191 Facts About Dimitri Konyshev

Dimitri Borisovich Konyshev is a retired Russian road bicycle racer.

Dimitri Konyshev has won 4 stages in the Tour de France and the Giro d'Italia, while claiming a single stage in the Vuelta a Espana.

Dimitri Konyshev was the first Soviet and Russian rider to win a medal in the Men's Road race at the UCI Road World Championships.

Dimitri Konyshev won a silver medal in 1989 behind Greg LeMond, and a bronze medal in 1992 behind Gianni Bugno and Laurent Jalabert.

Dimitri Konyshev was the first Soviet and Russian rider to win a stage at the Giro d'Italia.

Dimitri Konyshev has never won a Cycling monument, but finished in the top ten on four occasions, three of which were in the Giro di Lombardia.

Dimitri Konyshev's son, Alexander Konychev, is a professional cyclist, although he represents Italy.

Dimitri Konyshev was born on the 18th of February, 1966, in Gorky, Soviet Union.

Dimitri Konyshev started cycling at the age of 14, with his father, who led the local team, as his first coach.

Dimitri Konyshev earned the first victory of his career, winning stage 10 of the 1986 edition of the Coors Classic.

Dimitri Konyshev beat Greg Lemond and Phil Anderson in the sprint.

In 1987, Dimitri Konyshev had further victories, including six-stage race stages, two overall and two at one-day events.

Dimitri Konyshev won the GP Liberazione in his second Italian race, out-sprinting West German Bernd Grone and finishing three seconds ahead of the peloton.

Dimitri Konyshev went to Austria for the Osterreich-Rundfahrt, where he did not finish below ninth position in any of the nine stages.

Dimitri Konyshev then headed to France to race the Tour de l'Avenir and finished within the top 10 for seven of the twelve-stage race.

Dimitri Konyshev won stage 7, a mountain stage, finishing in Strasbourg from an early breakaway.

Dimitri Konyshev went on to win the Points classification and finish twenty-fourth overall.

Dimitri Konyshev won two stages at the Giro delle Regioni, a race he had won overall in 1987.

Dimitri Konyshev then won the amateur version of the Giro d'Italia, the Giro Ciclistico d'Italia.

The 1989 season started in Europe with the Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali, the first stage was a sprint stage where Dimitri Konyshev finished in third behind seasoned professionals Stefano Allocchio and Sean Kelly.

At the Giro di Toscana Dimitri Konyshev finished second behind current world champion Maurizio Fondriest and beaten two-time Giro di Lombardia winner Gianbattista Baronchelli in an eight-man sprint for the line.

The next race on the calendar for Dimitri Konyshev was the Giro d'Italia, a Grand Tour.

Dimitri Konyshev ended second behind Bjarne Riis in the three-man sprint for the line.

Dimitri Konyshev's season started with the Dwars door Belgie where he finished in the second bunch and sprinted to 10th place.

Dimitri Konyshev fared better at the Giro di Toscana where he sprinted to ninth with the third bunch of cyclists to cross the line.

Dimitri Konyshev won the sprint of the remaining riders coming in second place.

Stage 14 was the next chance for Dimitri Konyshev to take the stage.

Gianni Bugno and Charly Mottet got away up the hill the chasing group slowly whittled away with Dimitri Konyshev dropping and finishing in 6th.

The last stage where Dimitri Konyshev attained a top-10 was Stage 17 where in the bunch sprint he finished 8th.

Dimitri Konyshev won the race beating teammates Piotr Ugrumov and Vladimir Pulnikov in a sprint.

Dimitri Konyshev would become the first ever rider from the Soviet Union to win a stage in the Tour de France by winning Stage 17.

Dimitri Konyshev only rode four further races in the 1990 season the first was the Giro del Veneto where a reduced bunch of five riders made their way to the line after the hilly course.

Stage 1 was a Team time trial in teams of three, Dimitri Konyshev's team came 5th in the stage placing him 15th going into the Vuelta.

Stage 3 was hilly, this time Dimitri Konyshev led out teammate Jesper Skibby who took the win with Dimitri Konyshev finishing 5th.

Dimitri Konyshev abandoned the race during Stage 5 with a broken collarbone.

Dimitri Konyshev was in the breakaway of the day with Pascal Richard.

Dimitri Konyshev was now to ride under the Russian flag in all events.

