- Djamolidine Abdoujaparov
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Djamolidine Abdoujaparov
Джамолидин АбдужапаровPersonal information Full name Djamolidine Abdoujaparov Nickname The Tashkent Terror Born February 28, 1964
Tashkent, Soviet UnionTeam information Current team Retired Discipline Road Role Rider Rider type Sprinter Professional team(s) 1990
1991–1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997Alfa Lum
Carrera
Lampre
Polti
Novell
Refin
LottoMajor wins Tour de France
Points Classification (1994)
Points Classification (1992)
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April 16, 2007Djamolidine Abdoujaparov (born 28 February 1964 in Tashkent) is a former professional road racing cyclist from Uzbekistan. Abdoujaparov was a sprinter, nicknamed "The Tashkent Terror"[1] as he was so ferocious in the sprints. His unorthodox and often erratic sprinting caused a number of crashes.
A graduate of the Soviet sports programme, Abdoujaparov came into his prime just as his country gained independence; after initial difficulties (including Uzbekistan's not being affiliated to the UCI, which caused problems with the Cycling World Championship) he signed for a Western professional team and became one of the world's top sprinters.
Abdoujaparov remains most famous for tussles with Laurent Jalabert in the Tour de France's green sprinters jersey competition in the early 1990s. In 1991 "Abdou" won the competition despite a spectacular crash during the final stage on the Champs-Élysées in Paris, where - with 100 metres to the finish - he hit a giant promotional drinks can and somersaulted into the air. Despite still holding enough points to win the sprinters' jersey, he had to cross the line unaided. Members of his team picked him up, put him back on the bike, and he rode slowly over the last few meters, medical staff walking alongside him.
In his last complete tour in 1996, Abdoujaparov achieved a mountain breakaway for his last stage win, unusual for a sprinter. By this stage, though, results were not as good, and after failing anti-doping tests during the 1997 Tour de France’s second stage, he retired from cycling. He failed the tests screening for the presence in his body of, among others, the anti-asthma drug Clenbuterol.
According to the 2003 book The Yellow Jersey Companion to the Tour de France: "His name is correctly pronounced "jah-mohl-ih-deen ahb-doo-ja-pahr-awf"."
Eddy Merckx, Abdoujaparov, Alessandro Petacchi, and Laurent Jalabert are the only riders to have won the points competition in all three Grand Tours.
Abdoujaparov has a band named after him consisting of ex-Carter USM member Les Carter (AKA Fruitbat).
Victories
- 1987 Soviet national team
- Peace race
- 3 stages winner
- 1988 Soviet national team
- Peace race
Points Classification winner (white jersey)
- 2 stages winner
- Olympic games Seoul
- 5. place
- 1989 Soviet national team
- Peace race
- 1 stage winner
- 1990 Alfa Lum
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- first year as professional
- 1991 Carrera
- Gent–Wevelgem
- Giro del Piemonte
- Tour de France
Points Classification winner (green jersey)
- Winner stages 1 and 4
- 1 stage winner Semana Siciliana
- 2 stages winner Vuelta a Murcia
- 1 stage winner Volta a Catalunya
- G.P. Montreal
- 1992 Carrera
- Vuelta a España
Points Classification winner (blue jersey)
- 4 stages winner
- 1 stage Tour of Britain
- 1993 Lampre
- Tour de France
Points Classification winner (green jersey)
- Winner stages 3,18 and 20
- Vuelta a España
- 3 stages winner
- Tour de Suisse
- 1 stage
- Criterium Amiens
- Criterium Lisieux
- Criterium Hendaya
- 1994 Polti
- Giro d'Italia
Points Classification winner (maglia ciclamino)
Intergiro Classification winner (maglia azzurra)
- 1 stage winner
- Tour de France
Points Classification winner (green jersey)
- winner stages 1 and 20
- 2 stages winner Paris–Nice
- 2 stages winner Three Days of De Panne
- 1 stage Tour DuPont
- Omnium Elsloo
- Profronde Roosendaal
- G.P. Rik van Steenbergen
- Poly Normande
- 2 stages winner Tour of Holland + 2nd place in overall classification
- Criterium Vayrac
- Criterium Bavikhove
- 1995 Novell
- Tour de France
- Winner stage 20
- 1 stage winner Tour DuPont
- Criterium Quillan
- 1996 Refin
- Tour de France
- Winner stage 14
- 1 stage winner Vuelta a Murcia
- 1 stage winner Tirreno–Adriatico
- 1 stage winner Giro di Sardegna
- Criterium Dijon
- Criterium Cauderan-Burdeos
- 1997 Lotto
- La Côte Picarde
- 1 stage Four Days of Dunkirk
- 2 stages Dauphiné Liberé
See also
- List of sportspeople sanctioned for doping offences
- List of doping cases in cycling
References
Categories:- 1964 births
- Uzbekistani cyclists
- Living people
- Doping cases in cycling
- Uzbekistani Tour de France stage winners
- People from Tashkent
- Ethnic Uzbek people
- Tour de France Champs Elysées stage winners
- Giro d'Italia stage winners
- Vuelta a España stage winners
- Uzbekistani sportspeople in doping cases
- Cyclists at the 1988 Summer Olympics
- Cyclists at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Olympic cyclists of the Soviet Union
- Olympic cyclists of Uzbekistan
- Tour de Suisse stage winners
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