# Kanstantsin Sivtsov

Kanstantsin Sivtsov (or Siutsou (Belarusian: Канстанцін Віктаравіч Сіўцоў; Łacinka: Kanstancin Viktaravič Siŭcoŭ; born 9 August 1982) is a Belarusian former professional road bicycle racer, who rode professionally between 2001 and 2018 for the Itera, Lokomotiv, Fassa Bortolo, Acqua & Sapone, Barloworld, HTC–Highroad, Team Sky, Team Dimension Data and Bahrain–Merida squads. He retired after provisionally being suspended from the sport following an adverse analytical finding for erythropoietin (EPO).

## Career

Sivtsov was born in the Belarusian city of Gomel in 1982. He won the under-23 road race at the UCI Road World Championships. Sivtsov joined Barloworld for the 2007 season, and rode the Tour de France, finishing 32nd overall.

### Team High Road (2008–11)

Siutsou moved to Team High Road for 2008, where he took his first stage race overall victory at the Tour de Georgia, and came 16th overall in the Tour de France. In the 2009 Giro d'Italia, Sivtsov won his first two Grand Tour stages, the team time trial on stage one and a successful solo breakaway in stage eight.
Sivtsov enjoyed his most successful year in 2011. He finished tenth overall in the Giro d'Italia – again winning the team time trial stage – with an eighth-place finish in the Critérium du Dauphiné, and won the Belarusian National Time Trial Championships for the first time.

### Team Sky (2012–15)

Sivtsov moved to Team Sky for the 2012 season. He was part of the teams that helped Richie Porte win the Volta ao Algarve, Bradley Wiggins win Paris–Nice, the Tour de Romandie and Critérium du Dauphiné, and Michael Rogers win Bayern–Rundfahrt. Sivtsov was selected to ride the Tour de France as one of Wiggins' main domestiques, but crashed out on stage three with 50 kilometres (31 mi) remaining with a fractured left tibia, the first retirement of the 2012 Tour.
Sivtsov claimed a solo win on stage two of the 2013 Giro del Trentino.

### Team Dimension Data (2016)

In October 2015, he announced that he would be leaving Team Sky after four seasons to join Team Dimension Data for 2016.

### Doping case

On 5 September 2018, the UCI announced that an out of competition test had resulted in an adverse analytical finding of Erythropoietin in a sample collected 31 July 2018. Siutsou was provisionally suspended pending the result of any B sample test. This followed his back injury sustained whilst carrying out a recon of the time trial at the Giro earlier that year.
On 23 June 2020, he was given a four-year ban for doping using EPO.

## Major results
### 2000

    6th Time trial, UCI Junior Road World Championships

### 2002

    National Road Championships
       2nd Time trial
       3rd Road race

### 2003

    2nd Points race, UEC European Under-23 Track Championships
    National Road Championships
       2nd Road race
       3rd Time trial

### 2004

    1st Road race, UCI Under-23 Road World Championships
    1st Time trial, National Road Championships
    2nd Overall Volta a Lleida
    4th Ruota d'Oro

### 2005

    7th Trofeo Melinda

### 2006

    1st Road race, National Road Championships
    2nd Subida al Naranco
    3rd Gran Premio Industria e Commercio Artigianato Carnaghese
    4th Overall Course de la Paix
       1st Young rider classification
       1st Stage 5
    4th Gran Premio Nobili Rubinetterie
    9th Giro di Toscana
    10th Giro dell'Emilia

### 2007

    2nd Giro dell'Appennino
    3rd Gran Premio Città di Camaiore
    3rd Tre Valli Varesine
    4th Giro del Lazio
    5th Coppa Placci
    8th Gran Premio di Lugano
    8th Gran Premio di Chiasso
    9th Overall Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali

### 2008

    1st Overall Tour de Georgia
       1st Stage 6

### 2009

    Giro d'Italia
       1st Stages 1 (TTT) & 8
    9th Overall Tirreno–Adriatico
    10th Overall Tour de Romandie
       1st Stage 3 (TTT)

### 2010

    1st Stage 1 (TTT) Vuelta a España

### 2011

    National Road Championships
       1st Time trial
       2nd Road race
    8th Overall Critérium du Dauphiné
    9th Overall Giro d'Italia
       1st Stage 1 (TTT)

### 2012

    5th Overall Bayern–Rundfahrt

### 2013

    1st Time trial, National Road Championships
    Giro del Trentino
       1st Stages 1b (TTT) & 2
    1st Stage 2 (TTT) Giro d'Italia
    UCI Road World Championships
       3rd Team time trial
       10th Time trial
    8th Overall Route du Sud

### 2014

    1st Time trial, National Road Championships
    4th Overall Route du Sud

### 2015

    6th Overall Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali
    7th Trofeo Andratx-Mirador d'es Colomer
    8th Overall Vuelta a Andalucía

### 2016

    National Road Championships
       1st Road race
       1st Time trial
    10th Overall Giro d'Italia

### 2017

    6th Overall Tour of Croatia

### 2018

    1st Overall Tour of Croatia
       1st Stage 3
    3rd Time trial, National Road Championships
    9th Overall Vuelta a San Juan

### Grand Tour general classification results timeline

| Grand Tour | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 |
| Giro d'Italia | — | DNF | 15 | — | 9 | — | 37 | DNF | 26 | 10 | 35 | DNS |
| Tour de France | 31 | 16 | — | 39 | — | DNF | 90 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Vuelta a España | — | — | — | 37 | DNF | — | — | 43 | — | — | — | — |
Legend :
| — | Did not compete |
| DNF | Did not finish |
| DNS | Did not start |