# Serhiy Honchar

Serhiy Gonchar (Ukrainian: Сергій Гончар; born 3 July 1970) is a Ukrainian former professional road racing cyclist. He won the World Time Trial Championship in 2000. Due to a temporary spelling error in his passport, he is often incorrectly called Honchar.

## 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.
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, Klöden, 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.

## Major results
### 1993

    1st Overall Okolo Slovenska

### 1997

    1st Chrono des Herbiers
    1st Stage 5 (ITT) Tour de Suisse
    2nd Time trial, UCI Road World Championships
    3rd Grand Prix Eddy Merckx
    5th Overall Giro d'Italia
       1st Stage 18 (ITT)
    9th Gran Premio de Llodio

### 1998

    1st Time trial, National Road Championships
    1st Chrono des Herbiers
    1st Stage 3b (ITT) Four Days of Dunkirk
    3rd Time trial, UCI Road World Championships
    7th Overall Ronde van Nederland
       1st Stage 3b (ITT)
    10th Overall Giro d'Italia
       1st Stage 21 (ITT)
       Held after Stages 3 & 4

### 1999

    1st Overall Ronde van Nederland
       1st Stage 3b (ITT)
    1st Chrono des Herbiers
    1st Grand Prix des Nations
    6th Time trial, UCI Road World Championships
    7th Overall Giro d'Italia
       1st Stage 18 (ITT)

### 2000

    1st Time trial, UCI Road World Championships
    1st Time trial, National Road Championships
    1st Overall Settimana Ciclistica Lombarda
       1st Stage 2
    2nd Chrono des Herbiers
    4th GP Industria & Artigianato di Larciano
    9th Time trial, Olympic Games
    9th Overall Giro d'Italia

### 2001

    1st Time trial, National Road Championships
    1st Overall Settimana Ciclistica Lombarda
       1st Stage 3
    3rd Overall Ronde van Nederland
       1st Stage 3b (ITT)
    3rd Giro dell'Appennino
    3rd Chrono des Herbiers
    4th Overall Giro d'Italia
    4th Giro della Romagna
    4th EnBW Grand Prix (with Denis Zanette)
    5th GP Industria & Artigianato di Larciano
    8th Overall Giro del Trentino
    10th Trofeo Pantalica

### 2002

    1st Time trial, National Road Championships
    3rd Overall Setmana Catalana de Ciclisme
    10th Grand Prix Eddy Merckx (with Marco Velo)

### 2003

    National Road Championships
       1st Road race
       2nd Time trial
    3rd Overall Ronde van Nederland
    3rd Grand Prix des Nations
    4th Trofeo Melinda
    4th Gran Premio Bruno Beghelli
    4th Firenze–Pistoia
    7th Overall Giro d'Italia
       1st Stage 21 (ITT)
    7th Giro di Lombardia
    8th Overall Danmark Rundt
    9th Overall Three Days of De Panne

### 2004

    2nd Overall Giro d'Italia
       1st Stage 13 (ITT)
    3rd Time trial, National Road Championships
    4th Trofeo Laigueglia
    5th Veenendaal–Veenendaal

### 2005

    1st Stage 3 Giro del Trentino
    3rd Giro del Veneto
    6th Overall Giro d'Italia
    9th Coppa Placci

### 2006

    Tour de France
       1st Stages 7 (ITT) & 19 (ITT)
       Held after Stages 7–9
    2nd Overall Circuit de la Sarthe
    4th LuK Challenge Chrono (with Michael Rogers)
    Giro d'Italia
       Held after Stages 5 & 7

### 2008

    2nd Giro del Veneto
    National Road Championships
       4th Road race
       4th Time trial

### 2009

    4th Raiffeisen Grand Prix
    10th Gran Premio Città di Camaiore

### Grand Tour general classification results timeline

| Grand Tour | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 |
| Giro d'Italia | 5 | 10 | 7 | 9 | 4 | 23 | 8 | 2 | 6 | DNF |
| Tour de France | — | — | — | — | — | 64 | — | — | DNF | 51 |
| / Vuelta a España | 56 | DNF | — | 57 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Legend :
| — | Did not compete |
| DNF | Did not finish |