Winner Olaf Ludwig was leading to the bottom of the hill and started his sprint early, Dimitri Konyshev was part of the main pack that fought to catch Ludwig but ended up settling for 3rd.

Dimitri Konyshev placed in the top 10 of stages 3,4,5, and 6 before not starting the 8th stage.

The closest Dimitri Konyshev came to victory was Stage 4 where he came fourth in the bunch sprint.

Dimitri Konyshev did just that by sprinting to victory in Stage 6 of the event.

The Tour started hard, with Dimitri Konyshev losing time in the hills during the first week.

Dimitri Konyshev then attacked in the final kilometre to gain 6 seconds on the rest of the breakaway and take second.

Perini was leading until Dimitri Konyshev opened his sprint with 200m to go and easily took second place on the stage.

Dimitri Konyshev went on to abandon during Stage 17 of the race.

Dimitri Konyshev concluded his season at the UCI Road World Championships where he competed in the Road race placing third in the reduced bunch sprint behind Gianni Bugno.

Dimitri Konyshev would achieve a podium in Stage 3 of the Giro del Trentino.

The only notable hill in Stage 5 occurred with 12km to go, this is when Dimitri Konyshev made his attack.

The finish was an uphill sprint with Dimitri Konyshev launching with 200m to go, the peloton was just behind them.

Dimitri Konyshev won the stage by 2 seconds to Della Santa with the peloton finishing 4 seconds behind.

Dimitri Konyshev had his second stage win of the Giro this time by a sprint of 20 riders who had ridden away from race leader Bruno Leali and the Banesto controlled peloton.

Dimitri Konyshev featured twice more in reduced bunch sprints in this edition of the Giro finishing 6th in Stage 16 and 9th in Stage 21.

Dimitri Konyshev finished 26th Overall in the Giro, the best placing of his career.

At the Gran Piemonte Dimitri Konyshev finished fourth in a sprint of 6 riders who escaped from the peloton earlier in the race.

Dimitri Konyshev missed the move of the day but kept working in the peloton.

Dimitri Konyshev was part of the bunch chasing Furlan, he finished 20 seconds down sprinting to tenth place.

The Amstel Gold Race was held three days later on 23 April 1994, Dimitri Konyshev sprinted home in the second bunch on the road to 12th position.

Dimitri Konyshev then went to Italy to prepare for the Giro d'Italia, riding first the Giro di Toscana and then Giro del Friuli finishing 13th and sixth respectively.

Dimitri Konyshev achieved three more top-10 places in this year's Giro his best being Stage 12 where he came fourth 2 seconds behind the winner.

On Stage 19 Dimitri Konyshev crashed and had to abandon the race.

Dimitri Konyshev completed his season with the Autumn Classics bettering his last year's result in Giro di Lombardia to finish fourth this year.

Dimitri Konyshev did this on Stage 3 by grabbing the bonus seconds that came with finishing third followed by Stage 6 third again this time in a mountain sprint.

Dimitri Konyshev finished fourth in Stage 4,10 seconds down on the winner.

The rest of the stages ended in mass sprints with Dimitri Konyshev sprinting to seventh in Stage 7.

Dimitri Konyshev made the move of the day but was distanced on the Poggio from the leaders, he held off the peloton by 2 seconds to come home seventh, 15 seconds down on the winner.

Dimitri Konyshev did not achieve any notable results in the Tour and abandoned the race during Stage 12.

Dimitri Konyshev closed his season with a fifth place in Giro del Piemonte followed by 19th in Giro di Lombardia.

Stage 2 of the race ended in a bunch sprint with Dimitri Konyshev coming the closest so far to a victory being beaten by the slimmest of margins by Fabiano Fontanelli.

Dimitri Konyshev spent other stages in the break which gave him points in the mountain classification which he finished second behind teammate Andrey Teteryuk.

Dimitri Konyshev then headed home for the Russian National Road Race Championships where he placed third.

Dimitri Konyshev won the first stage in a two-man sprint over two minutes ahead of the third-placed rider.

Dimitri Konyshev held the lead for the whole race which was solidified by winning Stage 4 in a two-up sprint.

Dimitri Konyshev was one of five Russian Cyclists selected to ride the Men's individual road race.

Dimitri Konyshev was the best-placed Russian in the race finishing 13th out of the 117 that finished.

Stage 3 ended with Dimitri Konyshev sprinting to fifth place moving him into sixth place overall.

