Zbigniew Piątek (born 1 May 1966) is a Polish former road racing cyclist. He was active as an amateur from 1987 to 1993 and from 1994 to 2005 as a professional. He won many of the top races in Poland: the

Tour de Pologne The Tour de Pologne (; ), officially abbreviated TdP, is an annual, professional men's Race stage, multiple-stage cycle sport, bicycle race primarily held in Poland. It consists of seven or eight stages and is usually around 1,200 km ...

, Tour of Małopolska and

Szlakiem Grodów Piastowskich The Szlakiem Grodów Piastowskich, officially known as the CCC Tour – Grody Piastowskie, is a road bicycle racing stage race held annually in Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland. It was first held in 1966 and since 2005, it has been organised as ...

. He represented Poland in two

Summer Olympics The Summer Olympic Games, also known as the Summer Olympics or the Games of the Olympiad, is a major international multi-sport event normally held once every four years. The inaugural Games took place in 1896 in Athens, then part of the King ...

: in

1992 1992 was designated as International Space Year by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 – Boutros Boutros-Ghali of Egypt replaces Javier Pérez de Cuéllar of Peru as United Nations Secretary-General. * January 6 ** The Republ ...

and

2000 2000 was designated as the International Year for the Culture of Peace and the World Mathematics, Mathematical Year. Popular culture holds the year 2000 as the first year of the 21st century and the 3rd millennium, because of a tende ...

Career victories

;1987 :1st Overall

;1988 :2nd Overall Tour du Loir et Cher E Provost ;1989 :1st Overall Tour of Małopolska ;1991 :1st Stage 1

;1993 :1st GP Brissago ;1997 :1st GP Buchholz ;1998 :1st Overall Tour of Małopolska :1st Stage 2a Kalisz–Konin ;1999 :3rd Overall Circuit de Lorraine :8th Overall Course Cycliste de Solidarnosc et des Champions Olympiques ;2000 :6th Overall Course Cycliste de Solidarnosc et des Champions Olympiques ;2001 :1st Overall Tour of Małopolska ::1st Stage 3 :2nd Overall

Herald Sun Tour The Herald Sun Tour is an Australian professional bicycle race held in Melbourne and provincial Victoria, sanctioned by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI). The first tour was held in October 1952 as a six-day event. It is now held annuall ...

::1st Stages 10 & 12 ( TTT) :2nd Memoriał Henryka Łasaka :3rd Overall

Tour de Beauce Tour de Beauce is a men's elite professional road bicycle racing multi-day event held each June in the Beauce region of Quebec, Canada since 1986. It is the oldest stage-race in North America, and is a Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI)-rated 2. ...

:5th Omloop van de Vlaamse Scheldeboorden :5th Memoriał Andrzeja Trochanowskiego :7th Overall

;2002 :1st Stage 3 Giro del Capo :1st Wyscig Pasmen Gor Swietokryskich :2nd Overall Course Cycliste de Solidarnosc et des Champions Olympiques :4th Grand Prix Midtbank :5th Overall Peace Race :5th First Union Invitational :7th

Grand Prix Pino Cerami Grand Prix Pino Cerami is a single-day road bicycle race held annually in April in Hainaut, Belgium. From 2005 to 2019, the race was organized as a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour, before being cancelled from 2019 to 2022. Upon its return in 2 ...

:10th Szlakiem Walk Majora Hubala ;2003 :1st Overall Bohemia Tour ::1st Stage 4 :1st Pomorski Klasyk :4th Tartu GP :8th Overall

:8th Overall Okolo Slovenska :8th Grand Prix S.A.T.S. ;2004 :10th Druivenkoers Overijse ;2005 :1st Overall

::1st Stage 2 :5th Overall Tour of Małopolska

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* 1966 births Living people Polish male cyclists Olympic cyclists for Poland Cyclists at the 1992 Summer Olympics Cyclists at the 2000 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Kielce 20th-century Polish sportsmen {{Poland-cycling-bio-stub