Tamara Balabolina

Tamara Balabolina
	300px On the podium at the 2015 European Track Championships
Personal information
Born	13 August 1993 (age 31); Moscow, Russia
Team information
Discipline	Track
Rider type	Endurance
	Representing Russia
Track cycling
European Championships
European U23 Championships
	Infobox last updated on; 31 October 2014

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]

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 European Track Championships (under-23 & junior), Junior's team sprint (with Anastasia Voynova); 3rd European Track Championships (under-23 & junior), Junior's sprint
2012: 3rd European Track Championships (under-23 & junior), Under-23 omnium
2013: Russian National Record: 4000m team pursuit in 4:29.842 (2013–14 UCI Track Cycling World Cup race in Aguascalientes); 1st Russian National Track Championships, Team pursuit (with Alexandra Chekina, Alexandra Goncharova and Maria Mishina); 2nd Russian National Track Championships, Omnium
2014: 1st European Track Championships (under-23 & junior), Under-23 omnium; 1st European Track Championships (under-23 & junior), Under-23 team pursuit (with Alexandra Chekina, Alexandra Goncharova and Gulnaz Badykova); 1st European Track Championships (under-23 & junior), Under-23 scratch; 2nd European Track Championships, Team pursuit (with Irina Molicheva, Aleksandra Goncharova and Evgenia Romanyuta)