# Gazprom–RusVelo

Gazprom–RusVelo (UCI team code: GAZ), a part of the Russian Global Cycling Project and sponsored by Gazprom, is a Russian road and track cycling team that suspended its activities in 2022. It was founded in late 2011 and granted UCI Professional Continental status. For its first season 2012 the team signed several ex-Team Katusha riders along with a few ones from Continental Team Itera–Katusha.
RusVelo initially included both men's and women's rosters. The directors are Viatcheslav Ekimov, Oleg Grishkin, Egon van Kessel from the Netherlands, and Australian Henk Vogels. The General Manager was Heiko Salzwedel.
In March 2022 the team's licence was revoked by the UCI following the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. On the same day bicycle manufacturer Look, and wheel provider Corima, both announced the cancellation of their sponsorship of the team. Later that month, the team suspended its activities.

## Team history

In December 2012, RusVelo's request for a Professional Continental licence for the 2013 season was denied pending a review. The squad were ultimately awarded a Professional Continental licence on 9 January 2013.

## Doping

In 2013 the team endured a spate of doping positives. In March Valery Kaikov for the, cancer-causing, banned compound GW501516 (Endurobol). This was the first recorded positive for Endurobol. In June at the 2013 Russian National Championships Roman Maikin and Artem Ovechkin tested positive for Fenoterol and received a six-month ban Andrey Solomennikov tested positive for asthma medication and received a six-month suspension as well. As a result, the team auto-suspended itself from competition. In June 2015, the team received their fifth positive in less than two years when Petr Ignatenko tested positive for human growth hormone (hGH) in an out-of-competition test on April 8, this is only the second hGH positive since Patrick Sinkewitz returned an adverse analytical finding for the substance.

## Team roster

    As of 8 February 2022.
| | Rider | Date of birth |
| José Manuel Díaz (ESP) | José Manuel Díaz (ESP) | (1995-01-18) 18 January 1995 (age 29) |
| Marco Canola (ITA) | Marco Canola (ITA) | (1988-12-26) 26 December 1988 (age 35) |
| Giovanni Carboni (ITA) | Giovanni Carboni (ITA) | (1995-08-31) 31 August 1995 (age 29) |
| Nikolay Cherkasov (RUS) | Nikolay Cherkasov (RUS) | (1996-09-26) 26 September 1996 (age 28) |
| Sergey Chernetskiy (RUS) | Sergey Chernetskiy (RUS) | (1990-04-09) 9 April 1990 (age 34) |
| Nicola Conci (ITA) | Nicola Conci (ITA) | (1997-01-05) 5 January 1997 (age 27) |
| Alessandro Fedeli (ITA) | Alessandro Fedeli (ITA) | (1996-03-02) 2 March 1996 (age 28) |
| Michael Kukrle (CZE) | Michael Kukrle (CZE) | (1994-11-17) 17 November 1994 (age 29) |
| Eirik Lunder (NOR) | Eirik Lunder (NOR) | (1999-06-09) 9 June 1999 (age 25) |
| Matteo Malucelli (ITA) | Matteo Malucelli (ITA) | (1993-10-20) 20 October 1993 (age 30) |
| | Rider | Date of birth |
| Denis Nekrasov (RUS) | Denis Nekrasov (RUS) | (1997-02-19) 19 February 1997 (age 27) |
| Artem Nych (RUS) | Artem Nych (RUS) | (1995-03-21) 21 March 1995 (age 29) |
| Andrea Piccolo (ITA) | Andrea Piccolo (ITA) | (2001-03-23) 23 March 2001 (age 23) |
| Petr Rikunov (RUS) | Petr Rikunov (RUS) | (1997-02-24) 24 February 1997 (age 27) |
| Kevin Rivera (CRC) | Kevin Rivera (CRC) | (1998-06-28) 28 June 1998 (age 26) |
| Ivan Rovny (RUS) | Ivan Rovny (RUS) | (1987-09-30) 30 September 1987 (age 37) |
| Cristian Scaroni (ITA) | Cristian Scaroni (ITA) | (1997-10-16) 16 October 1997 (age 26) |
| Dmitry Strakhov (RUS) | Dmitry Strakhov (RUS) | (1995-05-17) 17 May 1995 (age 29) |
| Mathias Vacek (CZE) | Mathias Vacek (CZE) | (2002-06-12) 12 June 2002 (age 22) |
| Ilnur Zakarin (RUS) | Ilnur Zakarin (RUS) | (1989-09-15) 15 September 1989 (age 35) |

## National champions
### 2013

    Russian National Time Trial, Ilnur Zakarin

### 2015

    Russian National Time Trial, Artem Ovechkin

### 2017

    Russian National Road Race, Alexander Porsev

### 2019

    Russian National Road Race, Alexander Vlasov

### 2021

    Russian National Road Race, Artem Nych