# Sergey Firsanov

Sergey Nikolayevich Firsanov (Russian: Сергей Николаевич Фирсанов; born 3 July 1982) is a Russian professional road bicycle racer, who last rode for UCI Professional Continental team Gazprom–RusVelo.

## Career

Born in Velikiye Luki, Firsanov has competed as a professional since 2005, competing for the Rietumu Banka–Riga squad during two separate spells, as well as the Premier, Team Designa Køkken and Itera–Katusha squads before signing for the newly formed RusVelo team for the 2012 season.
Firsanov achieved the team's first overall victory at the Vuelta a la Comunidad de Madrid; after a third-place finish in the race-opening individual time trial, Firsanov won the race's second and final stage by almost two minutes from his nearest competitors, to comfortably take the general classification victory.
He was named in the start list for the 2016 Giro d'Italia.

## Major results
### 2001

    9th Tour du Jura

### 2004

    9th Overall Grand Prix Guillaume Tell

### 2005

    1st Overall Giro della Toscana
    4th Overall Grand Prix of Sochi

### 2006

    1st Stage 6 (ITT) Bałtyk–Karkonosze Tour
    2nd Overall Tour of Bulgaria
       1st Stage 5a
    3rd Szlakiem Walk Majora Hubala
    6th Overall Five Rings of Moscow
    6th Overall Okolo Slovenska
    7th Grand Prix of Moscow
    8th Overall Grand Prix of Sochi
    8th Coupe des Carpathes

### 2007

    1st Memorial Oleg Dyachenko
    2nd Overall Five Rings of Moscow
    3rd Coupe des Carpathes
    5th Overall Tour of Małopolska
    7th Overall Le Triptyque des Monts et Châteaux
    7th Puchar Ministra Obrony Narodowej
    8th Overall Circuit des Ardennes
    8th Mayor Cup
    9th Overall Rhône-Alpes Isère Tour
    9th Memoriał Henryka Łasaka

### 2008

    1st Overall Way to Pekin
       1st Points classification
       1st Mountains classification
       1st Stages 2, 3 (ITT) & 7
    2nd Overall Ringerike GP
       1st Stage 2
    3rd Overall Okolo Slovenska
       1st Stage 4a (ITT)
    3rd Overall Les 3 Jours de Vaucluse
    3rd Overall Tour of Małopolska
    4th Overall Rhône-Alpes Isère Tour
    7th Coupe des Carpathes

### 2009

    1st Overall Boucle de l'Artois
       1st Stage 3
    1st Overall Ringerike GP
       1st Stage 2
    1st Overall Friendship People North-Caucasus Stage Race
    2nd Duo Normand (with Aleksejs Saramotins)
    5th Overall Rhône-Alpes Isère Tour
    5th Grand Prix of Moscow
    5th Rogaland GP
    7th Overall Tønsberg 4-dagers
       1st Stage 4 (ITT)

### 2010

    1st Overall Friendship People North-Caucasus Stage Race
       1st Stages 4 & 5 (ITT)
    1st Overall Five Rings of Moscow
       1st Stage 1
    2nd Overall Ringerike GP
    3rd Overall Rhône-Alpes Isère Tour
    4th Westrozebeke
    6th Memorial Oleg Dyachenko
    7th Overall Danmark Rundt
    7th Chrono Champenois
    10th Grand Prix of Moscow

### 2011

    1st Overall Friendship People North-Caucasus Stage Race
       1st Stages 1 (ITT), 5, 6, 7 (ITT) & 12
    1st Overall Five Rings of Moscow
       1st Stage 1
    2nd Overall Grand Prix of Adygeya
       1st Stage 3
    5th Overall Okolo Slovenska
    5th Mayor Cup
    6th Overall Settimana Ciclistica Lombarda
    7th Overall Tour de Serbie
    9th Grand Prix of Donetsk

### 2012

    1st Overall Vuelta a la Comunidad de Madrid
       1st Points classification
       1st Stage 2
    2nd Overall Grand Prix of Adygeya
       1st Stage 1 (ITT)
    3rd Eschborn-Frankfurt City Loop
    4th Overall Tour of Belgium
    5th Overall Tour of Norway
    6th GP Industria & Artigianato di Larciano
    7th Overall Tour of Qinghai Lake

### 2013

    5th Overall Settimana Ciclistica Lombarda
    10th Overall Vuelta a Castilla y León
    10th Tre Valli Varesine

### 2014

    1st Overall Tour of Kavkaz
       1st Stage 4
    3rd Overall Grand Prix of Adygeya
    6th GP Industria & Artigianato di Larciano
    6th Giro di Toscana
    7th Overall Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali

### 2015

    1st Overall Grand Prix of Adygeya
       1st Stage 2
    1st Grand Prix of Sochi Mayor
    2nd Tre Valli Varesine
    4th Tour of Almaty
    5th Overall Tour of Croatia
    5th Overall Tour d'Azerbaïdjan
       1st Stage 5
    7th Overall Grand Prix of Sochi
    9th Prueba Villafranca de Ordizia

### 2016

    1st Overall Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali
       1st Mountains classification
       1st Stage 2
    1st Giro dell'Appennino
    4th Overall Giro del Trentino

### 2018

    9th Grand Prix de Plumelec-Morbihan
    10th Boucles de l'Aulne

### Grand Tour general classification results timeline

| Grand Tour | 2016 | 2017 |
| Giro d'Italia | 30 | 96 |
| Tour de France | — | — |
| Vuelta a España | — | — |
Legend :
| — | Did not compete |
| DNF | Did not finish |