Evaldas Šiškevičius

Evaldas Šiškevičius (born 30 December 1988) is a Lithuanian former professional road bicycle racer and mountain biker, who competed professionally from 2011 to 2022. He competed at the 2020 Olympic Games and had a top-ten finish at Paris-Roubaix in 2019.

Career Born in Vilnius, Šiškevičius has competed as a professional since the start of the 2011 season, as the team he had been a member successfully became a Continental team. Šiškevičius won the Volta ao Alentejo in 2011 – as well as a stage during the event – before winning the Grand Prix de la Somme in September 2012.

Šiškevičius left at the end of the 2012 season, and joined for the 2013 season. Šiškevičius returned to for the 2014 season, after folded at the end of 2013.

At the 2018 Paris–Roubaix, Šiškevičius finished the race over an hour after the winner, Peter Sagan. He arrived so far outside of the time limit that when he arrived at the finish at the velodrome, the gates had already been closed, however, they were opened so that he could complete a ceremonious lap, despite his result still being marked as DNF. However, at the 2019 edition of the race, he managed to finish in 9th place.

At the 2021 Lithuanian Road Cycling Championship, he won the individual time trial and finished in third place in the road race. He subsequently represented Lithuania at the delayed 2020 Olympic Games, held in Tokyo, Japan in 2021. For the 2022 season he joined the team.

Personal life He attended Barbora Radvilaitė Secondary School, where he was a contemporary of fellow future Olympic cyclist for Lithuania Rasa Leleivytė.

Major results

2005 2nd Time trial, National Junior Road Championships 3rd Trofee van Vlaanderen Reningelst 2006 National Mountain Bike Championships

2nd Cross-country 1st Omloop Het Volk Junior 2nd Overall Sint-Martinusprijs Kontich 9th Road race, UEC European Junior Road Championships 2007 National Road Championships 3rd Time trial 3rd Under-23 time trial 3rd Cross-country, National Mountain Bike Championships 2008 1st Grand Prix de la ville de Nogent-sur-Oise

3rd Time trial, National Road Championships 10th La Côte Picarde 2009 2nd Time trial, National Road Championships 3rd Circuit Méditerranéen 5th Time trial, UEC European Under-23 Road Championships 2010

1st Stage 1 2nd Time trial, National Road Championships 2011

1st Stage 3 National Road Championships 3rd Time trial 5th Road race 3rd Overall Tour de Bretagne 8th Jūrmala Grand Prix 2012 1st Grand Prix de la Somme 1st Stage 5 Tour de Bretagne 1st Stage 2 Tour du Limousin 5th Time trial, National Road Championships 5th Châteauroux Classic 2013 3rd Road race, National Road Championships 2014 9th Grand Prix d'Ouverture La Marseillaise 2015

1st Stage 1

1st Stage 3 (TTT) 3rd Overall Tour de Picardie

National Road Championships 4th Time trial 4th Road race 4th Overall Tour of Taihu Lake 10th Paris–Camembert 2016 5th Time trial, National Road Championships 2017 National Road Championships 4th Time trial 4th Road race 2018 National Road Championships 3rd Time trial 3rd Road race 2019 2nd Time trial, National Road Championships 7th Paris–Bourges 9th Paris–Roubaix 9th Grand Prix d'Isbergues 2020

2021 National Road Championships

3rd Road race 5th Overall Baltic Chain Tour 5th Paris–Troyes 10th Overall Tour of Estonia 2022

National Road Championships 2nd Time trial 5th Road race