Vasili Vasilyevich Kiryienka ( be, Васіль Васілевіч Кірыенка;

Łacinka The Belarusian Latin alphabet or Łacinka (from be, лацінка or łacinka, BGN/PCGN: ''Latsinka'', ) for the Latin script in general is the common name for writing Belarusian using Latin script. It is similar to the Sorbian alphabet an ...

: Vasil Vasilevič Kiryjenka; born 28 June 1981) is a

Belarus Belarus,, , ; alternatively and formerly known as Byelorussia (from Russian ). officially the Republic of Belarus,; rus, Республика Беларусь, Respublika Belarus. is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by ...

ian former racing cyclist, who rode professionally between 2006 and 2020 for the OTC Doors, , , and squads. He currently works as a directeur sportif for UCI Continental team .

Career

Early years

Born in

Rechytsa , nickname = , image_skyline = Rzeczyca (BY) plac.JPG , image_size = , image_caption = Rechytsa town centre, Kastrychnitskaya (October) Square , image_flag = Flag of Rečyca, Belarus.svg , image_shield ...

Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic The Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic (BSSR, or Byelorussian SSR; be, Беларуская Савецкая Сацыялістычная Рэспубліка, Bielaruskaja Savieckaja Sacyjalistyčnaja Respublika; russian: Белор� ...

, Kiryienka won his first national time trial championship in 2002. His early career focused mainly on the track, where he won the Points Race at the

2008 UCI Track Cycling World Championships The 2008 UCI Track Cycling World Championships were the World Championship for track cycling. They took place at the Manchester Velodrome in Manchester, United Kingdom from 26 to 30 March 2008. Eighteen events were scheduled; the women's team pur ...

. Later that season Kiryienka won Stage 19 of the Giro d'Italia, a mountainous affair leading to Presolana, after spending the day on the attack and registering more than 6 hours and a half in the saddle. He attacked his six breakaway companions at the foot of the Monte Para climb and soloed to the finish for the win, by a margin of over four minutes.

Caisse d'Epargne (2009–2012)

Vasil Kiryienka, London 2012 Time Trial - Aug 2012

Kiryienka moved to the Spanish squad for the 2009 season. In 2010 he finished second in the tenth stage of the

Tour de France The Tour de France () is an annual men's multiple-stage bicycle race primarily held in France, while also occasionally passing through nearby countries. Like the other Grand Tours (the Giro d'Italia and the Vuelta a España), it consists ...

after he was outsprinted at the line in Gap by

Sérgio Paulinho Sérgio Miguel Moreira Paulinho, ComIH (born 26 March 1980) is a Portuguese road bicycle racer, who currently rides for UCI Continental team . He was a domestique in the 2007, 2009 and 2010 Tour de France and won the silver medal for Portuga ...

() after the pair's decisive attack with remaining. On 23 May 2011, during the Giro d'Italia, Kiryienka's teammate Xabier Tondo was killed in a freak accident at home while preparing to train with teammates. He was reportedly crushed between his car and a garage door. Five days later, Kiryienka rode to victory in a solo effort on Stage 20, a mountain top finish at Sestriere, and he dedicated the stage victory to Tondó, pointing skyward as he crossed the finish line. The team had met to consider withdrawing from the race after Tondó's death, but instead the riders unanimously voted to ride on. Kiryienka commented that the squad at the Giro hoped to get a further stage win (as

Francisco Ventoso Francisco José Ventoso Alberdi (born 6 May 1982) is a Spanish former professional road racing cyclist, who rode professionally between 2004 and 2020, for the , , , and squads. Career Ventoso turned professional with in 2004 before moving to ...

's win had come before Tondó's death) to honor him, while other members of the team grieved with Tondó's family. In September 2012, Kiryienka finished third in the

individual time trial An individual time trial (ITT) is a road bicycle race in which cyclists race alone against the clock (in French: ''contre la montre'' – literally "against the watch", in Italian: ''tappa a cronometro'' " stopwatch stage"). There are also track ...

at the road world championships.

Team Sky (2013–2020)

Tour de France 2014, kyrienka (14869718485)

Kiryienka left at the end of the 2012 season, and joined on an initial three-year contract from the 2013 season onwards. In May 2015, Kiryienka won the

of the Giro d'Italia, which was long and relatively rolling. In June 2015, he won the

at the inaugural European Games in

Baku Baku (, ; az, Bakı ) is the capital and largest city of Azerbaijan, as well as the largest city on the Caspian Sea and of the Caucasus region. Baku is located below sea level, which makes it the lowest lying national capital in the world an ...

