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Amets Txurruka - Wikipedia

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Amets Txurruka
Personal information
Txurruka at the 2016 Tour of Britain.
Full name	Amets Txurruka Ansola
Born	(1982-11-10) 10 November 1982 (age 42) Etxebarria, Spain
Height	1.71 m (5 ft 7 in)
Weight	56 kg (123 lb)
Team information
Current team	Retired
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Rider type	Climber Puncheur
Professional teams
2006	Barloworld
2007–2012	Euskaltel–Euskadi
2013–2015	Caja Rural^[1]
2016	Orica–GreenEDGE^[2]

Major wins
Grand Tours Tour de France Overall Combativity award (2007) Stage races Vuelta a Asturias (2013) Tour du Gévaudan (2014)

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.

Career

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 He was also indirectly benefited when Michael Rasmussen was withdrawn from the Tour; Txurruka was third in the young rider classification, behind Alberto Contador and Mauricio Soler.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]