Vladimir Karpets

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Vladimir Karpets
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Karpets at the 2007 UCI Road World Championships.
Personal information
Full nameVladimir Alexandrovich Karpets
Born (1980-09-20) 20 September 1980 (age 41)
Leningrad, Soviet Union
Height1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
Weight79 kg (174 lb; 12.4 st)
Team information
DisciplineRoad
RoleRider
Rider typeAll-rounder
Professional teams
2001–2002Itera
2003–2008iBanesto.com
2009–2011Team Katusha
2012–2013Movistar Team
Major wins
Grand Tours
Tour de France
Young rider classification (2004)

Stage races

Volta a Catalunya (2007)
Tour de Suisse (2007)

Vladimir Alexandrovich Karpets (Russian: Владимир Александрович Карпец) (born 20 September 1980 in Leningrad) is a Russian road bicycle racer, who last rode for UCI ProTeam Movistar Team.[1] Karpets is most notable for winning the white jersey for best young rider in the 2004 Tour de France[2] and his victories in the overall classifications of the Volta a Catalunya and the Tour de Suisse, both in 2007. Karpets is also a two-time Olympian.

Born in Leningrad, Karpets turned to cycling and, like fellow Russian Denis Menchov before him, moved to Spain where he joined iBanesto.com.

At the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Karpets competed on the track in the men's team pursuit where Russia got eliminated in the quarter-finals by Great Britain and took eighth.[3] He also participated in the men's individual pursuit competition, finishing 11th.[4] At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, he competed in the men's road race, helping his fellow countryman Alexandr Kolobnev to a place of tenth.[5]

In the 2004 Tour de France, he used his strong time trialing abilities to defeat Thomas Voeckler in the youth classification on the penultimate stage.[2] In the 2005 season, he was not at the same level in the Tour de France, but nevertheless managed a top ten placing in the Giro d'Italia. In 2007 he won stage 1 at Vuelta a Castilla y León and took the overall victory at the Volta a Catalunya and the Tour de Suisse.

Career achievements[]

Major results[]

[6]

2002
2nd Prueba Villafranca de Ordizia
2nd Overall Troféu Joaquim Agostinho
3rd Overall Volta ao Alentejo
2003
Tour de France
Held Jersey white.svg after Stages 4–6
2004
1st Jersey yellow.svg Overall Vuelta a La Rioja
1st Jersey white.svg Young rider classification Tour de France
2005
7th Overall Giro d'Italia
2006
8th Overall Volta a Catalunya
9th Overall Tour de Suisse
2007
1st MaillotVolta.png Overall Volta a Catalunya
1st Jersey yellow.svg Overall Tour de Suisse
1st Stage 1 Vuelta a Castilla y León
7th Overall Vuelta a España
2008
1st Prueba Villafranca de Ordizia
3rd Time trial, National Road Championships
2009
2nd Overall Tour de Romandie
5th Overall Tour de Suisse
2010
4th Overall Tour de Romandie
2011
2nd Time trial, National Road Championships

Grand Tour general classification results timeline[]

Grand Tour 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013
A pink jersey Giro d'Italia — — 7 — — 22 — 14 — — 153
A yellow jersey Tour de France 100 13 50 30 14 — 13 DNF 28 53 —
A red jersey Vuelta a España — — — 8 7 — — 13 42 — —
Legend
— Did not compete
DNF Did not finish

References[]

  1. ^ "Karpets to Movistar, Bruseghin extends". Cycling News. Future Publishing Limited. 22 October 2011. Retrieved 3 January 2012.
  2. ^ a b "Armstrong makes history". BBC Sport. BBC. 27 July 2004. Retrieved 12 December 2012.
  3. ^ "Men's Team Pursuit, 4,000 metres". Sports Reference. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 12 December 2012.
  4. ^ "Men's Individual Pursuit, 4,000 metres". Sports Reference. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 12 December 2012.
  5. ^ Tim Maloney (14 August 2004). "Bettini unbeatable for Athens Gold". Cycling News. Future Publishing Limited. Retrieved 12 December 2012.
  6. ^ Vladimir Karpets – Russia at cyclingarchives.com

External links[]

Media related to Vladimir Karpets at Wikimedia Commons

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