Andrei Tchmil

Andrei Tchmil
	Tchmil in 1994
Personal information
Full name	Andrei Tchmil
Nickname	Dre
Born	22 January 1963; Khabarovsk, Russia
Height	1.76 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in)
Weight	75 kg (165 lb; 11 st 11 lb)
Team information
Current team	Retired
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Rider type	Classics specialist
Professional teams
1989–1990	Alfa Lum
1991	SEFB
1992–1993	GB-MG
1994–2002	Lotto
Major wins
	UCI Road World Cup (1999); GP Ouest-France (1994); Milan–San Remo (1999); Paris–Roubaix (1994); Paris–Tours (1997); Tour of Flanders (2000)

Andrei Tchmil (born 22 January 1963) is a retired Soviet (until 1991), Moldovan (1992–1995), Ukrainian (1995–1998) and Belgian (since 1998) professional road bicycle racer. He competed in the men's individual road race at the 1996 Summer Olympics.[1]

Cycling career

Tchmil was born in Khabarovsk, Russia. His family moved to Ukraine during the days of the Soviet Union. He started cycling and showed enough talent to be moved to a cycling school in Moldova. The glasnost in the Soviet Union allowed him to try a professional career with the Italian Alfa Lum team in 1989.[2]

After the collapse of the Soviet Union he became a Ukrainian citizen, although he eventually moved to Belgium early in his professional career. "People are cynical when I talk about Belgium. They think I'm only Belgian on paper. That is not true. Yes, I was a Russian, even a proud one.... Now I am proud to be Belgian. The first thing I did was learn French. Now there are some books in my suitcase to learn Flemish. It's not easy," Tchmil said in an interview with Cycle Sport.

Tchmil rode the Tour de France five times, but only finished twice and never won a stage.[3]

Tchmil was most famous as a classic cobbled race specialist, thriving in races such as Tour of Flanders, Gent–Wevelgem, Omloop "Het Volk", and Paris–Roubaix. His first UCI Road World Cup win was in Paris–Roubaix in 1994. He also won the Paris–Tours in 1997 (earning the Ruban Jaune in so doing) and Milan–San Remo in 1999. His last celebrated victory was in the Tour of Flanders in 2000 when he overpowered rival Johan Museeuw in the finale. He was easily recognizable in the races, with his signature grimace, old-style helmet, and his powerful riding style. He won the UCI Road World Cup in 1999.

Tchmil retired in 2002, after having been forced to end his spring classics campaign due to a bad fall during the Three Days of De Panne in which his thigh was crushed.

Post-cycling career

After his professional cycling career, Tchmil joined Chocolade Jacques as a consultant, but he left because according to Tchmil the riders would not listen to him. In 2004, he was approached by the UCI to set up a cycling centre, which he did.[4]

In August 2006, Tchmil was appointed Minister of Sport in Moldova.[5] In 2009, he became the team manager of the newly formed Team Katusha.[6] Tchmil left the squad at the end of 2011.[7]

Major results

Source:[8]

