Marathon–Tula is a Russian UCI track team founded in 2017. After the

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, the UCI said that Russian teams are forbidden from competing in international events.

History

The project was created through the initiative of

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, governor of the Tula region, and Alexander Vinokurov, president of the investment company Marathon Group, with the aim of supporting and developing Russian cycling. The team's second sponsor since 2018 is

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. The team's cyclists come from the Tula region as well as other regions of Russia. The team specializes in track disciplines, however its cyclists participate in

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as well Marathon–Tula became a UCI track team in 2018. Marathon–Tula's cyclists have participated in the events of the

UCI Track Cycling World Cup The UCI Track Cycling World Cup (formerly known as the UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics) was a multi race tournament held over a track cycling season - usually between October and February. Each series is divided into several rounds, each held ...

multiple times after having joined the team. After the

, the UCI said that Russian and Belarusian teams are forbidden from competing in international events.

Team roster

Season 2020

Season 2019

Major results

2017

UEC European Track Championships The European Track Cycling Championships are a set of elite level competition events held annually for the various disciplines and distances in track cycling, exclusively for European cyclists, and regulated by the European Cycling Union (UEC ...

, Berlin — 2nd — elimination race — Maxim Piskunov

2018

, Glasgow — 2nd — madison — Diana Klimova (with Gulnaz Badykova) 2017–18 UCI Track Cycling World Cup, Pruszków — 1st —

scratch race A scratch race is a track cycling race in which all riders start together and the objective is simply to be first over the finish line after a certain number of laps. UCI regulations specify that a scratch race should be held over 15 km for ...

— Maria Averina

2019

European games The European Games is a continental multi-sport event in the Olympic tradition contested by athletes from countries served by national Olympic committees within the European Olympic Committees (EOC), the regional association for such committ ...

, Minsk — 3rd – madison – Diana Klimova (with

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)

2020

2019–20 UCI Track Cycling World Cup The 2019–20 UCI Track Cycling World Cup (also known as the Tissot UCI Track Cycling World Cup for sponsorship reasons) is a multi-race tournament over a track cycling season. It is the 28th series of the UCI Track Cycling World Cup organised by t ...

, Glasgow — 3rd – scratch race – Diana Klimova Russian National Road Race Championships — 1st – mass start – Diana Klimova — 3rd – time trial – Tamara Dronova

References

External links

Official website
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