Sergey Firsanov
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Personal information | |
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Full name | Sergey Firsanov |
Born |
Velikiye Luki, Pskov Oblast, Soviet Union | 3 July 1982
Height | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) |
Weight | 58 kg (128 lb; 9.1 st) |
Team information | |
Current team | Gazprom–RusVelo |
Discipline | Road |
Role | Rider |
Rider type | Climber |
Amateur team(s) | |
2001–2003 | Olympique St-Petersburg |
Professional team(s) | |
2005 | Rietumu Bank |
2006 | Premier |
2006–2008 | Rietumu Bank-Riga |
2009–2010 | Team Designa Køkken |
2011 | Itera–Katusha |
2012– | RusVelo[1] |
Infobox last updated on 20 April 2014 |
Sergey Nikolayevich Firsanov (Russian: Сергей Николаевич Фирсанов; born 3 July 1982) is a Russian professional road bicycle racer who rides for UCI Professional Continental Team Gazprom–RusVelo.[2]
Career
Born in Velikiye Luki, Firsanov has competed as a professional since 2005, competing for the Rietumu Bank squad during two separate spells, as well as the Premier, Designa Køkken and Itera–Katusha squads before signing for the newly formed RusVelo team for the 2012 season.[3]
Firsanov achieved the team's first overall victory at the Vuelta a la Comunidad de Madrid; after a third-place finish in the race-opening individual time trial, Firsanov won the race's second and final stage by almost two minutes from his nearest competitors, to comfortably take the general classification victory.[4]
He was named in the start list for the 2016 Giro d'Italia.[5]
Career achievements
Major results
- 2001
- 9th Tour du Jura
- 2005
- 1st Overall Giro della Toscana
- 2006
- 1st Stage 6 (ITT) Baltyk-Karkonosze-Tour
- 2nd Overall Tour of Bulgaria
- 1st Stage 5a
- 3rd Szlakiem walk mjr. Hubala
- 2007
- 1st Memorial Oleg Dyachenko
- 2nd Overall Five Rings of Moscow
- 3rd Coupe des Carpathes
- 2008
- 1st Overall Way to Pekin
- 1st Stages 2, 3 (ITT) & 7
- 2nd Overall Ringerike GP
- 1st Stage 2
- 3rd Overall Tour de Slovaquie
- 1st Stage 4a (ITT)
- 3rd Overall Les 3 Jours de Vaucluse
- 3rd Overall Tour of Małopolska
- 2009
- 1st Overall Les Boucles de l'Artois
- 1st Stage 3
- 1st Overall Ringerike GP
- 1st Stage 2
- 1st Overall Friendship People North-Caucasus Stage Race
- 2nd Duo Normand
- 5th Overall Rhône-Alpes Isère Tour
- 5th Grand Prix of Moscow
- 5th Rogaland GP
- 7th Overall Tønsberg 4-dagers
- 1st Stage 4 (ITT)
- 2010
- 1st Overall Friendship People North-Caucasus Stage Race
- 1st Stages 4 & 5 (ITT)
- 1st Overall Five Rings of Moscow
- 1st Stage 1
- 1st Viborg Individual Time Trial
- 2nd Overall Ringerike GP
- 3rd Overall Rhône-Alpes Isère Tour
- 3rd Grenaa Individual Time Trial
- 4th Westrozebeke
- 6th Memorial Oleg Dyachenko
- 7th Overall Danmark Rundt
- 7th Chrono Champenois
- 10th Grand Prix of Moscow
- 2011
- 1st Overall Friendship People North-Caucasus Stage Race
- 1st Stages 1 (ITT), 5, 6, 7 (ITT) & 12
- 1st Overall Five Rings of Moscow
- 1st Stage 1
- 2nd Overall Grand Prix of Adygeya
- 1st Stage 3
- 5th Overall Tour de Slovaquie
- 5th Mayor Cup
- 6th Overall Settimana Ciclistica Lombarda
- 7th Overall Tour de Serbie
- 9th Grand Prix of Donetsk
- 2012
- 1st Overall Vuelta a la Comunidad de Madrid
- 1st Stage 2
- 2nd Overall Grand Prix of Adygeya
- 1st Stage 1 (ITT)
- 3rd Eschborn-Frankfurt City Loop
- 6th GP Industria & Artigianato di Larciano
- 2013
- 5th Overall Settimana Ciclistica Lombarda
- 10th Overall Vuelta a Castilla y León
- 10th Tre Valli Varesine
- 2014
- 1st Overall Tour of Kavkaz
- 1st Stage 4
- 3rd Overall GP of Adygeya
- 7th Overall Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali
- 2015
- 1st GP of Sochi Mayor
- 1st Overall GP of Adygeya
- 1st Stage 2
- 2nd Tre Valli Varesine
- 5th Overall Tour d'Azerbaïdjan
- 1st Stage 5
- 2016
- 1st
Overall Settimana Coppi e Bartali
- 1st
Mountains classification
- 1st Stage 2
- 1st
- 1st Giro dell'Appennino
- 4th Overall Giro del Trentino
Grand Tour general classification results timeline
Grand Tour | 2016 |
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WD = Withdrew; IP = In Progress
References
- ↑ "RusVelo (RVL) – RUS". UCI Continental Circuits. Union Cycliste Internationale. Retrieved 8 May 2012.
- ↑ "RusVelo (RVL) - RUS". UCI Continental Circuits. Union Cycliste Internationale. Retrieved 5 February 2014.
- ↑ "New russian pro-continental team RusVelo announced". VeloNews. Competitor Group, Inc. 22 February 2012. Retrieved 8 May 2012.
- ↑ "Firsanov wins Vuelta a Madrid". RusVelo. Provelo AG. 6 May 2012. Retrieved 8 May 2012.
- ↑ "99th Giro d'Italia Startlist". Pro Cycling Stats. Retrieved 6 May 2016.
External links
- RusVelo profile
- Sergey Firsanov profile at Cycling Archives
- Cycling Quotient profile