| Team Katusha | |
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| 2016 season | |
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| UCI code | KAT |
| Status | UCI WorldTeam |
| Manager | Vyacheslav Ekimov |
| Main sponsor(s) | Gazprom & Itera & Rostec |
| Based | Russia |
| Bicycles | Canyon |
| Groupset | Shimano |
| Season victories | |
| One-day races | 1 |
| Stage race overall | 1 |
| Stage race stages | 19 |
| National Championships | 2 |
The 2016 season for Team Katusha began in January at the Tour Down Under. As a UCI WorldTeam, they were automatically invited and obligated to send a squad to every event in the UCI World Tour.
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| Date | Discipline | Jersey | Rider | Country | Location |
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| 24 June | Russian National Time Trial Champion |  |  Sergey Chernetskiy (RUS) | Russia | Sevastopol |
| 26 June | Russian National Road Race Champion | | Pavel Kochetkov (RUS) | Russia | Sevastopol |
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