Artem Ovechkin

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]

Artem Ovechkin

Ovechkin in June 2015
Personal information
Full name	Artem Ovechkin
Born	(1986-07-11) 11 July 1986 (age 38) 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 National Time Trial Championships (2009, 2015, 2018, 2019, 2020)

Major results

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

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

Grand Tour	2016
Giro d'Italia	142
Tour de France	—
Vuelta a España	—

Legend

—	Did not compete
DNF	Did not finish

References

1. "RusVelo (RVL) – RUS". UCI Continental Circuits. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 7 April 2012. Retrieved 3 January 2012.
2. "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.
3. "Terengganu Inc. TSG Cycling Team". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 21 May 2020. Retrieved 21 May 2020.
4. "Terengganu Cycling Team". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 28 February 2021. Retrieved 28 February 2021.
5. "99th Giro d'Italia Startlist". Pro Cycling Stats. Retrieved 6 May 2016.

External links

• Artem Ovechkin at UCI
• Artem Ovechkin at Cycling Archives (archived)
• 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)