Who is Tamina Oliver?
by John Wann, CyclingCoach
Over the past 4 seasons that question has been asked quite often. Tamina ("Tam") doesn't come from a youth cycling background, so she wasn't known on the cycling scene. She wasn't even an endurance athlete, but a dancer who cycled to get around cities. But in her first season of 'trying out' racing on a bike she started placing in National level events. Just 36months later she has graduated to regular racing in International (UCI) events, including fearsome stage races such as the Tour Ardeche, has raced week long, multi-city criteriums in the USA and dominated cyclo-cross racing in southern leagues (Wessex League & Southern Champs).
Rider Profile: Tamina is a strong rider, and I mean STRONG. I have seldom encountered an athlete who is prepared to push themselves as hard as Tam does. If road cycling was less tactical and venturous then Tam's palmares would be even stronger. But anyone who has ridden a women's UCI race knows that when 200 riders head down cobbled streets at 45kph things happen, frequently. Tam has been there in the lead UCI group only to be brought down in a crash, she's been optimally placed heading up the fearsome Muur and had another rider slip sideways onto her. Gaining your Palmares in UCI events is a frustrating business, but after 3 seasons racing in Europe we are hoping 2015 will see the results she deserves. Given Tam's very good power:weight ratio she favours tough, hilly races with plenty of ascent. This also tends to string out the bunch and minimize the crash-rate in such large peletons. Despite this preference racing in the USA (Tour of Diary Land) showed that Tam can hold her on with the top USA females in fast flat criteriums.
Road Race Results
UCI stage races 2014
Tour de Feminin Krasna Lipa
Stage 1 6th
Stage 2 38th
Stage 3 23rd
Stage 4 26th
Stage 5 17th
General Classification 14th
Vrasene-Beveren 1.15 Elite Bene Ladies Tour
Stage 1 70th
Stage 2a 71st
Stage 2b 50th
General Classification 67th
UCI Single Day 2014
Omloop Het Nieuwsblad 88th
Gent-Wevelgem 64th
Boels Rental Hills Classic 48th
Durango-Durango 75th
Domestic races
Banbury Star RR 11th
Twickenham CC #1 3rd
Twickenham CC #2 3rd
SE Regional RR Champs 14th
SW Regional RR Champs 1st
East London Velo Series #7 3rd
ACU Ludgershall Series #8 1st
Thruxton Summer series 2nd
Eelmore Circuit series 1st
Castle Combe Summer series 1st
Mallory Park Series 2nd
UCI & USA stage races 2013
Tour de Feminin Krasna Lipa
Stage 1 66th
Stage 2 75th
Stage 3 49th
Stage 4 11th
Stage 5 29th
General Classification 56th
Tour de Bretagne Feminin
Stage 1 117th
Stage 2 68th
Stage 3 46th
Stage 4 34th
General Classification 83rd
Lotto Belisol Belgium Tour
Stage 1 15th
Stage 2 79th
Tour Cycliste Feminin International de L’Ardeche 6 day tour
Stage 1 108th
Stage 2 125th
Stage 3 114th
Stage 4 87th
Stage 5 88th
Stage 6 85th
Stage 7 93rd
General Classification 86th
Tour of Americas Dairyland (ToAD)
Shorewood Classic 20th
East Troy Classic 27th
Giro d’ Grafton 39th
WaukeshaZach Classic 11th
Schlitz Park Crit 7th
Fond du Lac RR 15th
Elkhart Lake RR 7th
Fond du Lac Classic 27th
ISCorp Downer Classic 23rd
NCC Overall Final 19th
Pro Women Overall 19th
UCI Single Day 2013
Gooik-Geraardsbergen 54th
Domestic races
Rockbeare Road Race 1st
Chard Wheelers RR 1st
Bedford 3-Day WTS
Race Stage 1 19th
TTT Stage 2 6th
Race Stage 3 36th
Banbury Star RR 8th
Blackpool 2-day WNS
ITT 4th
Race Stage 1 6th
Race Stage 2 6th
General Classification 5th
UCI stage races 2012
Lotto Decca 3 day tour
Stage 1 58th
Stage 2 46th
Stage 3 55th
General Classification 49th
Tour Cycliste Feminin International de L’Ardeche 6 day tour
Stage 1 45th
Stage 2 56th
Stage 3 57th
Stage 4 66th
Stage 5 54th
Stage 6 22nd
General Classification 57th
2012/11 International & National Events
Bedford Intern 2-Day: 14th on GC
Brnmyr Welsh Open RR: 5th
National Tour Series (Crit): 8th
BC NS Capernwray RR 2nd
BC National RR Championship 25th (2011)
2012/11 Domestic races
Jubilee RR: 6th & ‘Queen of the Mountains’
Imperial Mens Circuit Race 1st (F)
Ludgershall Circuit 1st
Thames Women’s Criterium 1st
Jersey State Criterium 6th
Jersey State Open Road Race 4th
10th BC West Thames Race
RC Men’s (Elite/1/2/3) 1st (F)
12th BC West Thames Race
Men’s (Elite/1/2/3) 1st (F)
Imperial Winter Series 2nd
Time Trial Results
Mal Rees Open 10mile TT 1st female [23:46 – windy conditions]
National 10 mile TT Champs: 7th
Cyclocross Events 2014
Wessex League 1st
Wessex League 1st
Wessex League 1st
Wessex League 1st
Wessex League 1st
Wessex League 1st
BC National Trophy 6th
Wessex League 1st
Wessex League 1st
Wessex League 1st
Wessex League 1st
South of England CX Champs 1st
Nat CX Champs (2013/14): 15th