Amets Txurruka

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Amets Txurruka

Amets Txurruka Ansola (born 10 November 1982) is a Spanish former professional road bicycle racer, who rode professionally between 2006 and 2016 for the Barloworld, Euskaltel–Euskadi, Caja Rural–Seguros RGA and Orica–BikeExchange teams.

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Amets Txurruka
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Txurruka at the 2016 Tour of Britain.
Personal information
Full nameAmets Txurruka Ansola
Born (1982-11-10) 10 November 1982 (age 42)
Etxebarria, Spain
Height1.71 m (5 ft 7 in)
Weight56 kg (123 lb)
Team information
Current teamRetired
DisciplineRoad
RoleRider
Rider typeClimber
Puncheur
Professional teams
2006Barloworld
2007–2012Euskaltel–Euskadi
2013–2015Caja Rural[1]
2016Orica–GreenEDGE[2]
Major wins
Grand Tours
Tour de France
Overall Combativity award (2007)

Stage races

Vuelta a Asturias (2013)
Tour du Gévaudan (2014)
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Career

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Born in Etxebarria in the Basque Country, Txurruka made his Tour de France debut in 2007, memorably participating (alongside Pierrick Fédrigo) in a breakaway during Stage 12 that was caught just 1 km (0.6 mi) from the finish line. This effort earned him the red back numbers for most combative rider the next day. He was also indirectly benefited when Michael Rasmussen was withdrawn from the Tour; Txurruka was third in the young rider classification, behind Alberto Contador and Mauricio Soler. With Contador wearing the yellow jersey as leader of the general classification because of Rasmussen's withdrawal, and Soler wearing the polka dot jersey as leader of the mountains classification, Txurruka wore the white jersey that is given to the leader of the young rider classification.

He was also chosen as the most combative rider of whole Tour, being the third Spanish rider in a row (after Óscar Pereiro and David de la Fuente) to earn that award.

Txurruka was released by Euskaltel–Euskadi at the end of the 2012 season,[3] and joined Caja Rural for the 2013 season.[1] In the Tour of the Basque Country, Txurruka won both the mountains and sprint classification jerseys after being part of long breakaways for the first three stages.[4] In August 2015 Orica–GreenEDGE announced that they had signed Txurruka on a one-year deal for 2016.[5]

Major results

2005
9th Clásica Memorial Txuma
2006
5th GP Industria & Artigianato di Larciano
8th Overall Vuelta a Asturias
8th Giro d'Oro
9th Overall Euskal Bizikleta
9th Overall Clásica Internacional de Alcobendas
2007
6th Overall Vuelta a La Rioja
Tour de France
Combativity award Stage 12 & Overall
2009
6th Vuelta a La Rioja
8th Overall Vuelta a Asturias
10th Overall Tour de Luxembourg
2011
7th Klasika Primavera
8th Overall Vuelta a la Comunidad de Madrid
Combativity award Stage 13 Vuelta a España
2012
6th Overall Vuelta a Asturias
2013
1st Overall Vuelta a Asturias
1st Stage 1
Tour of the Basque Country
1st Mountains classification
1st Sprints classification
1st Mountains classification, Vuelta a Burgos
5th Vuelta a la Comunidad de Madrid
9th Overall Vuelta a Castilla y León
2014
1st Overall Tour du Gévaudan Languedoc-Roussillon
1st Mountains classification, Tour des Fjords
9th Klasika Primavera
9th Coppa Sabatini
Combativity award Stage 4 Vuelta a España
2015
1st Stage 4 Tour of Norway
2nd Overall Vuelta a Asturias
3rd Prueba Villafranca de Ordizia
4th Overall Tour de Beauce
1st Stage 2
4th Overall Vuelta a la Comunidad de Madrid
4th Philadelphia International Cycling Classic
5th Overall Tour des Fjords
1st Mountains classification
5th Giro dell'Appennino[6]
7th GP Miguel Induráin
10th Grand Prix La Marseillaise[7]
10th Klasika Primavera
10th Circuito de Getxo
Combativity award Stage 7 Vuelta a España

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

More information Grand Tour, Giro d'Italia ...
Grand Tour 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016
Pink jersey Giro d'Italia 42 55
Yellow jersey Tour de France 23 52 DNF DNF DNF DNF
red jersey Vuelta a España 45 29 31 30 30 25 48 DNF
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Did not compete
DNF Did not finish
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