Gazprom-RusVelo

This article deals with the men's road cycling team RusVelo , to be distinguished from the teams of the same name in road cycling for women and track cycling

Gazprom-RusVelo
Team data
UCI code	GAZ
nationality	Russia
License	UCI ProTeam
operator	PROvelo AG
First season	2012
discipline	Street
Wheel manufacturer	Colnago
staff
General manager	Renat Chamidulin
Team manager	Serhiy Honchar
Sportl. ladder	Alexander Jefimkin Alexei Markow Fabrizio Tacchino Roberto Vigni
Name story
Years	Surname
2012–2015 2016-	RusVelo Gazprom-RusVelo
shirt
Website
http://www.rusvelo.pro

Gazprom RusVelo is a Russian cycling team based in the Swiss Lugano .

The team was licensed as a UCI Professional Continental Team when it was founded in 2012 . The license applied for for 2012 was initially refused, but was granted on January 9, 2013.

organization

Team Manager was initially Heiko Salzwedel , who by the team managers Oleg Grischkin , Egon van Kessel , Henk Vogels and Vyacheslav Ekimov , the coach Andreas Lang and the former head of Team Wiesenhof Raphael Schweda was supported in a Management function. After Hans-Michael Holczer was replaced as manager of the Russian Katyusha team , Salzwedel was also replaced at Rusvelo on October 1, 2012 by the former Russian professional Renat Chamidulin and the team was given national management.

In some cases, the team is assumed to have close relationships with the Katjuscha team, whereas the former team manager Salzwedel points out that both projects are completely independent of each other in terms of organization and financing. However, according to the internet service radsport-news.com , the RusVelo teams are part of the Russian Global Cycling Project initiated by the Russian cycling association, which includes the Katyusha team.

The RusVelo teams were sponsored by Novikombank, Gazprombank , Sberbank and the Transneft pipeline group . Gazprombank is a subsidiary of Gazprom , one of the main sponsors of the Katyusha team. Gazprom took on the name sponsorship for the 2016 season. In 2017, X-Technology Swiss Research & Development became the official sponsor of the team kit, after underwear and socks had already been provided.

Moreover, in the UCI under the name RusVelo a track team as a UCI track team registered. This corresponds to the intention of the project mentioned by Salzwedel, which primarily focuses on former and current top-class track riders and stated that the main goals of the 2012 season would be a successful performance of the riders in the track world championships , the Olympic cycling competitions and the team time trial of the road world championships .

The RusVelo project also includes a women 's team of the same name , which is registered as the UCI Women's Team . Hanka Kupfernagel and Olga Sabelinskaja were introduced as prominent drivers for this team .

doping

In 2013 the team joined the Mouvement Pour un Cyclisme Crédible (MPCC). After the three drivers Andrei Solomennikow , Roman Maikin and Artjom Owetschkin tested positive for the doping agent Fenoterol after the Russian championships at the end of June 2013 , the team declared that, in accordance with the self-commitment of the MPCC teams, it would no longer participate in racing for four weeks. Team member Waleri Kaikow was previously tested for the prohibited substance GW501516 in March 2013 . The former team manager Salzwedel attributed these four doping cases within one season to the fact that the new management no longer had any influence on the drivers.

Placements in UCI rankings

UCI America Tour (until 2018)

season	Team ranking	Driver ranking
2012	35.	Ivan Rowny (126.)
2013	-	-
2014	28.	Timofei Krizki (244.)
2015 - 2018	-	-

UCI Asia Tour (until 2018)

season	Team ranking	Driver ranking
2012	19th	Artur Jerschow (55.)
2013	32.	Leonid Krasnow (28th)
2014	38.	Sergey Lagutin (117th)
2015	30th	Ivan Savitsky (43.)
2014	48.	Roman Maikin (111.)
2015 - 2018	-	-

UCI Europe Tour (until 2018)

season	Team ranking	Driver ranking
2012	22nd	Sergei Firsanov (18th)
2013	28.	Leonid Krasnov (106th)
2014	8th.	Ilnur Sakarin (9th)
2015	6th	Ivan Savitsky (30.)
2016	14th	Sergei Firsanov (53.)
2016	31.	Alexander Porsew (287.)
2017	23.	Alexander Porsew (206.)

UCI Oceania Tour (until 2018)

season	Team ranking	Driver ranking
2012	16.	Alexander Serov (49.)
2013 - 2016	-	-
2017	19th	Pavel Brutt (78th)
2018	-	-

UCI World Ranking

season	Team ranking	Driver ranking
2019	34.	Alexandre Vlasov (108.)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ UCI press release of January 9, 2013: Rusvelo registered as UCI Professional Continental Team ( Memento of the original of January 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ ^{a b c} radsport-news.com of February 22, 2012: Salzwedel and Dornbusch direct RusVelo teams
3. ↑ radsport-news.com of October 12, 2012: Salzwedel no longer a team manager at RusVelo
4. ↑ cf. velonation.com from January 5, 2012: Theunisse takes on coaching role at Rusvelo
5. ↑ ^{a b} Heiko Salzwedel: “Rusvelo y Katusha son dos proyectos distintos” on biciclismo.com from December 19, 2011
6. ↑ cf. Official website of Team Katyusha , accessed on November 18, 2012
7. ↑ La RusVelo diventa Gazprom Colnago. Gallery. tuttobiciweb.it, November 28, 2015, accessed January 18, 2016 (Italian). 
8. ↑ Morten Okbo: How X-Bionic are reinventing team kit. In: rouleur.cc. October 12, 2017, accessed November 18, 2019 . 
9. ↑ radsport-news.com from November 25, 2011: Kupfernagel rides 2012 for Russian team RusVelo
10. ↑ Kupfernagel rides for Russian team RusVelo in 2012 on radsport-news.com November 25, 2012
11. ↑ cyclingnews.com of July 13, 2013: RusVelo withdraw from Giro dell'Appennino after asthma drug positives
12. ↑ radsport-news.com from April 11, 2013: RusVelo professional Kaykov positive for prohibited substance GW501516
13. ↑ velonation.com from July 16, 2013: Salzwedel "disappointed and sad" with four RusVelo positives this year

Web links

• Official website
• Gazprom-RusVelo in the ProCyclingStats.com database
• Gazprom-RusVelo in the UCI database