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Kanstantsin Sivtsov (or Siutsou ( be, Канстанцін Віктаравіч Сіўцоў;
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: Kanstancin Viktaravič Siŭcoŭ; born 9 August 1982) is a Belarusian former professional
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, who rode professionally between 2001 and 2018 for the Itera, Lokomotiv, , , , , , and squads. He retired after provisionally being suspended from the sport following an adverse analytical finding for
erythropoietin Erythropoietin (; EPO), also known as erythropoetin, haematopoietin, or haemopoietin, is a glycoprotein cytokine secreted mainly by the kidneys in response to cellular hypoxia; it stimulates red blood cell production (erythropoiesis) in the bo ...
(EPO).


Career

Sivtsov was born in the
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city of Gomel in 1982. He won the under-23 road race at the UCI Road World Championships. Sivtsov joined for the 2007 season, and rode the Tour de France, finishing 32nd overall.


Team High Road (2008–11)

Siutsou moved to for 2008, where he took his first stage race overall victory at the
Tour de Georgia The Tour de Georgia was a U.S. professional road cycling stage race across the state of Georgia. The race began in 2003 and was contested six times until 2008. It was one of the three events in North America ranked as Hors Classe ( 2.HC) stage r ...
, and came 16th overall in the Tour de France. In the
2009 Giro d'Italia 9 (nine) is the natural number following and preceding . Evolution of the Arabic digit In the beginning, various Indians wrote a digit 9 similar in shape to the modern closing question mark without the bottom dot. The Kshatrapa, Andhra and ...
, Sivtsov won his first two Grand Tour stages, the team time trial on stage one and a successful solo breakaway in stage eight. Sivtsov enjoyed his most successful year in 2011. He finished tenth overall in the Giro d'Italia – again winning the team time trial stage – with an eighth-place finish in the Critérium du Dauphiné, and won the Belarusian National Time Trial Championships for the first time.


Team Sky (2012–15)

Sivtsov moved to for the 2012 season. He was part of the teams that helped Richie Porte win the Volta ao Algarve, Bradley Wiggins win
Paris–Nice Paris–Nice is a professional cycling stage race in France, held annually since 1933. Raced over eight days, the race usually starts with a prologue in the Paris region and ends with a final stage either in Nice or on the Col d'Èze overlookin ...
, the Tour de Romandie and Critérium du Dauphiné, and Michael Rogers win
Bayern–Rundfahrt The International Bayern Rundfahrt ( en, Tour of Bavaria) was a stage race cycling race held each year in Bavaria, Germany, between 1980 and 2015. The race was held as an amateur race between 1980 and 1988, and from 2005 to 2015, the race was orga ...
. Sivtsov was selected to ride the Tour de France as one of Wiggins' main domestiques, but crashed out on stage three with remaining with a fractured left tibia, the first retirement of the 2012 Tour. Sivtsov claimed a solo win on stage two of the
2013 Giro del Trentino The 2013 Giro del Trentino was the 37th edition of the Giro del Trentino cycling stage race. It started on 16 April in Lienz (Austria) and ended on 19 April in Sega di Ala. The race, that was officially presented on 8 April in Trento, consisted o ...
.


Team Dimension Data (2016)

In October 2015, he announced that he would be leaving Team Sky after four seasons to join for 2016.


Doping case

On 5 September 2018, the UCI announced that an out of competition test had resulted in an adverse analytical finding of
Erythropoietin Erythropoietin (; EPO), also known as erythropoetin, haematopoietin, or haemopoietin, is a glycoprotein cytokine secreted mainly by the kidneys in response to cellular hypoxia; it stimulates red blood cell production (erythropoiesis) in the bo ...
in a sample collected 31 July 2018. Siutsou was provisionally suspended pending the result of any B sample test. This followed his back injury sustained whilst carrying out a recon of the time trial at the Giro earlier that year. On 23 June 2020, he was given a four-year ban for doping using EPO.