Azerbaijan Azerbaijan (, ; az, Azərbaycan ), officially the Republic of Azerbaijan, , also sometimes officially called the Azerbaijan Republic is a transcontinental country located at the boundary of Eastern Europe and Western Asia. It is a part of th ...

. On 23 September 2015, Kiryienka won the

at the CI Road World Championships in

Richmond, Virginia (Thus do we reach the stars) , image_map = , mapsize = 250 px , map_caption = Location within Virginia , pushpin_map = Virginia#USA , pushpin_label = Richmond , pushpin_m ...

, United States. Kiryienka had the honor to carry the flag of his native Belarus at the opening ceremony of the

2016 Summer Olympics ) , nations = 207 (including IOA and EOR teams) , athletes = 11,238 , events = 306 in 28 sports (41 disciplines) , opening = 5 August 2016 , closing = 21 August 2016 , opened_by = Vice President Michel Temer , cauldron = Vanderlei Cordeiro de ...

in Rio de Janeiro, where he competed in the men's individual time trial event; he finished in 17th place. In October, he competed in the same event at the World Championships in Doha, where he won the silver medal – giving him at least one medal of each colour for his career. In January 2020, Kiryienka retired from the sport due to recurring "cardiac issues".

Major results

;1999 : 3rd Time trial, National Road Championships ;2000 : 2nd Time trial, National Road Championships ;2001 : 2nd Time trial, National Road Championships ;2002 : 1st MaillotBielorrusia

Time trial, National Road Championships ;2003 : UCI Track World Cup, Aguascalientes ::1st Gold medal blank

Individual pursuit ::3rd Bronze medal blank

Team pursuit : UEC European Under-23 Track Championships ::3rd Bronze medal europe

Individual pursuit ::3rd Bronze medal europe

Team pursuit ;2004 : National Road Championships ::2nd Time trial ::3rd Road race : 3rd Bronze medal blank

Individual pursuit, UCI Track World Cup, Aguascalientes : 6th Overall Tour of Turkey ;2005 : 1st MaillotBielorrusia

Time trial, National Road Championships : 1st Gold medal blank

Points race,

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 ...

, Manchester : 1st

Coppa della Pace The Coppa della Pace is a professional one day cycling race held annually in Italy. It is part of UCI Europe Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing competitions which were introduced in 2005 by the Union Cycliste I ...

: 1st Giro del Casentino : 1st Coppa Comune Castelfranco di Sopra : 1st Coppa Mobilio Ponsacco – Cronometro : 1st Stage 3 Giro della Toscana Under-23 ;2006 : 1st MaillotBielorrusia

Time trial, National Road Championships :

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. The season began on 17 November 2006 and completed on 25 February 2007. The World Cup is organised by the UCI. Calendar Men Wo ...

::1st

Scratch, Sydney ::2nd Silver medal blank

Points race, Moscow ::3rd Bronze medal blank

Points race, Sydney : 2nd Overall Scandinavian Week ::1st Stage 3 : 2nd Scandinavian Open : 3rd Bronze medal blank

Points race, UCI Track World Championships : 3rd

Riga Grand Prix The Riga Grand Prix was a one day cycling race held in Riga, Latvia. It was part of UCI Europe Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing competitions which were introduced in 2005 by the Union Cycliste Internationale ...

: 4th Tallinn–Tartu GP : 4th Szlakiem Walk Majora Hubala : 5th Overall Five Rings of Moscow : 6th Time trial,

UCI Road World Championships The UCI Road World Championships are the annual world championships for bicycle road racing organized by the (UCI). The UCI Road World Championships consist of events for road race and individual time trial, and a mixed team relay. Events ...

: 8th 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 correspondi ...

::1st Stage 6 ;2007 : 1st Stage 3 Ster Elektrotoer : 1st Stage 5

Vuelta a Burgos Vuelta Ciclista a Burgos is an elite professional road bicycle racing event held annually in the Burgos province of Spain. The men's Vuelta a Burgos has been a multi-day stage race as part of the UCI Europe Tour since 2005. In 2019, a multi-day wo ...

