# John Lieswyn

John Lieswyn (born 18 August 1968) is an American former professional road bicycle racer.

## Career

Lieswyn started his road racing career in Florida in 1985, and raced for the University of Florida's Cycling Club (Team Florida). After graduation from college in 1990, he raced three seasons for the US National team in Germany, France and Italy. Lieswyn turned professional in 1993 for Coors Light. He returned to Europe in 1995, scoring numerous top ten results and winning the Delémont (Switzerland) mountain stage of the Regio-Tour. After taking a break in 1996, he focused on the US domestic scene with over 40 major wins. In the pre and post US-season, he competed in South America, Australia and New Zealand, notably taking three stage wins in the Herald Sun Tour (Australia), and overall victory at the Southland Tour (NZ), the Nature Valley Grand Prix in Minnesota, and Tour de Beauce (Canada). He finished second in his last USA professional race, the 2005 San Francisco Grand Prix. His fifth and last time representing the USA National Team was the 2005 World Road Cycling Championships in Spain, where he was a domestique (worker) for the USA team sprinters.
In 2012 David Zabriskie the original winner of the 2004 United States National Time Trial Championships was found guilty of doping and his results from May 2003 to July 2006 were stripped. This made Lieswyn, who originally came second, the new winner.

## Post-cycling

He retired from racing at the end of the 2005 season and moved to New Zealand to work as a transportation planner. Lieswyn has a master's degree in transport planning from the University of Canterbury, which he completed in 2012. In 2012 he returned to the USA and lived in Davis, California; before returning to New Zealand in 2015.

## Major results

Sources:

### 1989

    1st Overall Tour of the Gila

### 1991

    1st USA National Team Time Trial
    1st Stage 2 International Cycling Classic
    3rd Amateur National Championships, road race

### 1992

    1st Stage 17 International Cycling Classic
    1st Stage 8 Commonwealth Bank Classic

### 1994

    6th Reading Classic

### 1995

    1st Stage 7, Regio-Tour
    5th Lancaster Classic
    7th Overall Tour Poitou-Charentes en Nouvelle-Aquitaine

### 1997

    1st Stage 6 International Cycling Classic
    1st Stage 10 Tour of Ohio
    2nd Overall Vuelta a Guatemala
    5th Overall Killington Stage Race
       1st Stage 3

### 1998

    1st Stage 13 Herald Sun Tour
    1st Overall Tour of Ohio
       1st Stages 1 & 3

### 1999

    1st Chris Thater Memorial Criterium
    1st Stage 3 Bermuda GP

### 2000

    1st Stage 4 Herald Sun Tour
    National championships
       2nd Time trial
       3rd Road race
    2nd Tour Lefleur
    4th First Union Wilmington Classic
    7th Overall Sea Otter Classic
    7th Philadelphia International Cycling Classic
    8th Reading Classic

### 2001

    1st Stage 2 Herald Sun Tour
    1st Stage 9 International Cycling Classic
    1st Stage 3, Tour of Willamette
    1st Chris Thater Memorial Criterium
    6th Overall Tour of Southland
       1st Stages 1 & 2
    9th Overall Tour de Beauce

### 2002

    1st Copa América de Ciclismo
    1st Overall Tour of Southland
       1st Stages 1 & 6 (ITT)
    1st Overall North Star Grand Prix
       1st Stage 2
    1st Overall Gateway Cup
       1st Stages 2, 3 & 4
    1st Stage 5 Cascade Cycling Classic
    7th Overall Redlands Classic
    10th Overall Sea Otter Classic

### 2003

    1st Overall Tour de Beauce
       1st Stage 1
    1st Overall Gateway Cup
    1st Stage 10 International Cycling Classic
    5th Lancaster Classic
    7th Overall Sea Otter Classic
    7th Overall Redlands Classic
       1st Stage 3
    9th Overall Tour of Georgia

### 2004

    1st National time trial championship
    1st Overall Tour of Southland
       1st Stage 1 (TTT)
    1st Overall International Tour de Toona
       1st Stage 3
    1st Overall Gateway Cup
       1st Stages 2 & 3
    1st Overall Tobago Cycling Classic
       1st Stages 3 & 4
    1st Stage 5, Nature Valley Grand Prix
    1st K2 Classic
    4th Overall Redlands Classic

### 2005

    1st Overall Nature Valley Grand Prix
       1st Stage 2
    1st Stage 1 (TTT) Tour of Southland
    2nd San Francisco Grand Prix
    4th Overall Tour de Beauce