1987

1st Stage 3 Vuelta a Colombia

1989

2nd GP Industria & Commercio di Prato

3rd Giro del Veneto

6th Coppa Placci

1990

2nd Grand Prix Pino Cerami

1991

1st

Road race, National Road Championships

1st Grand Prix Pino Cerami

1st Overall Paris-Bourges

3rd Coppa Bernocchi

3rd Tour du Nord-Ouest

6th Zuri-Metzgete

8th Brabantse Pijl

1992

3rd Overall Tour of Ireland

4th Paris–Tours

6th Overall 4 Jours de Dunkerque

10th Overall KBC Driedaagse van De Panne-Koksijde

1993

2nd Overall Tirreno–Adriatico

2nd Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen

2nd Druivenkoers Overijse

3rd Brabantse Pijl

3rd Giro di Campania

4th Overall 4 Jours de Dunkerque

5th GP Ouest–France

6th Road race, World Road Championships

9th Le Samyn

1994

1st Paris-Roubaix

1st E3 Prijs Vlaanderen

1st GP Ouest–France

1st Stage 2 KBC Driedaagse van De Panne-Koksijde

1st Stage 4 Vuelta a Burgos

1st Stage 3b Tour of Britain

3rd Tour of Flanders

3rd Overall 4 Jours de Dunkerque

4th Gent-Wevelgem

4th Brabantse Pijl

4th Grand Prix d'Ouverture La Marseillaise

4th Rund um den Henninger Turm

5th Omloop Het Volk

6th Paris–Brussels

9th Milan–San Remo

1995

1st

Overall Tour du Limousin

1st Stage 1

1st Paris-Camembert

1st Stage 1 Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré

1st Stage 1 Vuelta a Burgos

2nd Paris-Roubaix

2nd Paris–Tours

2nd Overall Etoile de Bessèges

2nd Bordeaux-Caudéran

3rd Tour of Flanders

3rd Omloop Het Volk

4th Overall KBC Driedaagse van De Panne-Koksijde

5th Brabantse Pijl

6th Overall Vuelta a Andalucía

7th Overall Paris–Nice

7th Wincanton Classic

9th Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne

1996

1st Veenendaal-Veenendaal

1st Stage 2 KBC Driedaagse van De Panne-Koksijde

2nd Overall Tour of Galicia

1st Stages 1 & 2

3rd GP Ouest–France

3rd Grand Prix d'Ouverture La Marseillaise

4th Paris–Brussels

5th Brabantse Pijl

5th Paris-Bourges

5th Overall Etoile de Bessèges

6th Paris-Roubaix

6th Tour of Flanders

6th Amstel Gold Race

7th Trofeo Laigueglia

7th Druivenkoers Overijse

8th Overall Paris–Nice

1st Stage 6

8th Tour du Haut Var

8th Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne

9th Gent-Wevelgem

9th E3 Prijs Vlaanderen

9th Dwars door België

9th Overall Tour de Luxembourg

1st Stage 4

10th Milan-San Remo

1997

1st Paris–Tours

1st Dwars door België

1st GP Rik Van Steenbergen

1st Druivenkoers Overijse

2nd Gent-Wevelgem

2nd Grand Prix of Aargau Canton

2nd Paris–Brussels

3rd Scheldeprijs

4th Paris-Roubaix

4th Tour of Flanders

4th Overall 4 Jours de Dunkerque

5th Omloop Het Volk

8th Amstel Gold Race

8th Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne

8th Classic Haribo

8th Overall KBC Driedaagse van De Panne-Koksijde

9th E3 Prijs Vlaanderen

9th Overall Giro di Puglia

1998

Paris-Nice

1st Stages 5 & 6

1st Stage 5 Vuelta a Burgos

1st Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne

1st Trofeo Luis Puig

2nd GP Rik Van Steenbergen

3rd Tour of Flanders

3rd Omloop Het Volk

3rd Dwars door België

4th Gent-Wevelgem

5th Milan-San Remo

6th Overall Etoile de Bessèges

8th Amstel Gold Race

8th Paris-Bourges

8th Overall Vuelta a Andalucía

9th E3 Prijs Vlaanderen

1999

1st

UCI Road World Cup

1st Milan–San Remo

1st Stage 1 Paris-Nice

2nd E3 Prijs Vlaanderen

2nd GP Villafranca de Ordizia

2nd Paris-Bourges

3rd Overall Tour de la Région Wallonne

1st Stage 4

3rd Overall Etoile de Bessèges

3rd Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne

3rd Züri-Metzgete

4th Clásica de San Sebastián

4th Omloop Het Volk

6th GP Ouest–France

7th Tour of Flanders

7th Gent-Wevelgem

8th Paris-Roubaix

9th Paris–Tours

2000

1st Tour of Flanders

1st Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne

1st Coppa Sabatini

1st Stage 2 Vuelta a Burgos

2nd Clásica de San Sebastián

2nd Paris–Tours

2nd Druivenkoers Overijse

4th Overall KBC Driedaagse van De Panne-Koksijde

5th Paris-Bourges

6th Grand Prix d'Isbergues

8th Omloop Het Volk

8th Overall 4 Jours de Dunkerque

9th Grand Prix of Aargau Canton

2001

1st E3 Prijs Vlaanderen

1st Gran Premio Bruno Beghelli

4th Overall Vuelta a Andalucía

8th Paris-Roubaix

9th Tour of Flanders

2002

1st Stage 3 Tour of Belgium

7th Milan-San Remo

7th Omloop Het Volk

References

Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Andrei Tchmil Olympic Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 3 March 2020.
Andrei Tchmil By Tomas Nilsson
"The Tour: Andreï Tchmil". Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 10 February 2010.
Tchmil managing Moldavian sport
Minister of sport Andrei Tchmil
Katusha presented on home soil
"Holczer announced as Katusha General Manager". Cycling News. Future Publishing Limited. 15 September 2011. Retrieved 3 January 2012.
Andrei Tchmil at Cycling Archives

External links

Andrei Tchmil at ProCyclingStats

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[SportsRef-1] Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Andrei Tchmil Olympic Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 3 March 2020.

