Zbigniew Spruch (born 13 December 1965) is a Polish former professional road bicycle racer. He won the Tour de Pologne in 1995 and placed second at the 2000 UCI Road World Championships. Spruch was a professional cyclist for 12 years, starting at the team in 1992 with a two year stint at for 1997 & 1998. He then finished his career back at the newly founded squad. Spruch only achieved three professional wins in his career but amassed over 120 amateur victories.
Career Spurch won the overall at the 1995 Tour de Pologne. At the 1999 Tirreno–Adriatico Spruch came close to his third professional win when favorites for the stage Nicola Minali and Mario Cipollini crashed in the final 75 metres. Unfortunately Spruch was edged out by Steven de Jongh.
The Biggest non-victory of Spurch's career was finishing second at the Road race of the 2000 UCI Road World Championships. Spurch was in the final bunch chasing down Michele Bartoli who had attacked with less than 1km to go. The bunch caught Bartoli just before the line with Spruch tucked in behind Romāns Vainšteins, he could not sprint past the Latvian who took gold.
Major results References:
1987 9th Overall Olympia's Tour 10th Overall Tour de Pologne 1988 1st Stage 3 Peace Race 1st Stage 5 Niedersachsen Rundfahrt 1989 1st Stage 2 Peace Race 1st Stages 4 & 6 Niedersachsen Rundfahrt 6th Overall Tour de Pologne 1st Stages 3 & 5 1990 1st Stage 7 Vuelta a Cuba 2nd Overall Tour of Małopolska 1st Stage 2 1991 1st Memorial Grundmanna I Wizowskiego 3rd Overall Rheinland-Pfalz Rundfahrt 5th Overall Tour of Małopolska 7th Overall Tour de Pologne 1st Stages 2, 3 & 4 1992 6th Trofeo Laigueglia 8th Giro di Campania 9th Giro del Piemonte 1993 5th Overall KBC Driedaagse van De Panne-Koksijde 6th Overall Tour de Pologne 1st Points classification 1994 2nd Trofeo Pantalica 3rd Paris-Tours 6th Gent-Wevelgem 7th Overall Tour de Pologne 1995 (1 Pro win) 1st Overall Tour de Pologne 1st Points classification 1st Stage 2 4th Overall 4 Jours de Dunkerque 5th Overall Grand Prix du Midi Libre 1st Stage 1 6th Gent-Wevelgem 1996 9th Road race, Olympic Games 1997 2nd Overall Étoile de Bessèges 1998 (2) 1st Stage 5 Settimana Ciclistica Lombarda 5th Overall Tirreno-Adriatico 7th Overall Tour de Pologne 1st Points classification 1st Stage 1 1999 2nd Gent–Wevelgem 3rd Milan-San Remo 5th Tour of Flanders 9th Scheldeprijs 2000 2nd Road race, UCI Road World Championships 4th Milan-San Remo 7th Overall KBC Driedaagse van De Panne-Koksijde 7th Paris-Tours 8th Amstel Gold Race 9th Tour of Flanders 2001 10th Paris-Tours
Grand Tour general classification results timeline Source: Grand Tour 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 Giro d'Italia47—66DNF4710072———— Tour de France—DNF——DNF——DNF——— / Vuelta a España—46—————DNF——DNF
Monuments results timeline Source: Monument 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003Milan–San Remo 37 48 14 23 113 63 —34 — 98 59Tour of Flanders — 40 15 71 63 DNF —59 — 38 37Paris–Roubaix — — — — — 51 — 14 15 — 15 DNFLiège–Bastogne–Liège — — — 47 — — — 12 15 — — DNFGiro di Lombardia — — — — — — — — DNF — — —
+ Legend — Did not compete DNF Did not finish
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