Dimitri Konyshev was able to outsprint his companions taking his first Vuelta Stage victory and completing the triple for winning a stage in each Grand Tour.

Dimitri Konyshev started his season in February at Classica Comunitat Valenciana 1969 where he finished 85th in the mass bunch sprint for the line.

Still in Spain, he rode the Clasica de Almeria leading out teammate Massimo Strazzer to victory Dimitri Konyshev managed to finish in 12th.

Dimitri Konyshev was there as a domestique for leader Strazzer so did not feature in Stage 1.

However, in Stage 2 the main contenders escaped on the climbs and Dimitri Konyshev was able to sprint to seventh in the peloton over 2 minutes down.

Dimitri Konyshev was then able to sprint to second in the following Stage after leading out Strazzer for the win, he had to brake to let Strazzer.

Stage 4 was a reduced bunch coming to the line with Dimitri Konyshev being the one led out this time by Pavel Padrnos he sprinted to take his first victory of the season.

Dimitri Konyshev did not feature in the results until the final few stages.

Stage 5 ended in a mass sprint with Dimitri Konyshev sprinting to tenth then Stage 6 brought his second win of the season.

Dimitri Konyshev attacked and finished 12 seconds ahead of the peloton on the hilly stage.

Dimitri Konyshev was marked as a 3-star favourite for the race with Laurent Jalabert the absolute favourite with 5 stars.

Dimitri Konyshev came home in the 24th place as part of the 39 riders who made it to the line together.

Dimitri Konyshev came to the finish line with Laurent Madouas who he was able to beat in the two-up sprint to take his third victory of the season.

Dimitri Konyshev then headed to Switzerland as final preparation for the giro, he rode the GP Kanton Aargau coming third in the bunch sprint.

Dimitri Konyshev was first through the Intergiro sprint which meant he led the Intergiro competition.

Dimitri Konyshev finished the stage in 162nd 20 seconds down with bonus seconds which placed him 38th Overall, 26 seconds down on Cipollini.

Dimitri Konyshev lost 42 seconds in Stage 2 and over three and a half minutes in the Stage 3 Individual time trial these losses solidified his position as a domestique for team leaders Piotr Ugrumov and Paolo Savoldelli.

Dimitri Konyshev spent the rest of the Giro getting into the break and solidifying his lead in the InterGiro classification.

Dimitri Konyshev finished seventh in Stage 6 coming to the line with the peloton for the bunch sprint.

Stage 9 was won by Dimitri Konyshev taking the mass bunch sprint after a hilly stage to take his third Giro stage.

Dimitri Konyshev finished the Giro overall in 37th in his seventh appearance.

Dimitri Konyshev won Stage 6 of the race from a two-man breakaway with Kazakhstani Alexandre Vinokourov, the pair finished 28 seconds ahead of the peloton.

Stage 7 ended in a mass sprint with Dimitri Konyshev being led out to aim for victory, he was no match for Markus Zberg who took the stage ahead of Dimitri Konyshev.

At the Giro del Lazio Dimitri Konyshev was in the front group of the race till he was distanced on the final climb finishing 20 seconds down in tenth position.

Dimitri Konyshev ended his 1997 season in October with the Road race at the UCI Road World Championships, which he did not finish.

Dimitri Konyshev was allowed to ride for himself on the fourth stage, a mountain stage.

Dimitri Konyshev won stage 4 of the Tour in a two-man sprint in an uphill stage.

Dimitri Konyshev still managed to get fifth after working for his leader.

Once again with the plan to work for Pantani, Dimitri Konyshev started the Vuelta a Murcia.

Stage 1 was a flat stage where everyone kept up and Dimitri Konyshev worked for Traversoni who placed fourth.

The third stage is where the bigger hills arrived, an attack by Pantani had allowed a group of 20 to be off the front Dimitri Konyshev was part of this group.

The 20 men came to the line together with Dimitri Konyshev sprinting to fourth.

Stage 4a was a short mountain climb where Dimitri Konyshev lost almost four minutes to the winner dropping to 23rd overall.

Dimitri Konyshev did not start the final stage of the race.

The only race he rode in April was the Amstel Gold Race, Dimitri Konyshev had podium-ed this race in 1992.

Dimitri Konyshev abandoned the race during the climb of the Loorberg within the first hours of the race.

In preparation to help Pantani win the 1998 Giro d'Italia, Dimitri Konyshev went to the Tour de Romandie where he finished 104th.

