Dimitri Konyshev ( Russian Дмитрий Борисович Конышев; born 18 February 1966 in Gorky) is a Russian former

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. During the 1989 World Championship he can be seen in a rather famous photo of cycling history showing the agony of defeat in 2nd place behind Greg Lemond's display of the intensity of victory. In 1990 Konyshev would become the first ever rider from the Soviet Union to win a stage in the Tour de France. While the Soviet's would not allow their riders to join the professional teams until a short while before the end of the

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in the

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, Soviet riders had remarkable success winning 5 stages. One by Viatcheslav Ekimov, two by Djamolidine Abdoujaparov who also won the Green Jersey and two stage wins by Konyshev. His victory in stage 17 also made him the last rider for the Soviet Union to win a Tour de France stage. All total in his professional career Konyshev would win nine Grand Tour stages becoming one of the few riders to win a stage in all three Grand Tours. He won 4 apiece in the Tour de France and the Giro d'Italia, and he also won a single stage in the Vuelta a Espana. He followed his silver medal at the 1989 World Championship with a Bronze medal in 1992 at

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and later in his career during the

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he won the Points Classification, as well as the overall Combativity Award.

Major results

Sources: ;1986 : 1st Stage 10 Coors Classic : 3rd Soviet National Road Race Championships ;1987 : 1st Overall USSR Tour : 1st Overall Österreich-Rundfahrt ::1st Stage 3 : 1st Overall Giro delle Regioni ::1st Stages 2, 4 & 6 : Tour de l'Avenir ::1st Points classification ::1st Stage 6 : 1st

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: 1st GP Palio del Recioto : 5th Overall Tour of Sochi ::1st Stage 6 : 8th Overall Peace Race ;1988 : 1st Overall Giro Ciclistico d'Italia ::1st Stages 2, 4 & 6 : 1st Stage 2 (

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) Tour de Pologne : 1st Stages 3 & 5 Giro delle Regioni : Vuelta a Cuba ::1st Points classification ::1st Stages 4 & 11 : 3rd

: 3rd Overall Tour of Sochi ;1989 : 1st Coppa Ugo Agostoni : 1st Giro dell'Emilia : 1st Overall Cronostafetta : 1st Points classification, Tour of Belgium : 2nd Silver medal blank

Road race, UCI Road World Championships : 2nd Giro di Toscana : 2nd

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: 3rd Overall Settimana Ciclistica Lombarda ::1st Stage 2 : 4th Gran Premio Città di Camaiore : 6th Trittico Premondiale : 7th Trofeo Baracchi ;1990 : 1st Soviet National Road Race Championships : 1st Stage 17 Tour de France : 1st GP Industria & Artigianato di Larciano : 4th Giro del Veneto : 8th Gent–Wevelgem : 9th Giro di Toscana : 10th Dwars door België ;1991 : 1st Stages 19 & 22 Tour de France : 1st Stage 3 Tirreno–Adriatico : 5th La Flèche Wallonne : 5th

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( TTT) : 6th

: 8th Overall Critérium International : 8th Grand Prix Cerami ;1992 : 1st Stage 6 Vuelta a Asturias : 2nd Road race, National Road Championships : 3rd Bronze medal blank

Road race, UCI Road World Championships : 3rd Amstel Gold Race : 4th Clásica de San Sebastián ;1993 : 1st Road race, National Road Championships : 1st Stages 5 & 12 Giro d'Italia : 4th Gran Piemonte : 4th Giro di Romagna : 9th Giro di Lombardia ;1994 : 1st Stage 1 Ronde van Nederland : 3rd Trittico Premondiale : 4th Giro di Lombardia : 5th Road race, UCI Road World Championships : 5th Gran Premio Città di Camaiore : 5th Giro del Lazio : 6th Giro del Friuli : 7th Gent–Wevelgem : 8th Milano–Torino : 8th Rund um den Henninger Turm : 9th Firenze–Pistoia ;1995 : 1st Giro del Friuli : 3rd Overall Tirreno–Adriatico : 3rd Brabantse Pijl : 4th Overall Tour Méditerranéen : 4th GP Ouest–France : 5th Gran Piemonte : 6th

: 7th Road race, UCI Road World Championships : 7th

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: 9th Nice–Alassio ;1996 : 1st Overall Hofbrau Cup ::1st Stages 1 & 4 : 1st Stage 18 Vuelta a España : 2nd Buhl International : 3rd Road race, National Road Championships : 10th Overall Tour of Galicia : 10th Giro del Veneto ;1997 : 1st

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: Giro d'Italia ::1st Intergiro classification ::1st Stage 9 : 1st Stage 6 Tirreno–Adriatico : 1st Stage 6 Tour de Pologne : Vuelta a Murcia ::1st Points classification ::1st Stage 4 : 3rd GP du canton d'Argovie : 10th Giro del Lazio ;1998 : 1st Stage 4 Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana : 3rd Road race, National Road Championships : 5th Clasica de Almeria ;1999 : 1st Coppa Sabatini : 1st Grand Prix de Fourmies : 1st Stage 14 Tour de France : 1st Mountains classification Volta a Catalunya : 3rd Giro del Lazio : 5th Giro di Lombardia : 7th Milano–Torino : 9th Road race, UCI Road World Championships ;2000 : 1st Giro della Romagna : Giro d'Italia ::1st Points classification ::1st Stage 6 : 1st Sprint classification Tour de Romandie : 5th Trofeo Pantalica : 5th Giro della Provincia di Siracusa : 8th Coppa Sabatini : 10th Road race,

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;2001 : 1st Road race, National Road Championships : 1st Coppa Sabatini : 1st Giro di Campania : Tour de Suisse ::1st Mountains classification ::1st Stage 5 : 3rd Giro del Lazio : 6th

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: 7th Giro di Romagna : 8th Giro della Provincia di Siracusa ;2002 : 7th

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: 9th Rund um den Henninger Turm ;2003 : 7th

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;2004 : 1st Tour du Lac Léman : 1st Stage 4a Euskal Bizikleta : 3rd Giro di Toscana : 3rd Giro della Provincia di reggio Calabria : 4th Giro d'Oro : 7th Stausee Rundfahrt : 10th Coppa Sabatini ;2005 : 1st Stage 1 Vuelta a Asturias : 1st Mountain classification Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali : 4th Giro di Toscana : 9th Giro della Provincia di reggio Calabria

General classification results timeline

Classics results timeline

References

External links

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Konyshev, Dimitri 1966 births Living people Soviet male cyclists Russian male cyclists Olympic cyclists of Russia Cyclists at the 1996 Summer Olympics Cyclists at the 2000 Summer Olympics Russian Giro d'Italia stage winners Russian Tour de France stage winners Russian Vuelta a España stage winners Tour de Suisse stage winners Tour de France Champs Elysées stage winners Sportspeople from Nizhny Novgorod