Team information | |
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UCI code | ORB |
Registered | Spain |
Founded | 2005 |
Discipline(s) | Road |
Status | UCI Continental Tour |
Key personnel | |
General manager | Álvaro González de Galdeano |
Team name history | |
2005–2006 2007–2008 2009–2011 2012 2013–2014 | Orbea Orbea-Oreka SDA Orbea Orbea Continental Euskadi |
Euskadi ( UCI team code:ORB) was a Spanish cycling team based in the Basque Country that existed from 2005 to 2014. [1] [2] [3] It was one of the European teams in UCI Continental Tour.
The team functioned as the development team of the original Euskaltel–Euskadi and the unofficial "national" squad of the Basque region. Orbea's team manager Álvaro González de Galdeano is the older brother of Igor González de Galdeano, the last manager of Euskaltel. The team focused primarily on young riders, of whom the most successful usually made the transfer to Euskaltel–Euskadi.
The main sponsor Orbea is a bicycle manufacturer based in Mallabia. Throughout cycling history, Orbea has sponsored numerous cycling teams.
As of 23 January 2013. [4]
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Euskaltel–Euskadi was a professional road bicycle racing team from Spain, Europe. The team was commercially sponsored, but was also partly funded by the Basque Government until the end of 2013, with riders either from the Basque Country, Navarre, La Rioja, and the French Basque Country, or who had grown up in the cycling culture of those regions: This policy was abandoned to enable retention of World Tour status. Its sponsor was Euskaltel, a Basque telecom company. Euskaltel–Euskadi was famous for its all-orange team kits. Whenever the Tour de France passed through the Basque Country many spectators lined the route dressed in the team's orange or the colours of the Basque flag. The Euskaltel team also has a second team inside the "Fundacion Euskadi", this team rode in a continental category, the name of the team was Orbea. This team was created with the aim of forming the young cyclist before going to the Euskaltel–Euskadi.
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