Kaiku
{{Short description|Cycling team}}
{{Infobox cycling team
| name = Kaiku
| image = Kaiku Pro Cycle Team Publicity Photo.jpg
| code = KAI
| registered = Spain
| founded = {{start date|2005}}
| disbanded = 2006
| bicycles =
| website =
| generalmanager = Eneko Garate
| teammanager = Óscar Guerrero
Juan Hernández
Juan Campos
| discipline = Road
| status = UCI Professional Continental
| season = 2005–2006
| oldname = Kaiku
| kitimage =
| current =
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Kaiku ({{UCI 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.
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.{{cite web|title=noticias de Alava|url=http://www.noticiasdealava.com/2012/07/04/economia/la-firma-suiza-emmi-se-hace-con-el-control-de-kaiku-al-adquirir-el-66-de-su-capital|publisher=Diario de Noticias-Edición Digital|accessdate=23 January 2013|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://archive.today/20130216141948/http://www.noticiasdealava.com/2012/07/04/economia/la-firma-suiza-emmi-se-hace-con-el-control-de-kaiku-al-adquirir-el-66-de-su-capital|archivedate=16 February 2013}}
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.{{cite web|title=Spanish Continental Team Kaiku – A Profile, Daily Peloton|url=http://www.dailypeloton.com/displayarticle.asp?pk=8049|accessdate=23 January 2013}}
2006 squad
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| Name | Birthdate | Nationality | ||
bgcolor="#EFEFEF" | 16.06.1982 | {{flagu|Spain}} |
Antonio Berasategui | 24.01.1978 | {{flagu|Spain}} |
bgcolor="#EFEFEF" | 18.10.1977 | {{flagu|Spain}} |
Carlos Castaño | 07.05.1979 | {{flagu|Spain}} |
bgcolor="#EFEFEF" | 29.01.1980 | {{flagu|Spain}} |
Dionisio Galparsoro | 13.08.1978 | {{flagu|Spain}} |
bgcolor="#EFEFEF" | 27.02.1980 | {{flagu|Spain}} |
Ivan Gilmartín | 14.04.1983 | {{flagu|Spain}} |
bgcolor="#EFEFEF" | 11.07.1976 | {{flagu|Spain}} |
Alberto Losada | 28.02.1982 | {{flagu|Spain}} |
bgcolor="#EFEFEF" | 31.05.1979 | {{flagu|Spain}} |
Rubén Oarbeascoa | 21.11.1975 | {{flagu|Spain}} |
bgcolor="#EFEFEF" | 11.07.1980 | {{flagu|Spain}} |
Adrián Palomares | 18.02.1976 | {{flagu|Spain}} |
bgcolor="#EFEFEF" | 02.11.1979 | {{flagu|Spain}} |
Ricardo Serrano | 04.08.1978 | {{flagu|Spain}} |
bgcolor="#EFEFEF" | 19.01.1979 | {{flagu|Spain}} |
Pablo Urtasun | 29.03.1980 | {{flagu|Spain}} |
External links
- [http://www.kaiku.es Former Sponsor's Site]
References
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Category:Defunct cycling teams based in Spain
Category:Cycling teams established in 2005
Category:Cycling teams disestablished in 2006
Category:2005 establishments in Spain
Category:2006 disestablishments in Spain
Category:Cycle racing in the Basque Country (autonomous community)
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