Sergei Ivanov (cyclist)

Sergei Ivanov
	Ivanov at the 2006 Rund um den Henninger Turm
Personal information
Full name	Sergei Valeryevich Ivanov
Born	5 March 1975 (age 50); Chuvashia, Soviet Union
Team information
Discipline	Road
Role	Retired
Professional team(s)
1996	Lada-Samara
1997–2000	TVM-Farm Frites
2001–2003	Fassa Bortolo
2004–2006	T-Mobile
2007–2008	Astana
2009–2011	Team Katusha
Major wins
	Tour de France; 2 stages One-day races and Classics; National Champion (1998, 1999, 2000, 2005, 2008, 2009) Amstel Gold Race (2009)
	Infobox last updated on; 3 January 2012

Sergei Valeryevich Ivanov (Russian: Серге́й Валерьевич Иванов) (born 5 March 1975 in Chuvashia, Soviet Union) is a former professional road bicycle racer, who competed between 1996 and 2011. Ivanov had been a member of six different teams, competing for CSKA Lada-Samara, TVM-Farm Frites, Fassa Bortolo, T-Mobile Team, Astana and Team Katusha. In this time he completed in five Grand Tours, and also won six national championship titles.^[1] He also won the Tour de Pologne 1998.^[2] He now lives in Bekkevoort, Belgium.

Career highlights

1996: 2nd, Tour de l'Avenir
1998: National road race champion
1999: National road race champion
2000: National road race champion; E3 Prijs Vlaanderen
2001: Tour de Suisse stage win; Tour de France, stage 9
2002: Trofeo Luis Puig; Tour of Holland stage win
2003: Tour de Luxembourg, stage 5
2005: National road race champion; stage 4 in the Tour of Britain
2008: 7th, Amstel Gold Race; National road race champion; Tour de Wallonie, Overall winner
2009: 1st Amstel Gold Race; 1st stage 1 Tour of Belgium; 1st National road race champion; 1st Stage 14 Tour de France^[3]; 5th, Liège–Bastogne–Liège; 13th, La Flèche Wallonne
2010: 1st, Points Classification, Tour of Luxembourg

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