CLAS cajastur

CLAS cajastur
Team data
nationality	Spain
First season	1988
Last season	1993
discipline	Street
Wheel manufacturer	Razesa (1988) Colnago (1989-1993)
staff
Team manager	José Manuel Fuente (1988) Juan Fernández Martín (1989–1993)
Name story
Years	Surname
1988-1989 1990-1993	CLAS CLAS-Cajastur

CLAS-Cajastur is a former Spanish cycling team that existed from 1988 to 1993. The main sponsor was a dairy cooperative from the Spanish region of Asturias Central Lechera Asturiana (CLAS), sole sponsor from 1988 to 1989 and from 1990 to 1993 with Caja de Ahorros de Asturias (Cajastur) (es) an Asturian savings bank as co-sponsor.

Tony Rominger in 1993 near Paris-Nice

history

The team was put together by José Manuel Fuente and he took over the sporting management for a year. For the next few years until the dissolution and merger with Mapei , the team was led by Juan Fernández Martín .

In the early years only smaller races were won and only in 1990 was it possible to achieve greater success with a stage win and a 6th place in the overall ranking of the Vuelta a España . Even greater success came when Tony Rominger joined the team. The biggest are the two round trip victories at the Vuelta a España in 1992 and 1993.

At the end of 1993 the team was dissolved and merged with the Italian team Mapei .

doping

There were only two cases of convicted doping in the team. Here Carlos Muñiz tested positive for caffeine during the Tour of Andalusia in 1990 and Manuel Dominguez tested positive for amineptine at the Vuelta a España in 1992 .

successes

1988

• one stage tour of Murcia
• a stage Vuelta a los Tres Cantos
• a stage Vuelta a los Valles Mineros
• one stage tour of Portugal

1989

• Trofeo Masferrer
• a stage Vuelta a La Rioja
• one stage tour of the Basque Country

1990

• Klasika Primavera de Amorebieta
• a stage Vuelta a España
• Setmana Catalana de Ciclisme
• Tour of Galicia
• a stage Vuelta a los Valles Mineros
• one stage Aragon tour
• one stage tour of Catalonia

1991

• one stage tour of Valencia
• Mountain classification Giro d'Italia

1992

• Overall standings and four stages of Vuelta a España
• Lombardy tour
• Grand Prix Téléglobe
• Firenze – Pistoia
• Klasika Primavera de Amorebieta
• Subida al Naranco
• Subida Urkiola
• two stages Paris-Nice
• one stage tour of Catalonia
• Couple time trial Baden-Baden
• a stage Escalada a Montjuïc

1993

• three stages and the Tour de France mountain classification
• La Poly Normande
• Overall ranking and three stages of the Tour of the Basque Country
• a stage GP de la Bicicleta Eibarresa
• a stage of Setmana Catalana de Ciclisme
• one stage tour of Galicia

Monuments-of-cycling placements

Monument to cycling	1988	1989	1990	1991	1992	1993
Milan – Sanremo	-	-	-	16	21st	19th
Tour of Flanders	-	-	-	29	118	94
Paris – Roubaix	-	-	-	81	-	-
Liège – Bastogne – Liège	-	-	-	41	5	2
Lombardy tour	-	-	5	45	1	-

Grand Tours placements

Grand Tour	1988	1989	1990	1991	1992	1993
Vuelta a España	30th	61	6th	4th	1	1
Giro d'Italia	-	-	5	13	-	-
Tour de France	-	-	-	33	19th	2

Known former drivers

• Tony Rominger (1992-1993)
• Fernando Escartín (1990-1993)
• Federico Echave (1990-1993)
• Abraham Olano (1993)
• Iñaki Gastón (1990-1993)

Web links

• CLAS 1988 , CLAS 1989 , CLAS-Cajastur 1990 , CLAS-Cajastur 1991 , CLAS-Cajastur 1992 , CLAS-Cajastur 1993 in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Clas-Cajastur 1992 in the ProCyclingStats.com database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Homepage main sponsor (s)
2. ↑ José Manuel Fuente Lavandera Manager 1988 on radsportseiten.net
3. ↑ CLAS 1988. In: memoire-du-cyclisme.eu. Retrieved May 30, 2020 . 
4. ↑ Juan Fernández Martín Manager 1989-1993 on radsportseiten.net
5. ^ Clas - Cajastur. Dopeology. In: dopeology.org. Retrieved May 30, 2020 (English). 
6. ^ Edición del Saturday March 10, 1990, Página 49 - Hemeroteca - MundoDeportivo.com. In: hemeroteca.elmundodeportivo.es. March 10, 1990, Retrieved May 30, 2020 (Spanish). 
7. ↑ ABC MADRID 09-05-1992 página 95 - Archivo ABC. In: hemeroteca.abc.es. January 3, 2020, accessed May 30, 2020 (Spanish).