Major results

;2000 : 6th Time trial,
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;2002 : National Road Championships ::2nd Time trial ::3rd Road race ;2003 : 2nd Points race, UEC European Under-23 Track Championships : National Road Championships ::2nd Road race ::3rd Time trial ;2004 : 1st Road race, UCI Under-23 Road World Championships : 1st Time trial, National Road Championships : 2nd Overall
Volta a Lleida The Volta a Lleida was a road bicycle racing, road cycling stage race held in the Lleida (province), Lleida region of Spain. It was a 2.2 category race on the UCI Europe Tour between 2005 and 2008. List of overall winners {, class="wikitable" , ...
: 4th Ruota d'Oro ;2005 : 7th
Trofeo Melinda Trofeo Melinda was a single-day road bicycle race held annually in Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol, Italy. After 2005, the race was organised as a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour. It was created after the disappearance of Giro dell'Umbria, held b ...
;2006 : 1st Road race, National Road Championships : 2nd
Subida al Naranco Subida al Naranco is a professional cycle road race held in Spain in early June each year. The event was first run in 1941 but was not held consistently until 1981. Between 2005 and 2010, the race has been organised as a 1.1 event on the UCI Euro ...
: 3rd Gran Premio Industria e Commercio Artigianato Carnaghese : 4th Overall Course de la Paix ::1st Young rider classification ::1st Stage 5 : 4th Gran Premio Nobili Rubinetterie : 9th Giro di Toscana : 10th Giro dell'Emilia ;2007 : 2nd Giro dell'Appennino : 3rd Gran Premio Città di Camaiore : 3rd Tre Valli Varesine : 4th Giro del Lazio : 5th Coppa Placci : 8th
Gran Premio di Lugano The Gran Premio di Lugano ( en, Grand Prix of Lugano) is a road bicycle race held annually in Lugano, Switzerland. Prior to 1981 it was held as an individual time trial but in recent years it has been organised as a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe ...
: 8th Gran Premio di Chiasso : 9th Overall Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali ;2008 : 1st Overall
Tour de Georgia The Tour de Georgia was a U.S. professional road cycling stage race across the state of Georgia. The race began in 2003 and was contested six times until 2008. It was one of the three events in North America ranked as Hors Classe ( 2.HC) stage r ...
::1st Stage 6 ;2009 : Giro d'Italia ::1st Stages 1 ( TTT) & 8 : 9th Overall Tirreno–Adriatico : 10th Overall Tour de Romandie ::1st Stage 3 ( TTT) ;2010 : 1st Stage 1 ( TTT) Vuelta a España ;2011 : National Road Championships ::1st Time trial ::2nd Road race : 8th Overall Critérium du Dauphiné : 9th Overall Giro d'Italia ::1st Stage 1 ( TTT) ;2012 : 5th Overall
Bayern–Rundfahrt The International Bayern Rundfahrt ( en, Tour of Bavaria) was a stage race cycling race held each year in Bavaria, Germany, between 1980 and 2015. The race was held as an amateur race between 1980 and 1988, and from 2005 to 2015, the race was orga ...
;2013 : 1st Time trial, National Road Championships :
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 ...
::1st Stages 1b ( TTT) & 2 : 1st Stage 2 ( TTT) Giro d'Italia : UCI Road World Championships ::3rd
Team time trial A team time trial (TTT) is a road bicycle race in which teams of cyclists race against the clock (see individual time trial for a more detailed description of ITT events). The winning team in a TTT is determined by the comparing the times of ( ...
::10th Time trial : 8th Overall Route du Sud ;2014 : 1st Time trial, National Road Championships : 4th Overall Route du Sud ;2015 : 6th Overall Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali : 7th Trofeo Andratx-Mirador d'es Colomer : 8th Overall Vuelta a Andalucía ;2016 : National Road Championships ::1st Road race ::1st Time trial : 10th Overall Giro d'Italia ;2017 : 6th Overall Tour of Croatia ;2018 : 1st Overall Tour of Croatia ::1st Stage 3 : 3rd Time trial, National Road Championships : 9th Overall Vuelta a San Juan


Grand Tour general classification results timeline


References


External links


Kanstantsin Siutsou profile
at Team Sky * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Sivtsov, Kanstantsin 1982 births Living people Sportspeople from Gomel Belarusian male cyclists Belarusian Giro d'Italia stage winners Cyclists at the 2008 Summer Olympics Cyclists at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic cyclists of Belarus Belarusian sportspeople in doping cases Doping cases in cycling