Yaroslav Popovych

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Yaroslav Popovych Road cycling
Yaroslav Popovych TF 2009.jpg
To person
Date of birth 4th January 1980
nation UkraineUkraine Ukraine
discipline Street
To the team
Current team Trek-Segafredo
function Sports director
Societies)
2000-2001 Vellutex-Zoccorinese
Team (s)
2002–2004
2005–2007
2008
2009
2010–2012
2013
2014–2015
2016 		Landbouwkrediet-Colnago
Discovery Channel
Silence-Lotto
Astana
RadioShack-Nissan
RadioShack Leopard
Trek Factory Racing
Trek-Segafredo
Most important successes

Tour of Catalonia 2005
a stage Tour de France

Last updated: February 23, 2013

Jaroslaw Popovyč ( Ukrainian Ярослав Павлович Попович , scientific transliteration Jaroslav Popovyč ; born January 4, 1980 in Drohobytsch ) is a former Ukrainian cyclist and later sports director .

Career

Before moving to the pros, Popovytsch rode in the U23 age group in 2000 and 2001 for the Italian cycling team Vellutex-Zoccorinese , whose sporting director Olivano Locatelli discovered him in 1999 when Popovytsch took part in the Giro della Valle d'Aosta for the first time. During this time he won 37 races. His most important successes in the U23 age group include victories at Paris – Roubaix (U23), the Giro delle Regioni , the Giro della Valle d'Aosta and the U23 road race at the 2001 UCI Road World Championships in Lisbon .

In 2002 Popowytsch signed his first professional contract with the GS / II team Landbouwkrediet-Colnago and was able to take twelfth place in his first participation in the Giro d'Italia . In 2003 he achieved a podium finish with third place in his second participation in the Giro d'Italia . The following year he finished fifth in the Giro d'Italia and wore the Maglia Rosa for three days .

For the 2005 season, Popovych signed a contract with the Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team together with his friend and teammate Volodymyr Bileka . He was one of Lance Armstrong's helpers in his last Tour de France victory - now withdrawn due to doping - and was able to secure twelfth place in the overall standings and the white jersey of the best driver in the youngsters' classification in this first participation. One of his greatest successes to date also dates from the 2005 season: in May he won the overall ranking of the Tour of Catalonia .

At the Tour de France 2006 he could not repeat the result from the previous year and was 25th overall, but won the 12th stage . He also managed a stage win in 2006 at the Vuelta a Castilla y León and the Tour de Georgia , which he was able to finish third in the overall standings.

During the 2007 season, Popowytsch mainly drove as a helper: He supported his teammate Alberto Contador in his victories in the overall standings at Paris – Nice , where Popowytsch himself won a stage, and in the Tour de France , which he placed 8th overall could finish. He started this season as captain of his team at the Giro d'Italia , but retired after the 12th stage because he suffered from the consequences of two falls.

At the beginning of the 2008 season, Popowytsch switched to the Belgian team Silence-Lotto , but was unable to record any notable successes in the course of the season other than third place in the overall standings from Paris-Nice . In November he decided to change the team and signed a two-year contract with the Astana team , where he was to drive as a noble helper for Alberto Contador and Lance Armstrong, whom he knows from times together on the Discovery Channel team.

In 2010 Popowytsch Bruyneel followed to the American team RadioShack and after this merged with the Luxembourg team Leopard Trek to form RadioShack-Nissan .

In the course of the doping investigation by the Public Prosecutor of Padua at the end of 2014, he was suspected of having been a customer of the controversial sports medicine specialist Michele Ferrari .

At Paris-Roubaix 2016 , Popovytsch drove his last race as a cyclist and then became sporting director for his last team, Trek-Segafredo . He finished the race in 86th.

successes

2000
2001
2005
2006
2007
2009

Grand Tour placements

Grand Tour 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
Maglia Rosa Giro d'Italia 12 3 5 - - DNF - 15th - 64 - 133 - -
Yellow jersey Tour de France - - - 12 25th 8th - 41 85 DNF 75 - - -
Red jersey Vuelta a España - - - - - - 52 - - - - 85 115 132
Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout.

Teams

Web links

Commons : Yaroslav Popovych  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biography on forzapopovych.altervista.org ( Memento of the original from September 15, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) 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. Retrieved February 13, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / forzapopovych.altervista.org
  2. ↑ Biography on yaroslavpopovych.net  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved February 13, 2013@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.yaroslavpopovych.net  
  3. ↑ cyclingnews.com of August 3, 2004: Popovych to Discovery: It's official
  4. ↑ radsport-news.com of November 13, 2008: Bruyneel brings Popovych back
  5. ^ Gazetta dello Sport: Systematic doping in Astana. radsport-news.com, December 10, 2014, accessed December 11, 2014 .
  6. ↑ Ppopovych to retire Sunday at Roubaix. velonews.com, April 7, 2016, accessed April 10, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Popovych, Yaroslav
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Попович, Ярослав Павлович (Ukrainian and Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ukrainian cyclist and sports director
DATE OF BIRTH 4th January 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Drohobych , Lviv Oblast , Ukrainian SSR