Tabriz Petrochemical CCN Team

Tabriz Petrochemical CCN Team
Team information
UCI code	TPT
Registered	Iran
Founded	2002
Disbanded	2016
Discipline(s)	Road
Status	Cont
Key personnel
General manager	Ramin Dadgar & Azim Abdolnezhad
Team name history
2008–2015; 2016	Tabriz Petrochemical Team; Tabriz Petrochemical CCN Team

Tabriz Petrochemical CCN Team (Persian:تیم دوچرخه‌سواری پتروشیمی تبریز) UCI team code: TPT was an Iranian UCI Continental cycling team managed by Ramin Dadgar and Azim Abdolnezhad and main sponsored by Tabriz Petrochemical Company. The Tabriz Petrochemical Team has achieved first place in both the riders' and teams' overall classifications in the UCI Asia Tour in 2007–2008, 2008–2009 and 2009–2010

History

The Tabriz Petrochemical Team was established in 2002 as a club team in Tabriz, Iran. The team started participating in domestic tours and national leagues, as well as some smaller international tours, including the Presidential Cycling Tour of Turkey, Tour of Perlis, Jelajah Malaysia and Tour de Langkawi. After four years the team registered as a UCI Continental team for the 2007–2008 season.

The team started the 2007–2008 season with a complete roster of domestic riders. In total, the team amassed 909.64 points participating in 5 foreign and 2 domestic international races. As a result, the team won the 2007–2008 UCI Asia Tour. At the end of the season the first three places in the individual ranking were occupied by three Tabriz Petrochemical Cycling Team riders.

For the 2008–2009 season, the team roster remained the same, with the addition of one rider from Kazakhstan. The team again participated in 5 foreign and 2 domestic international UCI tours and in total scored 1015 points, this was approximately double of the second placed team. As in the previous season, the first three places in the individual ranking were occupied by Tabriz riders.

Doping

On 3 June 2013, Hossein Askari returned an adverse analytical finding for the banned substance Methylhexaneamine at the Tour de Singkarak. He was handed a 1-year ban making him eligible to race again 2 June 2014.^[1]^[2]

On 20 June 2014 Vahid Ghaffari returned an adverse analytical finding for EPO and has been provisionally suspended from competition.^[3]

Ahad Kazemi is also currently serving an eight-year ban for an ADRV for testosterone from a sample taken at the 2016 Tour of Iran.^[4]

Team roster

As of 2015.^[5]

	Rider	Date of birth
Ahad Kazemi (IRI)		(1975-05-22) 22 May 1975 (age 49)
Ali Khademi (IRI)		(1992-01-01) 1 January 1992 (age 32)
Behnam Khalili (IRI)		(1989-02-07) 7 February 1989 (age 35)
Karim Khorrami (IRI)		(1991-06-04) 4 June 1991 (age 33)
Amir Kolahdouz (IRI)		(1993-01-07) 7 January 1993 (age 31)
Behnam Maleki (IRI)		(1992-12-02) 2 December 1992 (age 31)
Ghader Mizbani (IRI)		(1975-12-06) 6 December 1975 (age 48)

	Rider	Date of birth
Sahebali Najafi (IRI)		(1992-06-25) 25 June 1992 (age 32)
Abolfazl Nazari Daghalian (IRI)		(1991-05-04) 4 May 1991 (age 33)
Samad Pourseyedi (IRI)		(1985-10-15) 15 October 1985 (age 39)
Mohammad Pouresmaeil (IRI)		(1992-03-22) 22 March 1992 (age 32)
Hamid Shirisisan (IRI)		(1982-03-21) 21 March 1982 (age 42)
Mehdi Sohrabi (IRI)		(1981-10-12) 12 October 1981 (age 43)

