Dimitri Konyshev

Dimitri Borisovich Konyshev is a retired Russian road bicycle racer and current sports director, born on 18 February 1966 in Gorky in the Soviet Union, now Nizhny Novgorod. During a 17-year professional career he won stages in all three Grand Tours, nine in total: three at the Tour de France, four at the Giro d'Italia and one at the Vuelta a España. He also won the points classification at the Giro d'Italia in 2000 and the intergiro classification there in 1997. He grew up in the Soviet sports system, tried handball first and took up cycling in 1984, inspired by Sergei Sukhoruchenkov's victory in the Olympic road race at the 1980 Moscow Games. As an amateur he won the Giro Ciclistico d'Italia in 1988 and turned professional with Alfa Lum in 1989, finishing second to Greg LeMond in the road race at that year's UCI Road World Championships. His son Alexander Konychev is also a professional cyclist, riding for Italy.