Ioannis Tamouridis (Greek: Ιωάννης Ταμουρίδης; born 3 June 1980) is a Greek former professional cyclist from Thessaloniki, Greece.[2] He started cycling in 1995 and he competed in the road and track disciplines. Tamouridis now works as a directeur sportif for UCI WorldTeam Intermarché–Wanty.
 Tamouridis during the time trial at the 2011 UCI Road World Championships | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Ioannis Tamouridis | |||||||||||||||||
| Born | 3 June 1980 Thessaloniki, Greece | |||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.8 m (5 ft 11 in) | |||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 70 kg (154 lb) | |||||||||||||||||
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| Current team | Intermarché–Wanty | |||||||||||||||||
| Disciplines |
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| Amateur teams | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1999–2001 | Aftodromos Salonika | |||||||||||||||||
| 2003–2005 | Bergamasca | |||||||||||||||||
| 2006 | Aftodromos Salonika | |||||||||||||||||
| 2007–2008 | PAOK | |||||||||||||||||
| Professional teams | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2009–2012 | SP Tableware–Gatsoulis Bikes | |||||||||||||||||
| 2013 | Euskaltel–Euskadi | |||||||||||||||||
| 2014 | SP Tableware | |||||||||||||||||
| 2015–2016 | Synergy Baku | |||||||||||||||||
| Managerial teams | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2019–2021 | SEG Racing Academy[1] | |||||||||||||||||
| 2022– | Intermarché–Wanty–Gobert Matériaux | |||||||||||||||||
| Major wins | ||||||||||||||||||
| National Time Trial Championships (9 times)[N 1] National Road Race Championships (5 times)[N 2] | ||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Career edit
Early career edit
Highlights of his earlier career include two medals in world track championships, in Points Races (Los Angeles 2005) and Scratch (Bordeaux 2006). He has won 4 medals in track world cup by 2006 and has more than 30 times become Greek national champion in all disciplines (road, track and mountain bike races) and all categories.[3]
In 2008, Tamouridis was given a one-year ban from cycling, following a positive drugs test for oxandrolone, an androgen and anabolic steroid (AAS).[4]
He won the bronze medal for the time trial at the XVI Mediterranean Games held in Pescara, Italy,[5] and competed with SP Tableware between 2009 and 2012.
Euskaltel–Euskadi (2013) edit
He then joined the Euskaltel–Euskadi team for the 2013 season,[6] where he has affectionately become known as 'Tamu' among his teammates.[7]
To date,[8] he is the only Greek cyclist to have raced at the Spring Classics of Milan–San Remo, where he finished 88th out of 200 starters and 135 finishers under treacherous weather conditions,[9] Paris–Roubaix,[10] Tirreno–Adriatico and the Tour of Flanders. He is also the first Greek cyclist to have entered and finished a grand tour, the Giro d'Italia in 2013 where he participated in four bunch sprint finishes, achieving ninth place on the twelfth stage of the race.[11] He also came seventh in the Premio della Fuga classification.[12]
In June 2013 Tamouridis won both the Greek National Road Race Championships and Greek National Time Trial Championships titles, dedicating the latter to Rufino Murguía, Euskaltel–Euskadi's team masseur, who was killed when the team's bus was involved in a crash.[13]
Tamouridis rejoined SP Tableware in 2014, after his previous team – Euskaltel–Euskadi – folded at the end of the 2013 season.[14]
Major results edit
Road edit
Source:[15]
- 1997
- National Junior Road Championships
- 1st
Time trial - 1st Road race
- 1st
- 1998
- 1st
Time trial, Balkan Junior Road Championships - National Junior Road Championships
- 1st Time trial
- 1st Road race
- 1st
- 1st Overall Junior Tour of Greece
- 1st Firenze–Naples
- 1999
- 1st Time trial, National Under-23 Road Championships
- 2000
- National Under-23 Road Championships
- 1st Time trial
- 2nd Road race
- 1st
- 2001
- 1st Time trial, National Under-23 Road Championships
- 6th Time trial, Mediterranean Games
- 2002
