John Lieswyn (born 18 August 1968) is an American former professional road bicycle racer.[1]

John Lieswyn
Personal information
Born (1968-08-18) 18 August 1968 (age 56)
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Team information
Current teamRetired
DisciplineRoad
RoleRider
Amateur team
1989Taco Bell - Pepsi Cola
Professional teams
1992Saturn Cycling Team
1993–1994Coors Light–Serotta
1997–2000Team Shaklee
2001–20037 UP–Maxxis
2004–2005Health Net–Maxxis
Major wins
One-day races and Classics
National Time Trial Championships (2004)

Career

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Lieswyn started his road racing career in Florida in 1985, and raced for the University of Florida's Cycling Club (Team Florida). After graduation from college in 1990, he raced three seasons for the US National team in Germany, France and Italy. Lieswyn turned professional in 1993 for Coors Light. He returned to Europe in 1995, scoring numerous top ten results and winning the Delémont (Switzerland) mountain stage of the Regio-Tour. After taking a break in 1996, he focused on the US domestic scene with over 40 major wins. In the pre and post US-season, he competed in South America, Australia and New Zealand, notably taking three stage wins in the Herald Sun Tour (Australia), and overall victory at the Southland Tour (NZ), the Nature Valley Grand Prix in Minnesota, and Tour de Beauce (Canada). He finished second in his last USA professional race, the 2005 San Francisco Grand Prix. His fifth and last time representing the USA National Team was the 2005 World Road Cycling Championships in Spain, where he was a domestique (worker) for the USA team sprinters.

In 2012 David Zabriskie the original winner of the 2004 United States National Time Trial Championships was found guilty of doping and his results from May 2003 to July 2006 were stripped. This made Lieswyn, who originally came second, the new winner.[2]

Post-cycling

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He retired from racing at the end of the 2005 season and moved to New Zealand to work as a transportation planner.[3] Lieswyn has a master's degree in transport planning from the University of Canterbury, which he completed in 2012.[4] In 2012 he returned to the USA and lived in Davis, California; before returning to New Zealand in 2015.

Major results

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Sources:[5][6][7]

1989
1st   Overall Tour of the Gila
1991
1st   USA National Team Time Trial
1st Stage 2 International Cycling Classic
3rd Amateur National Championships, road race
1992
1st Stage 17 International Cycling Classic
1st Stage 8 Commonwealth Bank Classic
1994
6th Reading Classic
1995
1st Stage 7, Regio-Tour
5th Lancaster Classic
7th Overall Tour Poitou-Charentes en Nouvelle-Aquitaine
1997
1st Stage 6 International Cycling Classic
1st Stage 10 Tour of Ohio
2nd Overall Vuelta a Guatemala
5th Overall Killington Stage Race
1st Stage 3
1998
1st Stage 13 Herald Sun Tour
1st   Overall Tour of Ohio
1st Stages 1 & 3
1999
1st Chris Thater Memorial Criterium
1st Stage 3 Bermuda GP
2000
1st Stage 4 Herald Sun Tour
National championships
2nd Time trial
3rd Road race
2nd Tour Lefleur
4th First Union Wilmington Classic
7th Overall Sea Otter Classic
7th Philadelphia International Cycling Classic
8th Reading Classic
2001
1st Stage 2 Herald Sun Tour
1st Stage 9 International Cycling Classic
1st Stage 3, Tour of Willamette[8]
1st Chris Thater Memorial Criterium
6th Overall Tour of Southland
1st Stages 1 & 2
9th Overall Tour de Beauce
2002
1st Copa América de Ciclismo
1st   Overall Tour of Southland
1st Stages 1 & 6 (ITT)
1st   Overall North Star Grand Prix
1st Stage 2
1st   Overall Gateway Cup
1st Stages 2, 3 & 4
1st Stage 5 Cascade Cycling Classic
7th Overall Redlands Classic
10th Overall Sea Otter Classic
2003
1st   Overall Tour de Beauce
1st Stage 1
1st   Overall Gateway Cup
1st Stage 10 International Cycling Classic
5th Lancaster Classic
7th Overall Sea Otter Classic
7th Overall Redlands Classic
1st Stage 3
9th Overall Tour of Georgia
2004
1st   National time trial championship[2]
1st   Overall Tour of Southland
1st Stage 1 (TTT)
1st   Overall International Tour de Toona
1st Stage 3
1st   Overall Gateway Cup
1st Stages 2 & 3
1st   Overall Tobago Cycling Classic[9]
1st Stages 3 & 4
1st Stage 5, Nature Valley Grand Prix
1st K2 Classic
4th Overall Redlands Classic
2005
1st Overall Nature Valley Grand Prix
1st Stage 2
1st Stage 1 (TTT) Tour of Southland
2nd San Francisco Grand Prix
4th Overall Tour de Beauce

References

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  1. ^ "John LIESWYN". UCI (in French). Retrieved 27 January 2024.
  2. ^ a b "Acceptance of Sanction Zabriskie Executed" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 May 2013. Retrieved 28 May 2014.
  3. ^ "John". ViaStrada. Retrieved 10 June 2012.
  4. ^ Lieswyn, John (2012). Probabilistic Risk Analysis in Transport Project Economic Evaluation (Masters thesis). UC Research Repository, University of Canterbury. doi:10.26021/2562. hdl:10092/7652.
  5. ^ "John Lieswyn". FirstCycling.com. Retrieved 26 January 2024.
  6. ^ "John Lieswyn". www.cyclingarchives.com. Retrieved 26 January 2024.
  7. ^ "John Lieswyn". www.procyclingstats.com. Retrieved 26 January 2024.
  8. ^ "Race Results for Tour of Willamette Eugene, OR". USA Cycling. Archived from the original on 21 May 2012. Retrieved 10 June 2012.
  9. ^ Lieswyn, John. "The John Lieswyn Diary". Cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 10 June 2012.
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