Gazprom–RusVelo
Gazprom–RusVelo
Team information | ||
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UCI code | GAZ | |
Registered | Russia | |
Founded | 2012 (2012) | |
Discipline | Road | |
Status | UCI Professional Continental (2012–) | |
Bicycles | Colnago | |
Website | Team home page [14] | |
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 information | ||
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UCI code | GAZ | |
Registered | Russia | |
Founded | 2012 (2012) | |
Discipline | Road | |
Status | UCI Professional Continental (2012–) | |
Bicycles | Colnago | |
Website | Team home page [14] | |
Key personnel | ||
General manager | Renat Khamidulin | |
Team name history | ||
2012–2015 2016– | RusVelo Gazprom–RusVelo | |
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Team history
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
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Major wins
- 2012Team Pursuit World Cup BeijingTeam Pursuit World Cup AstanaStage 2Vuelta a Murcia,Alexander SerovStage 5Grand Prix of Sochi,Leonid KrasnovStage 1GP Adygeya,Sergey FirsanovStage 3GP Adygeya,Alexander MironovStage 5GP Adygeya,Victor ManakovOverallVuelta a la Comunidad de Madrid,Sergey Firsanov
- Stage 2,Sergey Firsanov
- Stage 1,Sergey Lagutin
- Stage 2,Roman Maikin
- Stage 1 (ITT),Ilnur Zakarin
- Stages 2 & 5,Igor Boev
- Stages 2 & 4,Igor Boev
- Stage 3,Sergey Lagutin
- Stage 1 (ITT),Timofey Kritsky
- Stage 4,Artur Ershov
- Stage 2,Igor Boev
- Stage 4,Sergey Firsanov
- Stage 4 (ITT),Alexander Foliforov
- Stage 2,Sergey Firsanov
- Stages 1, 2 & 4,Ivan Savitskiy
- Stage 1b (TTT)
- Stage 2,Sergey Firsanov