Vasil Kiryenka

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Vasil Kiryienka Road cycling
Kiryenka 2018
Kiryenka 2018
To person
Date of birth June 28, 1981
nation BelarusBelarus Belarus
discipline Train , road
Driver type Time trial
height 1.82 m
Racing weight 75 kg
End of career 2019
Team (s)
2004
2006 (until
May 31st ) 2006 (from June 14th)
2007–2008
2009––2012
2013– 		Grupa PSB
OTC Doors-Lauretana
Rietumu Bank-Riga-Ideal
Tinkoff Credit Systems
Caisse d'Epargne / Movistar
Team Sky / Team Ineos
Most important successes

UCI Road World Championships

  • bronzeIndividual time trial 2012
  • bronzeTeam time trial 2013 , 2017
  • Rainbow jerseyIndividual time trial 2015

UCI track world championships

Grand Tours

Last updated: September 17, 2017

Wassil Wassiljewitsch Kiryjenka , also Vasil Kiryienka ( Belarusian Васіль Васільевіч Кірыенка ; born June 28, 1981 in Homel , Belarusian SSR , USSR ) is a former Belarusian track and road cyclist .

Career

Kiryjenka achieved his first international success in 2005 in the Italian one-day race Coppa della Pace . In the same year he became the Belarusian time trial champion and was able to repeat this success in 2006. At the road world championships in Salzburg , he surprisingly finished sixth in the time trial. Until 2008, Kiryjenka appeared several times as the stage winner in smaller tours .

After winning a stage of the Giro d'Italia in 2008 and being world champion in points at the 2008 World Track Championships in Manchester , he received his first contract with a UCI ProTeam at the Caisse d'Epargne in 2009 . For this team - which was called Movistar Team from 2010 - he was able to win another stage at the Giro d'Italia in 2011 and with the Route du Sud his first international stage race.

At the 2012 UCI Road World Championships in Limburg , the Netherlands , he was able to build on the achievements shown in 2006 as a bronze medalist. At the end of the season he switched to the Sky ProCycling team and was set up for the Tour de France 2013 , which he had to leave after the 9th stage because the waiting period was exceeded . At the end of the 2013 season he was able to win a stage in the Vuelta a España .

At the first European Games in Baku in 2015 , he won the gold medal in the individual time trial. On September 23, 2015, he became world champion in the individual time trial at the UCI Road World Championships in Richmond .

On January 31, 2020, Kiryjenka announced his immediate retirement from professional cycling due to heart problems. He followed the advice of his doctors.

successes

2005
2006
2007
2008
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
  • MaillotBielorrusia.PNG Belarusian champion - individual time trial
2019

Grand Tour placements

Grand Tour 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
Maglia Rosa Giro d'Italia 35 68 37 24 - - - 84 - 102 DNF -
Yellow jersey Tour de France - - 58 DNF 77 DNF 86 - 103 112 - -
Red jersey Vuelta a España 34 16 - - - 73 110 83 - - - DNF
Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout.

Web links

Commons : Wassil Kiryjenka  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ radsport-news.com from July 7, 2013: Froome: "My teammates are only human too"
  2. ↑ Heart problems: Kiryienka has to end his career. In: radsport-news.com. Accessed January 31, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Kiryenka, Vasil
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kiryenka, Wassil Wassiljewitsch; Кірыенка, Васіль Васільевіч (Belarusian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belarusian cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH June 28, 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Homel , Belarusian SSR , USSR