Yaroslav Popovych

Yaroslav Popovych

Popovych at the 2009 Tour de France
Personal information
Full name	Yaroslav Popovych
Born	(1980-01-04) 4 January 1980 (age 44) Drohobych, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Height	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight	66 kg (146 lb; 10.4 st)
Team information
Current team	Lidl–Trek
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider (retired) Directeur sportif
Rider type	All-rounder
Professional teams
2002–2004	Landbouwkrediet–Colnago
2005–2007	Discovery Channel
2008	Silence–Lotto
2009	Astana
2010–2011	Team RadioShack
2012–2016	RadioShack–Nissan[1]
Managerial team
2016–	Trek–Segafredo
Major wins
Grand Tours Tour de France Young rider classification (2005) 1 individual stage (2006) 2 TTT stages (2005, 2009) Stage races Volta a Catalunya (2005)
Medal record Representing  Ukraine Men's road bicycle racing UCI Road World Championships 2001 Lisbon Under-23 road race 2000 Plouay Under-23 road race

Yaroslav Popovych (Ukrainian: Ярослав Попович; born 4 January 1980) is a Ukrainian former professional cyclist,^[2][3] who rode professionally between 2002 and 2016.

The winner of the under-23 road race at the 2001 UCI Road World Championships, Popovych turned professional in 2002 with Landbouwkrediet–Colnago, where he performed particularly strongly in the Giro d'Italia, finishing third in 2003. Upon joining Discovery Channel in 2005, his focus switched to the Tour de France, where he won the young riders' classification in 2005 and won stage 12 in 2006. When Discovery Channel folded at the end of 2007, Popovych moved to Silence–Lotto in 2008 and on to Astana in 2009. Popovych also raced for Team RadioShack in 2010 and 2011. From 2012 until 2016 he rode with the UCI ProTour team Trek–Segafredo.^[4]