Dmytro Grabovskyy

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 Jilun Shakeland Cycling Team before his death in 2017.

Dmytro Grabovskyy

Grabovskyy in 2005
Personal information
Full name	Dmytro Grabovskyy Дмитро Грабовський
Born	(1985-09-30)30 September 1985 Simferopol, Crimean Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Died	23 January 2017(2017-01-23) (aged 31)
Height	1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Weight	69 kg (152 lb)
Team information
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Amateur teams
2005–2006	Team Finauto–Quickstep (under-23 satellite team)
2006	Quick-Step–Innergetic (stagiaire)
Professional teams
2007–2008	Quick-Step–Innergetic
2009–2010	ISD
2011	ISD–Lampre
2015	Jilun Shakeland Cycling Team
Major wins
Mountains Classification, Tirreno–Adriatico (2009)

Career

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 Quick-Step–Innergetic. After two years he joined ISD in 2009: after two years there he joined ISD-Lampre for 2011, his final year as a professional.^[1] He competed in one Grand Tour during his career, the 2009 Giro d'Italia.^[2] 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.^[3]

He took up Israeli citizenship in 2015.^[3] Grabovskyy died from a heart attack on 23 January 2017.^[1]

Dmytro Grabovskyy in the Prologue of the 2008 Tour of California

Major results

2003

2nd Time trial, UCI Junior Road World Championships

2005

UCI Under-23 Road World Championships

1st Road race

2nd Time trial

1st Time trial, UEC European Under-23 Road Championships

1st Stage 5 Five Rings of Moscow

2006

1st Time trial, UEC European Under-23 Road Championships

1st Overall Giro delle Regioni

1st Stages 2, 3 & 5b

2nd Overall Girobio

1st Stage 2

2nd Time trial, National Under-23 Road Championships

2007

3rd Time trial, National Road Championships

2008

5th Firenze–Pistoia

2009

2nd Time trial, National Road Championships

2010

1st Mountains classification, Tirreno–Adriatico

2015

3rd Overall Israman Negev Israel (1st Israeli)