[cn99-2] Andrei Tchmil By Tomas Nilsson

[3] "The Tour: Andreï Tchmil". Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 10 February 2010.

[cn07-4] Tchmil managing Moldavian sport

[5] Minister of sport Andrei Tchmil

[6] Katusha presented on home soil

[7] "Holczer announced as Katusha General Manager". Cycling News. Future Publishing Limited. 15 September 2011. Retrieved 3 January 2012.

[8] Andrei Tchmil at Cycling Archives

UCI Road World Cup, UCI ProTour, UCI World Tour and UCI World Ranking winners
UCI Road World Cup	1989: Sean Kelly 1990: Gianni Bugno 1991: Maurizio Fondriest 1992: Olaf Ludwig 1993: Maurizio Fondriest 1994: Gianluca Bortolami 1995: Johan Museeuw 1996: Johan Museeuw 1997: Michele Bartoli 1998: Michele Bartoli 1999: Andrei Tchmil 2000: Erik Zabel 2001: Erik Dekker 2002: Paolo Bettini 2003: Paolo Bettini 2004: Paolo Bettini
UCI ProTour	2005: Danilo Di Luca 2006: Alejandro Valverde 2007: Cadel Evans 2008: Alejandro Valverde 2009: non-ranking system 2010: non-ranking system
UCI World Tour	2009: Alberto Contador 2010: Joaquim Rodríguez 2011: Philippe Gilbert 2012: Joaquim Rodríguez 2013: Joaquim Rodríguez 2014: Alejandro Valverde 2015: Alejandro Valverde 2016: Peter Sagan 2017: Greg Van Avermaet 2018: Simon Yates 2019: non-ranking system 2020: non-ranking system
UCI World Ranking	2016: Peter Sagan 2017: Greg Van Avermaet 2018: Alejandro Valverde 2019: Primož Roglič

Belgian Professional Cyclist of the Year
Crystal Bicycle	1992 De Wolf 1993 Museeuw 1994 Herygers 1995–1997 Museeuw 1998 Steels 1999 Vandenbroucke 2000 Tchmil 2001 Verbrugghe 2002 Museeuw 2003 Van Petegem 2004–2006 Boonen 2007 S. Nys 2008–2011 Gilbert 2012 Boonen 2013 S. Nys 2014–2017 Van Avermaet 2018 Campenaerts 2019 Evenepoel 2020 Van Aert
Best Young Rider	1994 Trouvé 1995 Hoste 1996 D'Hollander 1997–1998 S. Nys 1999 Hulsmans 2000 Van Goolen 2001 Boonen 2002 De Weert 2003 Vansummeren 2004–2005 Albert 2006 Cornu 2007 Albert 2008 Bakelants 2009 Boeckmans 2010 Eijssen 2011 Van der Sande 2012 Van Hoecke 2013 Decraene 2014 Teuns 2015 De Plus 2016–2017 Lambrecht 2018 Evenepoel 2019 Van Wilder 2020 T. Nys
Best Manager	2000 Lefevere & Bruyneel 2001 Braeckevelt 2002–2003 Bruyneel 2004 Lefevere 2005 De Cauwer 2006 Lefevere 2007–2009 Bruyneel 2010 Sergeant 2011 Lelangue 2012 Bomans 2013 Lefevere 2014–2015 Planckaert 2016 De Weert 2017–2019 Lefevere 2020 Peiper
Crystal Drop of Sweat	2005 Hulsmans 2006 Steegmans 2007 Vansummeren 2008 Aerts 2009 Vandenbergh 2010 Aerts 2011 Vanendert 2012 De Weert 2013 Vandenbergh 2014–2016 Keisse 2017 Vermote 2018–2020 Declercq
Best Female Rider	2016–2017 D'Hoore 2018 Degrendele 2019 Cant 2020 Kopecky

