Vitaly Popkov ( uk, Віталій Попков; born 16 June 1983) is a

Ukrainian Ukrainian may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to Ukraine * Something relating to Ukrainians, an East Slavic people from Eastern Europe * Something relating to demographics of Ukraine in terms of demography and population of Ukraine * So ...

-born

Russia Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a List of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia, Northern Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the ...

racing cyclist Cycle sport is Competition, competitive physical activity using bicycles. There are several categories of bicycle racing including road bicycle racing, cyclo-cross, mountain bike racing, track cycling, BMX, and cycle speedway. Non-racing ...

, 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 The 2004–2005 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics is a multi race tournament over a season of track cycling Track cycling is a bicycle racing sport usually held on specially built banked tracks or velodromes using purpose-designed track bicycl ...

, 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 bicycle racing sport usually held on specially built banked tracks or velodromes using purpose-designed track bicycles. Hi ...

, 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 bicycle racing sport usually held on specially built banked tracks or velodromes using purpose-designed track bicycl ...

, 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 bicycle racing sport usually held on specially built banked tracks or velodromes using purpose-designed track bic ...

, 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 winne ...

;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. The season began on 30 November 2007 and ended on 17 February 2008. The World Cup is organised by the UCI. The 2007–2008 se ...

, Los Angeles ;2009 : 1st Individual pursuit,

2009–10 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics The 2009–10 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics is a multi race tournament over a season of track cycling. The season ran from 30 October 2009 to 24 January 2010. The World Cup was organised by the Union Cycliste Internationale. The World Cup k ...

, 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 athlete (or occasionally a team of athletes) will compete in a time trial against the clock to secure the fastest time. The format of a time trial can vary, but usually follow a format where each athlete or team sets off at ...

::1st

Road race : 1st Overall Grand Prix of Adygeya ::1st Prologue & Stage 3 : 1st Grand Prix of Donetsk : 1st

Rogaland GP Tour des Fjords (known as the Rogaland Grand Prix until 2012) was a road bicycle race held annually between 2008 and 2018 in the region of western Norway. The race merged with the Tour of Norway The Tour of Norway is a road bicycle race held an ...

: 1st Grand Prix Jasnej Góry-Czestochowa : 1st

Grand Prix of Sochi The Grand Prix of Sochi was a road cycling stage race held annually in Sochi, Russia until 2015. It was held as part of the UCI Europe Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing competitions which were introduced in ...

: 1st Stage 1 Tour of Szeklerland : 3rd Overall

Five Rings of Moscow The Five Rings of Moscow is a road bicycle racing stage race held annually in Moscow, Russia. It was first run in 1993 and since 2005 has been part of the UCI Europe Tour as a 2.2 category race. The most successful riders are Sergey Firsanov, An ...

::1st Stage 3 : 4th Mayor Cup : 8th

Route Adélie Route Adélie de Vitré is a single-day road bicycle race held annually in April in a circuit around Vitré, Ille-et-Vilaine, Vitré, France. Between 1980 and 1995 it was called ''Tour d'Armorique''. Since 2005, the race is organized as a UCI ra ...

: 9th Overall Course de la Solidarité Olympique ;2011 : 5th Overall Tour of Szeklerland ;2012 : 1st Overall Tour of Szeklerland : 1st

Grand Prix of Moscow The Grand Prix of Moscow was a one-day road cycling race held annually in Moscow, Russia between 2004 and 2015. From 2005 to 2015, it was held as part of the UCI Europe Tour as a 1.2 category race. The most successful rider was Alexander Khatunts ...

: 1st Race Horizon Park : 1st Stage 6

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 ...

: 1st Stage 4 (ITT)

Dookoła Mazowsza The Dookoła Mazowsza (Around Mazovia) is a cycling race held annually in Mazovia, Poland. It was first held in 1951 and has been held annually since, with the exceptions of 1981–1982, 1991–1992, and 1994–1996. The most successful rider is Z ...

;2013 : 1st Jersey yellow

Overall

::1st

Points classification ::1st Stage 1 : 1st Stage 3

Azerbaijan International Cycling Tour Tour of Azerbaijan (Iran), also known as the Tour of Iranian Azerbaijan or Azerbaijan Tour is an annual multiple stage road bicycle racing held in Iran since 1986, named after Iranian Azerbaijan. It is a UCI 2.1 category race and is part of ...

: 2nd Overall GP of Adygeya ::1st Stage 2 : 2nd Overall

Tour of Szeklerland The Tour of Szeklerland is a European cycling stage race held in Romania. Since 2008, the race has been organised as a 2.2 event on the UCI Europe Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing competitions which were intro ...

::1st Stage 3 (ITT) : 3rd Overall

::1st Stage 1 : 3rd Košice–Miskolc : 7th Grand Prix of Donetsk ;2014 : 9th

Memorial Oleg Dyachenko The Memorial Oleg Dyachenko is a one-day road cycling race held annually in Moscow, Russia. It was first run in 2004 and since 2005 has been part of the UCI Europe Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing competitions ...

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 people {{Ukraine-cycling-bio-stub