Dimitri Konyshev did not get to ride for himself in this tour he worked solely for Pantani who was able to win the Overall classification of the race.

Dimitri Konyshev would ride again in support of Pantani at another Grand Tour, he had been selected to ride the 1998 Tour de France.

The Tour de France started in Ireland again with a prologue where Dimitri Konyshev finished in 151st.

Dimitri Konyshev rode two more races in 1998: the Clasica de San Sebastian and the Grand Prix de Suisse.

The race started with a Prologue where Dimitri Konyshev lost over a minute finishing in 91st.

On Stage 2 Dimitri Konyshev gained two more points in the KOM classification.

On Stage 4 Dimitri Konyshev gained 20 points in the KOM classification to sit second at the end of the day.

Stage 5 ended in a sprint this time Dimitri Konyshev came seventh, still second in the mountain classification.

In Stage 6 Dimitri Konyshev made his way into the break of the day and won the third and fourth KOM sprints, gaining 16 points and moving him into the red jersey.

Stage 7 was an ITT where Dimitri Konyshev came 44th, there were Mountain points on offer at the finish line.

Dimitri Konyshev won the red jersey at the end of the tour for winning the Mountain classification overall.

Dimitri Konyshev had the second fastest time, resulting in him gaining 3 points in the Mountains classification to sit second behind Mariano Piccoli.

Dimitri Konyshev spent a lot of the Tour going into the break and gaining Mountain points.

Dimitri Konyshev never wore the Mountain jersey at the Tour, and he always sat no higher than second.

In Stage 11 Dimitri Konyshev was in the break taking mountain points when Ludo Dierckxsens attacked.

Faresin ended up leading to the finish until Dimitri Konyshev came around him with 400m to go, taking his fourth Stage win at the Tour de France.

Dimitri Konyshev came 18th on the final stage of the tour, setting his 62nd overall in stone.

Dimitri Konyshev made it into the move of the day, an 11-man group with two former winners.

Dimitri Konyshev was the fastest taking his second win of the season.

Dimitri Konyshev made it into the winning move, this time with nine riders who all worked well together until Marco Serpellini attacked.

Dimitri Konyshev was the only one who could follow, the two battled it out in the closing kilometres with Dimitri Konyshev taking the victory in the sprint.

Freire won the race by four seconds to the others with Dimitri Konyshev coming in ninth place.

Dimitri Konyshev was only able to just hold on and take fifth in the race.

Dimitri Konyshev's season started at La Mediterraneenne where he came 130th over 34 minutes down.

Dimitri Konyshev placed fifth, and second in his bunch sprint on the day.

The race finished with a solo winner followed by a mass bunch sprint with Dimitri Konyshev coming home in 13th.

Dimitri Konyshev was part of a twelve-man break that got away after 35km.

In stage 2 Dimitri Konyshev was in the break of the day gaining 10 points in the points classification before being caught and coming home in 68th.

Dimitri Konyshev came second on Stage 3 of the Tour after Eddy Mazzoleni managed to hold the peloton off by three seconds.

Dimitri Konyshev won both of these and secured his victory in the Sprints classification.

Dimitri Konyshev rode the 2000 Giro d'Italia initially in support of Fabio Baldato who suffered a bad crash in Stage 2 and did not start Stage 3.

In Stage 3 Tosatto misjudged the leadout by Dimitri Konyshev leading to a fourth in the stage but taking the Maglia ciclamino as leader of the points classification.

Stage 4 ended a mass bunch sprint with Dimitri Konyshev sprinting to second behind Mario Cipollini gaining 20 points and moving to tenth in the points classification.

Dimitri Konyshev had won his fourth and final stage in the Giro d'Italia.

The next Stage that Dimitri Konyshev showed his sprinting form was Stage 9 where he gained 6 points by sprinting to second in the intermediate sprint.

Stage 10 ended in a mass sprint with Dimitri Konyshev sprinting to seventh.

Stage 12 brought the Giro to the mountains, and with that, Dimitri Konyshev made it into the break of the day with 23 other men.

Dimitri Konyshev gained 20 points at this stage strengthening his lead in the points classification.

The final stage of the Giro, Stage 21, ended in the unusual way that a breakaway won the stage Dimitri Konyshev came second in the peloton and seventh on the stage.

