Tinkoff Credit Systems

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Tinkoff Credit Systems

Team information

UCI code

TCS

Based

Italy

Founded

2007

Discipline(s)

Road

Status

Professional Continental

Key personnel

General manager

Stefano Feltrin

Team manager

Omar Piscina




Team kit

Tinkoff Credit Systems (UCI Team Code: TCS) is a professional continental cycling team based in Italy that has UCI Professional Continental status, racing in UCI Continental Circuits races and when selected as a wildcard to UCI ProTour events. The team is financed by Russian businessman Oleg Tinkoff.

Tinkoff Credit Systems emerged from the 2006 Continental team Tinkoff Restaurants, which was based in Russia and employed Russian cyclists. Of the eleven cyclists employed by the team, eight now ride for Tinkoff Credit Systems: Pavel Brutt, Ilya Chernetskiy, Mikhail Ignatiev, Serguei Klimov, Anton Mindlin, Ivan Rovny, Alexander Serov and Nikolai Trusov.

Stefano Feltrin is the general manager of Tinkoff, while Omar Piscina is team manager, assisted by Orlando Manini, Dmitri Konychev and Claudio Cozzi. Owner Oleg Tinkoff has worked hard to build links with the Italian cycling community, which garnered wildcard invites to the major RCS races, including the 2007 Giro d'Italia.

Tinkoff use Colnago bikes with Campagnolo accessories.

1 2008 team
2 Major results
- 2.1 2008
- 2.2 2007
3 References

[edit] 2008 team

As of December 31, 2007.^[1]

	Rider	Date of Birth
Pavel Brutt (RUS)		January 29, 1982 (1982-01-29) (age 26)
Ilya Chernetskiy (RUS)		January 17, 1984 (1984-01-17) (age 24)
Daniele Contrini (ITA)		August 15, 1974 (1974-08-15) (age 33)
Nikita Eskov (RUS)		January 23, 1983 (1983-01-23) (age 25)
Mikhail Ignatiev (RUS)		May 7, 1985 (1985-05-07) (age 23)
Alexander Khatuntsev (RUS)		February 11, 1985 (1985-02-11) (age 23)
Vasil Kiryienka (BLR)		June 28, 1981 (1981-06-28) (age 26)
Serguei Klimov (RUS)		July 7, 1980 (1980-07-07) (age 27)
Alberto Loddo (ITA)		January 5, 1979 (1979-01-05) (age 29)

	Rider	Date of Birth
Luca Mazzanti (ITA)		February 4, 1974 (1974-02-04) (age 34)
Walter Fernando Pedraza Morales (COL)		November 27, 1981 (1981-11-27) (age 26)
Evgeni Petrov (RUS)		May 25, 1978 (1978-05-25) (age 30)
Bernardo Riccio (ITA)		March 21, 1985 (1985-03-21) (age 23)
Ivan Rovny (RUS)		September 30, 1987 (1987-09-30) (age 20)
Alexander Serov (RUS)		November 12, 1982 (1982-11-12) (age 25)
Yauhen Sobal (BLR)		April 7, 1981 (1981-04-07) (age 27)
Nikolay Trusov (RUS)		July 2, 1985 (1985-07-02) (age 22)