# Itera–Katusha

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

## 2013 team roster

As of 2 January 2013.
| | Rider | Date of birth |
| Mikhail Antonov (RUS) | Mikhail Antonov (RUS) | (1986-01-04) 4 January 1986 (age 38) |
| Alexandr Berezkin (RUS) | Alexandr Berezkin (RUS) | (1993-07-17) 17 July 1993 (age 31) |
| Kirill Egorov (RUS) | Kirill Egorov (RUS) | (1993-08-03) 3 August 1993 (age 31) |
| Igor Frolov (RUS) | Igor Frolov (RUS) | (1990-01-23) 23 January 1990 (age 34) |
| Roman Katyrin (RUS) | Roman Katyrin (RUS) | (1991-05-24) 24 May 1991 (age 33) |
| Artur Kovsh (RUS) | Artur Kovsh (RUS) | (1992-04-15) 15 April 1992 (age 32) |
| Konstantin Kuperasov (RUS) | Konstantin Kuperasov (RUS) | (1991-06-20) 20 June 1991 (age 33) |
| Sergey Nikolaev (RUS) | Sergey Nikolaev (RUS) | (1988-02-05) 5 February 1988 (age 36) |
| Maxim Pokidov (RUS) | Maxim Pokidov (RUS) | (1989-07-11) 11 July 1989 (age 35) |
| | Rider | Date of birth |
| Maxim Razumov (RUS) | Maxim Razumov (RUS) | (1990-04-12) 12 April 1990 (age 34) |
| Aleksandr Rotyakov (RUS) | Aleksandr Rotyakov (RUS) | (1991-01-03) 3 January 1991 (age 33) |
| Alexey Ryabkin (RUS) | Alexey Ryabkin (RUS) | (1993-11-23) 23 November 1993 (age 30) |
| Viktor Shmalko (RUS) | Viktor Shmalko (RUS) | (1990-07-09) 9 July 1990 (age 34) |
| Konstantin Yakimov (RUS) | Konstantin Yakimov (RUS) | (1991-01-13) 13 January 1991 (age 33) |
| Denis Zkuyov (RUS) | Denis Zkuyov (RUS) | (1993-10-12) 12 October 1993 (age 30) |
| Matvey Zubov (RUS) | Matvey Zubov (RUS) | (1991-01-22) 22 January 1991 (age 33) |
| Evgeny Zverkov (RUS) | Evgeny Zverkov (RUS) | (1993-02-02) 2 February 1993 (age 31) |

## Major wins
### 2010

    Trofeo Franco Balestra, Alexander Mironov
    Troféu Cidade Da Guarda, Arkimedes Arguelyes
    Stage 6 Tour de Normandie, Alexander Mironov
    Overall Circuit des Ardennes, Mikhail Antonov
       Stage 1, Mikhail Antonov
    Overall Tour du Loir-et-Cher, Mikhail Antonov
       Stages 1 & 3, Alexander Porsev
    La Côte Picarde, Vyacheslav Kuznetsov
    Memorial Oleg Dyachenko, Alexander Mironov
    Overall Giro della Valle d'Aosta, Petr Ignatenko
       Stage 3, Petr Ignatenko
    Stage 1 Tour of Bulgaria, Sergey Rudaskov
    Stage 8 Tour of Bulgaria, Petr Ignatenko

