UniFunvic–Pindamonhangaba explained

UniFunvic–Pindamonhangaba
Code:	SOU
Registered:	Brazil
Website:	http://brasilprocycling.com/
Generalmanager:	Benedito Tadeu Azevedo Júnior
Teammanager:	Ana Paula Luiza Castro
Discipline:	Road
Status:	UCI Continental (2010–2015) UCI Professional Continental (2016–2017) National (2018–)
Bicycles:	Soul
Components:	Shimano
Season:	2010–2012 2013–2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019–2020 2021 2022–
Oldname:	Funvic–Pindamonhangaba Funvic Brasilinvest–São José dos Campos Carrefour Funvic Soul Cycling Team Funvic Soul Cycles–Carrefour Soul Brasil Pro Cycling Funvic–São José dos Campos Funvic–Pindamonhangaba UniFunvic–Gelog UniFunvic–Pindamonhangaba
Kitimage:	Funvic Soul Cycles–Carrefour jersey.png

UniFunvic–Pindamonhangaba is a men's cycling team based in Brazil. The team was founded in 2010, and competed as a UCI Continental team from 2010 to 2015. a UCI Professional Continental team from 2016 to 2017 and since 2018 as an amateur club.

Doping

On August 12, 2016, the UCI announced that Kléber Ramos had tested positive for CERA on 31 July 2016.^[1] Ramos had competed in the Olympic Games road race. On November 17 the UCI announced Ramiro Rincon Diaz and João Gaspar has also tested positive for CERA. These positive tests constituted the team's second and third AAFs within a twelve-month period and as a result, the UCI moved to suspend the team under Anti Doping Rule, article 7.12, Suspension of a Team Registered with the UCI.^[2] In December 2016, the team was suspended for 55 days, due to the three doping positives within a 12-month period.^[3]

In March 2017 Brazilian rider Alex Correia Diniz was provisionally suspended due to an adverse biological passport finding, with fellow Brazilian Otavio Bulgarelli being provisionally suspended for "tampering".^[4] With the team's previous ban expiring on February 12, the team now faces a potential ban of between 15 days to 12 months. In May, the team were banned for a second time for 35 days from 15 July to 19 August.^[5]

Major wins

2010

Stages 5 & 9 Vuelta del Uruguay, Roberto Pinheiro

Stages 6 & 7a Vuelta del Uruguay, Héctor Aguilar

Stage 7b Vuelta del Uruguay, Pedro Autran Nicacio

Stages 4 & 5 Volta de Gravataí, Roberto Pinheiro

Stage 1 Tour de Santa Catarina, José Eriberto Silva

Stage 3 Tour de Santa Catarina, Edgardo Simón

Overall Volta do Paraná, Marco Arriagada

Stages 1 & 3, Marco Arriagada

Stages 1 & 7 Volta de São Paulo, Edgardo Simón

Stage 2 Volta de São Paulo, Héctor Aguilar

Stage 3 Volta de São Paulo, Flávio Cardoso

Stage 4a Volta de São Paulo, Magno Nazaret

2011

Time Trial Championships, Magno Nazaret

Stage 7 Tour de San Luis, Héctor Aguilar

Stage 6 Rutas de América, Héctor Aguilar

Prologue & Stage 1 Giro do Interior de São Paulo, Flávio Cardoso

Stage 2 Volta de Gravataí, Antônio Nascimento

Stage 4 Volta de Gravataí, Roberto Pinheiro

Stage 4 Tour do Rio, Magno Nazaret

Stage 1 Volta de São Paulo, Antônio Nascimento

Stage 3 Volta de São Paulo, Flávio Cardoso

Stage 4 Volta de São Paulo, Roberto Pinheiro

2012

Road Race Championships, Otávio Bulgarelli

Pan American Time Trial Championships, Magno Nazaret

Stage 1 Vuelta Mexico Telmex, Héctor Aguilar

Overall Vuelta del Uruguay, Magno Nazaret

Stage 3, Héctor Aguilar

Stage 8 (ITT), Magno Nazaret

Stage 2 Vuelta a Guatemala, Gregolry Panizo

Stage 5 Tour do Rio, Roberto Pinheiro

Overall Tour do Brasil, Magno Nazaret

Stage 3 (ITT), Magno Nazaret

2013

Copa América de Ciclismo, Francisco Chamorro

Stage 3 Tour de San Luis, Alex Diniz

Stage 5 Tour do Rio, Gregolry Panizo

2014

Road Race Championships, Antonio Garnero

Time Trial Championships, Pedro Autran Nicacio

Overall Tour do Brasil, Magno Nazaret

Stage 1, Flávio Cardoso

Stage 2, Juan Sebastián Tamayo

Stages 3 & 4 (ITT), Magno Nazaret

Stage 2 Volta do Rio Grande do Sul, Óscar Sánchez

Overall Volta do Paraná, Carlos Manarelli

Stages 2 & 3, Carlos Manarelli

2015

Overall Tour de San Luis, Daniel Díaz

Stages 2 & 4, Daniel Díaz

Stage 6, Kléber Ramos

Stages 2, 3, 6 & 8 Vuelta del Uruguay, Francisco Chamorro

Stage 1 Volta Ciclística Internacional do Rio Grande do Sul, Roberto Pinheiro

Stage 3 Volta do Paraná, Flávio Cardoso

Time Trial Championships, Magno Nazaret

Copa América de Ciclismo, Carlos Manarelli

2016

Overall Volta Ciclística Internacional do Rio Grande do Sul, Murilo Affonso

Stage 1, Murilo Affonso

Road Race Championships, Flávio Cardoso

2017

Overall Vuelta del Uruguay, Magno Nazaret

Stage 3b, Team time trial

Stage 6 (ITT), Magno Nazaret

Time Trial Championships, Magno Nazaret

2018

Overall Vuelta del Uruguay, Magno Nazaret

Stage 2a, Team time trial

Stage 8a (ITT), Magno Nazaret

National champions

2011

Brazilian Time Trial Championship, Magno Nazaret

2012

Brazilian Road Race Championship, Otávio Bulgarelli

2014

Brazilian Road Race Championship, Antonio Garnero

Brazilian Time Trial Championship, Pedro Autran Nicacio

2015

Brazilian Time Trial Championship, Magno Nazaret

2016

Brazilian Road Race Championship, Flávio Cardoso

2017

Brazilian Time Trial Championship, Magno Nazaret

Notes and References

Web site: Olimpíadas Rio 2016 - Kleber Ramos cai no doping por uso de CERA. 12 August 2016 .
Web site: UCI statement on Ramiro Rincon Diaz, João Marcelo Pereira Gaspar and UCI Professional Continental Team Funvic Soul Cycles-Carrefour . 2016-11-20 . 2016-11-21 . https://web.archive.org/web/20161121042019/http://www.uci.ch/pressreleases/uci-statement-ramiro-rincon-diaz-joao-marcelo-pereira-gaspar-and-uci-professional-continental-team-funvic-soul-cycles-carrefour/ . dead .
Web site: Suspended Soul Brasil Pro Cycling Team secures Pro-Conti license for 2017 . 21 December 2016 .
News: Entire Brazilian cycling team facing second ban after breaking anti-doping rules . Cyclingweekly.com . 27 March 2017 .
http://www.nydailynews.com/newswires/sports/brazilian-cycling-team-hit-2nd-ban-doping-article-1.3192434