2016 Team Katusha season explained

Team:Team Katusha
Season:2016
Men:yes
Ucicode:KAT
Status:UCI WorldTeam
Manager:Vyacheslav Ekimov
Sponsor:Gazprom & Itera & Rostec
Base:Russia
Bikes:Canyon
Groupset:Shimano
Onedaywins:1
Stageraceoverall:1
Stageracestages:19
Natcwins:2
Previous:2015
Next:2017

The 2016 season for began in January at the Tour Down Under. As a UCI WorldTeam, they were automatically invited and obligated to send a squad to every event in the UCI World Tour.

Team roster

Riders who joined the team for the 2016 season[1]
Rider2015 team
Itera–Katusha
Michael Mørkøv[2]
Nils Politt[3] Team Stölting
neo-pro (Coldeportes-Claro)
Jurgen Van den Broeck[4]
Riders who left the team during or after the 2015 season
Rider2016 team
Giampaolo Caruso[5]
Daniel Moreno[6]
Rüdiger Selig[7]
Luca Paolini[8]

Season victories

Date Race Competition Rider Country Location
Tour of Qatar, Stage 2 Doha
Tour of Qatar, Stage 4 Madinat ash Shamal
Tour of Qatar, Stage 5 Doha Corniche
Tour of Qatar, Points classification
Tour of Oman, Stage 3 Naseem Park
Tour of Oman, Stage 6
Volta ao Algarve, Teams classification [9]
Paris–Nice, Stage 6 La Madone d'Utelle
Volta a Catalunya, Stage 7 Barcelona
Three Days of De Panne, Stage 1 Zottegem
Three Days of De Panne, Points classification
Circuit de la Sarthe, Stage 2b Angers
Circuit de la Sarthe, Stage 3 Pré-en-Pail
Circuit de la Sarthe, Points classification
Circuit de la Sarthe, Mountains classification
Frankfurt
Tour of California, Stage 7 Santa Rosa
Giro d'Italia, Stage 20 Sant'Anna di Vinadio
Tour of Slovenia, Stage 2 Golte
Tour of Slovenia, Stage 4 Novo mesto
Tour of Slovenia, Overall
Tour de Suisse, Teams classification [10]
Tour de France, Stage 17 Finhaut-Émosson
Vuelta a Burgos, Young rider classification
Arctic Race of Norway, Stage 1 Rognan
Tour des Fjords, Stage 2 Odda
Tour des Fjords, Stage 3 Suldalsosen
Tour des Fjords, Stage 5 Stavanger
Tour des Fjords, Overall
Tour des Fjords, Points classification

National, Continental and World champions 2016

Date Discipline Jersey Rider Country Location
Sevastopol
Sevastopol

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Team Katusha (transfers). ProCyclingStats. 11 February 2016.
  2. Web site: Mørkøv signs for Katusha at the request of Kristoff. 16 August 2015 . . 20 February 2016.
  3. Jurgen Van den Broeck and Nils Politt join Team Katusha . . 2015-09-11 . 20 February 2016.
  4. Web site: Transfers: Van Den Broeck joins Katusha; Mezgec to Orica-GreenEdge . Clarke . Stuart. 11 September 2015 . . 20 February 2016.
  5. News: Giampaolo Caruso returns positive EPO test. Cyclingnews.com. Immediate Media Company. 18 August 2015. 20 February 2016.
  6. Web site: Dani Moreno joins Movistar for 2016. 19 October 2015 . . 20 February 2016.
  7. Web site: News Shorts: Bora-Argon 18 sign Rüdiger Selig from Katusha. 29 September 2015 . . 20 February 2016.
  8. News: Paolini informed of cocaine positive at Tour de France. Cyclingnews.com. Immediate Media Company. 10 July 2015. 20 February 2016.
  9. The riders on the squad were Tiago Machado, Joaquim Rodríguez, Sergey Lagutin, Alberto Losada, Matvey Mamykin, Rein Taaramäe, Anton Vorobyev and Ilnur Zakarin
  10. The riders on the squad were Simon Špilak, Sven Erik Bystrøm, Sergey Chernetskiy, Dmitry Kozonchuk, Sergey Lagutin, Tiago Machado, Matvey Mamykin and Jhonatan Restrepo