Itera–Katusha

Itera-

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–

Itera– (UCI team code: TIK) was one of four teams of the Russian Global Cycling Project, which consisted of Team Katusha, U23 Itera–, U21 Itera– 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, and were banned for a year for breaching anti-doping regulations.^[1]

Final team roster[]

As of 2 January 2013.^[2]

Rider Date of birth  Mikhail Antonov (RUS) (1986-01-04) 4 January 1986 (age 36)   (RUS) (1993-07-17) 17 July 1993 (age 28)   (RUS) (1993-08-03) 3 August 1993 (age 28)  Igor Frolov (RUS) (1990-01-23) 23 January 1990 (age 32)   (RUS) (1991-05-24) 24 May 1991 (age 30)   (RUS) (1992-04-15) 15 April 1992 (age 29)   (RUS) (1991-06-20) 20 June 1991 (age 30)  Sergey Nikolaev (RUS) (1988-02-05) 5 February 1988 (age 33)  Maxim Pokidov (RUS) (1989-07-11) 11 July 1989 (age 32)

Rider Date of birth  Maxim Razumov (RUS) (1990-04-12) 12 April 1990 (age 31)   (RUS) (1991-01-03) 3 January 1991 (age 31)   (RUS) (1993-11-23) 23 November 1993 (age 28)  Viktor Shmalko (RUS) (1990-07-09) 9 July 1990 (age 31)   (RUS) (1991-01-13) 13 January 1991 (age 31)   (RUS) (1993-10-12) 12 October 1993 (age 28)  Matvey Zubov (RUS) (1991-01-22) 22 January 1991 (age 31)   (RUS) (1993-02-02) 2 February 1993 (age 28)

Major wins[]

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