| Team information | ||
|---|---|---|
| UCI code | SOU | |
| Registered | Brazil | |
| Founded | 2010 (2010) | |
| Discipline(s) | Road | |
| Status | UCI Continental (2010–2015) UCI Professional Continental (2016–2017) National (2018–) | |
| Bicycles | Soul | |
| Components | Shimano | |
| Website | Team home page | |
| Key personnel | ||
| General manager | Benedito Tadeu Azevedo Júnior | |
| Team manager(s) | Ana Paula Luiza Castro | |
| Team name history | ||
| 2010–2012 2013–2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019–2020 2021 2022– | Funvic–Pindamonhangaba Funvic Brasilinvest–São José dos Campos Carrefour Funvic Soul Cycling Team Funvic Soul Cycles–Carrefour Soul Brasil Pro Cycling Funvic–São José dos Campos Funvic–Pindamonhangaba UniFunvic–Gelog UniFunvic–Pindamonhangaba | |
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UniFunvic–Pindamonhangaba (UCI team code: SOU) is a men's cycling team based in Brazil. The team was founded in 2010, and competed as a UCI Continental team from 2010 to 2015. a UCI Professional Continental team from 2016 to 2017 and since 2018 as an amateur club.
Doping
On August 12, 2016, the UCI announced that Kléber Ramos had tested positive for CERA on 31 July 2016. Ramos had competed in the Olympic Games road race. On November 17 the UCI announced Ramiro Rincon Diaz and João Gaspar has also tested positive for CERA. These positive tests constituted the team's second and third AAFs within a twelve-month period and as a result, the UCI moved to suspend the team under Anti Doping Rule, article 7.12, Suspension of a Team Registered with the UCI. In December 2016, the team was suspended for 55 days, due to the three doping positives within a 12-month period.
In March 2017 Brazilian rider Alex Correia Diniz was provisionally suspended due to an adverse biological passport finding, with fellow Brazilian Otavio Bulgarelli being provisionally suspended for "tampering". With the team's previous ban expiring on February 12, the team now faces a potential ban of between 15 days to 12 months. In May, the team were banned for a second time for 35 days from 15 July to 19 August.
Team roster
- As of 1 January 2017.
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Major wins
- 2010
- Stages 5 & 9 Vuelta del Uruguay, Roberto Pinheiro
- Stages 6 & 7a Vuelta del Uruguay, Héctor Aguilar
- Stage 7b Vuelta del Uruguay, Pedro Autran Nicacio
- Stages 4 & 5 Volta de Gravataí, Roberto Pinheiro
- Stage 1 Tour de Santa Catarina, José Eriberto Silva
- Stage 3 Tour de Santa Catarina, Edgardo Simón
Overall Volta do Paraná, Marco Arriagada
- Stages 1 & 3, Marco Arriagada
- Stages 1 & 7 Volta de São Paulo, Edgardo Simón
- Stage 2 Volta de São Paulo, Héctor Aguilar
- Stage 3 Volta de São Paulo, Flávio Cardoso
- Stage 4a Volta de São Paulo, Magno Nazaret
- 2011
Brazil Time Trial Championships, Magno Nazaret- Stage 7 Tour de San Luis, Héctor Aguilar
- Stage 6 Rutas de América, Héctor Aguilar
- Prologue & Stage 1 Giro do Interior de São Paulo, Flávio Cardoso
- Stage 2 Volta de Gravataí, Antônio Nascimento
- Stage 4 Volta de Gravataí, Roberto Pinheiro
- Stage 4 Tour do Rio, Magno Nazaret
- Stage 1 Volta de São Paulo, Antônio Nascimento
- Stage 3 Volta de São Paulo, Flávio Cardoso
- Stage 4 Volta de São Paulo, Roberto Pinheiro
- 2012
- Brazil Road Race Championships, Otávio Bulgarelli
- Pan American Time Trial Championships, Magno Nazaret
- Stage 1 Vuelta Mexico Telmex, Héctor Aguilar
- Overall Vuelta del Uruguay, Magno Nazaret
- Stage 3, Héctor Aguilar
- Stage 8 (ITT), Magno Nazaret
- Stage 2 Vuelta a Guatemala, Gregolry Panizo
- Stage 5 Tour do Rio, Roberto Pinheiro
- Overall Tour do Brasil, Magno Nazaret
- Stage 3 (ITT), Magno Nazaret
- 2013
- Copa América de Ciclismo, Francisco Chamorro
- Stage 3 Tour de San Luis, Alex Diniz
- Stage 5 Tour do Rio, Gregolry Panizo
- 2014
- Brazil Road Race Championships, Antonio Garnero
- Brazil Time Trial Championships, Pedro Autran Nicacio
- Overall Tour do Brasil, Magno Nazaret
- Stage 1, Flávio Cardoso
- Stage 2, Juan Sebastián Tamayo
- Stages 3 & 4 (ITT), Magno Nazaret
- Stage 2 Volta do Rio Grande do Sul, Óscar Sánchez
- Overall Volta do Paraná, Carlos Manarelli
- Stages 2 & 3, Carlos Manarelli
- 2015
Overall Tour de San Luis, Daniel Díaz
- Stages 2 & 4, Daniel Díaz
- Stage 6, Kléber Ramos
- Stages 2, 3, 6 & 8 Vuelta del Uruguay, Francisco Chamorro
- Stage 1 Volta Ciclística Internacional do Rio Grande do Sul, Roberto Pinheiro
- Stage 3 Volta do Paraná, Flávio Cardoso
- Brazil Time Trial Championships, Magno Nazaret
- Copa América de Ciclismo, Carlos Manarelli
- 2016
Overall Volta Ciclística Internacional do Rio Grande do Sul, Murilo Affonso
- Stage 1, Murilo Affonso
- Brazil Road Race Championships, Flávio Cardoso
- 2017
- Overall Vuelta del Uruguay, Magno Nazaret
- Stage 3b, Team time trial
- Stage 6 (ITT), Magno Nazaret
- Brazil Time Trial Championships, Magno Nazaret
- 2018
- Overall Vuelta del Uruguay, Magno Nazaret
- Stage 2a, Team time trial
- Stage 8a (ITT), Magno Nazaret
National champions
- 2011
Brazilian Time Trial Championship, Magno Nazaret- 2012
- Brazilian Road Race Championship, Otávio Bulgarelli
- 2014
- Brazilian Road Race Championship, Antonio Garnero
- Brazilian Time Trial Championship, Pedro Autran Nicacio
- 2015
- Brazilian Time Trial Championship, Magno Nazaret
- 2016
- Brazilian Road Race Championship, Flávio Cardoso
- 2017
- Brazilian Time Trial Championship, Magno Nazaret
References
- "Olimpíadas Rio 2016 - Kleber Ramos cai no doping por uso de CERA". 12 August 2016.
- "UCI statement on Ramiro Rincon Diaz, João Marcelo Pereira Gaspar and UCI Professional Continental Team Funvic Soul Cycles-Carrefour". Archived from the original on 2016-11-21. Retrieved 2016-11-20.
- "Suspended Soul Brasil Pro Cycling Team secures Pro-Conti license for 2017". 21 December 2016.
- "Entire Brazilian cycling team facing second ban after breaking anti-doping rules". Cyclingweekly.com. 27 March 2017.
- http://www.nydailynews.com/newswires/sports/brazilian-cycling-team-hit-2nd-ban-doping-article-1.3192434