Dimitri Konyshev was part of a 5-man team selected to represent Russia at the Olympic games in the road race.

Dimitri Konyshev was active during the race attacking at the end of lap 8 starting a break of 5 men who were ultimately caught by the next lap.

Dimitri Konyshev started his 2001 season with a Team Fassa Bortolo training camp in Tuscany.

Dimitri Konyshev started racing in France with the La Mediterraneenne where he finished 88th at the completion of the six-stage race.

Stage 2 ended in a sprint with Dimitri Konyshev coming home fifth and dropping to third overall.

In Stage 3 Dimitri Konyshev came second in the final sprint, this time gaining enough time to take the leader's jersey and enough points to take the Points jersey.

Dimitri Konyshev lost his lead in the race to Davide Rebellin and then sat three seconds down.

Stage 5 was in an Individual time trial where Dimitri Konyshev did not finish in the top 10 but kept his lead in the points classification.

Dimitri Konyshev crashed out of the race on Stage 5 while in the points jersey.

Dimitri Konyshev was amongst the favorites at the end of the race only to be caught in a large crash in the final kilometer.

Dimitri Konyshev eventually crossed the line in 120th and after being assessed by doctors was found to have a fractured radius.

The next good result for Dimitri Konyshev was fifth in Stage 5 of the Tour de Romandie.

Dimitri Konyshev only rode one Grand Tour in 2001 the Giro d'Italia where he was there to try defend his Points jersey from the 2000 Giro d'Italia.

Dimitri Konyshev achieved two top 10 results in the race.

Dimitri Konyshev placed eighth in Stage 8 in a bunch sprint.

On stage 5 of the race, Dimitri Konyshev was in the break of the day staying there until the first pass of Saint-Gotthard Massif where he accelerated away from his breakaway companions.

Dimitri Konyshev had spent 195km of the 220km stage at the front of the group.

Dimitri Konyshev was in a break with five other riders who stayed away the whole stage with Dimitri Konyshev leading the sprint to the line only to finish fourth.

Dimitri Konyshev took his second victory at the Russian National Road Race Championships by attacking from a small group up the final climb, he won by 7 seconds.

The final stage race that Dimitri Konyshev rode in 2001 was the Volta a Portugal where he did not finish.

Dimitri Konyshev missed the move in the final kilometers of Giro del Lazio but sprinted to third on the line.

The final season at Fassa Bortolo for Dimitri Konyshev was his worst season since he turned professional in 1989 he did not record a single win.

Dimitri Konyshev started his season at the Vuelta a Andalucia where he was very active in the breakaway eventually finishing 128th overall.

Dimitri Konyshev came close a few times in the season with three top fives in stages and a further two top 10s in one-day races.

In Stage 2 Dimitri Konyshev crashed in the final 2km he was not injured badly and finished the stage over three minutes down.

Dimitri Konyshev finished the Giro in 103 place overall over two hours down on winner Paolo Savoldelli.

Dimitri Konyshev had a pinched nerve in his back so spent a few months early in the season off his bike.

At 37 years of age, Dimitri Konyshev was the Road captain of the team.

Dimitri Konyshev ended his drought of no wins for the past two years.

Dimitri Konyshev was cleared by the team to start his 2004 season at Trofeo Laigueglia where he finished 32nd in the mass bunch sprint.

At the Vuelta a Asturias Dimitri Konyshev won the bunch sprint behind solo winner Carlos Barredo on Stage 3.

The first race where Dimitri Konyshev had some good results was Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali he was considered a strong rider by Cyclingnews.

Dimitri Konyshev held the peloton off until the last lap of the course where he was caught and managed to finish 44th.

Dimitri Konyshev did pull on the King of the Mountains jersey for most mountain points.

Dimitri Konyshev won the first stage from a reduced peloton on the hilly course.

Dimitri Konyshev held the leader's jersey after the Stage 2 mass sprint where he finished third.

Dimitri Konyshev finished two races and six stages over the 2006 season with his best result being 44th in Stage 2 of Etoile de Besseges.

Dimitri Konyshev was the team's second leader in the race but ultimately he sacrificed himself for Mikhaylo Khalilov who placed 77th.

Dimitri Konyshev was very active in the race although during the Stage 1 prologue, he finished second to last losing 53 seconds to the winner.

Dimitri Konyshev was part of the team which supported Alexandr Kolobnev in earning his silver medal in the UCI Road World Championships Men's road race.