Gazprom–RusVelo

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Gazprom–RusVelo
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    Key personnel
    General managerRenat Khamidulin
    Team name history
    2012–2015
    2016–
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    Current season

    Gazprom–RusVelo (

    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 initially included 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 was Heiko Salzwedel.

    In March 2022 the team's licence was revoked by the UCI following the

    2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.[3] On the same day bicycle manufacturer Look, and wheel provider Corima, both announced the cancellation of their sponsorship of the team.[4] Later that month, the team suspended its activities.[5]

    Team history

    In December 2012, RusVelo's request for a Professional Continental licence for the 2013 season was denied pending a review.[6] The squad were ultimately awarded a Professional Continental licence on 9 January 2013.[7]

    Doping

    In 2013 the team endured a spate of doping positives. In March

    Patrick Sinkewitz returned an adverse analytical finding for the substance.[13]

    Team roster

    As of 8 February 2022.[14]
    Rider Date of birth
     José Manuel Díaz (ESP) (1995-01-18) 18 January 1995 (age 29)
     Marco Canola (ITA) (1988-12-26) 26 December 1988 (age 35)
     Giovanni Carboni (ITA) (1995-08-31) 31 August 1995 (age 28)
     Nikolay Cherkasov (RUS) (1996-09-26) 26 September 1996 (age 27)
     Sergey Chernetskiy (RUS) (1990-04-09) 9 April 1990 (age 34)
     Nicola Conci (ITA) (1997-01-05) 5 January 1997 (age 27)
     Alessandro Fedeli (ITA) (1996-03-02) 2 March 1996 (age 28)
     Michael Kukrle (CZE) (1994-11-17) 17 November 1994 (age 29)
     Eirik Lunder (NOR) (1999-06-09) 9 June 1999 (age 24)
     Matteo Malucelli (ITA) (1993-10-20) 20 October 1993 (age 30)
    Rider Date of birth
     Denis Nekrasov (RUS) (1997-02-19) 19 February 1997 (age 27)
     Artem Nych (RUS) (1995-03-21) 21 March 1995 (age 29)
     Andrea Piccolo (ITA) (2001-03-23) 23 March 2001 (age 23)
     Petr Rikunov (RUS) (1997-02-24) 24 February 1997 (age 27)
     Kevin Rivera (CRC) (1998-06-28) 28 June 1998 (age 25)
     Ivan Rovny (RUS) (1987-09-30) 30 September 1987 (age 36)
     
    Cristian Scaroni
     (ITA)         		(1997-10-16) 16 October 1997 (age 26)
     Dmitry Strakhov (RUS) (1995-05-17) 17 May 1995 (age 28)
     Mathias Vacek (CZE) (2002-06-12) 12 June 2002 (age 21)
     Ilnur Zakarin (RUS) (1989-09-15) 15 September 1989 (age 34)

    Major wins

    Main article: List of wins by RusVelo and its successors

    National champions

    2013
    Russian National Time Trial, Ilnur Zakarin
    2015
    Russian National Time Trial, Artem Ovechkin
    2017
    Russian National Road Race, Alexander Porsev
    2019
    Russian National Road Race, Alexander Vlasov
    2021
    Russian National Road Race, Artem Nych

    References

    1. ^ "Road - Teams". Retrieved 20 January 2016.
    2. ^ "New russian pro-continental team RusVelo announced". Velonews.competitor.com. Retrieved 2012-02-23.
    3. CyclingTips
      . 2022-03-01. Retrieved 2022-03-02.
    4. CyclingTips
      . 2022-03-01. Retrieved 2022-03-02.
    5. ^ "Gazprom-RusVelo suspends racing activities during ongoing sponsor search". March 28, 2022.
    6. ^ "RusVelo, Andalucia miss Pro Continental licenses". VeloNews. Competitor Group, Inc. 19 December 2012. Retrieved 2 January 2013.
    7. ^ Farrand, Stephen (9 January 2013). "Katusha applies for Professional Continental licence to ride San Luis". Cycling News. Future Publishing Limited. Retrieved 10 January 2013.
    8. ^ Cycling News. "Rusvelo's Kaikov fails drug test". Cyclingnews.com.
    9. ^ "First cycling positive for GW501516, Rusvelo's Valery Kaykov provisionally suspended". velonation.com.
    10. ^ Cycling News. "Rusvelo face four-week suspension after three positives for asthma drug". Cyclingnews.com.
    11. ^ "Rusvelo team hit by three positive tests at Russian national championships". velonation.com. Archived from the original on December 3, 2013.
    12. ^ "Rusvelo team confirms its withdrawal from Giro dell Appennino after trio of positive tests". velonation.com.
    13. ^ "RusVelo's Ignatenko and Southeast's Carretero return positive doping tests". cyclingnews.com. 9 June 2015.
    14. ^ "Gazprom-RusVelo". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Retrieved 8 February 2022.

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