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

    1. 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.
    2. 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.
    3. Web site: Tamara Balabolina. Cyclingarchives.com . 31 October 2014.
    4. Web site: Tamara Balabolina. procyclingstats.com . 31 October 2014.
    5. Web site: Women's Team Pursuit Qualifying Result. tissottiming.com. 5 December 2013. 9 December 2013.
    6. Web site: Tamara Dronova. FirstCycling.com. FirstCycling AS. 4 September 2022.