Itera–Katusha
Itera–Katusha (UCI team code: TIK) was one of four teams of the Russian Global Cycling Project, which consisted of Team Katusha, U23 Itera–Katusha, U21 Itera–Katusha and the aforementioned UCI Continental team.
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UCI code | TIK |
Registered | Russia |
Founded | 2010 |
Disbanded | 2015 |
Discipline(s) | Road |
Status | UCI Continental (2010–2015) |
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History
The team was first presented to the public in Bedizzole, Italy, in 2010, with the team's first race being the Gran Premio dell'Insubria-Lugano in Switzerland. Russian rider Alexander Mironov won Itera–Katusha's first ever UCI race in the one-day race, Trofeo Franco Balestra, in Brescia, Italy. In their first season the team was ranked 17th in the UCI Europe Tour's final team classification and 4th in the European ranking of UCI continental teams, with the team taking 17 victories, 17 second places and 10 third places.
The team concluded the 2011 season by securing 1st place in the European teams UCI continental rankings finishing 10th in the UCI Europe Tour team classification. During the 2011 season the team scored 29 victories, 22 second and 20 third places.
In 2012 Anton Vorobyev became the Under-23 World Time Trial Champion after winning the individual time trial of the UCI Road World Championships in the Netherlands, he secured the first Russian gold medal in the Under-23 category since 2005.
Doping
In November 2015, Andrey Lukonin and Ivan Lutsenko were banned for a year for breaching anti-doping regulations.[1]
Final team roster
As of 2 January 2013.[2]
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Major wins
- 2010
- Trofeo Franco Balestra, Alexander Mironov
- Troféu Cidade Da Guarda, Arkimedes Arguelyes
- Stage 6 Tour de Normandie, Alexander Mironov
- Overall Circuit des Ardennes, Mikhail Antonov
- Stage 1, Mikhail Antonov
- Overall Tour du Loir-et-Cher, Mikhail Antonov
- Stages 1 & 3, Alexander Porsev
- La Côte Picarde, Vyacheslav Kuznetsov
- Memorial Oleg Dyachenko, Alexander Mironov
- Overall Giro della Valle d'Aosta, Petr Ignatenko
- Stage 3, Petr Ignatenko
- Stage 1 Tour of Bulgaria, Sergey Rudaskov
- Stage 8 Tour of Bulgaria, Petr Ignatenko
- 2011
- Stage 2 GP Costa Azul, Alexei Tsatevitch
- Grand Prix de la ville de Nogent-sur-Oise, Alexei Tsatevitch
- Stage 2 Grand Prix of Sochi, Dmitriy Kosyakov
- Stage 4 Grand Prix of Sochi, Sergey Rudaskov
- Stage 5 Tour du Loir-et-Cher, Mikhail Antonov
- Stage 1 Grand Prix of Adygea, Dmitriy Ignatiev
- Stage 3 Grand Prix of Adygea, Sergey Firsanov
- Memorial Oleg Dyachenko, Dmitriy Kosyakov
- Overall Five Rings of Moscow, Sergey Firsanov
- Stage 1, Andrey Solomennikov
- Stage 2, Sergey Firsanov
- Coppa Della Pace, Andrey Solomennikov
- Overall Okolo Slovenska, Nikita Novikov
- Stages 2 & 8, Nikita Novikov
- Overall Tour des Pays de Savoie, Nikita Novikov
- Prologue, Nikita Novikov
- Stage 1, Pavel Kochetkov
- Stage 4 Tour Alsace, Alexey Tsatevich
- Stage 2 Giro della Valle d'Aosta, Nikita Novikov
- Memorial Davide Fardelli, Anton Vorobyev
- Stage 1 Tour of Bulgaria, Pavel Kochetkov
- Stages 4 & 8 Tour of Bulgaria, Timofey Kritsky
- Stage 5 Tour of Bulgaria, Dmitriy Kosyakov
- Stage 7 Tour of Bulgaria, Alexey Tsatevich
- 2012
- La Roue Tourangelle, Vyacheslav Kuznetsov
- Grand Prix de la ville de Nogent-sur-Oise, Igor Boev
- Stages 2 & 3 Grand Prix of Sochi, Sergei Rudaskov
- Stage 3 Circuit des Ardennes, Team Time Trial
- Overall Tour du Loir-et-Cher, Andrey Solomennikov
- Stage 2, Igor Boev
- Grand Prix of Donetsk, Ilnur Zakarin
- Overall Grand Prix of Adygea, Ilnur Zakarin
- Stages 2 & 4, Ilnur Zakarin
- Mayor Cup, Igor Boev
- Memorial Oleg Dyachenko, Alexander Rybakov
- Overall Five Rings of Moscow, Igor Boev
- Stage 3, Igor Boev
- Stage 2 Ronde de l'Isard, Sergey Chernetskiy
- Stage 1 Ronde de l'Oise, Vyacheslav Kuznetsov
- Stage 5 Girobio, Ilnur Zakarin
- Stage 6 Giro della Valle d'Aosta, Sergey Chernetskiy
- Stage 5 Tour Alsace, Ilnur Zakarin
- Grand Prix des Marbriers, Sergey Pomoshnikov
- Stage 6 Tour de l'Avenir, Sergey Pomoshnikov
- Stage 1 Tour of Bulgaria, Sergey Pomoshnikov
- Under-23 Time Trial World Championships, Anton Vorobyev
- 2013
- Stages 2, 3 & 5 Grand Prix of Sochi, Maxim Razumov
- Overall Five Rings of Moscow, Maxim Razumov
- Stage 2 Okolo Slovenska, Sergey Nikolaev
- Russia Under-23 Road Race Championships, Roman Katyrin
- Stage 1 Tour Alsace, Maxim Pokidov
- 2014
- Stage 4 Grand Prix of Adygea, Alexander Foliforov
- Prologue (ITT) Five Rings of Moscow, Sergey Nikolaev
- Stage 1 Five Rings of Moscow, Maxim Razumov
- Stages 1 & 5 Ronde de l'Isard, Alexander Foliforov
- Stages 2 & 3 Grand Prix Udmurtskaya Pravda, Sergey Nikolaev
- Stages 1 & 4 (ITT) Tour des Pays de Savoie, Dmitriy Ignatiev
- Central European Tour Szerencs–Ibrány, Mamyr Stash
- Stage 2 Tour Alsace, Dmitriy Ignatiev
- Stages 1 & 3 Tour of Kavkaz, Mamyr Stash
- Stage 5 (ITT) Tour of Kavkaz, Dmitriy Ignatiev
- 2015
- Stage 1 Istrian Spring Trophy, Sergey Nikolaev
- Stage 1 Grand Prix of Sochi, Team time trial
- Overall Tour of Kuban, Dmitry Samokhvalov
- Prologue (ITT), Maxim Pokidov
- Stage 1 Grand Prix of Adygea, Team time trial
- Prologue (ITT) Five Rings of Moscow, Sergey Nikolaev
- Stage 3 Tour de Serbie, Sergey Pomoshnikov
References
- http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/two-itera-katusha-riders-banned-for-anti-doping-violations/
- "Itera-Katusha roster". Team Itera-Katusha. Pro Cycling Stats. 1 June 2013. Retrieved 5 May 2015.