Gazprom–RusVelo

Gazprom–RusVelo
Team information
UCI code GAZ
Registered Russia
Founded 2012 (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

Jersey

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
Rider Date of birth
 Ildar Arslanov (RUS) (1994-04-06) 6 April 1994
 Igor Boev (RUS) (1988-11-22) 22 November 1988
 Artur Ershov (RUS) (1990-03-07) 7 March 1990
 Alexander Evtushenko (RUS) (1993-06-30) 30 June 1993
 Sergey Firsanov (RUS) (1982-07-03) 3 July 1982
 Alexander Foliforov (RUS) (1992-03-08) 8 March 1992
 Alexey Kurbatov (RUS) (1994-05-09) 9 May 1994
 Roman Kustadinchev (RUS) (1995-08-03) 3 August 1995
 Roman Maikin (RUS) (1990-08-14) 14 August 1990
 Victor Manakov (RUS) (1992-06-09) 9 June 1992
 Sergey Nikolaev (RUS) (1988-02-05) 5 February 1988
Rider Date of birth
 Artem Nych (RUS) (1995-03-21) 21 March 1995
 Artem Ovechkin (RUS) (1986-07-11) 11 July 1986
 Aleksey Rybalkin (RUS) (1993-11-16) 16 November 1993
 Ivan Savitskiy (RUS) (1992-03-06) 6 March 1992
 Alexander Serov (RUS) (1982-11-12) 12 November 1982
 Evgeny Shalunov (RUS) (1992-01-08) 8 January 1992
 Andrey Solomennikov (RUS) (1987-06-10) 10 June 1987
 Mamyr Stash (RUS) (1993-05-04) 4 May 1993
 Kirill Sveshnikov (RUS) (1992-02-10) 10 February 1992
 Aydar Zakarin (RUS) (1994-04-19) 19 April 1994

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

National champions

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