Dmytro Grabovskyy | |
Fullname: | Dmytro Grabovskyy Дмитро Грабовський |
Birth Date: | 30 September 1985 |
Birth Place: | Simferopol, Crimean Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union |
Height: | 1.85m (06.07feet) |
Weight: | 69kg (152lb) |
Discipline: | Road |
Role: | Rider |
Amateuryears1: | 2005–2006 |
Amateurteam1: | Team Finauto–Quickstep (under-23 satellite team) |
Amateuryears2: | 2006 |
Amateurteam2: | (stagiaire) |
Proyears1: | 2007–2008 |
Proyears2: | 2009–2010 |
Proyears3: | 2011 |
Proteam3: | ISD–Lampre |
Proyears4: | 2015 |
Majorwins: | Mountains Classification, Tirreno–Adriatico (2009) |
Dmytro Grabovskyy (Ukrainian: Дмитро Грабовський, Hebrew: דימיטרי גרבובסקי; 30 September 1985 – 23 January 2017) was a Ukrainian professional road bicycle racer, who last competed for UCI Continental team before his death in 2017.
He was second in the time trial for juniors at the 2005 World Championship Cycling in Madrid and he won the road race. He signed his first professional contract with . After two years he joined in 2009: after two years there he joined ISD-Lampre for 2011, his final year as a professional. He competed in one Grand Tour during his career, the 2009 Giro d'Italia.[1] In a 2010 interview with Gazetta dello Sport he admitted that he had suffered from problems with alcoholism during his period with Quick-Step, to the point where he came close to death from alcohol poisoning on two occasions.
He took up Israeli citizenship in 2015.[2] Grabovskyy died from a heart attack on 23 January 2017.[3]