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| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born | 18 August 1968 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA |
| Team information | |
| Current team | Retired |
| Discipline | Road |
| Role | Rider |
| Amateur team | |
| 1989 | Taco Bell - Pepsi Cola |
| Professional teams | |
| 1992 | Saturn Cycling Team |
| 1993–1994 | Coors Light–Serotta |
| 1997–2000 | Team Shaklee |
| 2001–2003 | 7 UP–Maxxis |
| 2004–2005 | Health Net–Maxxis |
| Major wins | |
| One-day races and Classics | |
John Lieswyn (born 18 August 1968) is an American former professional road bicycle racer. [1]
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. [2]
He retired from racing at the end of the 2005 season and moved to New Zealand to work as a transportation planner. [3] Lieswyn has a master's degree in transport planning from the University of Canterbury, which he completed in 2012. [4] In 2012 he returned to the USA and lived in Davis, California; before returning to New Zealand in 2015.
Overall Tour of the Gila 
USA National Team Time Trial 
Overall Tour of Ohio Overall Tour of Southland Overall North Star Grand Prix Overall Gateway Cup Overall Tour de Beauce Overall Gateway Cup National time trial championship [2] Overall Tour of Southland Overall International Tour de Toona Overall Gateway Cup Overall Tobago Cycling Classic [9] 
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