Kaiku Explained

Kaiku
Code:KAI
Registered:Spain
Disbanded:2006
Generalmanager:Eneko Garate
Teammanager:Óscar Guerrero
Juan Hernández
Juan Campos
Discipline:Road
Status:UCI Professional Continental
Season:2005–2006
Oldname:Kaiku

Kaiku was a Spanish UCI Professional Continental cycling team based in the Basque country that participated in UCI Continental Circuits races and when selected as a wildcard to UCI ProTour events.

The team was managed by Eneko Garate with assistance from directeur sportifs Óscar Guerrero, Juan Hernández and Juan Campos.

The lead sponsor, Kaiku Corporación Alimentaria, is a Basque country dairy products company in which Caja Rural de Navarra at one time held a financial stake.[1]

In its first season, 2005, Kaiku, a.k.a. "Kaiku–Caja Rural", was formed from Caja Rural's amateur team. Kaiku Corporación had in the previous 22 years sponsored amateur teams that had featured riders who later became famous, such as Juan Antonio Flecha, Joseba Beloki, Juan Carlos Domínguez, Miguel Ángel Martín Perdiguero, Mikel Zarrabeitia, and Abraham Olano, but the company had not sponsored any team in the previous 5 years.[2]

2006 squad

NameBirthdate Nationality
16.06.1982
24.01.1978
18.10.1977
07.05.1979
29.01.1980
13.08.1978
27.02.1980
14.04.1983
11.07.1976
28.02.1982
31.05.1979
21.11.1975
11.07.1980
18.02.1976
02.11.1979
04.08.1978
19.01.1979
29.03.1980

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: noticias de Alava. Diario de Noticias-Edición Digital. 23 January 2013. dead. https://archive.today/20130216141948/http://www.noticiasdealava.com/2012/07/04/economia/la-firma-suiza-emmi-se-hace-con-el-control-de-kaiku-al-adquirir-el-66-de-su-capital. 16 February 2013.
  2. Web site: Spanish Continental Team Kaiku – A Profile, Daily Peloton. 23 January 2013.