# Tamara Dronova

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 Roland Cycling in road racing, and UCI Track Team Marathon-Tula in track cycling. 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. 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.
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.

## 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:

#### 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

#### 2023

    2nd Clasica Femenina Navarra
    3rd Overall Vuelta a Andalucía
       1st Points classification
       1st Stages 1 & 2
    6th Women Cycling Pro Costa De Almería
    6th Tre Valli Varesine
    7th Overall Vuelta a Burgos Feminas
    10th Trofeo Oro in Euro
    10th Ronde de Mouscron

#### 2024

    National Road Championships
       2nd Time trial
       3rd Mixed team relay
       4th Road race
    2nd Grand Prix El Salvador
    2nd Overall Tour El Salvador
       1st Stages 3 & 4
    2nd Grand Prix MOPT (ITT)
    3rd Grand Prix Presidente
    5th Tour of Guangxi
    8th Tour of Chongming Island
    10th Overall Internationale LOTTO Thüringen Ladies Tour