Amets Txurruka

Amets Txurruka at the Tour of Britain 2016

Amets Txurruka Ansola [ aˈmets̺ tʃuˈruˌka anˈs̺oˌla ] (born  November 10, 1982 in Etxebarria ) is a Spanish cyclist .

Career

Amets Txurruka began his career in 2006 with the British Professional Continental Team Barloworld . He achieved his first good result at the Giro del Trentino , where he was 16th overall. Later at the Euskal Bizikleta he made it into the top ten twice on the stages and ended up in ninth place in the overall standings. Since his team mates Pedro Arreitunandia and Alexander Jefimkin were still ahead of him, they could win the team standings.

In the 2007 to 2012 seasons, Txurruka competed for the Basque ProTeam Euskaltel-Euskadi . At the Tour de France 2007 he was named the most combative driver and was allowed to wear the white jersey of the best young professional for two days .

successes

2013

• Overall ranking and a stage Vuelta a Asturias

2014

• Overall ranking Tour du Gévaudan Languedoc-Roussillon

2015

• one stage Tour of Norway
• a stage Tour de Beauce

Grand Tour placements

Grand Tour	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016
Giro d'Italia	-	-	-	-	-	42	-	-	-	55
Tour de France	23	52	DNF	DNF	DNF	DNF	-	-	-	-
Vuelta a España	-	45	29	31	30th	30th	25th	48	DNF	-

Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout.

Teams

• 2006 Barloworld
• 2007 Euskaltel-Euskadi
• 2008 Euskaltel-Euskadi
• 2009 Euskaltel-Euskadi
• 2010 Euskaltel-Euskadi
• 2011 Euskaltel-Euskadi
• 2012 Euskaltel-Euskadi
• 2013 Caja Rural-Seguros RGA
• 2014 Caja Rural-Seguros RGA
• 2015 Caja Rural-Seguros RGA
• 2016 Orica GreenEdge

Web links

Commons : Amets Txurruka  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Amets Txurruka in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Amets Txurruka in the ProCyclingStats.com database
• Amets Txurruka in the Tour de France database(French / English )