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.

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

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 Dominguez, Miguel Angel Martin Perdiguero, Mikel Zarrabeitia, and Abraham Olano, but the company had not sponsored any team in the previous 5 years.[2]

2006 squad
Name Birthdate Nationality
Jorge Azanza16.06.1982 Spain
Antonio Berasategui24.01.1978 Spain
Jon Bru18.10.1977 Spain
Carlos Castaño07.05.1979 Spain
Gustavo César29.01.1980 Spain
Dionisio Galparsoro13.08.1978 Spain
Rodrigo García27.02.1980 Spain
Ivan Gilmartín14.04.1983 Spain
José López11.07.1976 Spain
Alberto Losada28.02.1982 Spain
Israel Núñez31.05.1979 Spain
Rubén Oarbeascoa21.11.1975 Spain
Juan Oroz11.07.1980 Spain
Adrian Palomares18.02.1976 Spain
Javier Ruiz de Larrínaga02.11.1979 Spain
Ricardo Serrano04.08.1978 Spain
Fernando Serrano19.01.1979 Spain
Pablo Urtasun29.03.1980 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". Retrieved 23 January 2013.


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