Itera-Katusha
| UCI code | TIK |
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| Registered | Russia |
| Founded | 2010 |
| Disbanded | 2015 |
| Discipline | Road |
| Status | UCI Continental 2010–2015 |
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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. 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–Katusha'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.
In November 2015, Andrey Lukonin and Ivan Lutsenko were banned for a year for breaching anti-doping regulations.
As of 2 January 2013.
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