Kanstantsin Sivtsov

Kanstantsin Sivtsov (or Siutsou (; Łacinka: Kanstancin Viktaravič Siŭcoŭ; born 9 August 1982) is a Belarusian former professional road bicycle racer, who rode professionally between 2001 and 2018 for the Itera, Lokomotiv, , , , , , and squads. He retired after provisionally being suspended from the sport following an adverse analytical finding for erythropoietin (EPO).

Career Sivtsov was born in the Belarusian city of Gomel in 1982. He won the under-23 road race at the UCI Road World Championships. Sivtsov joined for the 2007 season, and rode the Tour de France, finishing 32nd overall.

Team High Road (2008–11) Siutsou moved to for 2008, where he took his first stage race overall victory at the Tour de Georgia, and came 16th overall in the Tour de France. In the 2009 Giro d'Italia, Sivtsov won his first two Grand Tour stages, the team time trial on stage one and a successful solo breakaway in stage eight.

Sivtsov enjoyed his most successful year in 2011. He finished tenth overall in the Giro d'Italia – again winning the team time trial stage – with an eighth-place finish in the Critérium du Dauphiné, and won the Belarusian National Time Trial Championships for the first time.

Team Sky (2012–15)

Sivtsov moved to for the 2012 season. He was part of the teams that helped Richie Porte win the Volta ao Algarve, Bradley Wiggins win Paris–Nice, the Tour de Romandie and Critérium du Dauphiné, and Michael Rogers win Bayern–Rundfahrt. Sivtsov was selected to ride the Tour de France as one of Wiggins' main domestiques, but crashed out on stage three with remaining with a fractured left tibia, the first retirement of the 2012 Tour.

Sivtsov claimed a solo win on stage two of the 2013 Giro del Trentino.

Team Dimension Data (2016) In October 2015, he announced that he would be leaving Team Sky after four seasons to join for 2016.

Doping case On 5 September 2018, the UCI announced that an out of competition test had resulted in an adverse analytical finding of Erythropoietin in a sample collected 31 July 2018. Siutsou was provisionally suspended pending the result of any B sample test. This followed his back injury sustained whilst carrying out a recon of the time trial at the Giro earlier that year.

On 23 June 2020, he was given a four-year ban for doping using EPO.

Major results

2000 6th Time trial, UCI Junior Road World Championships 2002 National Road Championships 2nd Time trial 3rd Road race 2003

National Road Championships 2nd Road race 3rd Time trial 2004

2nd Overall Volta a Lleida 4th Ruota d'Oro 2005 7th Trofeo Melinda 2006

2nd Subida al Naranco 3rd Gran Premio Industria e Commercio Artigianato Carnaghese 4th Overall Course de la Paix 1st Young rider classification 1st Stage 5 4th Gran Premio Nobili Rubinetterie 9th Giro di Toscana 10th Giro dell'Emilia 2007 2nd Giro dell'Appennino 3rd Gran Premio Città di Camaiore 3rd Tre Valli Varesine 4th Giro del Lazio 5th Coppa Placci 8th Gran Premio di Lugano 8th Gran Premio di Chiasso 9th Overall Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali 2008

1st Stage 6 2009 Giro d'Italia 1st Stages 1 (TTT) & 8 9th Overall Tirreno–Adriatico 10th Overall Tour de Romandie 1st Stage 3 (TTT) 2010 1st Stage 1 (TTT) Vuelta a España 2011 National Road Championships

2nd Road race 8th Overall Critérium du Dauphiné 9th Overall Giro d'Italia 1st Stage 1 (TTT) 2012 5th Overall Bayern–Rundfahrt 2013

Giro del Trentino 1st Stages 1b (TTT) & 2 1st Stage 2 (TTT) Giro d'Italia UCI Road World Championships

10th Time trial 8th Overall Route du Sud 2014

4th Overall Route du Sud 2015 6th Overall Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali 7th Trofeo Andratx-Mirador d'es Colomer 8th Overall Vuelta a Andalucía 2016 National Road Championships

10th Overall Giro d'Italia 2017 6th Overall Tour of Croatia 2018

1st Stage 3 3rd Time trial, National Road Championships 9th Overall Vuelta a San Juan

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

+ Legend — Did not compete DNF Did not finish DNS Did not start