Euskaltel Euskadi

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Euskaltel Euskadi
Euskaltel-Euskadi Logo.svg
Team data
UCI code EUS
nationality SpainSpain Spain
License ProTeam
operator Basque Cycling Pro Team
First season 1994
Last season 2013
discipline Street
Wheel manufacturer Orbea
staff
General manager SpainSpain Igor González de Galdeano
Team manager SpainSpain Álvaro González de Galdeano
Sportl. ladder SpainSpain Alexander Díaz Óscar Guerrero Iñaki Isasi Sergio Quílez
SpainSpain
SpainSpain 
SpainSpain
Name story
Years Surname
1994
1995–1997
1998–2012
2013
Euskadi-Petronor
Equipo Euskadi
Euskaltel-Euskadi
Euskaltel Euskadi
shirt
Euskaltel Euskadi jersey
Website
www.euskalteleuskadi.com
Support vehicle of the Euskaltel Euskadi team on the 2006 tour of Germany

Euskaltel Euskadi ( Euskaltel for short ) was a cycling team from the Spanish Basque Country that took part in the UCI ProTour and the successor series UCI WorldTour . The team was based in Derio . The team was founded in 1994 and disbanded at the end of the 2013 season.

organization

The team was sponsored by the telecommunications company Euskaltel , which operates mainly in the Basque Country. Euskaltel is a cooperative in which the Basque regional government participates. Euskadi (actually Fundación Euskadi Ciclista) is a cycling club that was founded in the early 1990s by two taxi drivers in Bilbao to give young Basque cyclists the opportunity to mature into professionals without major changes in the area. In 1998 Euskaltel joined as a sponsor, after which the team became one of the largest Spanish professional teams. The team from Orbea , which is also a Basque frame manufacturer , is equipped with components from Shimano .

For a long time, almost exclusively Basques or Spaniards born in the Basque Country were under contract with Euskaltel-Euskadi. With Unai Etxebarria there was a driver who was born in Venezuela but has Basque parents; however, this has now ended his career. Neither of the two criteria applied to Samuel Sánchez , who comes from the northern Spanish region of Asturias , but drove for the smaller Basque team Olarra Erkoreka from Euskaltel team boss Miguel Madariaga . For the 2010 season, Romain Sicard was hired for the second time after Thierry Elissalde (1994-95), a professional cyclist from the French Basque Country. In 2011, after signing Pierre Cazaux , two French Basques drove for the team at the same time for the first time.

After the end of the 2012 season, the Euskaltel-Euskadi team gave up their strict policy and signed numerous drivers from other countries with Tarik Chaoufi , Jure Kocjan , Ricardo Mestre , Alexander Serebrjakow , Ioannis Tamouridis , Robert Vrečer and the Germans Steffen Radochla and André Schulze . With Juan José Lobato also signed another Spaniard for the team, neither came from the Basque Country, nor there his junior career had graduated.

Until the end of the 2012 season, the team was operated by the Fundación Ciclista Euskadi (sp., German: Basque Cycling Foundation), which was operated by the Basque Cycling Pro Team (German, Basque professional cycling team), a subsidiary of the main sponsor Euskaltel was replaced. Since the team could not pay the salaries in November and December 2012, the financial bottleneck was to be resolved by selling the team buses to the main sponsor.

At the beginning of September 2013 it was announced that the Formula 1 world champion Fernando Alonso would like to acquire the team for six million euros and thus ensure its economic survival. On September 23, the team management announced that Fernando Alonso will not take over the Euskaltel-Euskadi team after all. The reason given for the failure of the negotiations was irreconcilable differences in some aspects of the planned takeover. According to the Spanish newspaper Marca, one of the main points is said to have been that Alonso did not want to take over the ranks of the supervisory staff and also did not want to accept the contracts with the bike sponsor Orbea and the clothing company Bioracer. The team management, on the other hand, resisted the wish of the two-time Formula 1 world champion to move the headquarters of the racing team from the Basque Country to Asturias.

