Tamara Balabolina

Tamara Balabolina (Russian: Тамара Балаболина; born 13 August 1993) is a Russian track racing cyclist.[1] 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.[1] 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.[2]

Tamara Balabolina

Balabolina in 2020
Personal information
Born	(1993-08-13) 13 August 1993 Moscow, Russia
Team information
Discipline	Track
Rider type	Endurance
Medal record Representing  Russia Women's track cycling European Championships 2014 Guadeloupe Team pursuit European U23 Championships 2012 Anadia Omnium 2014 Anadia Scratch 2014 Anadia Team pursuit 2014 Anadia Omnium European Games 2019 Minsk Individual pursuit

As of 31 October 2014 she is still the current Russian national track cycling record holder in the 4000 m team pursuit in a time of 4:29.842 ridden at the 2013–14 UCI Track Cycling World Cup race in Aguascalientes on 5 December 2013 together with Anastasia Chulkova, Alexandra Chekina and Galina Strelsova.[3]

Palmarès

2011

1st UEC European Junior Track Championships, Team Sprint (with Anastasia Voynova)

3rd UEC European Junior Track Championships, Sprint

2012

1st Omnium, UEC European U23 Track Championships

2013

1st Russian National Track Championships, Team pursuit (with Alexandra Chekina, Alexandra Goncharova and Maria Mishina)

2nd Russian National Track Championships, Omnium

2014

European U23 Track Championships

1st Omnium

1st Scratch Race

1st Team pursuit (with Alexandra Chekina, Alexandra 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 Race

6 giorni delle rose - Fiorenzuola

1st Omnium

2nd Scratch Race

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

UEC European U23 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)

References

1. "Tamara Balabolina". Cyclingarchives.com. Retrieved 31 October 2014.
2. "Tamara Balabolina". procyclingstats.com. Retrieved 31 October 2014.
3. "Women's Team Pursuit Qualifying Result". tissottiming.com. 5 December 2013. Retrieved 9 December 2013.