# Ioannis Tamouridis

Ioannis Tamouridis (Greek: Ιωάννης Ταμουρίδης; 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 Intermarché–Wanty.

## 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 SP Tableware between 2009 and 2012.

### Euskaltel–Euskadi (2013)

He then joined the Euskaltel–Euskadi 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, Euskaltel–Euskadi's team masseur, who was killed when the team's bus was involved in a crash.
Tamouridis rejoined SP Tableware in 2014, after his previous team – Euskaltel–Euskadi – folded at the end of the 2013 season.

## Major results
### Road

Source:

#### 1997

    National Junior Road Championships
       1st Time trial
       1st Road race

#### 1998

    1st Time trial, Balkan Junior Road Championships
    National Junior Road Championships
       1st Time trial
       1st Road race
    1st Overall Junior Tour of Greece
    1st Firenze–Naples

#### 1999

    1st Time trial, National Under-23 Road Championships

#### 2000

    National Under-23 Road Championships
       1st Time trial
       2nd Road race

#### 2001

    1st Time trial, National Under-23 Road Championships
    6th Time trial, Mediterranean Games

#### 2002

    1st Time trial, Balkan Under-23 Road Championships
    1st Time trial, National Under-23 Road Championships
    1st Prologue Tour of Greece

#### 2003

    1st Time trial, National Road Championships
    3rd Overall Tour of Greece
    3rd Sacrifice Cup

#### 2004

    4th Overall Tour of Greece

#### 2005

    National Road Championships
       1st Time trial
       3rd Road race
    9th Time trial, Mediterranean Games

#### 2006

    1st Road race, National Road Championships

#### 2009

    1st Time trial, National Road Championships
    3rd Time trial, Mediterranean Games
    3rd Overall Tour du Maroc
    9th Overall Tour of Romania
       1st Prologue

#### 2010

    National Road Championships
       1st Road race
       1st Time trial
    3rd Overall Tour of Romania
    5th Overall Okolo Slovenska

#### 2011

    National Road Championships
       1st Road race
       1st Time trial
    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 Time trial, National Road Championships
    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
       1st Road race
       1st Time trial
    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
       1st Time trial
       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
       1st Road race
       1st Time trial

#### Grand Tour general classification results timeline

| Grand Tour | 2013 |
| Giro d'Italia | 152 |
| Tour de France | — |
| Vuelta a España | — |
Legend :
| — | Did not compete |
| DNF | Did not finish |

### Track
#### 1997

    1st Points race, National Junior Track Championships

#### 1998

    1st Points race, Balkan Junior Track Championships
    1st Points race, National Junior Track Championships

#### 1999

    1st Points race, National Under-23 Track Championships
    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

    1st Points race, National Track Championships
    2nd Points race, UCI Track Cycling World Championships
    2004–05 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics
       2nd Points race, Sydney
       3rd Scratch, Manchester
    3rd Scratch, 2005–06 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics, Manchester

#### 2006

    2nd Points race, 2005–06 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics, Carson
    UCI Track Cycling World Championships
       3rd Scratch
       6th Points race

#### 2007

    2nd Points race, 2006–07 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics, Manchester

#### 2009

    Points race, 2009–10 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics
       1st Cali
       2nd Melbourne

### Mountain biking
#### 1997

    1st Cross-country, National Junior Mountain Bike Championships