Alexander Gontchenkov (born April 4, 1970) is a Ukrainian former professional racing cyclist, who competed early in his career on the

track Track or Tracks may refer to: Routes or imprints * Ancient trackway, any track or trail whose origin is lost in antiquity * Animal track, imprints left on surfaces that an animal walks across * Desire path, a line worn by people taking the shorte ...

and throughout his professional career (1993–2000) on the road. He competed in two events at the

1992 Summer Olympics The 1992 Summer Olympics ( es, Juegos Olímpicos de Verano de 1992, ca, Jocs Olímpics d'estiu de 1992), officially known as the Games of the XXV Olympiad ( es, Juegos de la XXV Olimpiada, ca, Jocs de la XXV Olimpíada) and commonly known as ...

for the Unified Team.

Major results

;1988 : 1st Jersey rainbow

Team pursuit, UCI Junior Track Cycling World Championships ;1990 : 1st Jersey rainbow

Amateur team pursuit, UCI Track World Championships (with Dmitri Nelyubin,

Evgueni Berzin Evgeni Valentinovich Berzin (; born 3 June 1970 in Vyborg, Russia) is a Russian former road cyclist. Coming from track cycling, where he successfully represented the Soviet Union at World Championships, he moved to Italy in 1992 and turned prof ...

, & Valeri Baturo) : 2nd Amateur team pursuit, National Track Championships ;1992 : 1st ;1993 : 3rd

Paris–Tours Paris–Tours is a French one-day classic road cycling race held every October from the outskirts of Paris to the cathedral city of Tours. It is a predominantly flat course through the Chevreuse and Loire valleys; the highest point is 200 m, ...

: 9th Overall Three Days of De Panne ;1994 : 6th Overall

Four Days of Dunkirk The Four Days of Dunkirk (french: Quatre Jours de Dunkerque) is road bicycle race around the Nord-Pas de Calais region of northern France. Despite the name of the race, since the addition of an individual time trial in 1963, the race has been h ...

: 7th Overall Kellogg's Tour : 10th Overall Three Days of De Panne ;1995 : 2nd Brabantse Pijl : 9th Overall Vuelta a Andalucía ;1996 : 1st Stage 16 Giro d'Italia : 2nd Overall Tour de Romandie ::1st Stage 4 : 2nd

Milan–San Remo Milan–San Remo (in Italian ''Milano-Sanremo''), also called "''The Spring classic''" or "''La Classicissima''", is an annual road cycling race between Milan and Sanremo, in Northwest Italy. With a distance of 298 km (~185.2 miles) it is t ...

: 2nd Overall Tirreno–Adriatico : 2nd

Trofeo Pantalica The Trofeo Pantalica was a professional road bicycle race held annually in Province of Syracuse, Italy Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It is located in the ...

: 2nd Overall Vuelta a Andalucía : 4th Amstel Gold Race : 5th Telekom Grand Prix (with Marco Fincato) : 7th La Flèche Wallonne : 8th Overall Tour of the Basque Country ;1997 : 1st Gran Premio Città di Camaiore : 1st Giro dell'Emilia : 1st Stage 3 Giro di Sardegna : 2nd Clásica de San Sebastián : 3rd Road race, Russian National Road Championships : 3rd

Clásica Internacional de Alcobendas Clásica Internacional de Alcobendas is a three-day professional cycle road race held in Spain in May each year. The event was first run in 1984 but was not held in 1988 and 1990. Since 2005, the race has been organised as a 2.1 event on the UCI E ...

: 5th GP Ouest–France : 5th Trofeo Matteotti : 6th Overall Tour Méditerranéen ::1st Stage 5 : 7th Paris–Brussels : 9th Wincanton Classic : 10th Züri-Metzgete ;1998 : 1st Stage 3a

: 5th Giro della Provincia di reggio Calabria : 9th Trofeo Melinda : 9th Giro del Veneto ;1999 : 1st Stage 4

Giro del Trentino The Tour of the Alps is an annual professional cycling stage race in Italy and Austria. First held in 1962, it was named Giro del Trentino ( en, Tour of Trentino) until 2016, and run over four stages in the Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol region o ...

: 5th Rund um den Henninger Turm

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* Ukrainian track cyclists Ukrainian male cyclists Soviet male cyclists 1970 births Living people Sportspeople from Lviv Olympic cyclists for the Unified Team Cyclists at the 1992 Summer Olympics Ukrainian Giro d'Italia stage winners {{Ukraine-cycling-bio-stub