Yannis Tamouridis

Ioannis Tamouridis (; born 3 June 1980) is a Greek former professional cyclist from Thessaloniki, Greece. He started cycling in 1995 and he competed in the road and track disciplines. Tamouridis now works as a directeur sportif for UCI WorldTeam .

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.

In 2008, Tamouridis was given a one-year ban from cycling, following a positive drugs test for oxandrolone, an androgen and anabolic steroid (AAS).

He won the bronze medal for the time trial at the XVI Mediterranean Games held in Pescara, Italy, and competed with between 2009 and 2012.

Euskaltel–Euskadi (2013) He then joined the 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 Classics 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 classification.

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, 's team masseur, who was killed when the team's bus was involved in a crash.

Tamouridis rejoined in 2014, after his previous team – – folded at the end of the 2013 season.

Major results Road Source:

1997 National Junior Road Championships

1998

National Junior Road Championships

1st Overall Junior Tour of Greece 1st Firenze–Naples 1999

2000 National Under-23 Road Championships

2nd Road race 2001

6th Time trial, Mediterranean Games 2002

1st Prologue Tour of Greece 2003

3rd Overall Tour of Greece 3rd Sacrifice Cup 2004 4th Overall Tour of Greece 2005 National Road Championships

3rd Road race 9th Time trial, Mediterranean Games 2006

2009

3rd Overall Tour du Maroc 9th Overall Tour of Romania 1st Prologue 2010 National Road Championships

3rd Overall Tour of Romania 5th Overall Okolo Slovenska 2011 National Road Championships

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 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

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

2nd Road race 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

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

+ Legend — Did not compete DNF Did not finish

Track

1997

1998

1999

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

2004–05 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics

2006

UCI Track Cycling World Championships

6th Points race 2007

2009 Points race, 2009–10 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics

Mountain biking

1997