Vitaly Popkov (; born 16 June 1983) is a former Ukrainian-born

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, who last rode for Russian amateur team Crimea Region.

Major results

Track

;2002 : 1st UEC Champion Jersey

Team pursuit, UEC European Under-23 Championships : 2nd Team pursuit, UCI World Cup Classics, Moscow ;2003 : 1st UEC Champion Jersey

Team pursuit, UEC European Under-23 Championships : 1st Team pursuit, UCI World Cup Classics, Cape Town ;2004 : 1st UEC Champion Jersey

Team pursuit, UEC European Under-23 Championships : 1st Team pursuit, 2004–05 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics, Moscow : 2nd Team pursuit,

2004 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics The 2004 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics is a multi race tournament over a season of track cycling Track cycling is a Cycle sport, bicycle racing sport usually held on specially built banked tracks or velodromes using purpose-designed track ...

, Moscow ;2005 : 2nd Team pursuit, UEC European Under-23 Championships : 3rd Team pursuit,

2005–06 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics The 2005–2006 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics is a multi race tournament over a season of track cycling Track cycling is a Cycle sport, bicycle racing sport usually held on specially built banked tracks or velodromes using purpose-designed ...

, Moscow ;2006 : 2nd Team pursuit,

, Sydney ;2007 :

2006–07 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics The 2006–2007 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics is a multi race tournament over a season of track cycling Track cycling is a Cycle sport, bicycle racing sport usually held on specially built banked tracks or velodromes using purpose-designe ...

, Los Angeles ::1st Individual pursuit ::1st Team pursuit : 2nd

Team pursuit The team pursuit is a track cycling event similar to the individual pursuit, except that two teams, each of up to four riders, compete, starting on opposite sides of the velodrome. Race format Both men's and women's events are competed over ...

UCI World Championships The UCI World Championships are annual competitions promoted by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) to determine world champion cyclists. They are held in several different styles of racing, in a different country each year. Championship winn ...

;2008 : 3rd Team pursuit,

2007–08 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics The 2007–2008 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics was a multi race competition over a season of track cycling Track cycling is a Cycle sport, bicycle racing sport usually held on specially built banked tracks or velodromes using purpose-d ...

, Los Angeles ;2009 : 1st Individual pursuit, 2009–10 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics, Cali

Road

;2003 : 1st Stage 2 Tour de Hongrie ;2008 : 1st Stage 2 Tour de Ribas : 2nd Kirschblütenrennen ;2009 : 1st Overall Tour of Szeklerland ::1st Stage 1 : 2nd Memorial Oleg Dyachenko : 4th Grand Prix of Donetsk : 4th Mayor Cup : 4th GP E.O.S. Tallinn ;2010 : National Road Championships ::1st MaillotUcrania

Time trial In many racing sports, an sportsperson, athlete (or occasionally a team of athletes) will compete in a time trial (TT) against the clock to secure the fastest time. The format of a time trial can vary, but usually follow a format where each athle ...

::1st

Road race : 1st Overall Grand Prix of Adygeya ::1st Prologue & Stage 3 : 1st Grand Prix of Donetsk : 1st Rogaland GP : 1st Grand Prix Jasnej Góry-Czestochowa : 1st Grand Prix of Sochi : 1st Stage 1 Tour of Szeklerland : 3rd Overall Five Rings of Moscow ::1st Stage 3 : 4th Mayor Cup : 8th

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: 9th Overall

Course de la Solidarité Olympique Course may refer to: Directions or navigation * Course (navigation), the path of travel * Course (orienteering), a series of control points visited by orienteers during a competition, marked with red/white flags in the terrain, and corresponding ...

;2011 : 5th Overall Tour of Szeklerland ;2012 : 1st Overall Tour of Szeklerland : 1st Grand Prix of Moscow : 1st

Race Horizon Park Race Horizon Park is an international cycling road race (category UCI (Union Cycliste Internationale) 1.2, within the Europe Tour calendar), held annually in the capital of Ukraine, during the celebration of the Kyiv Day, Day of Kyiv. As a part of ...

: 1st Stage 6

: 1st Stage 4 (ITT) Dookoła Mazowsza ;2013 : 1st Jersey yellow

Overall

::1st

Points classification ::1st Stage 1 : 1st Stage 3 Azerbaijan International Cycling Tour : 2nd Overall Grand Prix of Adygeya ::1st Stage 2 : 2nd Overall Tour of Szeklerland ::1st Stage 3 (ITT) : 3rd Overall Grand Prix of Sochi ::1st Stage 1 : 3rd Košice–Miskolc : 7th Grand Prix of Donetsk ;2014 : 9th Memorial Oleg Dyachenko

External links

* * 1983 births Living people Ukrainian male cyclists Ukrainian track cyclists Cyclists at the 2004 Summer Olympics Cyclists at the 2008 Summer Olympics Olympic cyclists for Ukraine Sportspeople from Chernivtsi Oblast 21st-century Ukrainian sportsmen {{Ukraine-cycling-bio-stub