Bahrain–Merida Pro Cycling Team

Bahrain–Merida Pro Cycling Team
Team information
UCI code TBM
Registered Bahrain
Founded 2017
Discipline Road
Status UCI WorldTeam
Website Team home page
Key personnel
Team manager(s) Brent Copeland
Team name history
2017– Bahrain–Merida

Bahrain–Merida Pro Cycling Team is a UCI WorldTeam cycling team from Bahrain which was founded in 2017.[1] Its title sponsors are the government of Bahrain and the Taiwanese bicycle manufacturer Merida.

History

The idea for a Bahrain Pro Cycling team was started in August 2016 by Sheikh Nasser bin Hamad Al Khalifa.[2] The team is financed by the government of Bahrain to promote the country worldwide.

Doping

On 5 September 2018, the UCI announced that an out of competition test had resulted in an adverse analytical finding of Erythropoietin in a sample collected 31 July 2018. Kanstantsin Sivtsov was provisionaly suspended pending the result of any B sample test. [3] This followed his back injury sustained whilst carrying out a recon of the time trial at the Giro earlier that year.[4]

Team roster

Rider Date of birth
 Valerio Agnoli (ITA) (1985-01-06) 6 January 1985
 Yukiya Arashiro (JPN) (1984-09-22) 22 September 1984
 Manuele Boaro (ITA) (1987-03-12) 12 March 1987
 Grega Bole (SLO) (1985-08-13) 13 August 1985
 Niccolò Bonifazio (ITA) (1993-10-29) 29 October 1993
 Borut Božič (SLO) (1980-08-08) 8 August 1980
 Sonny Colbrelli (ITA) (1990-05-17) 17 May 1990
 Feng Chun-kai (TWN) (1988-11-02) 2 November 1988
 Iván García (ESP) (1995-11-20) 20 November 1995
 Enrico Gasparotto (ITA) (1982-03-22) 22 March 1982
 Heinrich Haussler (AUS) (1984-02-25) 25 February 1984
 Gorka Izagirre (ESP) (1987-10-07) 7 October 1987
 Ion Izagirre (ESP) (1989-02-04) 4 February 1989
 Kristijan Koren (SLO) (1986-11-25) 25 November 1986
Rider Date of birth
 Matej Mohorič (SLO) (1994-10-19) 19 October 1994
 Ramūnas Navardauskas (LTU) (1988-01-30) 30 January 1988
 Antonio Nibali (ITA) (1992-09-23) 23 September 1992
 Vincenzo Nibali (ITA) (1984-11-14) 14 November 1984
 Domen Novak (SLO) (1995-07-12) 12 July 1995
 Mark Padun (UKR) (1996-07-06) 6 July 1996
 Franco Pellizotti (ITA) (1978-01-15) 15 January 1978
 David Per (SLO) (1995-02-13) 13 February 1995
 Hermann Pernsteiner (AUT) (1990-08-07) 7 August 1990
 Luka Pibernik (SLO) (1993-10-23) 23 October 1993
 Domenico Pozzovivo (ITA) (1982-11-30) 30 November 1982
 Kanstantsin Sivtsov (BLR) (1982-08-09) 9 August 1982
 Giovanni Visconti (ITA) (1983-01-13) 13 January 1983
 Wang Meiyin (CHN) (1988-12-26) 26 December 1988

Major wins

National champions

2017
Ethiopia Time Trial, Tsgabu Grmay
2018
Spain Road Race, Gorka Izagirre
Slovenia Road Race, Matej Mohorič

References

  1. ↑ "Bahrain–Merida Pro Cycling Team 2017 season". ProCyclingStats. Retrieved 2 August 2016.
  2. ↑ "Who is really behind the Bahrain-Merida team? - Cycling Weekly". Cycling Weekly. 2016-09-19. Retrieved 2017-01-15.
  3. ↑ http://www.uci.org/inside-uci/press-releases/uci-statement-on-kanstantsin-siutsou
  4. ↑ http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/siutsou-out-for-three-months-after-vertebrae-fracture-in-giro-ditalia-tt-recon-crash/


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