Major wins

2008

Stage 6 Jelajah Malaysia, Hossein Askari

Overall Umm Al Quwain Race, Hossein Askari

Stages 1 & 2, Hossein Nateghi

Overall Taftan Tour, Hossein Nateghi

Stages 1 & 2, Hossein Nateghi

Stage 5, Behnam Khosroshahi

Overall Tour de East Java, Ghader Mizbani

Stage 4, Ghader Mizbani

Overall President Tour of Iran, Ahad Kazemi

Stage 4, Ahad Kazemi

Stage 5, Ghader Mizbani

Overall Azerbaïjan Tour, Hossein Askari

Prologue & Stage 3, Ghader Mizbani

Stage 2, Team time trial

Stage 4, Behnam Khosroshahi

Stage 7, Hossein Askari

Stage 8, Hamid Shiri

Stages 1 & 4 Tour of Thailand, Hossein Nateghi

Overall Milad De Nour Tour, Ahad Kazemi

Stage 2, Ahad Kazemi

Overall Kerman Tour, Ghader Mizbani

Stage 2, Team time trial

Stage 4, Hossein Nateghi

Overall Tour de Indonesia, Ghader Mizbani

Stage 3, Hossein Jahanbanian

Stages 5 & 10, Ghader Mizbani

2009

Stage 2 Jelajah Malaysia, Mehdi Sohrabi

Overall Tour de Singkarak, Ghader Mizbani

Stage 3a, Ghader Mizbani

Overall President Tour of Iran, Ghader Mizbani

Stage 1, Hossein Askari

Stage 3, Ghader Mizbani

Overall Tour of Qinghai Lake, Andrey Mizurov

Prologue, Andrey Mizurov

Stages 3 & 8, Ghader Mizbani

Overall Tour de East Java, Andrey Mizurov

Stage 2, Andrey Mizurov

Overall Milad De Nour Tour, Mehdi Sohrabi

Stage 1, Arvin Moazzami

Stages 2 & 4, Mehdi Sohrabi

Stage 3, Samad Pourseyedi

Overall Azerbaijan Tour, Ahad Kazemi

Stage 2, Ahad Kazemi

Stage 4, Mehdi Sohrabi

Stage 5, Ghader Mizbani

Overall Tour de Indonesia, Mehdi Sohrabi

Stage 1, Team time trial

Stage 4, Ghader Mizbani

Stage 6, Mehdi Sohrabi

2010

Overall Azerbaijan Tour, Ghader Mizbani

Stages 1, 5 & 6, Ghader Mizbani

Stage 3, Andrey Mizurov

Overall President Tour of Iran, Hossein Askari

Stages 2 & 3, Tobias Erler

Stage 4, Hossein Askari

Overall Tour de Kumano, Andrey Mizurov

Overall Tour de Singkarak, Ghader Mizbani

Stage 1, Team Time Trial

Stage 3, Ghader Mizbani

Stage 6, Mehdi Sohrabi

Overall Tour de East Java, Hossein Alizadeh

Stage 1, Hossein Alizadeh

Stage 3 Milad De Nour Tour, Ebrahim Javani

Overall Tour of Qinghai Lake, Hossein Askari

Stage 3, Ghader Mizbani

Stages 6 & 9, Mehdi Sohrabi

2011

Stage 9 Tour de Langkawi, Boris Shpilevsky

Overall Kerman Tour, Mehdi Sohrabi

Stages 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5, Mehdi Sohrabi

Overall Jelajah Malaysia, Mehdi Sohrabi

Stages 1 & 6, Mehdi Sohrabi

Overall Tour de Taiwan, Markus Eibegger

Stage 2, Mehdi Sohrabi

Stage 3, Markus Eibegger

Overall Tour of Thailand, Tobias Erler

Prologue, Tobias Erler

Stage 1 Tour de Korea, Tobias Erler

Overall Azerbaijan Tour, Mehdi Sohrabi

Stage 3, Team Time Trial

Stage 4 President Tour of Iran, Mehdi Sohrabi

Stage 7 Tour of Qinghai Lake, Mehdi Sohrabi

Overall Milad De Nour Tour, Ghader Mizbani

Stage 1, Ghader Mizbani

Stage 5 Tour de Brunei, Ramin Maleki

Stages 4, 5, 6 & 7 Tour of China, Boris Shpilevsky

Overall Tour de East Java, Hossein Jahanbanian

Stage 1, Boris Shpilevsky

Stage 1 Tour of Taihu Lake, Boris Shpilevsky

2012

Overall Tour of Qinghai Lake, Hossein Alizadeh

Stage 3, Hossein Alizadeh

Stage 2 Tour de East Java, Hossein Nateghi

Overall Tour de Brunei, Hossein Askari

Stage 2, Hossein Askari

Stage 3, Hossein Nateghi

2013

