# Kaiku

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Cycling team

Cycling team

Kaiku Team information UCI code KAI Registered Spain Founded 2005 (2005) Disbanded 2006 Discipline Road Status UCI Professional Continental Key personnel General manager Eneko Garate Team manager(s) Óscar Guerrero Juan Hernández Juan Campos Team name history 2005–2006 Kaiku

**Kaiku** (*[UCI](/source/Union_Cycliste_Internationale) team code:* **KAI**) was a Spanish [UCI Professional Continental](/source/UCI_Professional_Continental) [cycling team](/source/Cycling_team) based in the [Basque country](/source/Basque_Country_(greater_region)) that participated in [UCI Continental Circuits](/source/UCI_Continental_Circuits) races and when selected as a wildcard to [UCI ProTour](/source/UCI_ProTour) events.

The team was managed by Eneko Garate with assistance from [directeur sportifs](/source/Directeur_sportifs) Óscar Guerrero, Juan Hernández and Juan Campos.

The lead sponsor, Kaiku Corporación Alimentaria, is a [Basque country](/source/Basque_Country_(greater_region)) dairy products company in which Caja Rural de Navarra at one time held a financial stake.[1]

In its first season, 2005, Kaiku, a.k.a. "[Kaiku–Caja Rural](/source/Kaiku%E2%80%93Caja_Rural)", was formed from [Caja Rural](/source/Caja_Rural%E2%80%93Seguros_RGA)'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](/source/Juan_Antonio_Flecha), [Joseba Beloki](/source/Joseba_Beloki), [Juan Carlos Domínguez](/source/Juan_Carlos_Dom%C3%ADnguez), [Miguel Ángel Martín Perdiguero](/source/Miguel_%C3%81ngel_Mart%C3%ADn_Perdiguero), [Mikel Zarrabeitia](/source/Mikel_Zarrabeitia), and [Abraham Olano](/source/Abraham_Olano), but the company had not sponsored any team in the previous 5 years.[2]

## 2006 squad

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

## External links

- [Former Sponsor's Site](http://www.kaiku.es)

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["noticias de Alava"](http://www.noticiasdealava.com/2012/07/04/economia/la-firma-suiza-emmi-se-hace-con-el-control-de-kaiku-al-adquirir-el-66-de-su-capital). Diario de Noticias-Edición Digital. Retrieved 23 January 2013.{{[cite web](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Cite_web)}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service ([link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:CS1_maint:_deprecated_archival_service))

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** ["Spanish Continental Team Kaiku – A Profile, Daily Peloton"](https://web.archive.org/web/20150219231335/http://www.dailypeloton.com/displayarticle.asp?pk=8049). Archived from [the original](http://www.dailypeloton.com/displayarticle.asp?pk=8049) on 19 February 2015. Retrieved 23 January 2013.

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