Kaiku

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Kaiku
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Team information
UCI codeKAI
RegisteredSpain
Founded2005 (2005)
Disbanded2006
Discipline(s) Road
Status UCI Professional Continental
Key personnel
General managerEneko Garate
Team manager(s)Óscar Guerrero
Juan Hernández
Juan Campos
Team name history
2005–2006
Kaiku

Kaiku ( UCI team code:KAI) was a Spanish UCI Professional Continental cycling team based in the Basque country that participated in UCI Continental Circuits races and when selected as a wildcard to UCI ProTour events.

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The team was managed by Eneko Garate with assistance from directeur sportifs Óscar Guerrero, Juan Hernández and Juan Campos.

The lead sponsor, Kaiku Corporación Alimentaria, is a Basque country dairy products company in which Caja Rural de Navarra at one time held a financial stake. [1]

In its first season, 2005, Kaiku, a.k.a. "Kaiku–Caja Rural", was formed from Caja Rural's amateur team. Kaiku Corporación had in the previous 22 years sponsored amateur teams that had featured riders who later became famous, such as Juan Antonio Flecha, Joseba Beloki, Juan Carlos Domínguez, Miguel Ángel Martín Perdiguero, Mikel Zarrabeitia, and Abraham Olano, but the company had not sponsored any team in the previous 5 years. [2]

2006 squad

NameBirthdateNationality
Jorge Azanza 16.06.1982Flag of Spain.svg Spain
Antonio Berasategui 24.01.1978Flag of Spain.svg Spain
Jon Bru 18.10.1977Flag of Spain.svg Spain
Carlos Castaño 07.05.1979Flag of Spain.svg Spain
Gustavo César 29.01.1980Flag of Spain.svg Spain
Dionisio Galparsoro 13.08.1978Flag of Spain.svg Spain
Rodrigo García 27.02.1980Flag of Spain.svg Spain
Ivan Gilmartín 14.04.1983Flag of Spain.svg Spain
José López 11.07.1976Flag of Spain.svg Spain
Alberto Losada 28.02.1982Flag of Spain.svg Spain
Israel Núñez 31.05.1979Flag of Spain.svg Spain
Rubén Oarbeascoa 21.11.1975Flag of Spain.svg Spain
Juan Oroz 11.07.1980Flag of Spain.svg Spain
Adrián Palomares 18.02.1976Flag of Spain.svg Spain
Javier Ruiz de Larrínaga 02.11.1979Flag of Spain.svg Spain
Ricardo Serrano 04.08.1978Flag of Spain.svg Spain
Fernando Serrano 19.01.1979Flag of Spain.svg Spain
Pablo Urtasun 29.03.1980Flag of Spain.svg Spain

References

  1. "noticias de Alava". Diario de Noticias-Edición Digital. Archived from the original on 16 February 2013. Retrieved 23 January 2013.
  2. "Spanish Continental Team Kaiku – A Profile, Daily Peloton". Archived from the original on 19 February 2015. Retrieved 23 January 2013.