Serhiy Honchar
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| Personal information | |
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| Full name | Serhiy Honchar |
| Date of birth | July 3, 1970 |
| Country |  Ukraine |
| Team information | |
| Current team | T-Mobile Team |
| Rider type | Time trialist |
| Professional team(s) | |
| 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000-2001 2002 2003-2004 2005 2006-present |
Ideal Aki Cantina Tollo Vini Caldirola Liquigas Fassa Bortolo De Nardi Domina Vacanze T-Mobile Team |
| Major wins | |
| 2 stages Tour de France 5 stages Giro d'Italia |
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Serhiy Honchar (Ukrainian: Сергій Гончар; translit.: Serhiy Honchar; Polish: Serhey Honczar; Russian: Сергей Гончар; translit.: Sergey Gonchar) (born July 3, 1970 in Rivne) is a Ukrainian professional road racing cyclist. He is a former World Time Trial Champion. In the 2006 Tour de France, Honchar wore the maillot jaune after a time-trial win in stage 7.
His name is commonly Latinized as "Honchar", but his name is pronounced as "Gonchar"[1]. This error occurs because in Ukrainian "Г" is pronounced as "h" and in Russian "Г" as "g". Although Ukrainian, Gonchar himself pronounces his name as a Russian would, i.e. "Sergey Gonchar".
His Time Trialing position has been critisised but it is nevertheless very effective. Honchar rocks and rolls the top part of his body to get the most out of a big gear. He is one of the top Time Trialists in the World and this was evident as he beat Landis, Zabriskie, Lang, Rogers, Kloden, Evans and various others in the TT's in this yr's Tour.
[edit] Results and Teams
- 2006 — T-Mobile Team
- Giro d'Italia
- Maglia rosa (after Stages 5 and 7)
- Tour de France
- 52nd general classification
- Maillot jaune (after Stages 7-9)
- 1st, Stage 7 (ITT)
- 1st, Stage 19 (ITT)
- 2005 — Domina Vacanze
- 2004 — De Nardi
- 2nd Overall — Giro d'Italia
- 1st — Stage 13
- 2003 — De Nardi-Colpack
- 8th overall and Stage 21 win – Giro d'Italia
- Ukraine National Road Race Champion
- 2nd — Circuit de la Sarthe
- 2002 — Fassa Bortolo
- Ukraine National Time Trial Champion
- 23rd overall – Giro d'Italia
- 2001 — Liquigas
- Ukraine National Time Trial Champion
- 3rd — Chrono des Herbiers
- 4th overall — Giro d'Italia
- 2000 — Liquigas
- Gold Medal — World Time-Trial Championship
- Ukraine National Time Trial Champion
- 2nd — Chrono des Herbiers
- 9th overall — Giro d'Italia
- 1999 — Vini Caldirola
- Grand Prix des Nations
- Tour des Pays-Bas
- Chrono des Herbiers
- 1998 — Cantina Tollo
- Chrono des Herbiers
- Bronze Medal — World Time-Trial Championship
- Ukraine National Time Trial Champion
- 1997 — AKI
- Chrono des Herbiers
- Silver Medal — World Time-Trial Championship
- 1996
- Ukraine National Time Trial Champion
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.cbc.ca/cp/sports/060708/s070860.html. Retrieved on July 13, 2006.
| UCI World Time Trial Champions |
| 1994: Chris Boardman - 1995: Miguel Indurain - 1996: Alex Zülle - 1997: Laurent Jalabert |
| 1998: Abraham Olano - 1999: Jan Ullrich - 2000: Serhiy Honchar - 2001: Jan Ullrich (2) - 2002: Santiago Botero |
| 2003: Michael Rogers - 2004: Michael Rogers (2) - 2005: Michael Rogers (3) - 2006: Fabian Cancellara |
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