Vasil Kiryienka

Vasil Kiryienka
	Kiryienka at the 2011 Giro d'Italia
Personal information
Full name	Vasili Vasilyevich Kiryienka
Nickname	Robocop
Born	28 June 1981 (age 43); Rechytsa, Byelorussian SSR, Soviet Union; (now Belarus);
Height	1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight	75 kg (165 lb; 11.8 st)
Team information
Current team	BelAZ
Disciplines	Road; Track;
Role	Rider (retired); Directeur sportif;
Rider type	Time trialist; Domestique;
Professional teams
2006	OTC Doors
2006	Rietumu Banka–Riga
2007–2008	Tinkoff Credit Systems
2009–2012	Caisse d'Epargne
2013–2020	Team Sky
Managerial team
2021–	BelAZ
Major wins
	Grand Tours Giro d'Italia 3 individual stages (2008, 2011, 2015) Vuelta a España 1 individual stage (2013) One-day races and Classics World Time Trial Championships (2015) National Time Trial Championships; (2002, 2005, 2006, 2015, 2018) European Games Time Trial (2015, 2019)
Medal record
Men's road bicycle racing
Representing Belarus
World Championships
European Games
Representing Team Sky
World Championships
Men's track cycling
Representing Belarus
World Championships

Vasili Vasilyevich Kiryienka (Belarusian: Васіль Васілевіч Кірыенка; Łacinka: Vasil Vasilevič Kiryjenka; born 28 June 1981) is a Belarusian former racing cyclist,^[4] who rode professionally between 2006 and 2020 for the OTC Doors, Rietumu Banka–Riga, Tinkoff Credit Systems, Movistar Team and Team Ineos squads. He currently works as a directeur sportif for UCI Continental team BelAZ.^[5]

^ Mills, Benjamin. "Team Sky Photo Gallery". Team Sky. BSkyB. Retrieved 11 July 2012.
^ "Team Sky". Cyclingnews.com. Archived from the original on 5 January 2019. Retrieved 5 January 2019.
^ "Team Ineos". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 2 January 2020. Retrieved 2 January 2020.
^ Malach, Pat (30 January 2020). "Kiryienka retires due to recurring 'cardiac issues'". Cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 30 January 2020.
^ "BelAZ". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 9 March 2021. Retrieved 9 March 2021.