Team Katusha Alpecin

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Team Katusha Alpecin
Team Katusha Alpecin Logo 2019.svg
Team data
UCI code TKA
nationality SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
License UCI WorldTeam
operator Katusha Management SA
First season 2009
Last season 2019
discipline Street
Wheel manufacturer Canyon
General manager PortugalPortugal José Azevedo
Sportl. ladder ItalyItaly Claudio Cozzi Xavier Florencio Dmitri Konyshev Gennadi Michailow Torsten Schmidt
SpainSpain 
RussiaRussia 
RussiaRussia 
GermanyGermany 
Name story
Years Surname
2009–2010
2011–2012
2013
2014–2016
2017–2019
Team Katusha
Katusha Team
Katusha
Team Katusha
Team Katusha-Alpecin
Website
https://teamkatushaalpecin.com/
Logo 2017

The Katusha Alpecin team ( Russian Катюша , after German transcription and phonetics : Katjuscha ) was a Russian - Swiss cycling team based in Geneva .

organization

In 2009 a new cycling team called Team Katusha was founded on the basis of Team Tinkoff Credit Systems , which received a ProTeam license of the highest category for cycling teams. In addition to the professional team, Katusha also includes other cycling teams for track , cyclocross , women's cycling and the farm teams Katusha Continental Team and Itera-Katusha . According to its own account, the name is supposed to bring the project into connection with Russia worldwide . It remains unclear whether it also refers to the Katyusha rocket launcher or the Katyusha song . One of the team's sponsors is apparel manufacturer Katusha Sports ; not to be confused with that of the operating company of the Katusha Management team .

The team is part of the Russian Global Cycling Project , which was founded in 2008 and is sponsored by the Russian companies Gazprom , Itera , Rostechnologii (today: Rostec ) and Rosneft and had a Russian license until the 2016 season . These were mediated by Vladimir Putin .

The German Hans-Michael Holczer was the successor to Andrej Tschmil as General Manager of the Swiss operating company Katusha Management SA from January 2012 . In early October 2012, he left the team despite a 3-year contract and was replaced on October 8, 2012 by Vyacheslav Vladimirovich Yekimov .

The team, burdened by various doping cases and suspicious personnel, initially did not receive a ProTeam license from the UCI World Cycling Federation for the 2013 season . After the World Sports Court CAS rejected the granting of a provisional license in an urgent procedure, Katusha applied for a license as a Professional Continental Team in order to be able to participate in international cycling races at all until the main decision of the CAS. The corresponding license was granted on January 15, 2013. On February 15, 2013, the CAS decided in the main proceedings that the Katusha team should be granted the World Tour license.

On January 16, 2016, team member Eduard Worganow tested positive for the cardiovascular drug Meldonium , which has been on the list of prohibited drugs since January 1, 2016. It is currently being marketed in the Baltic states and Russia; in Germany, for example, it is not approved. He was suspended by the team with immediate effect. However, since this was the team's second doping case within twelve months (after Luca Paolini at the 2015 Tour de France ), there was a threat of a ban of between 15 and 45 days. Since Paolini's offense did not serve to improve performance, the UCI Disciplinary Commission refrained from a ban. The team then withdrew from the Mouvement Pour un Cyclisme Crédible (MPCC), whose rules would have provided the team with self-suspension. The MPCC then declared the team's membership, like the membership of other teams, for opportunistic reasons, in particular because of licensing problems.

For the 2017 season, Alpecin , which previously co-financed the Giant-Alpecin team , was added as a second name sponsor. The team should be more international and was no longer registered under Russian, but Swiss nationality with the UCI. In the course of this restructuring, the Russian General Manager Vyacheslav Yekimov was replaced by the Portuguese José Azevedo .

After the bike outfitters Canyon and Alpecin announced in the course of the 2019 season that they would end the sponsorship of the team at the end of the year, the team management tried to continue the operation of the team through mergers with other teams in 2021. After talks with Arkéa-Samsic and Corendon-Circus failed, it was announced at the beginning of October that the owners of the Israel Cycling Academy team would take over the operating company Katusha Management and thus the WorldTour license and the existing contracts. The team manager of the Israel Cycling Academy, Kjell Carlström will take over this position from José Azevedo. The sportswear manufacturer Katusha Sports remains one of the team's sponsors.

