Djamolidine Abdoujaparov

Dschamolidin Abduschaparow ( Crimean Tatar Jamolidin Abdujaparov; Russian Джамолидин Абдужапаров; born February 28, 1964 in Tashkent) is a former Uzbek cyclist, who was the 1980s and the first half of the 1990s, one of the best sprinters in road cycling in the second half. Because of the practice of the Soviet government oppression, Krimtatar Dschamolidin was forced to call themselves Uzbek.

Career

Abduschaparow, whose long, for Western Europeans complicated pronounceable name was usually shortened to " Abdu ", celebrated his first victory as a state amateur in the Soviet National Team. So he returned to the Peace ride thrilling sprint duels with Olaf Ludwig and won a total of six stages at the then main amateur bicycle race in the world. As part of the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1990 he was pro.

1991 Abduschaparow won his first two of a total of nine stage wins in the Tour de France and won simultaneously for the first time the green jersey for the best sprinter of the Tour, which he won again in 1993 and 1994. Triumphed alone twice Abduschaparow on the prestigious final stage at the Paris Avenue des Champs- Élysées (1993, 1995). Also with the other two major country tours he could win: seven stages in the Vuelta a España, one of the Giro d'Italia. The once won Abduschaparow thereby also the jersey for the best sprinter.

Its dominant position in the Sprint owed ​​the Uzbek not only his Endschnelligkeit, but also his most rabid, far auspendelndem Sprint style close to the limit of the regulations. Olaf Ludwig commented on this literally: " The drive into holes where there are none. " Admirers and critics awarded " Abdu " for his behavior in the final sprint a wide range of Kose and nicknames, among other terror from Tashkent, Taskent Terminator, Zig Zag Sprinting and Wonder. In 1991 it was his style when mass sprint in Paris undoing: As leader, he came without distress by an opponent too far to the right and hooked into the gang, what he spectacularly crashed just before the finish in an advertising figure and it drew some competitors affected. He then had to bear with a broken collarbone the wheel over the finish line to win the green jersey. Even at the Peace Race Abduschaparow was subsequently dissociates in 1989 after his stage win in Halle for harassing Olaf Ludwig.

During the tour in 1997 was transferred Abduschaparow of doping abuse with clenbuterol and bromantan. After a lock for a year had been pronounced, he finished his career. In his home he devoted himself now - according to the Euro sports commentator Karsten Migels - the rare breed pigeons and parrots and operates a jeans shop.

Successes as an amateur

  • A stage Girobio
  • Two stages Cuba Tour
  • Three stages Girobio
  • Circuit Cycliste Sarthe a stage
  • A stage in the Tour de l' Avenir
  • Two stages Cuba Tour
  • A stage Milk Race
  • Sprint Tour of Lower Saxony as well as the prologue and 4 stages
  • Soviet road champion, winner of the IX. Spartakiade and third in the criterion
  • Three stages International Peace Race
  • Prolog Rhineland -Palatinate Tour
  • Prologue and a stage Giro delle Regioni
  • Two stages of the Tour de Sochi
  • A stage Settimana Ciclistica Lombarda
  • Two stages of the Giro delle Regioni
  • Two stages of Tour of Poland
  • Winner of the points classification and two stages International Peace Race
  • Three stages Cuba Tour
  • A stage International Peace Race
  • Three stages Settimana Ciclistica Lombarda
  • Two stages Cuba Tour

Success as a professional

  • Points classification and two stages of the Tour de France
  • Gent- Wevelgem
  • Piedmont Tour
  • Two stages Vuelta a Murcia
  • A stage Tour of Catalonia
  • A stage Settimana Internazionale
  • Scoring and four stages of Vuelta a España
  • Two stages Valencia Tour
  • A stage Tour of Britain
  • Points standings and three stages of the Tour de France
  • Three stages Vuelta a España
  • A stage in the Tour de Suisse
  • Third in Gent- Wevelgem
  • Points classification and two stages of the Tour de France
  • Points standings, Inter Giro rating and a stage Giro d' Italia
  • Two stages Holland Tour
  • Two stages of Paris-Nice
  • Two stages Three Days of De Panne
  • A stage Tour DuPont
  • Memorial Rik Van Steenbergen
  • Criterium Quillan
  • A stage of the Tour de France
  • A stage Tour DuPont
  • A stage of the Tour de France
  • A stage of Vuelta a Murcia
  • A stage of Tirreno- Adriatico
  • A stage in the Giro di Sardegna
  • La Côte picarde
  • Two stages Critérium du Dauphiné
  • A stage Four Days of Dunkirk

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