John Lieswyn

{{Short description|American racing cyclist and New Zealand transport planner}}

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| image = John Lieswyn.jpg

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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1968|8|18}}

| birth_place = Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

| currentteam = Retired

| discipline = Road

| role = Rider

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| amateuryears1 = 1989

| amateurteam1 = Taco Bell - Pepsi Cola

| proyears1 = 1992

| proteam1 = Saturn Cycling Team

| proyears2 = 1993–1994

| proteam2 = {{UCI team code|Coors|1993}}

| proyears3 = 1997–2000

| proteam3 = {{UCI team code|SHA|1997}}

| proyears4 = 2001–2003

| proteam4 = 7 UP–Maxxis

| proyears5 = 2004–2005

| proteam5 = {{UCI team code|UHC|2004}}

| majorwins = One-day races and Classics

:National Time Trial Championships (2004)

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John Lieswyn (born 18 August 1968) is an American former professional road bicycle racer.{{cite web |title=John LIESWYN |url=https://fr.uci.org/rider-details/9313 |website=UCI |access-date=27 January 2024 |language=fr-FR}}

Career

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.{{cite web|title=Acceptance of Sanction Zabriskie Executed|url=http://d3epuodzu3wuis.cloudfront.net/Acceptance+of+Sanction.+Zabriskie.executed.pdf|access-date=28 May 2014|archive-date=18 May 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130518105328/http://d3epuodzu3wuis.cloudfront.net/Acceptance+of+Sanction.+Zabriskie.executed.pdf|url-status=dead}}

Post-cycling

He retired from racing at the end of the 2005 season and moved to New Zealand to work as a transportation planner.{{cite web|title=John |url= http://viastrada.co.nz/user/john |publisher=ViaStrada |accessdate=10 June 2012}} Lieswyn has a master's degree in transport planning from the University of Canterbury, which he completed in 2012.{{cite thesis |last=Lieswyn |first=John |year=2012 |type=Masters thesis |title=Probabilistic Risk Analysis in Transport Project Economic Evaluation |publisher=UC Research Repository, University of Canterbury |hdl=10092/7652 |doi=10.26021/2562 |url=https://ir.canterbury.ac.nz/handle/10092/7652}} In 2012 he returned to the USA and lived in Davis, California; before returning to New Zealand in 2015.

Major results

Sources:{{cite web |title=John Lieswyn |url=https://firstcycling.com/rider.php?r=12360 |website=FirstCycling.com |access-date=26 January 2024 |language=en}}{{cite web |title=John Lieswyn |url=http://www.cyclingarchives.com/coureurfiche.php?coureurid=4164 |website=www.cyclingarchives.com |access-date=26 January 2024 |language=en}}{{cite web |title=John Lieswyn |url=https://www.procyclingstats.com/rider/john-lieswyn |website=www.procyclingstats.com |access-date=26 January 2024}}

;1989

: 1st {{cjersey|red}} Overall Tour of the Gila

;1991

: 1st {{cjersey|usa}} 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 {{cjersey|yellow}} 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{{cite web|title=Race Results for Tour of Willamette Eugene, OR|url=http://www.usacycling.org/results/index.php?year=2001&id=116&info_id=1262|publisher=USA Cycling|accessdate=10 June 2012|archive-date=21 May 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120521120513/http://www.usacycling.org/results/index.php?year=2001&id=116&info_id=1262|url-status=dead}}

: 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 {{cjersey|yellow}} Overall Tour of Southland

::1st Stages 1 & 6 (ITT)

: 1st {{cjersey|yellow}} Overall North Star Grand Prix

::1st Stage 2

: 1st {{cjersey|yellow}} 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 {{cjersey|yellow}} Overall Tour de Beauce

::1st Stage 1

: 1st {{cjersey|yellow}} 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 {{cjersey|usa}} National time trial championship

: 1st {{cjersey|yellow}} Overall Tour of Southland

::1st Stage 1 (TTT)

: 1st {{cjersey|yellow}} Overall International Tour de Toona

::1st Stage 3

: 1st {{cjersey|yellow}} Overall Gateway Cup

::1st Stages 2 & 3

: 1st {{cjersey|red}} Overall Tobago Cycling Classic{{cite web|last=Lieswyn|first=John|title=The John Lieswyn Diary |url= http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/riders/2004/diaries/john/?id=john0426 |publisher=Cyclingnews.com|accessdate=10 June 2012}}

::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