Gazprom–RusVelo
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| Team information | ||
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| UCI code | GAZ | |
| Registered | Russia | |
| Founded | 2012 | |
| Discipline | Road | |
| Status | UCI Professional Continental (2012–) | |
| Bicycles | Colnago | |
| Website | Team home page | |
| Key personnel | ||
| General manager | Renat Khamidulin | |
| Team name history | ||
| 2012–2015 2016– |
RusVelo Gazprom–RusVelo | |
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Gazprom–RusVelo (UCI team code: GAZ),[1] a part of the Russian Global Cycling Project, is a Russian road & track cycling team. It was founded in late 2011 and granted UCI Professional Continental status.[2] For its first season 2012 the team signed several ex-Team Katusha riders along with a few ones from Continental Team Itera–Katusha.
RusVelo includes both men's and women's rosters. The directors are Viatcheslav Ekimov, Oleg Grishkin, Egon van Kessel from the Netherlands, and Australian Henk Vogels. The General Manager is Heiko Salzwedel.
Team history
In December 2012, RusVelo's request for a Professional Continental licence for the 2013 season was denied pending a review.[3] The squad were ultimately awarded a Professional Continental licence on 9 January 2013.[4]
Doping
In 2013 the team endured a spate of doping positives. In March Valery Kaikov for the, cancer-causing, banned compound GW501516 (Endurobol).[5] This was the first recorded positive for Endurobol.[6] In June at the 2013 Russian National Championships Roman Maikin and Artem Ovechkin tested positive for Fenoterol and received a six-month ban[7] Andrey Solomennikov tested positive for asthma medication and received a six-month suspension as well.[8] As a result, the team auto-suspended itself from competition.[9] In June 2015, the team received their fifth positive in less than two years when Petr Ignatenko tested positive for human growth hormone (hGH) in an out-of-competition test on April 8, this is only the second hGH positive since Patrick Sinkewitz returned an adverse analytical finding for the substance.[10]
Team roster
- As of 20 January 2016
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Major results
- 2012
- 1st Team Pursuit World Cup Beijing
- 1st Team Pursuit World Cup Astana
- 1st Stage 2 Vuelta a Murcia, Alexander Serov
- 1st Stage 5 Grand Prix of Sochi, Leonid Krasnov
- 1st Stage 1 GP Adygeya, Sergey Firsanov
- 1st Stage 3 GP Adygeya, Alexander Mironov
- 1st Stage 5 GP Adygeya, Victor Manakov
- 1st Overall Vuelta a la Comunidad de Madrid, Sergey Firsanov
- 1st Stage 2, Sergey Firsanov
- 1st Stage 8 Tour of Qinghai Lake, Artur Ershov
- 1st Stage 3 Tour of China II, Leonid Krasnov
- 1st Stage 1 Tour of Hainan, Leonid Krasnov
- 2013
- 1st Stage 1 (ITT) GP of Adygeya, Ilnur Zakarin
- 1st Memorial Oleg Dyachenko, Alexander Rybakov
- 1st Grand Prix of Moscow, Ivan Kovalev
- 1st Stage 3 Five Rings of Moscow, Sergey Klimov
- 1st Stage 1a Tour of Estonia, Leonid Krasnov
- 1st
Russia Time Trial Championships, Ilnur Zakarin - 1st Stage 1 Volta a Portugal, Alexander Serov
- 1st Stage 1 Vuelta Ciclista a Costa Rica, Evgeny Kovalev
- 1st Stage 5 Vuelta Ciclista a Costa Rica, Alexander Serov
- 2014
- 1st Overall Grand Prix of Sochi, Ilnur Zakarin
- 1st Stage 1, Sergey Lagutin
- 1st Stage 2, Roman Maikin
- 1st Overall GP of Adygeya, Ilnur Zakarin
- 1st Stage 1 (ITT), Ilnur Zakarin
- 1st Stages 2 & 5, Igor Boev
- 1st Mayor Cup, Sergey Lagutin
- 1st Memorial Oleg Dyachenko, Andrey Solomennikov
- 1st Overall Five Rings of Moscow, Andrey Solomennikov
- 1st Stages 2 & 4, Igor Boev
- 1st Stage 3, Sergey Lagutin
- 1st Overall Tour d'Azerbaïdjan, Ilnur Zakarin
- 1st Overall Grand Prix Udmurtskaya Pravda, Artur Ershov
- 1st Stage 1 (ITT), Timofey Kritsky
- 1st Stage 4, Artur Ershov
- 1st Stage 7 Tour of Qinghai Lake, Timofey Kritsky
- 1st Stage 2 Baltic Chain Tour, Ivan Balykin
- 1st Overall Tour of Kavkaz, Sergey Firsanov
- 1st Stage 2, Igor Boev
- 1st Stage 4, Sergey Firsanov
- 1st Stage 7 Vuelta Ciclista a Costa Rica, Timofey Kritsky
- 2015
- 1st Grand Prix of Sochi Mayor, Sergey Firsanov
- 1st Overall Grand Prix of Sochi, Alexander Foliforov
- 1st Stage 4 (ITT), Alexander Foliforov
- 1st Krasnodar - Anapa, Andrey Solomennikov
- 1st Stage 3 Tour of Kuban, Roman Maikin
- 1st Maykop–Ulyap–Maykop, Ivan Balykin
- 1st Overall Grand Prix of Adygeya, Sergey Firsanov
- 1st Stage 2, Sergey Firsanov
- 1st Stage 5 Tour d'Azerbaïdjan, Sergey Firsanov
- 1st Overall Tour de Serbie, Ivan Savitskiy
- 1st Stages 1, 2 & 4, Ivan Savitskiy
- 1st Stage 1 (ITT) Tour of Slovenia, Artem Ovechkin
- 1st Russia Time Trial Championships, Artem Ovechkin
- 1st Russia U23 Road Race Championships, Artem Nych
- 1st Stage 4 Tour of Qinghai Lake, Ivan Savitskiy
- 2016
- 1st
Overall Settimana Coppi & Bartali, Sergey Firsanov
- 1st Stage 1b (TTT)
- 1st Stage 2, Sergey Firsanov
- 1st Giro dell'Appennino, Sergey Firsanov
- 1st Stage 15 (ITT) Giro d'Italia, Alexander Foliforov
- 1st Stage 2 Tour of Estonia, Roman Maikin
- 1st Stage 2 Tour du Limousin, Roman Maikin
National champions
References
- ↑ "Road - Teams". Retrieved 20 January 2016.
- ↑ "New russian pro-continental team RusVelo announced". Velonews.competitor.com. Retrieved 2012-02-23.
- ↑ "RusVelo, Andalucia miss Pro Continental licenses". VeloNews. Competitor Group, Inc. 19 December 2012. Retrieved 2 January 2013.
- ↑ Farrand, Stephen (9 January 2013). "Katusha applies for Professional Continental licence to ride San Luis". Cycling News. Future Publishing Limited. Retrieved 10 January 2013.
- ↑ Cycling News. "Rusvelo's Kaikov fails drug test". Cyclingnews.com.
- ↑ "First cycling positive for GW501516, Rusvelo's Valery Kaykov provisionally suspended". velonation.com.
- ↑ Cycling News. "Rusvelo face four-week suspension after three positives for asthma drug". Cyclingnews.com.
- ↑ "Rusvelo team hit by three positive tests at Russian national championships". velonation.com. Archived from the original on December 3, 2013.
- ↑ "Rusvelo team confirms its withdrawal from Giro dell Appennino after trio of positive tests". velonation.com.
- ↑ http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/rusvelos-ignatenko-and-southeasts-carretero-return-positive-doping-tests