Gazprom–RusVelo
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| Team information | ||
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| UCI code | GAZ | |
| Registered | Russia | |
| Founded | 2012 | |
| Discipline(s) | Road | |
| Status |
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| 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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Gazprom–RusVelo (UCI team code: GAZ),[1] a part of the Russian Global Cycling Project, is a Russian road and 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-You have called {{Contentious topics}}. You probably meant to call one of these templates instead:
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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 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 6 January 2021.[11]
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Major wins
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.
- ^ "RusVelo's Ignatenko and Southeast's Carretero return positive doping tests". cyclingnews.com. 9 June 2015.
- ^ "Gazprom-RusVelo". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 6 January 2021. Retrieved 6 January 2021.