Itera–Katusha

Itera-Katusha

Team information
UCI code	TIK
Registered	Russia
Founded	2010
Discipline	Road
Status	UCI Continental 2010–
Team name history
2010–	Itera-Katusha

Itera–Katusha (UCI team code: TIK) is one of four teams of the Russian Global Cycling Project, which consists of Team Katusha, U23 Itera–Katusha, U21 Itera–Katusha and the aforementioed UCI Continental team. The team was first presented to the public in Bedizzole, Italy in 2010, with the team's first race being the GP dell’Insubria–Lugano in Switzerland. Russian rider Alexander Mironov won Itera–Katushas 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 Tours 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 U23 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 U23 category since 2005.

Doping

In November 2015, Andrey Lukonin and Ivan Lutsenko were banned for a year for breaching anti-doping regulations.^[1]

Team roster

As of 2 January 2013.^[2]

Rider Date of birth  Mikhail Antonov (RUS) 4 January 1986  Alexandr Berezkin (RUS) 17 July 1993  Kirill Egorov (RUS) 3 August 1993  Igor Frolov (RUS) 23 January 1990  Roman Katyrin (RUS) 24 May 1991  Artur Kovsh (RUS) 15 April 1992  Konstantin Kuperasov (RUS) 20 June 1991  Sergey Nikolaev (RUS) 5 February 1988  Maxim Pokidov (RUS) 11 July 1989

Rider Date of birth  Maksim Razumov (RUS) 12 April 1990  Aleksandr Rotyakov (RUS) 3 January 1991  Alexey Ryabkin (RUS) 23 November 1993  Viktor Shmalko (RUS) 9 July 1990  Konstantin Yakimov (RUS) 13 January 1991  Denis Zkuyov (RUS) 12 October 1993  Matvey Zubov (RUS) 22 January 1991  Evgeny Zverkov (RUS) 2 February 1993

Major results

2010

1st Trofeo Franco Balestra, Alexander Mironov

1st Troféu Cidade Da Guarda, Arkimedes Arguelyes

1st Stage 6 Tour de Normandie, Alexander Mironov

1st Overall Circuit des Ardennes, Mikhail Antonov

1st Stage 1, Mikhail Antonov

1st Overall Tour du Loir-et-Cher, Mikhail Antonov

1st Stages 1 & 3, Alexander Porsev

1st La Côte Picarde, Vyacheslav Kuznetsov

1st Memorial Oleg Dyachenko, Alexander Mironov

1st Overall Giro della Valle d'Aosta, Petr Ignatenko

1st Stage 3, Petr Ignatenko

1st Stage 1 Tour of Bulgaria, Sergey Rudaskov

1st Stage 8 Tour of Bulgaria, Petr Ignatenko

2011

1st Stage 2 GP Costa Azul, Alexei Tsatevitch

1st GP de la Ville de Nogent-sur-Oise, Alexei Tsatevitch

1st Stage 2 GP of Sochi, Dmitriy Kosyakov

1st Stage 4 GP of Sochi, Sergey Rudaskov

1st Stage 5 Tour du Loir-et-Cher, Mikhail Antonov

1st Stage 1 GP of Adygeya, Dmitriy Ignatiev

1st Stage 3 GP of Adygeya, Sergey Firsanov

1st Memorial Oleg Dyachenko, Dmitriy Kosyakov

1st Overall Five Rings of Moscow, Sergey Firsanov

1st Stage 1, Andrei Solomennikov

1st Stage 2, Sergey Firsanov

1st Coppa Della Pace, Andrei Solomennikov

1st Overall Tour de Slovaquie, Nikita Novikov

1st Stages 2 & 8, Nikita Novikov

1st Overall Tour des Pays de Savoie, Nikita Novikov

1st Prologue, Nikita Novikov

1st Stage 1, Pavel Kochetkov

1st Stage 4 Tour Alsace, Alexey Tsatevitch

1st Stage 2 Giro della Valle d'Aosta, Nikita Novikov

1st Memorial Davide Fardelli, Anton Vorobyev

1st Stage 1 Tour of Bulgaria, Pavel Kochetkov

1st Stages 4 & 8 Tour of Bulgaria, Timofey Kritskiy

1st Stage 5 Tour of Bulgaria, Dmitriy Kosyakov

1st Stage 7 Tour of Bulgaria, Alexey Tsatevitch

2012

1st La Roue Tourangelle, Viacheslav Kuznetsov

1st GP de la Ville de Nogent-sur-Oise, Igor Boev

1st Stages 2 & 3 Grand Prix of Sochi, Sergei Rudaskov

1st Stage 3 Circuit des Ardennes, Team Time Trial

1st Overall Tour du Loir-et-Cher, Andrei Solomennikov

1st Stage 2, Igor Boev

1st GP of Donetsk, Ilnur Zakarin

1st Overall GP of Adygeya, Ilnur Zakarin

1st Stages 2 & 4, Ilnur Zakarin

1st Mayor Cup, Igor Boev

1st Memorial of Oleg Dyachenko, Alexander Rybakov

1st Overall Five Rings of Moscow, Igor Boev

1st Stage 3, Igor Boev

1st Stage 2 Ronde de l'Isard, Sergey Chernetskiy

1st Stage 1 Ronde de l'Oise, Viacheslav Kuznetsov

1st Stage 5 GiroBio, Ilnur Zakarin

1st Stage 6 Giro della Valle d'Aosta, Sergey Chernetskiy

1st Stage 5 Tour Alsace, Ilnur Zakarin

1st GP des Marbriers, Sergey Pomoshnikov

1st Stage 6 Tour de l'Avenir, Sergey Pomoshnikov

1st Stage 1 Tour of Bulgaria, Sergey Pomoshnikov

1st U23 Time Trial World Championships, Anton Vorobyev

2013

1st Stages 2, 3 & 5 Grand Prix of Sochi, Maksim Razumov

1st Overall Five rings of Moscow, Maksim Razumov

1st Stage 2 Okolo Slovenska, Sergey Nikolaev

1st  Russia U23 Road Race Championships, Roman Katyrin

1st Stage 1 Tour Alsace, Maxim Pokidov

2014

1st Stage 4 GP of Adygeya, Alexander Foliforov

1st Prologue (ITT) Five Rings of Moscow, Sergey Nikolaev

1st Stage 1 Five Rings of Moscow, Maksim Razumov

1st Stages 1 & 5 Ronde de l'Isard, Alexander Foliforov

1st Stages 2 & 3 Grand Prix Udmurtskaya Pravda, Sergey Nikolaev

1st Central-European Tour Szerencs-Ibrany, Mamyr Stash

1st Stages 1 & 3 Tour of Kavkaz, Mamyr Stash

1st Stage 5 (ITT), Tour of Kavkaz, Dmitriy Ignatiev

2015

1st Stage 1 Istrian Spring Trophy, Sergey Nikolaev

1st Stage 1 (TTT) Grand Prix of Sochi

1st Overall Tour of Kuban, Dmitry Samokhvalov

1st Prologue, Maxim Pokidov

1st Stage 1 (TTT) Grand Prix of Adygeya

1st Prologue Five rings of Moscow, Sergey Nikolaev

1st Stage 3 Tour de Serbie, Sergey Pomoshnikov

References

1. http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/two-itera-katusha-riders-banned-for-anti-doping-violations/
2. "Itera-Katusha roster". Team Itera-Katusha (Pro Cycling Stats). 1 June 2013. Retrieved 5 May 2015.