Andrej Tschmil

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Andrej Tschmil (1994)

Andrei Tchmil (in Belgium : Andreï Tchmil * 22. January 1963 in Khabarovsk , Soviet Union ) is a former professional - cyclist , the 1998, the Belgian took citizenship. He was one of the typical " classic hunters ".

Driver profile and sporting development

Andrej Tschmil is a typical representative of the first generation of professionals from the former Eastern Bloc countries . His first team was the Italian professional team Alfa Lum for which a number of other Soviet cyclists rode alongside him . After his transfer to the professional camp, he initially needed some time to occupy top places in the classic races. He was most successful as a member of the Belgian lottery team, which also contributed significantly to his taking on Belgian citizenship in 1998. At the Giro d'Italia , in which he participated twice, he drove rather inconspicuously.

Andrej Tschmil is a typical all-rounder, but was also able to take top places in the sprint time and again. He's a fast-paced driver. In the course of time he developed a good feeling for tactically favorable situations, which he consistently used - such as his Milan-San Remo victory in 1999, when he jumped away shortly before the goal and duped all the well-known competition.

He was able to win three of the five “ monuments of cycling ”, in addition to the aforementioned Milan-San Remo, the Tour of Flanders and Paris-Roubaix  - further podium places round off his performance as a classic hunter. In 1991 Andrej Tschmil became the last Soviet champion, before the dissolution of the Soviet Union was decided on December 8, 1991.

A fall at the three days of de Panne in 2002 meant that his career ended with that and not as planned with a participation in the last spring classic of the year, the Amstel Gold Race .

Professional and private

Initially, Andrej Tschmil was the team manager of the Chocolade Jacques team . In August 2006 he became Minister of Sport of the Republic of Moldova and in 2008 he took on the role of manager of the UCI ProTeam Katyusha . In mid-September 2011 it was announced that Hans-Michael Holczer would succeed Tschmil at Katjuscha from January 2012. In 2013 Tschmil applied for the office of President of the European Cycling Federation , but lost the vote to the President of the French FFC , David Lappartient .

In April 2020, a tumor was surgically removed from Tschmil .

Teams

successes

Paving stone for Tschmil's victory near Paris – Roubaix 1994
1991
  • Soviet master
1994
1998
1999
2000

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Serious fall from professional cyclist Tschmil. FAZ , April 4, 2002.
  2. Perfect! Holczer becomes team boss of Katjuscha on radsport-news.com v. September 15, 2011
  3. RP: Holczer before engagement with Katjuscha ( memento from November 3, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) from August 24, 2011
  4. European cycling opportunity : Lappartient beats Tschmil in the election for chairman on 06.live-radsport.ch v. March 3, 2013
  5. Ex-Ronde Sieger Tschmil operated on for tumor. In: radsport-news.com. April 5, 2020, accessed April 6, 2020 .

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