Katusha - Professional Cycling Team

Giro d'Italia - the very first Grand Tour of the season. Its a three-week fighting for the famous Marlia Rosa.

This year Giro d'Italia will have an anniversary of 100.

For team "Katusha" it will be the first Grand Tour in its history.

Team "Katusha" will be presented in Italy by: Pavel Brutt, Nikita Eskov, Mikhail Ignatyev, Sergey Klimov, Luca Mazzanti, Christian Pfannberger, Filippo Pozzato, Robbi McEwen, Ben Swift.

Serge Parsani and Claudio Cozzi will manage the team during Giro d'Italia

Official site: www.gazzetta.it

TV stream: Eurosport, RAI

Online: www.cyclingnews.com

"Tour de Picardie" - it is a three-day stage race of the UCI Europe Tour calendar (2.1 category).

Consist of 4 stages of 540 km of distance. Will be held fo 63rd time in its history.

The roster of "Katusha" is: Laszlo Bodrogi, Kenny Dehaes, Denis Galimzyanov, Danilo Napolitano, Gert Steegmans, Maxime Vantomme, Stijn Vandenbergh,

Sports directors: Jef Braeckevelt, Bart Leysen.

Official site: www.letour.fr

Volta Ciclista a Catalunya - is a stage race in Spain. Is a part of the UCI ProTour.

The very first edition of "Volta Ciclista a Catalunya" was on 1911.

Vladimir Karpets won this race in 2007.

Team "Katusha" for Spain: Alexander Botcharov, Vladimir Karpets, Alexey Markov, Evgeny Petrov, Ivan Rovny, Nikolay Trusov, Gennady Mikhaylov, Alexander Serov.

Sports directors: Dmitri Konychev, Orlando Maini.

Official site: www.voltacatalunya.cat

Tour de Belgique Tempo-Team Ronde - is domestique Belgian stage race of 2.HC category from the UCI Europe Tour calendar.

Andrei Tchmil has retired from cycling after winning 3rd stage of "Tour of Belgique" in 2002.

Team "Katusha" for "Tour de Belgique Tempo-Team Ronde": Laszlo Bodrogi, Kenny Dehaes, Sergey Ivanov, Denis Galimzyanov, Danilo Napolitano, Stijn Vandenbergh, Gert Steegmans, Maxime Vantomme.

Sports directors: Jef Braeckevelt, Bart Leysen

Official site: www.sport.be/tempo-teamrondevanbelgie/2009/fr/

TV Stream: Sporza