# Zbigniew Spruch

Zbigniew Spruch (born 13 December 1965) is a Polish former professional road bicycle racer. He won the Tour de Pologne in 1995 and placed second at the 2000 UCI Road World Championships. Spruch had was a professional cyclist for 12 year's, starting at the Lampre–Colnago team in 1992 with a two year stint at Mapei–GB for 1997 & 1998. He then finished his career back at the newly founded Lampre–Daikin squad. Spruch only achieved three professional wins in his career but amassed over 120 amateur victories.

## Career

Spurch won the Overall at the 1995 Tour de Pologne, however at the time the race was for amateurs unlike in the 2020's where it is a UCI WorldTour event. At the 1999 Tirreno–Adriatico Spruch came close to his third professional win when favorites for the stage Nicola Minali and Mario Cipollini crashed in the final 75 metres. Unfortunately Spruch was edged out by Steven de Jongh.
The Biggest non-victory of Spurch's career was finishing second at the Road race of the 2000 UCI Road World Championships. Spurch was in the final bunch chasing down Michele Bartoli who had attacked with less than 1km to go. The bunch caught Bartoli just before the line with Spruch tucked in behind Romāns Vainšteins, he could not sprint past the Latvian who took gold.

## Major results

References:

### 1987

    9th Overall Olympia's Tour
    10th Overall Tour de Pologne

### 1988

    1st Stage 3 Peace Race
    1st Stage 5 Niedersachsen Rundfahrt

### 1989

    1st Stage 2 Peace Race
    1st Stages 4 & 6 Niedersachsen Rundfahrt
    6th Overall Tour de Pologne
       1st Stages 3 & 5

### 1990

    1st Stage 7 Vuelta a Cuba
    2nd Overall Tour of Małopolska
       1st Stage 2

### 1991

    1st Memorial Grundmanna I Wizowskiego
    3rd Overall Rheinland-Pfalz Rundfahrt
    5th Overall Tour of Małopolska
    7th Overall Tour de Pologne
       1st Stages 2, 3 & 4

### 1992

    6th Trofeo Laigueglia
    8th Giro di Campania
    9th Giro del Piemonte

### 1993

    5th Overall KBC Driedaagse van De Panne-Koksijde
    6th Overall Tour de Pologne
       1st Points classification

### 1994

    2nd Trofeo Pantalica
    3rd Paris-Tours
    6th Gent-Wevelgem
    7th Overall Tour de Pologne

### 1995 (1 Pro win)

    1st Overall Tour de Pologne
       1st Points classification
       1st Stage 2
    4th Overall 4 Jours de Dunkerque
    5th Overall Grand Prix du Midi Libre
       1st Stage 1
    6th Gent-Wevelgem

### 1996

    9th Road race, Olympic Games

### 1997

    2nd Overall Étoile de Bessèges

### 1998 (2)

    1st Stage 5 Settimana Ciclistica Lombarda
    5th Overall Tirreno-Adriatico
    7th Overall Tour de Pologne
       1st Points classification
       1st Stage 1

### 1999

    2nd Gent–Wevelgem
    3rd Milan-San Remo
    5th Tour of Flanders
    9th Scheldeprijs

### 2000

    2nd Road race, UCI Road World Championships
    4th Milan-San Remo
    7th Overall KBC Driedaagse van De Panne-Koksijde
    7th Paris-Tours
    8th Amstel Gold Race
    9th Tour of Flanders

### 2001

    10th Paris-Tours

### Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Source:
| Grand Tour | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 |
| Giro d'Italia | 47 | — | 66 | DNF | 47 | 100 | 72 | — | — | — | — |
| Tour de France | — | DNF | — | — | DNF | — | — | DNF | — | — | — |
| / Vuelta a España | — | 46 | — | — | — | — | — | DNF | — | — | DNF |

### Monuments results timeline

Source:
| Monument | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 |
| Milan–San Remo | 37 | 48 | 14 | 23 | 113 | 63 | — | 3 | 4 | — | 98 | 59 |
| Tour of Flanders | — | 40 | 15 | 71 | 63 | DNF | — | 5 | 9 | — | 38 | 37 |
| Paris–Roubaix | — | — | — | — | — | 51 | — | 14 | 15 | — | 15 | DNF |
| Liège–Bastogne–Liège | — | — | — | 47 | — | — | — | 12 | 15 | — | — | DNF |
| Giro di Lombardia | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | DNF | — | — | — |
Legend :
| — | Did not compete |
| DNF | Did not finish |