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Serhiy Honchar

Serhiy Honchar
Serhiy Honchar.jpg
Honchar in 2011
Personal information
Full name Serhiy Honchar
Born (1970-07-03) July 3, 1970 (age 46)
Rivne, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine)
Height 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight 72 kg (159 lb; 11.3 st)
Team information
Current team Retired
Discipline Road
Role Rider
Rider type Time trialist
Professional team(s)
1996 Ideal
1997 Aki
1998 Cantina Tollo–Alexia Alluminio
1999 Vini Caldirola
2000–2001 Liquigas
2002 Fassa Bortolo
2003–2005 De Nardi-Colpack
2006–2007 T-Mobile Team
2008 Preti Mangimi
2009 Team Utensilnord
Major wins

Grand Tours

Tour de France
2 stages
Giro d'Italia
5 stages

Stage races

Ronde van Nederland (1999)
Settimana Ciclistica Lombarda (2000, 2001)

One-day races and Classics

Chrono des Herbiers (1997, 1998, 1999)
Grand Prix des Nations (1999)
World Time Trial Champion (2000)
National Road Race Champion (2003)
National Time Trial Champion (1996, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002)

Grand Tours

Stage races

One-day races and Classics

Serhiy Honchar (Ukrainian: Сергій Гончар; born July 3, 1970) is a Ukrainian former professional road racing cyclist. He is a former world time trial champion (2000).

Honchard failed a blood health check in the 1999 Tour de Suisse, and was removed from the race. Even though it was only a health check, and not a doping offence, the Tour de France organisation still decided to ban his Vini Caldirola team from the 1999 Tour de France.

In the 2006 Tour de France, Honchar lead the general classification after a time-trial win in stage 7. In time trialing, Honchar rocks the top of his body to get the most out of a big gear. He beat Landis, Zabriskie, Lang, Rogers, Kloden, Evans and various others in the individual time trials in the 2006 Tour de France.

On 11 May 2007, Honchar was suspended for 30 days by his T-Mobile team, following blood tests taken at Liège–Bastogne–Liège and the Tour de Romandie. On 19 June 2007, the T-Mobile team announced the termination of his contract.


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