Tabriz Petrochemical Team

Tabriz Petrochemical Team

Team information
UCI code	TPT
Registered	Iran
Founded	2002 (2002)
Discipline	Road
Status	Cont
Key personnel
General manager	Ramin Dadgar & Azeem Abdolnaghad
Team name history
2008–	Tabriz Petrochemical Team

Tabriz Petrochemical Team (Persian:تیم دوچرخه‌سواری پتروشیمی تبریز) UCI team code: TPT is an Iranian UCI Continental cycling team managed by Ramin Dadgar and Azeem Abdolnaghad and main sponsored by Tabriz Petrochemical Company. The Tabriz Petrochemical Team has achieved first place in both the riders' and teams' overall classifications in the UCI Asia Tour in 2007–2008, 2008–2009 and 2009–2010

History

The Tabriz Petrochemical Team was established in 2002 as a club team in Tabriz, Iran. The team started participating in domestic tours and national leagues, as well as some smaller international tours, including the Presidential Tour of Turkey, Tour of Perlis, Jelajah Malaysia and Tour de Langkawi. After four years the team registered as a UCI Continental team team for the 2007–2008 season.

The team started the 2007–2008 season with a complete roster of domestic riders. In total, the team amassed 909.64 points participating in 5 foreign and 2 domestic international races. As a result, the team won the 2007–2008 UCI Asia Tour. At the end of the season the first three places in the individual ranking were occupied by three Tabriz Petrochemical Cycling Team riders.

For the 2008–2009 season, the team roster remained the same, with the addition of one rider from Kazakhstan. The team again participated in 5 foreign and 2 domestic international UCI tours and in total scored 1015 points, this was approximately double of the second placed team. As in the previous season, the first three places in the individual ranking were occupied by Tabriz riders.

Doping

On 3 June 2013, Hossein Askari returned an adverse analytical finding for the banned substance Methylhexaneamine at the Tour de Singkarak. He was handed a 1 year ban making him eligible to race again 2 June 2014.^[1][2]

On 20 June 2014 Vahid Ghaffari returned an adverse analytical finding for EPO and has been provisionally suspended from competition.^[3]

Team roster

As of 2 March 2014.^[4]

Rider Date of birth  Vahid Ghafari (IRI) (1988-10-09) 9 October 1988  Alireza Haghi (IRI) (1979-02-08) 8 February 1979  Ali Khademi (IRI) (1992-01-01) 1 January 1992  Behnam Khalili (IRI) (1989-02-07) 7 February 1989  Karim Khorrami (IRI) (1991-06-04) 4 June 1991  Amir Kolahdouz (IRI) (1993-01-07) 7 January 1993

Rider Date of birth  Behnam Maleki (IRI) (1992-12-02) 2 December 1992  Ghader Mizbani (IRI) (1975-12-06) 6 December 1975  Hossein Najafi (IRI) (1987-05-09) 9 May 1987  Samad Pourseyedi (IRI) (1985-10-15) 15 October 1985  Mehdi Sohrabi (IRI) (1981-10-12) 12 October 1981

Major results

National Champions

2009

 Iran Time Trial Championships, Mehdi Sohrabi

 Kazakhstan Time Trial Championships, Andrey Mizourov

2010

 Kazakhstan Time Trial Championships, Andrey Mizourov

 Iran Time Trial Championships, Hossein Askari

 Iran Road Race Championships, Mehdi Sohrabi

2011

 Iran Time Trial Championships, Hossein Askari

2012

 Iran Road Race Championships, Hossein Alizadeh

2013

 Iran Road Race Championships, Ghader Mizbani

2014

 Iran Time Trial Championships, Alireza Haghi

See also

• Petrochimi Tabriz F.C.
• Petroshimi Tabriz FSC

References

External links

• Tabriz Petrochemical Team's Official website
• Tabriz Petrochemical Team's Profile in CyclingWebsite.com
• Tabriz Petrochemical Official website