Serghei Tvetcov's three-year run through the US domestic peloton from 2012 through 2014 culminated with a string of success that propelled him to Europe and a Pro Continental contract. Now after two years of plying the trade in relative anonymity with the Italian Androni Giacattoli team, he'll return to the States next year looking to get back on the winning track.
Jelly Belly-Maxxis announced last week that the US Continental team had signed Tevtcov, who rode with the team in 2013 and 2014, for next season. In the same announcement in which the team said goodbye to Tour of Utah winner Lachlan Morton, who signed with Dimension Data for next year, Jelly Belly welcomed Tvetcov back into the fold. In Morton, Jelly Belly lost the rider who scored the team's biggest ever win, and in Tvetcov the team is getting the rider who'd previously held that distinction.
"I am very excited to come back with new experience and goals, especially in the team where I had great support from everyone," Tvetcov told Cyclingnews last week.
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Tvetcov started his professional career in 2008 with Team Olimpic Autoconstruct of Romania. He moved to the Romanian Tusnad Cycling team before emigrating to the US in 2011 and joining an amateur team in Georgia. Team Exergy picked him up in 2012, but when the team folded in the offseason, he moved on to Jelly Belly for 2013.
After a successful first year with Jelly Belly, which included the overall win at the Cascade Cycling Classic and second place in a stage of the Tour of Alberta, Tvetcov picked up his rate of podium appearances throughout North America in 2014. He was a threat to take any time trial he entered, winning the Tour of the Gila time trial stage and finishing 12th in Folsom at the Tour of California a week later. Tvetcov finished third overall at the Tour de Beauce in June after crashing hard during the opening stage of the Canadian UCI 2.2 race.
In July of 2014, Tvetcov won the overall at the Cascade Cycling Classic for the second year in a row on the strength of stage wins in the time trial and criterium. He finished in the top 10 three times at the Tour of Utah in August, then finished outside the top 10 only once on his way to third overall at the USA Pro Challenge behind Tejay van Garderen (BMC Racing) and Tom Danielson (Garmin-Sharp).
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