Tamara Dronova Explained

Tamara Dronova
Fullname:	Tamara Dronova
Birth Name:	Tamara Balabolina
Birth Date:	1993 8, df=yes
Birth Place:	Moscow, Russia
Role:	Rider
Ridertype:	Endurance
Proyears1:	2020–
Proteam1:	Marathon–Tula (track)
Proyears2:	2021–
Proteam2:	(road)

Tamara Dronova (Russian: Тамара Дронова, née Balabolina; born 13 August 1993) is a Russian track and road racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam in road racing,^[1] and UCI Track Team Marathon-Tula in track cycling.^[2] After winning several medals as a junior and under-23 at the European Track Championships she won as an elite rider the bronze medal in the team pursuit at the 2014 UEC European Track Championships.^[3] Besides track cycling she also rides on the road and competed in 2013 at the Russian National Road Race Championships and Russian National Time Trial Championships.^[4]

As of October 31 2014 she is still the current Russian national track cycling record holder in the 4000m team pursuit in a time of 4:29.842 ridden at the 2013–14 UCI Track Cycling World Cup race in Aguascalientes on December 5 2013 together with Anastasia Chulkova, Alexandra Chekina, and Galina Strelsova.^[5]

Major results

Track

2011

UEC European Junior Track Championships

1st Team sprint (with Anastasia Voynova)

3rd Sprint

2012

1st Omnium, UEC European Under-23 Track Championships

3rd Omnium, UEC European Track Championships

3rd Omnium, 2012–13 UCI Track Cycling World Cup, Glasgow

2013

National Track Championships

1st Team pursuit (with Alexandra Chekina, Aleksandra Goncharova and Maria Mishina)

2nd Omnium

2014

European Under-23 Track Championships

1st Omnium

1st Scratch

1st Team pursuit (with Alexandra Chekina, Aleksandra Goncharova and Gulnaz Badykova)

2nd Team pursuit, UEC European Track Championships (with Alexandra Chekina, Irina Molicheva, Aleksandra Goncharova and Evgenia Romanyuta)

2015

Memorial of Alexander Lesnikov

1st Omnium

1st Scratch

6 giorni delle rose – Fiorenzuola

1st Omnium

2nd Scratch

2nd Team pursuit, UEC European Track Championships (with Gulnaz Badykova, Alexandra Chekina and Maria Savitskaya)

UEC European Under-23 Track Championships

2nd Omnium

3rd Team pursuit (with Gulnaz Badykova, Alexandra Chekina and Natalia Mozharova)

2016

2nd Points race, Memorial of Alexander Lesnikov

2017

3rd Madison, Grand Prix Minsk (with Gulnaz Badykova)

3rd Madison, Grand Prix of Moscow (with Gulnaz Badykova)

2019

3rd Individual pursuit, European Games

2021

National Track Championships

1st Individual pursuit

2nd Madison (with Diana Klimova)

2nd Team pursuit

Road

Source:^[6]

2015

3rd Time trial, National Road Championships

2020

1st Grand Prix Central Anatolia

3rd Time trial, National Road Championships

5th Grand Prix Mount Erciyes

6th Grand Prix Gazipaşa

7th Grand Prix Cappadocia

2021

National Road Championships

1st Time trial

3rd Road race

4th Grand Prix Velo Manavgat

5th Grand Prix Velo Erciyes

8th Grand Prix Develi

2022

National Road Championships

1st Time trial

1st Road race

1st Mixed team relay

4th Overall Tour of Scandinavia

6th Postnord Vårgårda WestSweden RR

7th GP de Plouay

8th Gent–Wevelgem

Notes and References

Web site: Cogeas Mettler Look Pro Cycling Team. UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. 30 January 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210130011124/https://www.uci.org/road/teams/TeamDetail/15800/1003157/277. 30 January 2021.
Web site: Marathon - Tula Cycling Team. UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. 30 January 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210130015204/https://www.uci.org/track/teams/TeamDetail/15141/1003183/270. 30 January 2021.
Web site: Tamara Balabolina. Cyclingarchives.com . 31 October 2014.
Web site: Tamara Balabolina. procyclingstats.com . 31 October 2014.
Web site: Women's Team Pursuit Qualifying Result. tissottiming.com. 5 December 2013. 9 December 2013.
Web site: Tamara Dronova. FirstCycling.com. FirstCycling AS. 4 September 2022.