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Wikipedia / Kaiku

Kaiku () 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.

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 5years.

2006 squad

Name

Birthdate

Nationality

Jorge Azanza

16.06.1982

Antonio Berasategui

24.01.1978

Jon Bru

18.10.1977

Carlos Castaño

07.05.1979

Gustavo César

29.01.1980

Dionisio Galparsoro

13.08.1978

Rodrigo García

27.02.1980

Ivan Gilmartín

14.04.1983

José López

11.07.1976

Alberto Losada

28.02.1982

Israel Núñez

31.05.1979

Rubén Oarbeascoa

21.11.1975

Juan Oroz

11.07.1980

Adrián Palomares

18.02.1976

Javier Ruiz de Larrínaga

02.11.1979

Ricardo Serrano

04.08.1978

Fernando Serrano

19.01.1979

Pablo Urtasun

29.03.1980

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