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Successful end to the season! A look back at the season in pictures
1st and 3rd place at the "Giro del Piemonte" – Rodríguez on the podium at the Tour of Lombardy
These were the Katusha team's last two European appearances for the 2011 season. And, in Italy, the Russian team were determined to make them count! Firstly, on Thursday 13 October 2011 at the Giro del Piemonte, Spaniard Dani Moreno raced to victory. Finishing third, his team mate Luca Paolini also secured a place on the winners' podium. Two days later, it was Joaquim Rodríguez who crossed the finishing line of the Tour of Lombard in third place to represent Katusha at the victory ceremony.
The start of autumn and, with it, the end of the season is the ideal time for a first review of the year. Below, some of the best pictures from the 2011 season:
1 - Even in the first training camps in the warm climes of southern Spain, the professional riders put many kilometres behind them as practice for the long season ahead.
2 - The season gets under way no later than with the beginning of the "Classicissima" – the entire team in preparation for the 290 km Milan–San Remo monument.
3 - All riders conserve their energies for as long as possible in order to have enough strength for Cipressa and Poggio.
4 - Filippo Pozzato achieves a great fifth place in San Remo, yet his disappointment is tangible.
5 - Following Pavel Brutt in Sardinia, the junior sprinter, Denis Galimzyanov, secured another victory at the Three Days of De Panne – his first as a professional on the WorldTour.
6 - The experienced "old-hands", Hoste, Pozzato and Ivanov also competed in the 2011 spring classics, for example, here at the Tour of Flanders.
7 - Extreme conditions at the Paris–Roubaix – the strain is written on his face as Leif Hoste rides over the pavés.
8 - The nine-man Katuscha team demonstrated its impressive team spirit both before and during the three-week Giro d’Italia.
9 - During the stages, the soigneurs race to as many route points as possible to assist the riders as often as they can.
10 - Egor Vorganov falls in the second Giro stage – by dinner time he is able to laugh about his spectacular "flight".
11 - Rodríguez flexes his muscles time and time again in the mountains, yet the race is already over by the final time trials.
12 - Katuscha surprises at the Grand Tour by sending an all-Russian team into the three week race.
13 - Karpets refuses to give up, yet the competition in the class is stronger and, in Paris, almost an hour ahead.
14 - Untiringly, Trofimov and his team mates attempt to break away from the competition and work hard for their success – the Russian team ultimately comes seventh in the team rankings.
15 - Katusha has always had riders in the breakaway groups ...
16 - ... and, after 16 stages, Mikhail Ignatiev was honoured with the title of most aggressive rider.
17 - Katuscha goes for overall victory at the Vuelta – Daniel Moreno wins the fourth stage after the Sierra Nevada.
18 - Rodríguez goes one better, yet the competition hits back and, on the last day, he loses his hard-earned green jersey.
19 - As has come to be expected, Pavel Brutt shows his raw aggression and desire to win at the Cyclassics in Hamburg.
20 - Once again, "Gali" leaves the competition behind him in the Paris–Brussels, promising many great years of sprinting ahead.