Euskaltel Euskadi
| Euskaltel Euskadi | |
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| Team data | |
| UCI code | EUS |
| nationality |
 Spain
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| License | ProTeam |
| operator | Basque Cycling Pro Team |
| First season | 1994 |
| Last season | 2013 |
| discipline | Street |
| Wheel manufacturer | Orbea |
| staff | |
| General manager |
Igor González de Galdeano
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| Team manager |
Álvaro González de Galdeano
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| Sportl. ladder |
Alexander Díaz Óscar Guerrero Iñaki Isasi Sergio Quílez
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| Name story | |
| Years | Surname |
| 1994 1995–1997 1998–2012 2013 |
Euskadi-Petronor Equipo Euskadi Euskaltel-Euskadi Euskaltel Euskadi |
| shirt | |
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| Website | |
| www.euskalteleuskadi.com | |
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 |
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| 8th June |
 7th stage of the Critérium du Dauphiné
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Samuel Sánchez
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Success in the UCI Europe Tour
| date | run | winner |
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| 12. April |
1st stage Vuelta a Castilla y León
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Pablo Urtasun
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| April 13th |
2nd stage Vuelta a Castilla y León
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Juan José Lobato
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| June 21st |
 Greek Championship - Individual Time Trial |
Ioannis Tamouridis
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| 23rd June |
Greek championship - road racing |
Ioannis Tamouridis
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| July 31 |
Circuito de Getxo
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Juan José Lobato
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Additions Disposals
| Accesses | Team 2012 | Departures | Team 2013 |
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Juan José Lobato
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Andalucía |
Amets Txurruka
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Caja Rural-Seguros RGA |
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Garikoitz Bravo
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Caja Rural |
Iván Velasco
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Caja Rural-Seguros RGA |
 André Schulze
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Team NetApp |
Pierre Cazaux
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GSC Blagnac |
 Jure Kocjan
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Team Type 1-Sanofi |
Alan Perez
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End of career |
 Alexander Serebryakov
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Team Type 1-Sanofi |
Alexander Serebryakov (until April 7th) |
Doping ban |
 Ricardo Mestre
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Carmim Prio |
 Tarik Chaoufi (until August 12th) |
Unknown |
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Jon Aberasturi
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Orbea Continental | ||
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Ioannis Tamouridis
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SP Tableware Cycling Team | ||
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Steffen Radochla
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Team NSP-Ghost | ||
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Robert Vrečer
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Team Vorarlberg | ||
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Tarik Chaoufi
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Neoprofi |
team
Placements in UCI rankings
UCI world rankings
| season | Team ranking | Driver ranking |
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| 1995 | 32. |
Íñigo Cuesta (223.)
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| 1996 | 36. |
César Solaun (220.)
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| 1997 | 34. |
César Solaun (121.)
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| 1998 | 28. |
Álvaro González de Galdeano (96.)
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| 1999 | 3. (GSII) |
Roberto Laiseka (83rd)
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| 2000 | 1. (GSII) |
Haimar Zubeldia (32nd)
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| 2001 | 17th |
David Etxebarria (48th)
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| 2002 | 24. |
David Etxebarria (49.)
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| 2003 | 13. |
Iban Mayo (10.)
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| 2004 | 15th |
Iban Mayo (23.)
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UCI ProTour
| season | Team ranking | Driver ranking |
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| 2005 | 19th |
Aitor González (43rd)
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| 2006 | 17th |
Samuel Sánchez (2nd)
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| 2007 | 11. |
Samuel Sánchez (9th)
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| 2008 | 7th |
Mikel Astarloza (11th)
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UCI World Calendar
| season | Team ranking | Driver ranking |
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| 2009 | 12. |
Samuel Sánchez (3rd)
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| 2010 | 13. |
Samuel Sánchez (10th)
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UCI WorldTour
| season | Team ranking | Driver ranking |
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| 2011 | 14th |
Samuel Sánchez (7th)
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| 2012 | 13. |
Samuel Sánchez (9th)
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| 2013 | 15th |
Jon Izaguirre (32nd)
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Individual evidence
- ↑ diariovasco.com of August 10, 2008: El padre deportivo del campeón
- ↑ Schulze and Radochla on Euskaltel. In: radsport-news.com. October 21, 2012, accessed November 27, 2012 .
- ↑ El futuro de Euskaltel-Euskadi, un cambio necesario para seguir en la élite. In: biciciclismo.com. September 21, 2012, Retrieved November 27, 2012 (Spanish).
- ↑ radsport-news.com of December 11, 2012: Sell buses, pay salaries
- ↑ Formula 1 star Alonso takes over Euskaltel-Euskadi on radsport-news.com from September 3, 2013
- ↑ Formula 1 star Alonso will not take over Euskaltel on radsport-news.com from September 23, 2013
- ↑ cyclingnews.com of October 25, 2013: Euskadi foundation to field Continental team
See also
- Euskaltel-Euskadi / 2007 season
- Euskaltel-Euskadi / 2008 season
- Euskaltel-Euskadi / 2009 season
- Euskaltel-Euskadi / 2010 season
- Euskaltel-Euskadi / 2011 season
- Euskaltel-Euskadi / 2012 season
Web links
- Fundación Euskadi Ciclista (Basque, Spanish, French)
- The 2013 team at cycling sites