Delko

Delko (UCI team code: DKO) was a French UCI ProTeam that was founded in 1974.^[3] They became a Continental team in 2011 allowing them to ride UCI Europe Tour races.^[4] After financial difficulties, the team's operations were brought to a halt shortly before the end of the 2021 season.^[5]

The team in 2015

Delko

Team information
UCI code	DKO
Registered	France (1974–2010; 2012–2021) Latvia (2011)
Founded	1974 (1974)
Disbanded	2021
Discipline(s)	Road
Status	National (1974–2010) UCI Continental (2011–2015) UCI Professional Continental (2016–2019) UCI ProTeam (2020–2021)
Bicycles	Look[1]
Website	Team home page
Team name history
1974–1999 2000–2011 2012–2014 2015 2016–2018 2019 2020 2021	VC La Pomme VC La Pomme Marseille La Pomme Marseille[2] Marseille 13–KTM Delko–Marseille Provence KTM Delko–Marseille Provence Nippo–Delko–One Provence Delko
Delko jersey Jersey

Doping

In April 2018, news broke that Rémy Di Gregorio had failed an in-competition doping test for darbepoetin (EPO) during the 2018 edition of Paris–Nice.^[6][7]

Team roster

As of 5 January 2021.^[8][9][10]

Rider Date of birth  Pierre Barbier (FRA) (1997-09-25) 25 September 1997 (age 27)  Clément Berthet (FRA) (1997-08-02) 2 August 1997 (age 27)  Clément Carisey (FRA) (1992-03-23) 23 March 1992 (age 33)  Lucas De Rossi (FRA) (1995-08-16) 16 August 1995 (age 29)  Yakob Debesay (ERI) (1999-06-28) 28 June 1999 (age 25)  Alexandre Delettre (FRA) (1997-10-25) 25 October 1997 (age 27)  José Manuel Díaz (ESP) (1995-01-18) 18 January 1995 (age 30)  Alessandro Fedeli (ITA) (1996-03-02) 2 March 1996 (age 29)  Delio Fernández (ESP) (1986-02-17) 17 February 1986 (age 39)  Mauro Finetto (ITA) (1985-05-10) 10 May 1985 (age 40)  Biniam Girmay (ERI) (2000-04-02) 2 April 2000 (age 25)  José Gonçalves (POR) (1989-02-13) 13 February 1989 (age 36)

Rider Date of birth  Eduard-Michael Grosu (ROU) (1992-09-04) 4 September 1992 (age 32)  Mulu Hailemichael (ETH) (1999-01-12) 12 January 1999 (age 26)  Masahiro Ishigami (JPN) (1997-10-20) 20 October 1997 (age 27)  August Jensen (NOR) (1991-08-29) 29 August 1991 (age 33)  Justin Jules (FRA) (1986-09-20) 20 September 1986 (age 38)  Mathias Le Turnier (FRA) (1995-03-14) 14 March 1995 (age 30)  Atsushi Oka (JPN) (1995-09-03) 3 September 1995 (age 29)  Eduard Prades (ESP) (1987-08-09) 9 August 1987 (age 37)  Dušan Rajović (SRB) (1997-11-19) 19 November 1997 (age 27)  Evaldas Šiškevičius (LTU) (1988-12-30) 30 December 1988 (age 36)  Julien Trarieux (FRA) (1992-08-19) 19 August 1992 (age 32)

Major wins

Main article: List of wins by VC La Pomme and its successors

National champions

2013

France U23 Time Trial, Yoann Paillot

2018

Rwanda Time Trial, Joseph Areruya

Bulgaria Road Race, Nikolay Mihaylov

2019

Australia Criterium, Brenton Jones

Rwanda Time Trial, Joseph Areruya

Lithuania Road Race, Ramūnas Navardauskas

2020

Lithuania Time Trial, Evaldas Šiškevičius

2021

Lithuania Time Trial, Evaldas Šiškevičius

Serbia Road Race Dušan Rajović