Overall Tour de Filipinas, Ghader Mizbani

Stage 3, Mehdi Sohrabi

Stage 4, Ghader Mizbani

Overall Tour of Iran, Ghader Mizbani

Stage 5, Ghader Mizbani

Overall Tour de Singkarak, Ghader Mizbani

Stage 1, Hossein Askari

Stage 5, Amir Kolahdouz

Stage 7, Mehdi Sohrabi

Overall Tour of Qinghai Lake, Samad Pourseyedi

Stage 3, Samad Pourseyedi

Overall Tour of Borneo, Ghader Mizbani

Stages 2 & 5, Mehdi Sohrabi

Stage 4, Ghader Mizbani

Overall Tour de Ijen, Samad Pourseyedi

Stage 2, Samad Pourseyedi

2014

Overall Tour de Langkawi, Samad Pourseyedi

Stage 4, Samad Pourseyedi

Overall Tour of Japan, Samad Pourseyedi

Stage 4, Samad Pourseyedi

Stage 5, Ghader Mizbani

Overall Tour of Iran, Ghader Mizbani

Stage 5, Ghader Mizbani

Overall Tour de East Java, Ghader Mizbani

Stage 2, Ghader Mizbani

Stage 4 Tour de Ijen, Mehdi Sohrabi

Overall Tour of Fuzhou, Samad Pourseyedi

Stage 2, Samad Pourseyedi

2015

Stage 4 Tour de Filipinas, Samad Pourseyedi

Overall Tour de Taiwan, Samad Pourseyedi

Stage 4, Samad Pourseyedi

Overall Tour of Japan, Samad Pourseyedi

Overall Tour of Iran, Samad Pourseyedi

Stage 5, Samad Pourseyedi

Stage 3 Tour de Singkarak, Mehdi Sohrabi

Stage 4 Tour de Singkarak, Amir Kolahdouz

Stage 5 Tour de Singkarak, Behnam Maleki

Stage 8 Tour de Singkarak, Ahad Kazemi

National champions

2009: Iran Time Trial Championships, Mehdi Sohrabi; Kazakhstan Time Trial Championships, Andrey Mizourov
2010: Kazakhstan Time Trial Championships, Andrey Mizourov; Iran Time Trial Championships, Hossein Askari; Iran Road Race Championships, Mehdi Sohrabi
2011: Iran Time Trial Championships, Hossein Askari
2012: Iran Road Race Championships, Hossein Alizadeh
2013: Iran Road Race Championships, Ghader Mizbani
2014: Iran Time Trial Championships, Alireza Haghi
2015: Iran Road Race Championships, Behnam Maleki

References

^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-07-15. Retrieved 2015-01-20.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
^ "Iranian domination leads to questions, some explanations - CyclingTips". 20 June 2014.
^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-05-09. Retrieved 2015-01-20.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
^ "Iranian rider hit with seven-year-and-six-month ban for doping - Cycling Weekly". 26 April 2017.
^ "Tabriz Petrochemical Team (TPT) - IRI". UCI Continental Circuits. Union Cycliste Internationale. Retrieved 2 March 2014.

External links

[1] "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-07-15. Retrieved 2015-01-20.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

[2] "Iranian domination leads to questions, some explanations - CyclingTips". 20 June 2014.

[3] "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-05-09. Retrieved 2015-01-20.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

[4] "Iranian rider hit with seven-year-and-six-month ban for doping - Cycling Weekly". 26 April 2017.

[5] "Tabriz Petrochemical Team (TPT) - IRI". UCI Continental Circuits. Union Cycliste Internationale. Retrieved 2 March 2014.

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General	Football Futsal Cycling Petrochimi Tabriz F.C. players
Ground	Takhti Stadium

History

Doping

Team roster

Major wins

National champions

See also

References

External links