Andrei Tchmil is a retired professional bicycle road racer. He was born in He was born 1963 in Khabarovsk in the eastern part of Siberia in 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 Moldovia. The collapse of the Soviet Union prompted him to try a professional career with the Italian Alfa Lum team in 1989. Jump to: navigation, search This racing bicycle is built using lightweight, shaped aluminum tubing and carbon fiber stays and forks. ... Road bicycle racing is a popular bicycle racing sport held on the road (following the geography of the area), using racing bicycles. ...

After the collapse of the Soviet Union he became a Ukrainian citizen, although he eventually moved to his now-adopted country of 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 was most famous as a classic cobbled race specialist, thriving in races such as Ronde van Vlaanderen, Gent-Wevelgem, Het Volk, and Paris-Roubaix. His first UCI World Cup win was in Paris-Roubaix in 1994. He also won the Paris-Tours in 1997 and Milan-San Remo in 1999. His last celebrated victory was in the Ronde van Vlaanderen 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 World Cup in 1999. The Tour of Flanders (Dutch: Ronde van Vlaanderen) is a road cycling race held in Flanders, Belgium. ... The Gent-Wevelgem is a professional cycle road race held in Belgium in early April each year. ... Begun in 1896, Paris-Roubaix, third of the ten UCI World Cup races, has become the most famous single-day bicycle road race. ... The UCI World Cup was a season-long competition for European professional racing cyclists, organised by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI), the governing body of competitive cycling. ... Paris-Tours is a French single day classic cycling race which takes place in October towards the end of the European season. ... Milan - San Remo, nicknamed la primavera, is an annual cycling race between Milan and San Remo. ... Johan Museeuw (born October 13, 1965) was a Belgian professional road bicycle racer. ...

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. He is now involved with several Belgian cycling teams, most notably with the Chocolade Jacques as the team manager. The Classic cycle races are the most prestigious one-day professional cycling road races in Europe. ... A cycling team is a group of cyclists who join a team or are acquired and train together to compete in bicycle races of any kind, whether they are recreational or professional. ...