Delko

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Delko
Delko-Marseille Provence KTM logo.png
Team information
UCI codeDKO
Registered France (1974–2010; 2012–2021)
Latvia (2011)
Founded1974 (1974)
Disbanded2021
Discipline(s) Road
StatusNational (1974–2010)
UCI Continental (2011–2015)
UCI Professional Continental (2016–2019)
UCI ProTeam (2020–2021)
Bicycles Look Bicycles  [ fr ] [1]
Website Team home page
Team name history
1974–1999
2000–2011
2012–2014
2015
2016–2018
2019
2020
2021
VC La Pomme
VC La Pomme Marseille
La Pomme Marseille [2]
Marseille 13–KTM
Delko–Marseille Provence KTM
Delko–Marseille Provence
Nippo–Delko–One Provence
Delko
Delko jersey Delko-Marseille Provence KTM jersey.png
Delko jersey
Jersey

Delko ( UCI team code:DKO) was a French UCI ProTeam that was founded in 1974. [3] They became a Continental team in 2011 allowing them to ride UCI Europe Tour races. [4] After financial difficulties, the team's operations were brought to a halt shortly before the end of the 2021 season. [5]

Contents

The team in 2015 Dunkerque - Quatre jours de Dunkerque, etape 1, 6 mai 2015, depart (B018).JPG
The team in 2015

Doping

In April 2018, news broke that Rémy Di Gregorio had failed an in-competition doping test for darbepoetin (EPO) during the 2018 edition of Paris–Nice. [6] [7]

Team roster

As of 5 January 2021. [8] [9] [10]
RiderDate of birth
Flag of France.svg  Pierre Barbier  (FRA) (1997-09-25) 25 September 1997 (age 26)
Flag of France.svg  Clément Berthet  (FRA) (1997-08-02) 2 August 1997 (age 26)
Flag of France.svg  Clément Carisey  (FRA) (1992-03-23) 23 March 1992 (age 31)
Flag of France.svg  Lucas De Rossi  (FRA) (1995-08-16) 16 August 1995 (age 28)
Flag of Eritrea.svg  Yakob Debesay  (ERI) (1999-06-28) 28 June 1999 (age 24)
Flag of France.svg  Alexandre Delettre  (FRA) (1997-10-25) 25 October 1997 (age 25)
Flag of Spain.svg  José Manuel Díaz  (ESP) (1995-01-18) 18 January 1995 (age 28)
Flag of Italy.svg  Alessandro Fedeli  (ITA) (1996-03-02) 2 March 1996 (age 27)
Flag of Spain.svg  Delio Fernández  (ESP) (1986-02-17) 17 February 1986 (age 37)
Flag of Italy.svg  Mauro Finetto  (ITA) (1985-05-10) 10 May 1985 (age 38)
Flag of Eritrea.svg  Biniam Girmay  (ERI) (2000-04-02) 2 April 2000 (age 23)
Flag of Portugal.svg  José Gonçalves  (POR) (1989-02-13) 13 February 1989 (age 34)
RiderDate of birth
Flag of Romania.svg  Eduard-Michael Grosu  (ROU) (1992-09-04) 4 September 1992 (age 31)
Flag of Ethiopia.svg  Mulu Hailemichael  (ETH) (1999-01-12) 12 January 1999 (age 24)
Flag of Japan.svg  Masahiro Ishigami  (JPN) (1997-10-20) 20 October 1997 (age 25)
Flag of Norway.svg  August Jensen  (NOR) (1991-08-29) 29 August 1991 (age 32)
Flag of France.svg  Justin Jules  (FRA) (1986-09-20) 20 September 1986 (age 37)
Flag of France.svg  Mathias Le Turnier  (FRA) (1995-03-14) 14 March 1995 (age 28)
Flag of Japan.svg  Atsushi Oka  (JPN) (1995-09-03) 3 September 1995 (age 28)
Flag of Spain.svg  Eduard Prades  (ESP) (1987-08-09) 9 August 1987 (age 36)
Flag of Serbia.svg  Dušan Rajović  (SRB) (1997-11-19) 19 November 1997 (age 25)
Flag of Lithuania.svg  Evaldas Šiškevičius  (LTU) (1988-12-30) 30 December 1988 (age 34)
Flag of France.svg  Julien Trarieux  (FRA) (1992-08-19) 19 August 1992 (age 31)

Major wins

National Champions

2013
MaillotFra.PNG France U23 Time Trial, Yoann Paillot
2018
MaillotRwanda.png Rwanda Time Trial, Joseph Areruya
MaillotBulgaria.png Bulgaria Road Race, Nikolay Mihaylov
2019
MaillotAustralia.PNG Australia Criterium, Brenton Jones
MaillotRwanda.png Rwanda Time Trial, Joseph Areruya
MaillotLituania.PNG Lithuania Road Race, Ramūnas Navardauskas
2020
MaillotLituania.PNG Lithuania Time Trial, Evaldas Šiškevičius
2021
MaillotLituania.PNG Lithuania Time Trial, Evaldas Šiškevičius
Serbia NC.png Serbia Road Race Dušan Rajović

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