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Vasil Kiryienka

Vasil Kiryienka
Vasil Kiryienka Giro 2011.jpg
Kiryienka at the 2011 Giro d'Italia
Personal information
Full name Vasili Vasilyevich Kiryienka
Nickname Robocop
Born (1981-06-28) 28 June 1981 (age 35)
Rečyca,
Byelorussian SSR, Soviet Union
Height 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight 75 kg (165 lb; 11.8 st)
Team information
Current team Team Sky
Discipline Road and Track
Role Rider
Rider type Time trialist/ Domestique
Professional team(s)
2006 OTC Doors (May–)
2006 Rietumu-Riga (–June)
2007–2008 Tinkoff Credit Systems
2009–2012 Caisse d'Epargne
2013– Team Sky
Major wins

Grand Tours

Giro d'Italia
3 individual stages (2008, 2011, 2015)
Vuelta a España
1 individual stage (2013)

Stage races

Route du Sud (2011)

One-day races and Classics

World Time Trial Championships (2015)
National Time Trial Championships
(2002, 2005, 2006, 2015)
European Games Time Trial (2015)

Grand Tours

Stage races

One-day races and Classics

Vasili Vasilyevich Kiryienka (Belarusian: Васіль Васілевіч Кірыенка; Łacinka: Vasil Vasilevič Kiryjenka) (born 28 June 1981) is a Belarusian racing cyclist, racing for UCI ProTeam Team Sky.

Born in Rečyca in the Belorussian S.S.R. in 1981, 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. Later that season Kiryienka won Stage 19 of the 2008 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.

Kiryienka moved to the Spanish Caisse d'Epargne squad for the 2009 season.

In 2010 he finished second in the tenth stage of the 2010 Tour de France after he was outsprinted at the line in Gap by Sérgio Paulinho (Radioshack) after the pair's decisive attack with 14 km remaining.

On 23 May 2011, during the 2011 Giro d'Italia, Kiryienka's Movistar Team team mate 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's win had come before Tondó's death) to honor him, while other members of the team grieved with Tondó's family.


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