Greek cyclist

Ioannis Tamouridis (Greek: Ιωάννης Ταμουρίδης; born 3 June 1980) is a Greek former professional cyclist from Thessaloniki, Greece. He started cycling in 1995 and he competed in Road and Track races.

Contents

• 1 Career
  • 1.1 Early career
  • 1.2 Euskaltel–Euskadi (2013)
• 2 Major results
  • 2.1 Road
    • 2.1.1 Grand Tour general cl*ification results timeline
  • 2.2 Track
  • 2.3 Mountain biking
• 3 Notes
• 4 References
• 5 External links

Career

Early career

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. He won the bronze medal for the time trial at the XVI Mediterranean Games held in Pescara, Italy .

Tamouridis competed with Greek cycling team Sp Tableware between 2009 and 2012.

Euskaltel–Euskadi (2013)

He then joined the Euskaltel–Euskadi team for the 2013 season, where he has affectionately become known as 'Tamu' among his teammates.

To date, he is the only Greek cyclist to have raced at the Spring Cl*ics of Milan–San Remo, where he finished 88th out of 200 starters and 135 finishers under treacherous weather conditions, Paris–Roubaix, 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. He also came seventh in the Premio della Fuga cl*ification.

In June 2013 Tamouridis won both the National Road Race Championships and National Time Trial Championships *les, dedicating the latter to Rufino Murguía, Euskaltel–Euskadi's team m*eur, who was killed when the team's bus was involved in a crash.

Tamouridis rejoined SP Tableware in 2014, after his previous team:– Euskaltel–Euskadi:– folded at the end of the 2013 season.

Major results

Road

1997National Junior Road Championships1st Time trial1st Road race19981st Time trial, Balkan Junior Road ChampionshipsNational Junior Road Championships1st Time trial1st Road race1st Overall Junior Tour of Greece1st Firenze–Naples19991st Time trial, National Under-23 Road Championships2000National Under-23 Road Championships1st Time trial2nd Road race20011st Time trial, National Under-23 Road Championships6th Time trial, Mediterranean Games20021st Time trial, Balkan Under-23 Road Championships1st Time trial, National Under-23 Road Championships1st Prologue Tour of Greece20031st Time trial, National Road Championships3rd Overall Tour of Greece3rd Sacrifice Cup20044th Overall Tour of Greece2005National Road Championships1st Time trial3rd Road race9th Time trial, Mediterranean Games20061st Road race, National Road Championships20091st Time trial, National Road Championships3rd Time trial, Mediterranean Games3rd Overall Tour du Maroc9th Overall Tour of Romania1st Prologue2010National Road Championships1st Road race1st Time trial3rd Overall Tour of Romania5th Overall Okolo Slovenska2011National Road Championships1st Road race1st Time trial2nd Overall Tour of Greece1st Stage 2a (ITT)2nd Overall Tour of Szeklerland1st Stage 12nd Overall Tour of Romania1st Stage 32nd Jūrmala Grand Prix3rd Overall Jelajah Malaysia1st Stage 33rd Grand Prix de la ville de Nogent-sur-Oise5th Tour of Vojvodina II7th Tour of Vojvodina I20121st Time trial, National Road Championships1st Circuit d'AlgerTour of Romania1st Points cl*ification1st Stages 1 (ITT), 7 & 93rd Overall Tour of Greece1st Mountains cl*ification4th Overall Sibiu Cycling Tour5th Overall Troféu Joaquim Agostinho6th Overall Tour d'Algérie8th Overall Five Rings of Moscow8th Banja Luka–Belgrade I9th Overall Tour of Szeklerland1st Stage 4b2013National Road Championships1st Road race1st Time trial9th Paris–Tours2014National Road Championships2nd Time trial3rd Road race2nd Overall Tour de Taiwan1st Stage 47th Overall Five Rings of Moscow9th Overall Tour de Serbie9th Race Horizon Park 22015National Road Championships1st Time trial2nd Road race2nd Overall Tour of Estonia5th Belgrade–Banja Luka II5th Duo Normand (with Maksym Averin)9th Odessa Grand Prix 22016National Road Championships1st Road race1st Time trial

Grand Tour general cl*ification results timeline

Track

19971st Points race, National Junior Track Championships19981st Points race, Balkan Junior Track Championships1st Points race, National Junior Track Championships19991st Points race, National Under-23 Track Championships7th World Cup track team Pursuit20022nd European Points Race Championships2003UCI Track World Cup Cl*ics6th Madison, Cape Town6th Individual pursuit, Sydney6th Points race, Sydney20041st Manchester Revolution track event:– 1500m7th Team pursuit, UCI Track World Cup Cl*ics, Aguascalientes20051st Points race, National Track Championships2nd Points race, UCI Track Cycling World Championships2004–05 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Cl*ics2nd Points race, Sydney3rd Scratch, Manchester3rd Scratch, 2005–06 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Cl*ics, Manchester20062nd Points race, 2005–06 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Cl*ics, CarsonUCI Track Cycling World Championships3rd Scratch6th Points race20072nd Points race, 2006–07 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Cl*ics, Manchester2009Points race, 2009–10 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Cl*ics1st Cali2nd Melbourne

Mountain biking

19971st Cross-country, National Junior Mountain Bike Championships

Notes

References

External links

• Yannis Tamouridis at Cycling Archives
• Yannis Tamouridis at ProCyclingStats
• Yannis Tamouridis at Cycling Quotient
• Yannis Tamouridis at CycleBase
• Yannis Tamouridis at Olympedia