- 1st Time trial, Balkan Under-23 Road Championships
- 1st Time trial, National Under-23 Road Championships
- 1st Prologue Tour of Greece
- 2003
- 1st Time trial, National Road Championships
- 3rd Overall Tour of Greece
- 3rd Sacrifice Cup
- 2004
- 4th Overall Tour of Greece
- 2005
- National Road Championships
- 1st Time trial
- 3rd Road race
- 1st
- 9th Time trial, Mediterranean Games
- 2006
- 1st Road race, National Road Championships
- 2009
- 1st Time trial, National Road Championships
- 3rd
Time trial, Mediterranean Games - 3rd Overall Tour du Maroc
- 9th Overall Tour of Romania
- 1st Prologue
- 2010
- National Road Championships
- 1st Road race
- 1st Time trial
- 1st
- 3rd Overall Tour of Romania
- 5th Overall Okolo Slovenska
- 2011
- National Road Championships
- 1st Road race
- 1st Time trial
- 1st
- 2nd Overall Tour of Greece
- 1st Stage 2a (ITT)
- 2nd Overall Tour of Szeklerland
- 1st Stage 1
- 2nd Overall Tour of Romania
- 1st Stage 3
- 2nd Jūrmala Grand Prix
- 3rd Overall Jelajah Malaysia
- 1st Stage 3
- 3rd Grand Prix de la ville de Nogent-sur-Oise
- 5th Tour of Vojvodina II
- 7th Tour of Vojvodina I
- 2012
- 1st Time trial, National Road Championships
- 1st Circuit d'Alger
- Tour of Romania
- 1st Points classification
- 1st Stages 1 (ITT), 7 & 9
- 3rd Overall Tour of Greece
- 1st Mountains classification
- 4th Overall Sibiu Cycling Tour
- 5th Overall Troféu Joaquim Agostinho
- 6th Overall Tour d'Algérie
- 8th Overall Five Rings of Moscow
- 8th Banja Luka–Belgrade I
- 9th Overall Tour of Szeklerland
- 1st Stage 4b
- 2013
- National Road Championships
- 1st Road race
- 1st Time trial
- 1st
- 9th Paris–Tours
- 2014
- National Road Championships
- 2nd Time trial
- 3rd Road race
- 2nd Overall Tour de Taiwan
- 1st Stage 4
- 7th Overall Five Rings of Moscow
- 9th Overall Tour de Serbie
- 9th Race Horizon Park 2
- 2015
- National Road Championships
- 1st Time trial
- 2nd Road race
- 1st
- 2nd Overall Tour of Estonia
- 5th Belgrade–Banja Luka II
- 5th Duo Normand (with Maksym Averin)
- 9th Odessa Grand Prix 2
- 2016
- National Road Championships
- 1st Road race
- 1st Time trial
- 1st
Grand Tour general classification results timeline edit
| Grand Tour | 2013 |
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 Giro d'Italia
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152 |
 Tour de France
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— |
 Vuelta a España
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| — | Did not compete |
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| DNF | Did not finish |
Track edit
- 1997
- 1st Points race, National Junior Track Championships
- 1998
- 1st Points race, Balkan Junior Track Championships
- 1st Points race, National Junior Track Championships
- 1999
- 1st Points race, National Under-23 Track Championships
- 7th World Cup track team Pursuit
- 2002
- 2nd European Points Race Championships
- 2003
- UCI Track World Cup Classics
- 6th Madison, Cape Town
- 6th Individual pursuit, Sydney
- 6th Points race, Sydney
- 2004
- 1st Manchester Revolution track event – 1500m
- 7th Team pursuit, UCI Track World Cup Classics, Aguascalientes
- 2005
- 1st Points race, National Track Championships
- 2nd
Points race, UCI Track Cycling World Championships - 2004–05 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics
- 2nd Points race, Sydney
- 3rd Scratch, Manchester
- 2nd
- 3rd Scratch, 2005–06 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics, Manchester
- 2006
- 2nd Points race, 2005–06 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics, Carson
- UCI Track Cycling World Championships
- 3rd Scratch
- 6th Points race
- 3rd
- 2007
- 2nd Points race, 2006–07 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics, Manchester
- 2009
- Points race, 2009–10 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics
- 1st Cali
- 2nd Melbourne
- 1st
Mountain biking edit
- 1997
- 1st Cross-country, National Junior Mountain Bike Championships
Notes edit
- ^ Tamouridis has won the Greek National Time Trial Championships in 2003, 2005, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015 and 2016.
