John Lieswyn (born 18 August 1968) is an American former professional road bicycle racer.
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.
Post-cycling
He retired from racing at the end of the 2005 season and moved to New Zealand to work as a transportation planner.
Lieswyn has a master's degree in transport planning from the University of Canterbury, which he completed in 2012.
In 2012 he returned to the USA and lived in Davis, California; before returning to New Zealand in 2015.
Major results
Sources:
- 1989
- 1st Overall Tour of the Gila
- 1991
- 1st 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 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
- 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 Overall Tour of Southland
- :1st Stages 1 & 6 (ITT)
- 1st Overall North Star Grand Prix
- :1st Stage 2
- 1st 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 Overall Tour de Beauce
- :1st Stage 1
- 1st 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 National time trial championship
- 1st Overall Tour of Southland
- :1st Stage 1 (TTT)
- 1st Overall International Tour de Toona
- :1st Stage 3
- 1st Overall Gateway Cup
- :1st Stages 2 & 3
- 1st Overall Tobago Cycling Classic
- :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
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