Itera–Katusha () was one of four teams of the Russian Global Cycling Project, which consisted of , 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.
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 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
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