Milan–San Remo winners
1900–1919	Lucien Petit-Breton (1907) Cyrille van Hauwaert (1908) Luigi Ganna (1909) Eugène Christophe (1910) Gustave Garrigou (1911) Henri Pélissier (1912) Odile Defraye (1913) Ugo Agostoni (1914) Ezio Corlaita (1915) (1916, not held) Gaetano Belloni (1917) Costante Girardengo (1918) Angelo Gremo (1919)
1920–1939	Gaetano Belloni (1920) Costante Girardengo (1921) Giovanni Brunero (1922) Costante Girardengo (1923) Pietro Linari (1924) Costante Girardengo (1925–1926) Pietro Chesi (1927) Costante Girardengo (1928) Alfredo Binda (1929) Michele Mara (1930) Alfredo Binda (1931) Alfredo Bovet (1932) Learco Guerra (1933) Jef Demuysere (1934) Giuseppe Olmo (1935) Angelo Varetto (1936) Cesare Del Cancia (1937) Giuseppe Olmo (1938) Gino Bartali (1939)
1940–1959	Gino Bartali (1940) Pierino Favalli (1941) Adolfo Leoni (1942) Cino Cinelli (1943) (1944–1945, not held) Fausto Coppi (1946) Gino Bartali (1947) Fausto Coppi (1948–1949) Gino Bartali (1950) Louison Bobet (1951) Loretto Petrucci (1952–1953) Rik Van Steenbergen (1954) Germain Derycke (1955) Fred De Bruyne (1956) Miguel Poblet (1957) Rik Van Looy (1958) Miguel Poblet (1959)
1960–1979	René Privat (1960) Raymond Poulidor (1961) Emile Daems (1962) Joseph Groussard (1963) Tom Simpson (1964) Arie den Hartog (1965) Eddy Merckx (1966–1967) Rudi Altig (1968) Eddy Merckx (1969) Michele Dancelli (1970) Eddy Merckx (1971–1972) Roger De Vlaeminck (1973) Felice Gimondi (1974) Eddy Merckx (1975–1976) Jan Raas (1977) Roger De Vlaeminck (1978–1979)
1980–1999	Pierino Gavazzi (1980) Alfons De Wolf (1981) Marc Gomez (1982) Giuseppe Saronni (1983) Francesco Moser (1984) Hennie Kuiper (1985) Sean Kelly (1986) Erich Maechler (1987) Laurent Fignon (1988–1989) Gianni Bugno (1990) Claudio Chiappucci (1991) Sean Kelly (1992) Maurizio Fondriest (1993) Giorgio Furlan (1994) Laurent Jalabert (1995) Gabriele Colombo (1996) Erik Zabel (1997–1998) Andrei Tchmil (1999)
2000–2019	Erik Zabel (2000–2001) Mario Cipollini (2002) Paolo Bettini (2003) Óscar Freire (2004) Alessandro Petacchi (2005) Filippo Pozzato (2006) Óscar Freire (2007) Fabian Cancellara (2008) Mark Cavendish (2009) Óscar Freire (2010) Matthew Goss (2011) Simon Gerrans (2012) Gerald Ciolek (2013) Alexander Kristoff (2014) John Degenkolb (2015) Arnaud Démare (2016) Michał Kwiatkowski (2017) Vincenzo Nibali (2018) Julian Alaphilippe (2019)
2020–2039	Wout Van Aert (2020)

Tour of Flanders winners
1900–1919	Paul Deman (1913) Marcel Buysse (1914) (1915–1918, not held) Henri Van Lerberghe (1919)
1920–1939	Jules Vanhevel (1920) René Vermandel (1921) Léon Devos (1922) Heiri Suter (1923) Gerard Debaets (1924) Julien Delbecque (1925) Denis Verschueren (1926) Gerard Debaets (1927) Jan Mertens (1928) Joseph Dervaes (1929) Frans Bonduel (1930) Romain Gijssels (1931–1932) Alphonse Schepers (1933) Gaston Rebry (1934) Louis Duerloo (1935) Louis Hardiquest (1936) Michel D'Hooghe (1937) Edgard de Caluwé (1938) Karel Kaers (1939)
1940–1959	Achiel Buysse (1940–1941) Briek Schotte (1942) Achiel Buysse (1943) Rik Van Steenbergen (1944) Sylvain Grysolle (1945) Rik Van Steenbergen (1946) Emiel Faignaert (1947) Briek Schotte (1948) Fiorenzo Magni (1949–1951) Roger Decock (1952) Wim van Est (1953) Raymond Impanis (1954) Louison Bobet (1955) Jean Forestier (1956) Fred De Bruyne (1957) Germain Derycke (1958) Rik Van Looy (1959)
1960–1979	Arthur Decabooter (1960) Tom Simpson (1961) Rik Van Looy (1962) Noël Foré (1963) Rudi Altig (1964) Jo de Roo (1965) Edward Sels (1966) Dino Zandegù (1967) Walter Godefroot (1968) Eddy Merckx (1969) Eric Leman (1970) Evert Dolman (1971) Eric Leman (1972–1973) Cees Bal (1974) Eddy Merckx (1975) Walter Planckaert (1976) Roger De Vlaeminck (1977) Walter Godefroot (1978) Jan Raas (1979)
1980–1999	Michel Pollentier (1980) Hennie Kuiper (1981) René Martens (1982) Jan Raas (1983) Johan Lammerts (1984) Eric Vanderaerden (1985) Adri van der Poel (1986) Claude Criquielion (1987) Eddy Planckaert (1988) Edwig Van Hooydonck (1989) Moreno Argentin (1990) Edwig Van Hooydonck (1991) Jacky Durand (1992) Johan Museeuw (1993) Gianni Bugno (1994) Johan Museeuw (1995) Michele Bartoli (1996) Rolf Sørensen (1997) Johan Museeuw (1998) Peter Van Petegem (1999)
2000–2019	Andrei Tchmil (2000) Gianluca Bortolami (2001) Andrea Tafi (2002) Peter Van Petegem (2003) Steffen Wesemann (2004) Tom Boonen (2005–2006) Alessandro Ballan (2007) Stijn Devolder (2008–2009) Fabian Cancellara (2010) Nick Nuyens (2011) Tom Boonen (2012) Fabian Cancellara (2013–2014) Alexander Kristoff (2015) Peter Sagan (2016) Philippe Gilbert (2017) Niki Terpstra (2018) Alberto Bettiol (2019)
2020–2039	Mathieu van der Poel (2020)

