Artem Ovechkin
.JPG) Ovechkin in June 2015 | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Artem Ovechkin |
| Born | July 11, 1986 Berdsk, Soviet Union |
| Height | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) |
| Weight | 59 kg (130 lb) |
| Team information | |
| Discipline | Road |
| Role | Rider |
| Amateur team | |
| 2009 | Lokomotiv |
| Professional teams | |
| 2009 | Team Katusha (stagiaire) |
| 2010–2011 | Team Katusha |
| 2012–2017 | RusVelo[1][2] |
| 2018–2021 | Terengganu Cycling Team[3] |
| Major wins | |
One-day races and Classics
| |
Artem Sergeyevich Ovechkin (Russian: Артём Сергеевич Овечкин; born 11 July 1986) is a Russian professional road bicycle racer, who most recently rode for UCI Continental team Terengganu Cycling Team.[4] He was named in the start list for the 2016 Giro d'Italia.[5]
Major results[edit]
- 2007
- 5th Overall Way to Pekin
- 1st Stages 4 & 5 (ITT)
- 2008
- 3rd
Time trial, UEC European Under-23 Road Championships - 10th Time trial, UCI Under-23 Road World Championships
- 2009
- 1st
Time trial, National Road Championships - 1st Duo Normand (with Nikolay Trusov)
- 2010
- 1st Duo Normand (with Alexandre Pliușchin)
- 4th Time trial, National Road Championships
- 5th Overall Tour of Austria
- 1st
Young rider classification
- 1st
- 8th Overall Ster Elektrotoer
- 2011
- 4th Time trial, National Road Championships
- 2012
- 4th Overall Grand Prix of Adygeya
- 2013
- 3rd Time trial, National Road Championships
- 10th Overall Course de la Solidarité Olympique
- 2014
- 3rd Time trial, National Road Championships
- 3rd Duo Normand (with Ivan Balykin)
- 7th Overall Tour of Belgium
- 10th Overall Tour of Slovenia
- 2015
- 1st Time trial, National Road Championships
- 1st Stage 1 (ITT) Tour of Slovenia
- 3rd Grand Prix of Sochi Mayor
- 6th Overall Grand Prix of Sochi
- 6th Chrono Champenois
- 2016
- 1st Stage 1b (TTT) Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali
- 2017
- 5th Time trial, National Road Championships
- 7th Overall Tour d'Azerbaïdjan
- 2018
- 1st Time trial, National Road Championships
- 1st
Overall Tour de Langkawi
- 1st Stage 5
- 1st
Overall Tour of Antalya
- 1st Stage 3
- 2nd Overall Tour of China II
- 1st Stage 4 (ITT)
- 2nd Overall Tour of Thailand
- 4th Overall Tour de Korea
- 2019
- 1st Time trial, National Road Championships
- 4th Overall Tour of China II
- 1st Prologue
- 5th Overall Tour of Iran (Azerbaijan)
- 6th Overall Tour of Fuzhou
- 7th Overall Tour of China I
- 2020
- 1st Time trial, National Road Championships
- 3rd Overall Tour de Langkawi
- 6th Grand Prix World's Best High Altitude
- 2021
- 2nd Time trial, National Road Championships
Grand Tour general classification results timeline[edit]
| Grand Tour | 2016 |
|---|---|
 Giro d'Italia
|
142 |
 Tour de France
|
— |
 Vuelta a España
|
— |
| — | Did not compete |
|---|---|
| DNF | Did not finish |
References[edit]
- ^ "RusVelo (RVL) – RUS". UCI Continental Circuits. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 7 April 2012. Retrieved 3 January 2012.
- ^ "Gazprom-RusVelo invests in youth with reduced 2018 roster". Cyclingnews.com. Immediate Media Company. 2 December 2017. Retrieved 24 January 2018.
Also leaving are Artem Ovechkin, Ivan Savitsky, Andrei Solomennikov, Kirill Sveshnikov, Sergey Nikolaev, Artur Ershov, and Aydar Zakarin (brother of) left Gazprom-Rusvelo last March.
- ^ "Terengganu Inc. TSG Cycling Team". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 21 May 2020. Retrieved 21 May 2020.
- ^ "Terengganu Cycling Team". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 28 February 2021. Retrieved 28 February 2021.
- ^ "99th Giro d'Italia Startlist". Pro Cycling Stats. Retrieved 6 May 2016.
External links[edit]
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Artem Ovechkin.
- Artem Ovechkin at UCI
- Artem Ovechkin at Cycling Archives
- Artem Ovechkin at ProCyclingStats
- Artem Ovechkin at Cycling Quotient
- Artem Ovechkin at CycleBase
- Artem Ovechkin at UCI
- Official RusVelo Site at the Wayback Machine (archived 2015-09-23)
- Official Katusha Site at the Wayback Machine (archived 2009-02-20)
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