Djamolidine Abdoujaparov

Djamolidine Abdoujaparov
Джамолидин Абдужапаров

Personal information
Full name	Djamolidine Abdoujaparov
Nickname	The Tashkent Terror
Born	February 28, 1964 (1964-02-28) (age 47) Tashkent, Soviet Union
Team information
Current team	Retired
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Rider type	Sprinter
Professional team(s)
1990 1991–1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997	Alfa Lum Carrera Lampre Polti Novell Refin Lotto
Major wins
Tour de France Points Classification (1991, 1993, 1994) Giro d'Italia Points Classification (1994) Vuelta a España Points Classification (1992)
Infobox last updated on April 16, 2007

Djamolidine Abdoujaparov (born 28 February 1964 in Tashkent) is a former professional road racing cyclist from Uzbekistan. Abdoujaparov was a sprinter, nicknamed "The Tashkent Terror"^[1] as he was so ferocious in the sprints. His unorthodox and often erratic sprinting caused a number of crashes.

A graduate of the Soviet sports programme, Abdoujaparov came into his prime just as his country gained independence; after initial difficulties (including Uzbekistan's not being affiliated to the UCI, which caused problems with the Cycling World Championship) he signed for a Western professional team and became one of the world's top sprinters.

Abdoujaparov remains most famous for tussles with Laurent Jalabert in the Tour de France's green sprinters jersey competition in the early 1990s. In 1991 "Abdou" won the competition despite a spectacular crash during the final stage on the Champs-Élysées in Paris, where - with 100 metres to the finish - he hit a giant promotional drinks can and somersaulted into the air. Despite still holding enough points to win the sprinters' jersey, he had to cross the line unaided. Members of his team picked him up, put him back on the bike, and he rode slowly over the last few meters, medical staff walking alongside him.

In his last complete tour in 1996, Abdoujaparov achieved a mountain breakaway for his last stage win, unusual for a sprinter. By this stage, though, results were not as good, and after failing anti-doping tests during the 1997 Tour de France’s second stage, he retired from cycling. He failed the tests screening for the presence in his body of, among others, the anti-asthma drug Clenbuterol.

According to the 2003 book The Yellow Jersey Companion to the Tour de France: "His name is correctly pronounced "jah-mohl-ih-deen ahb-doo-ja-pahr-awf"."

Eddy Merckx, Abdoujaparov, Alessandro Petacchi, and Laurent Jalabert are the only riders to have won the points competition in all three Grand Tours.

Abdoujaparov has a band named after him consisting of ex-Carter USM member Les Carter (AKA Fruitbat).

Victories

1987 Soviet national team

Peace race

3 stages winner

1988 Soviet national team

Peace race

Points Classification winner (white jersey)

2 stages winner

Olympic games Seoul

5. place

1989 Soviet national team

Peace race

1 stage winner

1990 Alfa Lum

first year as professional

1991 Carrera

Gent–Wevelgem

Giro del Piemonte

Tour de France

Points Classification winner (green jersey)

Winner stages 1 and 4

1 stage winner Semana Siciliana

2 stages winner Vuelta a Murcia

1 stage winner Volta a Catalunya

G.P. Montreal

1992 Carrera

Vuelta a España

Points Classification winner (blue jersey)

4 stages winner

1 stage Tour of Britain

1993 Lampre

Tour de France

Points Classification winner (green jersey)

Winner stages 3,18 and 20

Vuelta a España

3 stages winner

Tour de Suisse

1 stage

Criterium Amiens

Criterium Lisieux

Criterium Hendaya

1994 Polti

Giro d'Italia

Points Classification winner (maglia ciclamino)

Intergiro Classification winner (maglia azzurra)

1 stage winner

Tour de France

Points Classification winner (green jersey)

winner stages 1 and 20

2 stages winner Paris–Nice

2 stages winner Three Days of De Panne

1 stage Tour DuPont

Omnium Elsloo

Profronde Roosendaal

G.P. Rik van Steenbergen

Poly Normande

2 stages winner Tour of Holland + 2nd place in overall classification

Criterium Vayrac

Criterium Bavikhove

1995 Novell

Tour de France

Winner stage 20

1 stage winner Tour DuPont

Criterium Quillan

1996 Refin

Tour de France

Winner stage 14

1 stage winner Vuelta a Murcia

1 stage winner Tirreno–Adriatico

1 stage winner Giro di Sardegna

Criterium Dijon

Criterium Cauderan-Burdeos

1997 Lotto

La Côte Picarde

1 stage Four Days of Dunkirk

2 stages Dauphiné Liberé

See also

• List of sportspeople sanctioned for doping offences
• List of doping cases in cycling

References

1. ^ BBC News | S/W ASIA | 'Tashkent terror' banned from cycling for one year

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Name	Abdoujaparov, Djamolidine
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Date of birth	1964-02-28
Place of birth	Tashkent, Soviet Union
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