Serhiy Honchar

Serhiy Gonchar
	Gonchar in 2011
Personal information
Full name	Serhiy Gonchar
Born	3 July 1970 (age 51); Rivne, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine)
Height	1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight	72 kg (159 lb; 11.3 st)
Team information
Current team	Retired
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Rider type	Time trialist
Professional teams
1996	Ideal
1997	Aki
1998	Cantina Tollo–Alexia Alluminio
1999	Vini Caldirola
2000–2001	Liquigas
2002	Fassa Bortolo
2003–2005	De Nardi-Colpack
2006–2007	T-Mobile Team
2008	Preti Mangimi
2009	Team Utensilnord
Major wins
	Grand Tours Tour de France 2 stages Giro d'Italia 5 stages Stage races Ronde van Nederland (1999) Settimana Ciclistica Lombarda (2000, 2001) One-day races and Classics Chrono des Herbiers (1997, 1998, 1999) Grand Prix des Nations (1999) World Time Trial Champion (2000) National Road Race Champion (2003) National Time Trial Champion (1996, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002)
Medal record
Representing Ukraine
Men's road bicycle racing
World Championships

Serhiy Gonchar (Ukrainian: Сергій Гончар; born 3 July 1970) is a Ukrainian former professional road racing cyclist. He is a former world time trial champion (2000). Due to a temporary spelling error in his passport, he is often incorrectly called Honchar.^[1]

Career[]

Gonchar failed a blood health check in the 1999 Tour de Suisse, and was removed from the race. Even though it was only a health check, and not a doping offence, the Tour de France organisation still decided to ban his Vini Caldirola team from the 1999 Tour de France.^[2]

In the 2006 Tour de France, Gonchar lead the general classification after a time-trial win in stage 7. In time trialing, Gonchar rocks the top of his body to get the most out of a big gear. He beat Landis, Zabriskie, Lang, Rogers, Kloden, Evans and various others in the individual time trials in the 2006 Tour de France.

On 11 May 2007, Gonchar was suspended for 30 days by his T-Mobile team, following blood tests taken at Liège–Bastogne–Liège and the Tour de Romandie. On 19 June 2007, the T-Mobile team announced the termination of his contract.

When Gonchar was not able to find a new team in 2010, he retired.^[3]