Kaiku

Template:Short description Template:Short description Template:Template other Kaiku (UCI team 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.

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.

2006 squad

Name	Birthdate	Nationality
Jorge Azanza	16.06.1982	Template:Flagu
Antonio Berasategui	24.01.1978	Template:Flagu
Jon Bru	18.10.1977	Template:Flagu
Carlos Castaño	07.05.1979	Template:Flagu
Gustavo César	29.01.1980	Template:Flagu
Dionisio Galparsoro	13.08.1978	Template:Flagu
Rodrigo García	27.02.1980	Template:Flagu
Ivan Gilmartín	14.04.1983	Template:Flagu
José López	11.07.1976	Template:Flagu
Alberto Losada	28.02.1982	Template:Flagu
Israel Núñez	31.05.1979	Template:Flagu
Rubén Oarbeascoa	21.11.1975	Template:Flagu
Juan Oroz	11.07.1980	Template:Flagu
Adrián Palomares	18.02.1976	Template:Flagu
Javier Ruiz de Larrínaga	02.11.1979	Template:Flagu
Ricardo Serrano	04.08.1978	Template:Flagu
Fernando Serrano	19.01.1979	Template:Flagu
Pablo Urtasun	29.03.1980	Template:Flagu

External links

• Former Sponsor's Site

References

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