Maxime Vantomme in the Katusha jersey, May 2011
Denis Galimsyanow in the Katusha shirt, May 2011
Sergei Tschernezki, best U25 driver of the
Tour of Austria 2013

Season 2019

Success in the UCI WorldTour

date run winner
May 24th ItalyItaly13th stage of the Giro d'Italia RussiaRussia Ilnur Sakarin

Success in the UCI Europe Tour

date run Cat. winner
3 February SpainSpain Trofeo Palma 1.1 GermanyGermany Marcel Kittel
May 3rd United KingdomUnited Kingdom2nd stage Tour de Yorkshire 2.HC GermanyGermany Rick Zabel

National road cycling champions

date run winner
June 27th United KingdomUnited Kingdom British Championship - Individual Time Trial United KingdomUnited Kingdom Alex Dowsett
June 28th PortugalPortugal Portuguese Championship - Individual Time Trial PortugalPortugal José Gonçalves

team

Wikidata logo S.svgTeam roster
Surname Date of birth country Previous team
Enrico Battaglin November 17, 1989 ITA Italy LottoNL-Jumbo (2018)
Jenthe Biermans October 30, 1995 BEL Belgium SEG Racing Academy (2016)
Ian Boswell February 7, 1991 United States United States Sky (2017)
Steff Cras February 13, 1996 BEL Belgium BMC Development (2017)
Jens Debusschere August 28, 1989 BEL Belgium Lotto-Soudal (2018)
Alex Dowsett 3rd October 1988 GBR United Kingdom Movistar (2017)
Matteo Fabbro April 10, 1995 ITA Italy
José Gonçalves February 13, 1989 POR Portugal Caja Rural-Seguros RGA (2016)
Ruben Guerreiro July 6, 1994 POR Portugal Trek-Segafredo (2018)
Nathan Haas March 12, 1989 OUT Australia Dimension Data (2017)
Marco Haller April 1, 1991 AUT Austria Adria Mobil (2011)
Reto Hollenstein August 22, 1985 SUI Switzerland IAM (2016)
Marcel Kittel May 11, 1988 GER Germany Quick-Step Floors (2017)
Pavel Kochetkov March 7, 1986 RUS Russia RusVelo (2013)
Vyacheslav Kuznetsov June 24, 1989 RUS Russia Itera-Katusha (2012)
Daniel Navarro July 18, 1983 ESP Spain Cofidis, Solutions Crédits (2018)
Nils Politt March 6, 1994 GER Germany Stölting (2015)
Willie Smit December 29, 1992 RSA South Africa
Simon Špilak June 23, 1986 SLO Slovenia Lampre-ISD (2011)
Dmitri Strachow May 17, 1995 RUS Russia
Harry Tanfield 17th November 1994 GBR United Kingdom Canyon Iceberg (2018)
Mads Würtz Schmidt March 31, 1994 THE Denmark Waoo (2016)
Rick Zabel 7th December 1993 GER Germany BMC Racing Team (2016)
Ilnur Sakarin September 15, 1989 RUS Russia RusVelo (2014)
Juri Hollmann(Aug 1 - Dec 31, stagiaire, note ) August 30, 1999 GER Germany
Source: UCI

Note: Juri Hollmann , Stagiaire

Placements in UCI rankings

The Katusha team at the Tour de Romandie 2009 .

UCI Europe Tour

season Team ranking Driver ranking
2007 6th RussiaRussia Mikhail Ignatiev (11.)
2008 31. BelarusBelarus Wassil Kiryenka (92nd)

UCI World Calendar

season Team ranking Driver ranking
2009 10. RussiaRussia Sergei Ivanov (27.)
2010 5. SpainSpain Joaquim Rodríguez (1st)

UCI WorldTour

season Team ranking Driver ranking
2011 12. SpainSpain Joaquim Rodríguez (4th)
2012 2. SpainSpain Joaquim Rodríguez (1st)
2013 3. SpainSpain Joaquim Rodríguez (1st)
2014 6th NorwayNorway Alexander Kristoff (8th)
2015 2. SpainSpain Joaquim Rodríguez (2nd)
2016 6th RussiaRussia Ilnur Sakarin (13th)
2017 11. NorwayNorway Alexander Kristoff (14.)
2018 17th AustraliaAustralia Nathan Haas (74th)

UCI World Ranking

season Team ranking Driver ranking
2019 23. GermanyGermany Nils Politt (40th)

References and comments

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  2. live-radsport.ch, Katyusha presents itself to the public with a lot of celebrities
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  12. UCI does not issue a ban against Katusha. radsport-news.com, February 9, 2016, accessed March 4, 2016 .
  13. Shane Stokes: MPCC blasts teams who left organization, said they used anti-doping body for PR purposes. cyclingtips.com, March 4, 2016, accessed December 11, 2017 .
  14. Finally official: Katusha will become Katusha-Alpecin from 2017. radsport-News.com, October 11, 2016, accessed January 4, 2017 .
  15. ^ "Katusha-Alpecin will be the most German team in the WorldTour". radsport-News.com, October 11, 2016, accessed January 4, 2017 .
  16. ^ Israel Cycling Academy set to take over Katusha-Alpecin WorldTour license. In: cyclingweegkly.com. September 26, 2019, accessed October 6, 2019 .
  17. Pat Malach: Israel Cycling Academy complete Katusha-Alpecin takeover. In: cyclingnews.com. October 2, 2019, accessed October 6, 2019 .

Web links

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