Cycling team
Tinkoff Credit Systems UCI code TCS Registered Italy Founded 2007 (2007 ) Disbanded 2008 Discipline(s) Road Status Professional Continental General manager Stefano Feltrin Team manager(s) Omar Piscina
Tinkoff Credit Systems (UCI team code:TCS ) was a professional continental cycling team based in Italy that had UCI Professional Continental status, raced in UCI Continental Circuits races and when selected as a wildcard to UCI ProTour events. The team was financed by Russian businessman Oleg Tinkov .
Tinkoff Credit Systems emerged from the 2006 Continental team Tinkoff Restaurants , which was based in Russia and headed by Alexander Kuznetsov (Александр Кузнецов Lokomotiv team.[ 1] [ 2] [ 3] [ 4] Pavel Brutt , Ilya Chernetskiy , Mikhail Ignatiev , Serguei Klimov , Anton Mindlin , Ivan Rovny , Alexander Serov and Nikolai Trusov .
In January 2007, the Italian Ambassador to Russia Vittorio Surdo supported the formation of the Russian-Italian team Tinkoff Credit Systems explaining "for Italians, cycling is sacred, since the Prime Minister of Italy is an avid cyclist."[ 2]
Stefano Feltrin was the general manager of Tinkoff, while Omar Piscina was team manager, assisted by Orlando Maini , Dmitri Konychev and Claudio Cozzi . Owner Oleg Tinkoff had worked hard to build links with the Italian cycling community, which garnered wildcard invites to the major RCS races, including the 2007 Giro d'Italia .
The team was disbanded in 2008, with the new Team Katusha formed as a UCI ProTour team in its place, and using Tinkoff Credit Systems structure.[ 5] [ 6]
Tinkoff used Colnago bicycles with Campagnolo components.[ 2]
After the 2013 Tour de France , Oleg Tinkov announced he was ending his sponsorship of Saxo–Tinkoff in favour of reviving Tinkoff Credit Systems from January 2014, with a commitment for five years.[ 7] Bjarne Riis and that the team would compete in 2014 under the name Tinkoff-Saxo with Riis remaining as the team's general manager.[ 8]
Major wins
2008
Stage 19 Giro d'Italia , Vasil Kiryienka
Stage 5 Giro d'Italia , Pavel Brutt 2007
Team classification , Tirreno–Adriatico Mountains classification , Tirreno–Adriatico, Salvatore Commesso Gran Premio di Chiasso , Pavel Brutt Trofeo Laigueglia , Mikhail Ignatiev Young rider classification , Tour Méditerranéen , Ivan Rovny Stage 3 Tour Méditerranéen: Mikhail Ignatiev
Stage 9 Tour de Langkawi , Pavel Brutt
Stage 1 Tour de Georgia : Daniele Contrini
References
^ NewsRu staff (1 October 2005). В "Тур де Франс" появится российская команда (Russian team will appear in the Tour de France). NewsRu (newsru.com) (in Russian) . Retrieved 1 October 2021.
^ a b c Субботина, Анна (Subbotina, Anna) (22 January 2007). Олег Тиньков раскручивает педали (Oleg Tinkov spins the pedals). «Коммерсантъ» (in Russian) . Retrieved 1 October 2021.
^ Комова, Юлия (Komova, Yulia) (22 July 2011). "Тренер Александр Кузнецов: Тиньков ненадежный человек" [Coach Alexander Kuznetsov: Tinkov is an unreliable person]. Советский спорт the original on 20 October 2011. Retrieved 1 October 2021 . {{cite news }}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link )^ "Александр Кузнецов: "Тиньков сломал судьбу целой группе талантливых российских спортсменов" [Alexander Kuznetsov: "Tinkov broke the fate of a whole group of talented Russian athletes"]. sports.ru the original on 29 November 2014. Retrieved 1 October 2021 .^ Brown, Gregor (December 17, 2008). Tinkov breaks with Team Katusha: Oleg Tinkov is leaving cycling and the team he funded for the last two years . Cycling News
^ Cycling News staff (5 November 2012). Hamilton on Tinkov: His return is a setback for cycling: Former rider wanted to warn Riis to stay clear of Russian . Cycling News
^ Weir, Keith; O'Connor, Philip (25 July 2013). Palmer, Justin (ed.). "UPDATE 1-Cycling-Tinkoff ends sponsor deal, to launch own team" . Reuters. Archived from the original on March 6, 2016. Retrieved 1 October 2021 . ^ "Oleg Tinkov buys Saxo-Tinkoff team, becomes Tinkoff-Saxo for 2014" . Cycling Weekly IPC Media . 2 December 2013. Archived from the original on 12 March 2014. Retrieved 12 March 2014 .
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