Drone Hopper–Androni Giocattoli

Drone Hopper–Androni Giocattoli

Team information
UCI code	DRA
Registered	Italy
Founded	1996 (1996)
Discipline(s)	Road
Status	UCI ProTeam
Bicycles	Bottecchia
Website	Team home page
Key personnel
General manager
Team name history
1996 1997–1998 1999 2000 2001 2002–2005 2006 2007 2008–2009 2010–2011 2012–2014 2015 2016–2017 2017 2018–2021 2022–	Gaseosas Glacial–Selle Italia Kross–Selle Italia Selle Italia Aguardiente Néctar–Selle Italia Selle Italia–Pacific Colombia–Selle Italia Selle Italia–Serramenti Diquigiovanni Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni–Selle Italia Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni–Androni Giocattoli Androni Giocattoli Androni Giocattoli–Venezuela Androni–Sidermec Androni Giocattoli–Sidermec Androni–Sidermec–Bottecchia Androni Giocattoli–Sidermec Drone Hopper–Androni Giocattoli
Jersey
Current season

Drone Hopper–Androni Giocattoli (UCI team code: DRA) is an Italian-registered UCI ProTeam cycling team that participates in road bicycle racing events on the UCI Continental Circuits and when selected as a wildcard to UCI World Tour events. Antonio Castano manages the team, with assistance from directeurs sportifs Giovanni Ellena, Gianni Savio, Didier Paindaveine and Marco Bellini. The main sponsors are: Androni Giocattoli, a toy manufacturer, Sidermec, a fabricated plate work products maker (with their subsidiary Indumet).^[1]

Doping[]

On 5 June 2014 Patrick Facchini gave an adverse analytical finding for Tuaminoheptane and was consequently banned for 10 months.^[2]

On 30 June 2015 Davide Appollonio gave an adverse analytical finding for EPO and was provisionally suspended.^[3] On 27 July 2015 Fabio Taborre gave a positive test result for the banned blood-booster FG-4592 in an out-of-competition control on 16 June. The team were automatically suspended by the UCI under new rules.^[4] FG-4592 (Roxadustat) is in phase 3 clinical trials and has not yet been commercialised. The drug was developed jointly by FibroGen and AstraZeneca. Unlike EPO, which directly stimulates the production of red blood cells, FG-4592 is taken orally, and stimulates natural production of EPO in a manner similar to altitude training.^[5] This class of compounds has been outlawed by WADA. The UCI subsequently suspended the team for 30 days.^[6]

Team roster[]

As of 5 February 2022.^[7]

Rider Date of birth  Juan Diego Alba (COL) (1997-09-11) 11 September 1997 (age 24)  Mattia Bais (ITA) (1996-10-19) 19 October 1996 (age 25)   (ITA) (2000-06-09) 9 June 2000 (age 21)  Alessandro Bisolti (ITA) (1985-03-07) 7 March 1985 (age 36)  Jefferson Alexander Cepeda (ECU) (1998-06-16) 16 June 1998 (age 23)  Luca Chirico (ITA) (1992-07-16) 16 July 1992 (age 29)  Eduard-Michael Grosu (ROM) (1992-09-04) 4 September 1992 (age 29)   (NOR) (2003-07-09) 9 July 2003 (age 18)  Umberto Marengo (ITA) (1992-07-21) 21 July 1992 (age 29)   (ITA) (1998-06-13) 13 June 1998 (age 23)   (COL) (1999-07-26) 26 July 1999 (age 22)  Daniel Muñoz (COL) (1996-11-21) 21 November 1996 (age 25)

Rider Date of birth  Andrii Ponomar (UKR) (2002-09-05) 5 September 2002 (age 19)  Simone Ravanelli (ITA) (1995-07-04) 4 July 1995 (age 26)  Jhonatan Restrepo (COL) (1994-11-28) 28 November 1994 (age 27)   (COL) (2002-07-02) 2 July 2002 (age 19)  Eduardo Sepúlveda (ARG) (1991-06-13) 13 June 1991 (age 30)  Filippo Tagliani (ITA) (1995-08-14) 14 August 1995 (age 26)  Natnael Tesfatsion (ERI) (1999-05-23) 23 May 1999 (age 22)  Santiago Umba (COL) (2002-11-20) 20 November 2002 (age 19)  Martí Vigo del Arco (ESP) (1997-12-22) 22 December 1997 (age 24)  Edoardo Zardini (ITA) (1989-11-02) 2 November 1989 (age 32)   (ESP) (2001-11-10) 10 November 2001 (age 20)

Major wins[]

National champions[]

References[]

External links[]

• Official website (in Italian)

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