- ^ Tamouridis has won the Greek National Road Race Championships in 2006, 2010, 2011, 2013 and 2016.
References edit
- ^ "Ioannis Tamouridis". SEG Racing Academy. SEG Cycling Agency. Retrieved 20 November 2022.
- ^ Cycling Archives: Ioannis Tamouridis. Retrieved 1 April 2010
- ^ the-sports: Ioannis Tamouridis
- ^ ""Μετά τον εφιάλτη η... ηρεμία" για τον ποδηλάτη Γιάννη Ταμουρίδη" ["After the nightmare... calmness" for cyclist Yiannis Tamouridis]. In.gr (in Greek). Lambrakis Press Group. 17 April 2009. Retrieved 20 November 2022.
- ^ Mediterranean Games, Road, ITT, Elite 2009 cycling archive, retrieved 1 April 2010
- ^ Brown, Gregor (10 December 2012). "Euskaltel to sell team vehicles to balance books". Cycling Weekly. IPC Media Ltd. Retrieved 4 January 2013.
It signed 11 new cyclists: Jon Aberasturi Izaga (Spain), Garikoitz Bravo Oiarbide (Spain), Juan Jose Lobato Del Valle (Spain), Tarik Chaoufi (Morocco), Jure Kocjan (Slovenia), Robert Vrecer (Slovenia), Ricardo Jorge Correia Mestre (Portugal), Steffen Radochla (Germany), André Schulze (Germany), Alexander Serebryakov (Russia) and Ioannis Tamouridis (Greece).
- ^ "Speedy 'Tamu' puts Greece on the map".
- ^ "Ioannis Tamouridis | Season 2013". Archived from the original on 3 July 2013. Retrieved 23 June 2013.
- ^ "2013 Milan-San Remo Results | Cycling Tips". Archived from the original on 22 June 2013. Retrieved 23 June 2013.
- ^ "Ioannis Tamouridis: "Cuando entré en el velódromo, estaba llorando" / "I almost was crying when I entered the velodrome" - Euskaltel Euskadi". Archived from the original on 15 May 2013. Retrieved 23 June 2013.
- ^ "Γιάννης Ταμουρίδης: Η Οδύσσεια του "Βάσκου" στην Ιταλία!".
- ^ "Giro d'Italia 2013: Tutte le classifiche". 27 May 2013.
- ^ "Ioannis Tamouridis, campeón griego de contrareloj - Euskaltel Euskadi". Archived from the original on 26 June 2013. Retrieved 23 June 2013.
- ^ "Ioannis Tamouridis (Euskaltel) regresa al SP Tableware" [Ioannis Tamouridis (Euskaltel) returns to SP Tableware]. Biciciclismo (in Spanish). Cycling Total comunicación y servicios S.L. 2 November 2013. Retrieved 22 December 2013.
- ^ "Ioannis Tamouridis". FirstCycling.com. FirstCycling AS. Retrieved 20 November 2022.
External links edit
- Yannis Tamouridis at UCI
- Yannis Tamouridis at Cycling Archives
- Yannis Tamouridis at ProCyclingStats
- Yannis Tamouridis at Cycling Quotient
- Yannis Tamouridis at CycleBase
- Yannis Tamouridis at Olympedia