The farm team Euskadi , which is part of the project, continued to be run by the Fundación Ciclista Euskadi after the Proteam was taken over by Basque Cycling Pro Team in 2013 and the closure at the end of the season .

successes

The team achieved their first major success at the Spanish road cycling championships in 1996, when Iñigo González de Heredia and Álvaro González de Galdeano took the first two places in the individual time trial. The team achieved their first success on a "Grand Tour" in 1999. Roberto Laiseka won the mountain finish on the Alto de Abantos on the 18th stage of the Vuelta a España . The following year he repeated this success and won the 11th stage of the Vuelta a España with a destination in Andorra . In 2001, the Tour de France won the first victory at the first participation, again by Laiseka, who won the 14th stage to Luz-Ardiden . Two years later, Iban Mayo was able to trump Laiseka's victory by winning the prestigious arrival in L'Alpe d'Huez at the Tour de France . In the same year he was also able to win the Tour of the Basque Country and subsequently the Critérium du Dauphiné . The team was able to repeat this success in 2005 with Iñigo Landaluze . Aitor González Jiménez won the Tour de Suisse in the same year and Roberto Laiseka and Samuel Sanchez won the 11th and 13th stages of the Vuelta a España, respectively . Sanchez was able to win the 13th stage again at the Vuelta a España 2006 . There was also a victory by Igor Antón on the 16th section. In 2007, Sanchez went one better by winning the 15th, 19th and 20th stages of the Vuelta a España . At the Tour de France , Amets Txurruka was recognized as the most combative driver. Mikel Astarloza won the 16th stage of the Tour de France 2007 , but the victory was withdrawn from him because of a positive doping test prior to the tour. In 2010 the team managed to win three more stages of the Vuelta a España . Igor Antón won stages 4 and 10 and Mikel Nieve 16. The duo won stages of the Giro d'Italia for the first time in the team's history the following year . Anton won the 14th and Nieve the 15th. In the Tour de France, Samuel Sanchez won the mountain finish on stage 12 in Luz-Ardiden and won the dotted jersey .

Euskaltel-Euskadi was able to win three stages in eleven participations in the Tour de France , once the mountain classification and once the prize for the most combative driver . The Vuelta a España even achieved twelve stage victories, plus two stage victories at the Giro d'Italia .

2013 season

Success in the UCI WorldTour

date run winner
8th June FranceFrance7th stage of the Critérium du Dauphiné SpainSpain Samuel Sánchez

Success in the UCI Europe Tour

date run winner
12. April SpainSpain1st stage Vuelta a Castilla y León SpainSpain Pablo Urtasun
April 13th SpainSpain2nd stage Vuelta a Castilla y León SpainSpain Juan José Lobato
June 21st GreeceGreece Greek Championship - Individual Time Trial GreeceGreece Ioannis Tamouridis
23rd June GreeceGreece Greek championship - road racing GreeceGreece Ioannis Tamouridis
July 31 SpainSpain Circuito de Getxo SpainSpain Juan José Lobato

Additions Disposals

Accesses Team 2012 Departures Team 2013
SpainSpain Juan José Lobato Andalucía SpainSpain Amets Txurruka Caja Rural-Seguros RGA
SpainSpain Garikoitz Bravo Caja Rural SpainSpain Iván Velasco Caja Rural-Seguros RGA
GermanyGermany André Schulze Team NetApp FranceFrance Pierre Cazaux GSC Blagnac
SloveniaSlovenia Jure Kocjan Team Type 1-Sanofi SpainSpain Alan Perez End of career
RussiaRussia Alexander Serebryakov Team Type 1-Sanofi RussiaRussia Alexander Serebryakov (until April 7th) Doping ban
PortugalPortugal Ricardo Mestre Carmim Prio MoroccoMorocco Tarik Chaoufi (until August 12th) Unknown
SpainSpain Jon Aberasturi Orbea Continental
GreeceGreece Ioannis Tamouridis SP Tableware Cycling Team
GermanyGermany Steffen Radochla Team NSP-Ghost
SloveniaSlovenia Robert Vrečer Team Vorarlberg
MoroccoMorocco Tarik Chaoufi Neoprofi

