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Discipline
  
Road

Role
  
Bicycler

2007–2008
  
Quick-Step–Innergetic

Height
  
1.85 m

2009–2010
  
ISD

Weight
  
69 kg

Name
  
Dmytro Grabovskyy


Dmytro Grabovskyy

Full name
  
Dmytro Grabovskyy Дмитро Грабовський

Born
  
September 30, 1985 (age 38) Simferopol, Ukraine (
1985-09-30
)

2005–2006
  
Team Finauto-Quickstep (under-23 satellite team)

2006
  
Quick-Step–Innergetic (stagiaire)

Dmytro grabovskyy dies beause of heart attack at age of 31


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 ISD-Lampre.

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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. He competed in one Grand Tour during his career, the 2009 Giro d'Italia. 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. Grabovskyy died from a heart attack on 23 January 2017.

Palmarès

2015
3rd overall, Israman Negev Israel (1st Israeli)

References

Dmytro Grabovskyy Wikipedia