: 2nd Overall

Étoile de Bessèges The Étoile de Bessèges () is an early-season five-day road bicycle racing stage race held annually around Bessèges, in the Gard department of the Languedoc-Roussillon region of France. First organized in 1971 as a one-day race, it became a s ...

: 2nd Eindhoven Team Time Trial : 3rd Time trial, National Road Championships : 7th Overall Tirreno–Adriatico : 8th Overall Tour of Austria : 8th

Tour du Haut Var The Tour du Haut Var ( en, Tour of the Haut Var) is an early-season two-day road bicycle race in the Var department region in the south of France. Until 2008 it was run as a one-day race, part of the UCI Europe Tour. In 2009, the race transform ...

: 9th Time trial,

: 9th Grand Prix de Fourmies ;2008 : 1st Jersey rainbow

Points race, UCI Track World Championships : 1st Stage 19 Giro d'Italia : 1st Stage 1 ( TTT) Settimana Ciclistica Lombarda : 2nd Time trial, National Road Championships : 2nd Overall Ster Elektrotoer : 2nd Gran Premio Città di Camaiore : 7th Overall Vuelta a Murcia ;2011 : 1st Jersey orange

Overall Route du Sud : 1st Stage 20 Giro d'Italia : 2nd Overall Critérium International ::1st Jersey green

Points classification : 9th Overall Vuelta a Murcia : 10th Overall Tour of the Basque Country ::1st Stage 2 ;2012 : 3rd Bronze medal blank

Time trial,

: 6th Overall

Critérium du Dauphiné The Critérium du Dauphiné, before 2010 known as the Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré, is an annual cycling road race in the Dauphiné region in the southeast of France. The race is run over eight days during the first half of June. It is par ...

;2013 : 1st Stage 18

Vuelta a España The Vuelta a España (; en, Tour of Spain) is an annual multi-stage bicycle race primarily held in Spain, while also occasionally making passes through nearby countries. Inspired by the success of the Tour de France and the Giro d'Italia, the ...

: UCI World Road Championships ::3rd Bronze medal blank

Team time trial ::4th Time trial ;2014 : 1st Stage 1b ( TTT)

Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali The Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali ( en, International Week of Coppi and Bartali), also known as Coppi e Bartali, is an Italian cycle road race. It is run typically in late March over five days in the Emilia-Romagna region of Ital ...

: 3rd Overall

Bayern–Rundfahrt The International Bayern Rundfahrt ( en, Tour of Bavaria) was a stage race cycling race held each year in Bavaria, Germany, between 1980 and 2015. The race was held as an amateur race between 1980 and 1988, and from 2005 to 2015, the race was org ...

: 4th Time trial,

Combativity award Stage 11

;2015 : 1st Jersey rainbow chrono

Time trial,

: 1st

Time trial, European Games : 1st MaillotBielorrusia

Time trial, National Road Championships : 1st Chrono des Nations : 1st Stage 14 (

ITT ITT may refer to: Communication * Infantry-Tank Telephone, a device allowing infantrymen to speak to the occupants of armoured vehicles. Mathematics *Intuitionistic type theory, other name of Martin-Löf Type Theory *Intensional type theory B ...

) Giro d'Italia ;2016 : 1st Chrono des Nations : 2nd Silver medal blank

Time trial,

;2017 :

::3rd

Team time trial ::5th Time trial : 6th GP Miguel Induráin ;2018 : 1st MaillotBielorrusia

Time trial, National Road Championships : 9th Time trial,

;2019 : 1st Gold medal blank

Time trial, European Games

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

References

External links

Vasil Kiryienka profile
at Team Sky *
Palmares at Cycling Base (French)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Kiryienka, Vasili Belarusian male cyclists 1981 births Living people Belarusian Giro d'Italia stage winners Belarusian Vuelta a España stage winners Cyclists at the 2004 Summer Olympics Cyclists at the 2008 Summer Olympics Cyclists at the 2012 Summer Olympics Cyclists at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic cyclists of Belarus People from Rechytsa UCI Track Cycling World Champions (men) European Games medalists in cycling European Games gold medalists for Belarus UCI Road World Champions (elite men) Belarusian track cyclists Cyclists at the 2015 European Games Cyclists at the 2019 European Games Sportspeople from Gomel Region