Tabriz Petrochemical CCN Team

Tabriz Petrochemical CCN Team (Persian:تیم دوچرخه‌سواری پتروشیمی تبریز) UCI team code: TPT is an Iranian UCI Continental cycling team managed by Ramin Dadgar and Azim Abdolnezhad 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 Cycling 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]

Ahad Kazemi is also currently serving an eight-year ban for an ADRV for testosterone from a sample taken at the 2016 Tour of Iran.^[4]

Team roster

As of 2015.^[5]

Rider Date of birth  Ahad Kazemi (IRI) (1975-05-22) 22 May 1975  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  Behnam Maleki (IRI) (1992-12-02) 2 December 1992  Ghader Mizbani (IRI) (1975-12-06) 6 December 1975

Rider Date of birth  Sahebali Najafi (IRI) (1992-06-25) 25 June 1992  Abolfazl Nazari Daghalian (IRI) (1991-05-04) 4 May 1991  Samad Pourseyedi (IRI) (1985-10-15) 15 October 1985  Mohammad Pouresmaeil (IRI) (1992-03-22) 22 March 1992  Hamid Shirisisan (IRI) (1982-03-21) 21 March 1982  Mehdi Sohrabi (IRI) (1981-10-12) 12 October 1981

Major results

National Champions

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