Paris–Roubaix winners
1880–1899	Josef Fischer (1896) Maurice Garin (1897–1898) Albert Champion (1899)
1900–1919	Émile Bouhours (1900) Lucien Lesna (1901–1902) Hippolyte Aucouturier (1903–1904) Louis Trousselier (1905) Henri Cornet (1906) Georges Passerieu (1907) Cyrille van Hauwaert (1908) Octave Lapize (1909–1911) Charles Crupelandt (1912) François Faber (1913) Charles Crupelandt (1914) (1915–1918, not held) Henri Pélissier (1919)
1920–1939	Paul Deman (1920) Henri Pélissier (1921) Albert Dejonghe (1922) Heiri Suter (1923) Jules Vanhevel (1924) Félix Sellier (1925) Julien Delbecque (1926) Georges Ronsse (1927) André Leducq (1928) Charles Meunier (1929) Julien Vervaecke (1930) Gaston Rebry (1931) Romain Gijssels (1932) Sylvère Maes (1933) Gaston Rebry (1934–1935) Georges Speicher (1936) Jules Rossi (1937) Lucien Storme (1938) Émile Masson Jr. (1939)
1940–1959	(1940–1942, not held) Marcel Kint (1943) Maurice Desimpelaere (1944) Paul Maye (1945) Georges Claes (1946–1947) Rik Van Steenbergen (1948) André Mahé, Serse Coppi (1949) Fausto Coppi (1950) Antonio Bevilacqua (1951) Rik Van Steenbergen (1952) Germain Derycke (1953) Raymond Impanis (1954) Jean Forestier (1955) Louison Bobet (1956) Fred De Bruyne (1957) Leon Vandaele (1958) Noël Foré (1959)
1960–1979	Pino Cerami (1960) Rik Van Looy (1961–1962) Emile Daems (1963) Peter Post (1964) Rik Van Looy (1965) Felice Gimondi (1966) Jan Janssen (1967) Eddy Merckx (1968) Walter Godefroot (1969) Eddy Merckx (1970) Roger Rosiers (1971) Roger De Vlaeminck (1972) Eddy Merckx (1973) Roger De Vlaeminck (1974–1975) Marc Demeyer (1976) Roger De Vlaeminck (1977) Francesco Moser (1978–1979)
1980–1999	Francesco Moser (1980) Bernard Hinault (1981) Jan Raas (1982) Hennie Kuiper (1983) Sean Kelly (1984) Marc Madiot (1985) Sean Kelly (1986) Eric Vanderaerden (1987) Dirk Demol (1988) Jean-Marie Wampers (1989) Eddy Planckaert (1990) Marc Madiot (1991) Gilbert Duclos-Lassalle (1992–1993) Andrei Tchmil (1994) Franco Ballerini (1995) Johan Museeuw (1996) Frédéric Guesdon (1997) Franco Ballerini (1998) Andrea Tafi (1999)
2000–2019	Johan Museeuw (2000) Servais Knaven (2001) Johan Museeuw (2002) Peter Van Petegem (2003) Magnus Bäckstedt (2004) Tom Boonen (2005) Fabian Cancellara (2006) Stuart O'Grady (2007) Tom Boonen (2008–2009) Fabian Cancellara (2010) Johan Vansummeren (2011) Tom Boonen (2012) Fabian Cancellara (2013) Niki Terpstra (2014) John Degenkolb (2015) Mathew Hayman (2016) Greg Van Avermaet (2017) Peter Sagan (2018) Philippe Gilbert (2019)