Alexey Vladimirovich Tsatevich (; 5 July 1989 – 8 April 2024) was a Russian professional

road bicycle racer Road bicycle racing is the cycle sport discipline of road cycling, held primarily on paved roads. Road racing is the most popular professional form of bicycle racing, in terms of numbers of competitors, events and spectators. The two most com ...

, who last rode for

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team .

Career

Born in

Verkhnyaya Pyshma Verkhnyaya Pyshma () is a types of inhabited localities in Russia, town in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia, located north of Yekaterinburg. Population: History It was founded in 1660 as the village (''village#Russia, selo'') of Pyshminskoye, whic ...

in the then-

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, Tsatevich competed as a professional from the start of the 2012 season, when he joined , having previously competed for the squad's feeder team – – in 2011. After several top ten placements during the 2012 season, Tsatevich achieved the first win of his professional career in February

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, when he won the 1.1-categorised

Le Samyn Le Samyn is an annual single-day road bicycle race in Belgium, held usually in late February or early March. The event was created in 1968 as ''Grand Prix de Fayt-le-Franc'', named after the former municipality where it started and finished. In ...

race in Belgium. Tsatevich attacked with around remaining, and was able to beat the peloton to the line, in Dour. Tsatevich was named in the start list for the

2016 Giro d'Italia The 2016 Giro d'Italia was the 99th edition of the Giro d'Italia, one of cycling's Grand Tour (cycling), Grand Tour races. The Giro started in Apeldoorn on 6 May with a individual time trial, followed by two other stages in the Netherlands, both ...

. On Stage 9, the individual time trial, Tsatevich was fined for drafting behind Tobias Ludvigsson. Further to this, Team Katusha took the step to withdraw him from the race. Tsatevich died on 8 April 2024, at the age of 34.

Major results

;2007 : 1st Trofeo San Rocco : 10th Overall Trophée Centre Morbihan ::1st Stage 1 ;2008 : 1st 2 Giorni Marchigiana ;2009 : 4th

Trofeo Città di San Vendemiano The Trofeo Città di San Vendemiano is an under-23 one day cycling race held annually in Italy. It is part of UCI Europe Tour in category 1.2U. Winners References

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: 9th

Gran Premio della Liberazione Gran Premio della Liberazione is an Italian road bicycle race that has been held annually on 25 April since 1946. It marks the anniversary of the 1945 fall of Benito Mussolini's Italian Social Republic. It is a Single-day race that is rated 1.2 ...

: 10th GP Inda ;2010 : 1st Overall Gagra–Sukhumi ::1st Stage 1 : 2nd Coppa del Mobilio : 10th

;2011 : 1st MaillotRusia

Criterium, National Road Championships : 1st Grand Prix de la ville de Nogent-sur-Oise : 1st Stage 2 Tour of Yeroskipos : 1st Stage 2 GP Costa Azul : 1st Stage 4 Tour Alsace : 1st Stage 6 Tour of Bulgaria : 2nd La Côte Picarde : 2nd Grand Prix of Moscow : 2nd Central European Tour Budapest GP : 7th ZLM Tour : 7th GP Kranj : 8th Road race, UCI Under-23 Road World Championships : 10th Mayor Cup ;2012 : 8th Trofeo Palma de Mallorca : 8th

: 8th Volta Limburg Classic : 10th Trofeo Migjorn ;2013 : 1st

: 1st Stage 3 Settimana Ciclistica Lombarda : 9th Eschborn-Frankfurt City Loop : 10th Overall Tour of Belgium ;2014 : 2nd

: 7th

Gent–Wevelgem Gent–Wevelgem, officially Gent–Wevelgem – In Flanders Fields, is a road bicycle racing, road cycling race in Belgium, held annually since 1934. It is one of the classic cycle races, classic races part of the Flemish Cycling Week, run in late ...

: 10th Brabantse Pijl ;2015 : 3rd

Trofeo Laigueglia The Trofeo Laigueglia is an early season road bicycle race held annually in Liguria, Italy. It is held about ten days after the opening to the Italian season, the Gran Premio della Costa Etruschi. From 2005 to 2014, the race was organised as a ...

: 6th Overall Tour du Haut Var : 10th Overall

Circuit de la Sarthe The Circuit des 24 Heures du Mans, also known as Circuit de la Sarthe (after the 1906 French Grand Prix triangle circuit) located in Le Mans, Sarthe, France, is a semi-permanent motorsport race course, chiefly known as the venue for the 24 H ...

: 10th Dwars door Vlaanderen ;2016 : 1st Stage 7

Volta a Catalunya The Volta a Catalunya (; Tour of Catalonia, ) is a road bicycle race held annually in Catalonia, Spain. It is one of three World Tour stage races in Spain, together with the Vuelta a España and the Tour of the Basque Country. The race has had ...

: 2nd Clásica de Almería : 7th Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

References

External links

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Cycling Quotient profile

Team Katusha profile
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