team

Surname birthday origin Team 2014
Jon Aberasturi March 28, 1989 SpainSpain Spain Euskadi
Igor Antón March 2, 1983 SpainSpain Spain Movistar team
Mikel Astarloza 17th November 1979 SpainSpain Spain End of career
Jorge Azanza June 16, 1982 SpainSpain Spain
Pello Bilbao February 25, 1990 SpainSpain Spain Caja Rural-Seguros RGA
Garikoitz Bravo July 31, 1989 SpainSpain Spain Efapel glass drive
Ricardo García February 26, 1988 SpainSpain Spain Team Ukyo
Gorka Izagirre October 7, 1987 SpainSpain Spain Movistar team
Jon Izaguirre 4th February 1989 SpainSpain Spain Movistar team
Jure Kocjan October 18, 1984 SloveniaSlovenia Slovenia Team SmartStop-Mountain Khakis
Mikel Landa December 13, 1989 SpainSpain Spain Astana Pro Team
Juan José Lobato December 29, 1988 SpainSpain Spain Movistar team
Egoi Martínez May 15, 1978 SpainSpain Spain End of career
Ricardo Mestre September 11, 1983 PortugalPortugal Portugal Efapel glass drive
Miguel Mínguez August 30, 1988 SpainSpain Spain Euskadi
Mikel Nieve May 26, 1984 SpainSpain Spain Team Sky
Juan José Oroz July 11, 1980 SpainSpain Spain PinoRoad
Rubén Pérez October 30, 1981 SpainSpain Spain
Steffen Radochla October 19, 1978 GermanyGermany Germany End of career
Adrián Sáez March 17, 1986 SpainSpain Spain End of career
Samuel Sánchez 5th February 1978 SpainSpain Spain BMC Racing Team
André Schulze November 21, 1974 GermanyGermany Germany End of career
Romain Sicard January 1, 1988 FranceFrance France Team Europcar
Ioannis Tamouridis 3rd June 1980 GreeceGreece Greece SP tableware
Pablo Urtasun March 29, 1980 SpainSpain Spain PinoRoad
Gorka Verdugo 4th November 1978 SpainSpain Spain
Robert Vrečer October 8, 1980 SloveniaSlovenia Slovenia Team Vorarlberg

Placements in UCI rankings

UCI world rankings

season Team ranking Driver ranking
1995 32. SpainSpain Íñigo Cuesta (223.)
1996 36. SpainSpain César Solaun (220.)
1997 34. SpainSpain César Solaun (121.)
1998 28. SpainSpain Álvaro González de Galdeano (96.)
1999 3. (GSII) SpainSpain Roberto Laiseka (83rd)
2000 1. (GSII) SpainSpain Haimar Zubeldia (32nd)
2001 17th SpainSpain David Etxebarria (48th)
2002 24. SpainSpain David Etxebarria (49.)
2003 13. SpainSpain Iban Mayo (10.)
2004 15th SpainSpain Iban Mayo (23.)

UCI ProTour

season Team ranking Driver ranking
2005 19th SpainSpain Aitor González (43rd)
2006 17th SpainSpain Samuel Sánchez (2nd)
2007 11. SpainSpain Samuel Sánchez (9th)
2008 7th SpainSpain Mikel Astarloza (11th)

UCI World Calendar

season Team ranking Driver ranking
2009 12. SpainSpain Samuel Sánchez (3rd)
2010 13. SpainSpain Samuel Sánchez (10th)

UCI WorldTour

season Team ranking Driver ranking
2011 14th SpainSpain Samuel Sánchez (7th)
2012 13. SpainSpain Samuel Sánchez (9th)
2013 15th SpainSpain Jon Izaguirre (32nd)

Individual evidence

  1. diariovasco.com of August 10, 2008: El padre deportivo del campeón
  2. Schulze and Radochla on Euskaltel. In: radsport-news.com. October 21, 2012, accessed November 27, 2012 .
  3. El futuro de Euskaltel-Euskadi, un cambio necesario para seguir en la élite. In: biciciclismo.com. September 21, 2012, Retrieved November 27, 2012 (Spanish).
  4. radsport-news.com of December 11, 2012: Sell buses, pay salaries
  5. Formula 1 star Alonso takes over Euskaltel-Euskadi on radsport-news.com from September 3, 2013
  6. Formula 1 star Alonso will not take over Euskaltel on radsport-news.com from September 23, 2013
  7. cyclingnews.com of October 25, 2013: Euskadi foundation to field Continental team

See also

Web links

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