### 2011

    Stage 2 GP Costa Azul, Alexey Tsatevich
    Grand Prix de la ville de Nogent-sur-Oise, Alexey Tsatevich
    Stage 2 Grand Prix of Sochi, Dmitriy Kosyakov
    Stage 4 Grand Prix of Sochi, Sergey Rudaskov
    Stage 5 Tour du Loir-et-Cher, Mikhail Antonov
    Stage 1 Grand Prix of Adygeya, Dmitriy Ignatiev
    Stage 3 Grand Prix of Adygeya, Sergey Firsanov
    Memorial Oleg Dyachenko, Dmitriy Kosyakov
    Overall Five Rings of Moscow, Sergey Firsanov
       Stage 1, Andrey Solomennikov
       Stage 2, Sergey Firsanov
    Coppa della Pace, Andrey Solomennikov
    Overall Okolo Slovenska, Nikita Novikov
       Stages 2 & 8, Nikita Novikov
    Overall Tour des Pays de Savoie, Nikita Novikov
       Prologue, Nikita Novikov
       Stage 1, Pavel Kochetkov
    Stage 4 Tour Alsace, Alexey Tsatevich
    Stage 2 Giro della Valle d'Aosta, Nikita Novikov
    Memorial Davide Fardelli, Anton Vorobyev
    Stage 1 Tour of Bulgaria, Pavel Kochetkov
    Stages 4 & 8 Tour of Bulgaria, Timofey Kritsky
    Stage 5 Tour of Bulgaria, Dmitriy Kosyakov
    Stage 7 Tour of Bulgaria, Alexey Tsatevich

### 2012

    La Roue Tourangelle, Vyacheslav Kuznetsov
    Grand Prix de la ville de Nogent-sur-Oise, Igor Boev
    Stages 2 & 3 Grand Prix of Sochi, Sergei Rudaskov
    Stage 3 Circuit des Ardennes, Team Time Trial
    Overall Tour du Loir-et-Cher, Andrey Solomennikov
       Stage 2, Igor Boev
    Grand Prix of Donetsk, Ilnur Zakarin
    Overall Grand Prix of Adygeya, Ilnur Zakarin
       Stages 2 & 4, Ilnur Zakarin
    Mayor Cup, Igor Boev
    Memorial Oleg Dyachenko, Alexander Rybakov
    Overall Five Rings of Moscow, Igor Boev
       Stage 3, Igor Boev
    Stage 2 Ronde de l'Isard, Sergey Chernetskiy
    Stage 1 Ronde de l'Oise, Vyacheslav Kuznetsov
    Stage 5 Girobio, Ilnur Zakarin
    Stage 6 Giro della Valle d'Aosta, Sergey Chernetskiy
    Stage 5 Tour Alsace, Ilnur Zakarin
    Grand Prix des Marbriers, Sergey Pomoshnikov
    Stage 6 Tour de l'Avenir, Sergey Pomoshnikov
    Stage 1 Tour of Bulgaria, Sergey Pomoshnikov
    Under-23 Time Trial World Championships, Anton Vorobyev

### 2013

    Stages 2, 3 & 5 Grand Prix of Sochi, Maxim Razumov
    Overall Five Rings of Moscow, Maxim Razumov
    Stage 2 Okolo Slovenska, Sergey Nikolaev
    Russia Under-23 Road Race Championships, Roman Katyrin
    Stage 1 Tour Alsace, Maxim Pokidov

### 2014

    Stage 4 Grand Prix of Adygeya, Alexander Foliforov
    Prologue Five Rings of Moscow, Sergey Nikolaev
    Stage 1 Five Rings of Moscow, Maxim Razumov
    Stages 1 & 5 Ronde de l'Isard, Alexander Foliforov
    Stages 2 & 3 Grand Prix Udmurtskaya Pravda, Sergey Nikolaev
    Stages 1 & 4 (ITT) Tour des Pays de Savoie, Dmitriy Ignatiev
    Central European Tour Szerencs–Ibrány, Mamyr Stash
    Stage 2 Tour Alsace, Dmitriy Ignatiev
    Stages 1 & 3 Tour of Kavkaz, Mamyr Stash
    Stage 5 (ITT) Tour of Kavkaz, Dmitriy Ignatiev

### 2015

    Stage 1 Istrian Spring Trophy, Sergey Nikolaev
    Stage 1 Grand Prix of Sochi, Team time trial
    Overall Tour of Kuban, Dmitry Samokhvalov
       Prologue, Maxim Pokidov
       Stage 2, Dmitry Samokhvalov
    Stage 1 Grand Prix of Adygeya, Team time trial
    Prologue Five Rings of Moscow, Sergey Nikolaev
    Stage 3 Tour de Serbie, Sergey Pomoshnikov