Itera–Katusha

Itera-Katusha

Team information
UCI code	TIK
Registered	Russia
Founded	2010 (2010)
Disbanded	2015 (2015)
Discipline(s)	Road
Status	UCI Continental (2010–2015)
Team name history
2010–2015	Itera–Katusha

Itera–Katusha (UCI team code: TIK) was one of four teams of the Russian Global Cycling Project, which consisted of Team Katusha, U23 Itera–Katusha, U21 Itera–Katusha and the aforementioned UCI Continental team.

History

The team was first presented to the public in Bedizzole, Italy, in 2010, with the team's first race being the Gran Premio dell'Insubria-Lugano in Switzerland. Russian rider Alexander Mironov won Itera–'s first ever UCI race in the one-day race, Trofeo Franco Balestra, in Brescia, Italy. In their first season the team was ranked 17th in the UCI Europe Tour's final team classification and 4th in the European ranking of UCI continental teams, with the team taking 17 victories, 17 second places and 10 third places.

The team concluded the 2011 season by securing 1st place in the European teams UCI continental rankings finishing 10th in the UCI Europe Tour team classification. During the 2011 season the team scored 29 victories, 22 second and 20 third places.

In 2012 Anton Vorobyev became the Under-23 World Time Trial Champion after winning the individual time trial of the UCI Road World Championships in the Netherlands, he secured the first Russian gold medal in the Under-23 category since 2005.

Doping

In November 2015, Andrey Lukonin and Ivan Lutsenko were banned for a year for breaching anti-doping regulations.

2013 team roster

As of 2 January 2013.

Rider Date of birth Mikhail Antonov (RUS) (1986-01-04) 4 January 1986 Alexandr Berezkin (RUS) (1993-07-17) 17 July 1993 Kirill Egorov (RUS) (1993-08-03) 3 August 1993 Igor Frolov (RUS) (1990-01-23) 23 January 1990 Roman Katyrin (RUS) (1991-05-24) 24 May 1991 Artur Kovsh (RUS) (1992-04-15) 15 April 1992 Konstantin Kuperasov (RUS) (1991-06-20) 20 June 1991 Sergey Nikolaev (RUS) (1988-02-05) 5 February 1988 Maxim Pokidov (RUS) (1989-07-11) 11 July 1989

Rider Date of birth Maxim Razumov (RUS) (1990-04-12) 12 April 1990 Aleksandr Rotyakov (RUS) (1991-01-03) 3 January 1991 Alexey Ryabkin (RUS) (1993-11-23) 23 November 1993 Viktor Shmalko (RUS) (1990-07-09) 9 July 1990 Konstantin Yakimov (RUS) (1991-01-13) 13 January 1991 Denis Zkuyov (RUS) (1993-10-12) 12 October 1993 Matvey Zubov (RUS) (1991-01-22) 22 January 1991 Evgeny Zverkov (RUS) (1993-02-02) 2 February 1993

