4, 2022.

successes

2004

• World Champion - Road Race (U23)

2005

• a stage Settimana Internazionale

2006

• a stage of the peace journey

2008

• Overall ranking and one stage Tour de Georgia

2009

• Tour de Romandie team time trial
• a stage and team time trial Giro d'Italia

2010

• Team time trial Vuelta a España

2011

• Giro d'Italia team time trial
• Belarusian champion - individual time trial

2013

• a stage and team time trial Giro del Trentino
• Giro d'Italia team time trial
• Belarusian champion - individual time trial
• World Championship - Team Time Trial

2014

• Belarusian champion - individual time trial

2016

• Belarusian champion - individual time trial
• Belarusian champion - road race

2018

• Overall ranking and a stage tour of Croatia

Grand Tour placements

Grand Tour	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018
Giro d'Italia	-	DNF	12	-	9	-	36	DNF	26th	10	35	DNS
Tour de France	31	16	-	37	-	DNF	90	-	-	-	-	-
Vuelta a España	-	-	-	37	DNF	-	-	43	-	-	-	-

Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout. DNS: did not start , reported but not started.

Web links

Commons : Kanstanzin Siuzou  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Kanstanzin Siuzou in the ProCyclingStats.com database
• Kanstanzin Siuzou in the database of Radsportseiten.net
• Kanstanzin Siuzou in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Columbia Highroad clears. radsport-news.com, May 16, 2009, accessed December 29, 2016 . 
2. ↑ Broken neck vertebrae: Siutsou is out for months. In: radsport-news.com. May 5, 2018, accessed May 5, 2018 . 
3. ↑ EPO: Konstantin Siutsou tested positive. In: cyclingmagazine.de. September 5, 2018, accessed November 17, 2019 . 
4. ↑ UCI bans resigned Siutsou for four years. In: radsport-news.com. September 4, 2022, accessed June 23, 2020 .