Ivan Rovny
Rovny in 2014.
Personal information
Full name
  • Ivan Andreyevich Rovny
  • Иван Андреевич Ровный
Born (1987-09-30) 30 September 1987 (age 36)
Height1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Weight64 kg (141 lb)
Team information
Current teamRetired
DisciplineRoad
RoleRider
Rider typeClimbing specialist[1]
Professional teams
2006–2008Tinkoff Restaurants
2009Team Katusha
2010–2011Team RadioShack
2012RusVelo
2013Ceramica Flaminia–Fondriest
2014–2016Tinkoff–Saxo
2017–2022Gazprom–RusVelo[2][3][4]
Major wins
One-day races and Classics
National Road Race Championships (2018)

Ivan Andreyevich Rovny (Иван Андреевич Ровный; born 30 September 1987) is a Russian former professional road bicycle racer, who competed as a professional from 2006 to 2022.

Career

For the 2014 season, Leningrad-born Rovny joined Tinkoff–Saxo.[5] He was disqualified from the 2014 Vuelta a España for fighting with Italian cyclist Gianluca Brambilla on a breakaway on stage 16.[6] In August 2016 Gazprom–RusVelo announced that Rovny would rejoin the team on an initial two-year contract from the following season, having previously ridden for the team in 2012.[1]

Major results

2004
9th Road race, UCI Junior Road World Championships
2005
1st Road race, UCI Juniors World Championships
1st Road race, UEC European Junior Road Championships
3rd Individual pursuit, UEC European Junior Track Championships
2006
1st Team pursuit, 2005–06 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics, Carson
Team pursuit, 2006–07 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics
1st Sydney
2nd Moscow
1st Points race, UEC European Under-23 Track Championships
5th Overall Cinturón a Mallorca
8th Grand Prix of Moscow
9th Paris–Mantes-en-Yvelines
2007
1st Stage 9 Tour de l'Avenir
2nd Eindhoven Team Time Trial
5th Overall Tour Méditerranéen
5th Coppa Ugo Agostoni
8th Gran Premio Città di Camaiore
10th Trofeo Melinda
2009
3rd Grand Prix d'Isbergues
2011
10th Overall Vuelta a Andalucía
2012
8th Circuito de Getxo
10th Rund um Köln
2013
2nd Giro di Toscana
3rd Overall Giro della Regione Friuli Venezia Giulia
3rd Giro dell'Appennino
4th GP Industria & Artigianato di Larciano
4th Tre Valli Varesine
5th Coppa Ugo Agostoni
6th Trofeo Matteotti
2018
1st Road race, National Road Championships
9th Coppa Ugo Agostoni
10th Overall Tour of Norway
2019
10th Giro della Toscana
2021
3rd Road race, National Road Championships

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Grand Tour 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017
Pink jersey Giro d'Italia DNF 78 46 115 36 119
Yellow jersey Tour de France Has not contested during his career
red jersey Vuelta a España DNF DNF 99
Legend
Did not compete
DNF Did not finish

References

  1. ^ a b "Rovny signs for Gazprom-Rusvelo - News Shorts". cyclingnews.com. 12 August 2016. Retrieved 12 August 2016.
  2. ^ "Menchov returns as directeur sportif with Gazprom-RusVelo". Cyclingnews.com. 26 December 2018. Retrieved 17 January 2019.
  3. ^ "Gazprom – RusVelo". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 7 January 2020. Retrieved 7 January 2020.
  4. ^ "Gazprom-RusVelo". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 6 January 2021. Retrieved 6 January 2021.
  5. ^ "Russians Rovny, Trusov sign with Tinkoff–Saxo". VeloNews. 20 December 2013. Archived from the original on 18 January 2014. Retrieved 25 December 2013.
  6. ^ "Vuelta a España: Brambilla, Rovny disqualified as Contador wins". BBC Sport. Retrieved 9 September 2014.