Major wins

2010

Trofeo Franco Balestra, Alexander Mironov

Troféu Cidade Da Guarda, Arkimedes Arguelyes

Stage 6 Tour de Normandie, Alexander Mironov

Overall Circuit des Ardennes, Mikhail Antonov

Stage 1, Mikhail Antonov

Overall Tour du Loir-et-Cher, Mikhail Antonov

Stages 1 & 3, Alexander Porsev

La Côte Picarde, Vyacheslav Kuznetsov

Memorial Oleg Dyachenko, Alexander Mironov

Overall Giro della Valle d'Aosta, Petr Ignatenko

Stage 3, Petr Ignatenko

Stage 1 Tour of Bulgaria, Sergey Rudaskov

Stage 8 Tour of Bulgaria, Petr Ignatenko

2011

Stage 2 GP Costa Azul, Alexey Tsatevich

Grand Prix de la ville de Nogent-sur-Oise, Alexey Tsatevich

Stage 2 Grand Prix of Sochi, Dmitriy Kosyakov

Stage 4 Grand Prix of Sochi, Sergey Rudaskov

Stage 5 Tour du Loir-et-Cher, Mikhail Antonov

Stage 1 Grand Prix of Adygeya, Dmitriy Ignatiev

Stage 3 Grand Prix of Adygeya, Sergey Firsanov

Memorial Oleg Dyachenko, Dmitriy Kosyakov

Overall Five Rings of Moscow, Sergey Firsanov

Stage 1, Andrey Solomennikov

Stage 2, Sergey Firsanov

Coppa della Pace, Andrey Solomennikov

Overall Okolo Slovenska, Nikita Novikov

Stages 2 & 8, Nikita Novikov

Overall Tour des Pays de Savoie, Nikita Novikov

Prologue, Nikita Novikov

Stage 1, Pavel Kochetkov

Stage 4 Tour Alsace, Alexey Tsatevich

Stage 2 Giro della Valle d'Aosta, Nikita Novikov

Memorial Davide Fardelli, Anton Vorobyev

Stage 1 Tour of Bulgaria, Pavel Kochetkov

Stages 4 & 8 Tour of Bulgaria, Timofey Kritsky

Stage 5 Tour of Bulgaria, Dmitriy Kosyakov

Stage 7 Tour of Bulgaria, Alexey Tsatevich

2012

La Roue Tourangelle, Vyacheslav Kuznetsov

Grand Prix de la ville de Nogent-sur-Oise, Igor Boev

Stages 2 & 3 Grand Prix of Sochi, Sergei Rudaskov

Stage 3 Circuit des Ardennes, Team Time Trial

Overall Tour du Loir-et-Cher, Andrey Solomennikov

Stage 2, Igor Boev

Grand Prix of Donetsk, Ilnur Zakarin

Overall Grand Prix of Adygeya, Ilnur Zakarin

Stages 2 & 4, Ilnur Zakarin

Mayor Cup, Igor Boev

Memorial Oleg Dyachenko, Alexander Rybakov

Overall Five Rings of Moscow, Igor Boev

Stage 3, Igor Boev

Stage 2 Ronde de l'Isard, Sergey Chernetskiy

Stage 1 Ronde de l'Oise, Vyacheslav Kuznetsov

Stage 5 Girobio, Ilnur Zakarin

Stage 6 Giro della Valle d'Aosta, Sergey Chernetskiy

Stage 5 Tour Alsace, Ilnur Zakarin

Grand Prix des Marbriers, Sergey Pomoshnikov

Stage 6 Tour de l'Avenir, Sergey Pomoshnikov

Stage 1 Tour of Bulgaria, Sergey Pomoshnikov

Under-23 Time Trial World Championships, Anton Vorobyev

2013

Stages 2, 3 & 5 Grand Prix of Sochi, Maxim Razumov

Overall Five Rings of Moscow, Maxim Razumov

Stage 2 Okolo Slovenska, Sergey Nikolaev

Russia Under-23 Road Race Championships, Roman Katyrin

Stage 1 Tour Alsace, Maxim Pokidov

2014

Stage 4 Grand Prix of Adygeya, Alexander Foliforov

Prologue Five Rings of Moscow, Sergey Nikolaev

Stage 1 Five Rings of Moscow, Maxim Razumov

Stages 1 & 5 Ronde de l'Isard, Alexander Foliforov

Stages 2 & 3 Grand Prix Udmurtskaya Pravda, Sergey Nikolaev

Stages 1 & 4 (ITT) Tour des Pays de Savoie, Dmitriy Ignatiev

Central European Tour Szerencs–Ibrány, Mamyr Stash

Stage 2 Tour Alsace, Dmitriy Ignatiev

Stages 1 & 3 Tour of Kavkaz, Mamyr Stash

Stage 5 (ITT) Tour of Kavkaz, Dmitriy Ignatiev

2015

Stage 1 Istrian Spring Trophy, Sergey Nikolaev

Stage 1 Grand Prix of Sochi, Team time trial

Overall Tour of Kuban, Dmitry Samokhvalov

Prologue, Maxim Pokidov

Stage 2, Dmitry Samokhvalov

Stage 1 Grand Prix of Adygeya, Team time trial

Prologue Five Rings of Moscow, Sergey Nikolaev

Stage 3 Tour de Serbie, Sergey Pomoshnikov