Gazprom–RusVelo
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.
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| Team information | ||
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| UCI code | GAZ | |
| Registered | Russia | |
| Founded | 2012 | |
| Discipline(s) | 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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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 7 January 2020.[11]
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Major wins
- 2012
- Team Pursuit World Cup Beijing
- Team Pursuit World Cup Astana
- Stage 2 Vuelta a Murcia, Alexander Serov
- Stage 5 Grand Prix of Sochi, Leonid Krasnov
- Stage 1 GP Adygeya, Sergey Firsanov
- Stage 3 GP Adygeya, Alexander Mironov
- Stage 5 GP Adygeya, Victor Manakov
- Overall Vuelta a la Comunidad de Madrid, Sergey Firsanov
- Stage 2, Sergey Firsanov
- Stage 8 Tour of Qinghai Lake, Artur Ershov
- Stage 3 Tour of China II, Leonid Krasnov
- Stage 1 Tour of Hainan, Leonid Krasnov
- 2013
- Stage 1 (ITT) GP of Adygeya, Ilnur Zakarin
- Memorial Oleg Dyachenko, Alexander Rybakov
- Grand Prix of Moscow, Ivan Kovalev
- Stage 3 Five Rings of Moscow, Sergey Klimov
- Stage 1a Tour of Estonia, Leonid Krasnov
- Stage 1 Volta a Portugal, Alexander Serov
- Stage 1 Vuelta Ciclista a Costa Rica, Evgeny Kovalev
- Stage 5 Vuelta Ciclista a Costa Rica, Alexander Serov
- 2014
- Overall Grand Prix of Sochi, Ilnur Zakarin
- Stage 1, Sergey Lagutin
- Stage 2, Roman Maikin
- Overall GP of Adygeya, Ilnur Zakarin
- Stage 1 (ITT), Ilnur Zakarin
- Stages 2 & 5, Igor Boev
- Mayor Cup, Sergey Lagutin
- Memorial Oleg Dyachenko, Andrey Solomennikov
- Overall Five Rings of Moscow, Andrey Solomennikov
- Stages 2 & 4, Igor Boev
- Stage 3, Sergey Lagutin
- Overall Tour d'Azerbaïdjan, Ilnur Zakarin
- Overall Grand Prix Udmurtskaya Pravda, Artur Ershov
- Stage 1 (ITT), Timofey Kritsky
- Stage 4, Artur Ershov
- Stage 7 Tour of Qinghai Lake, Timofey Kritsky
- Stage 2 Baltic Chain Tour, Ivan Balykin
- Overall Tour of Kavkaz, Sergey Firsanov
- Stage 2, Igor Boev
- Stage 4, Sergey Firsanov
- Stage 7 Vuelta Ciclista a Costa Rica, Timofey Kritsky
- 2015
- Grand Prix of Sochi Mayor, Sergey Firsanov
- Overall Grand Prix of Sochi, Alexander Foliforov
- Stage 4 (ITT), Alexander Foliforov
- Krasnodar–Anapa, Andrey Solomennikov
- Stage 3 Tour of Kuban, Roman Maikin
- Maykop–Ulyap–Maykop, Ivan Balykin
- Overall Grand Prix of Adygeya, Sergey Firsanov
- Stage 2, Sergey Firsanov
- Stage 5 Tour d'Azerbaïdjan, Sergey Firsanov
- Overall Tour de Serbie, Ivan Savitskiy
- Stages 1, 2 & 4, Ivan Savitskiy
- Stage 1 (ITT) Tour of Slovenia, Artem Ovechkin
- Stage 4 Tour of Qinghai Lake, Ivan Savitskiy
- 2016
- Stage 1b (TTT)
- Stage 2, Sergey Firsanov
- Giro dell'Appennino, Sergey Firsanov
- Stage 15 (ITT) Giro d'Italia, Alexander Foliforov
- Stage 2 Tour of Estonia, Roman Maikin
- Stage 2 Tour du Limousin, Roman Maikin
- 2017
- Stage 4 Tour de Slovaquie, Ivan Savitskiy
- 2018
- Stage 2 Toscana-Terra di Ciclismo, Aleksandr Vlasov
- 2019
- Stage 6 Tour of Austria, Aleksandr Vlasov
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
- "Gazprom - RusVelo". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 7 January 2020. Retrieved 7 January 2020.