Kanstantsin Sivtsov

Kanstantsin Sivtsov
	Sivtsov at the 2011 Critérium du Dauphiné
Personal information
Full name	Kanstantsin Sivtsov; Канстанцін Сіўцоў
Nickname	Kosta
Born	9 August 1982 (age 42); Gomel, Byelorussian SSR, Soviet Union
Height	1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight	69 kg (152 lb; 10.9 st)
Team information
Current team	Retired
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Rider type	All-rounder
Professional teams
2001–2002	Itera
2003	Lokomotiv
2005	Fassa Bortolo
2006	Acqua & Sapone
2007	Barloworld
2008–2011	Team High Road
2012–2015	Team Sky
2016	Team Dimension Data
2017–2018	Bahrain–Merida
Major wins
	Grand Tours Giro d'Italia 1 individual stage (2009) 1 TTT stage (2013) Stage races Tour de Georgia (2008) Tour of Croatia (2018) One-day races and Classics National Road Race Championships (2006, 2016) National Time Trial Championships; (2004, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2016)
Medal record
Men's road bicycle racing
Representing Team Sky
World Championships

Kanstantsin Sivtsov (or Siutsou^[2] (Belarusian: Канстанцін Віктаравіч Сіўцоў; Łacinka: Kanstancin Viktaravič Siŭcoŭ; born 9 August 1982) is a Belarusian former professional road bicycle racer, who rode professionally between 2001 and 2018 for the Itera, Lokomotiv, Fassa Bortolo, Acqua & Sapone, Barloworld, HTC–Highroad, Team Sky, Team Dimension Data and Bahrain–Merida squads. He retired after provisionally being suspended from the sport following an adverse analytical finding for erythropoietin (EPO).^[3]

Career

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

Team High Road (2008–11)

Siutsou moved to Team High Road for 2008, where he took his first stage race overall victory at the Tour de Georgia, and came 16th overall in the Tour de France. In the 2009 Giro d'Italia, 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.^{[citation needed]}

Team Sky (2012–15)

Sivtsov at the 2012 Paris–Nice

Sivtsov moved to Team Sky for the 2012 season. He was part of the teams that helped Richie Porte win the Volta ao Algarve, Bradley Wiggins win Paris–Nice, the Tour de Romandie and Critérium du Dauphiné, and Michael Rogers win Bayern–Rundfahrt. Sivtsov was selected to ride the Tour de France as one of Wiggins' main domestiques, but crashed out on stage three with 50 kilometres (31 mi) remaining with a fractured left tibia, the first retirement of the 2012 Tour.^[4]

Sivtsov claimed a solo win on stage two of the 2013 Giro del Trentino.^[5]

Team Dimension Data (2016)

In October 2015, he announced that he would be leaving Team Sky after four seasons to join Team Dimension Data for 2016.^[6]

Doping case

On 5 September 2018, the UCI announced that an out of competition test had resulted in an adverse analytical finding of Erythropoietin in a sample collected 31 July 2018. Siutsou was provisionally suspended pending the result of any B sample test.^[7] This followed his back injury sustained whilst carrying out a recon of the time trial at the Giro earlier that year.^[8]

On 23 June 2020, he was given a four-year ban for doping using EPO.^[9]