Following a good tradition, Team Katusha opens the new cycling season with the first 2016 UCI WorldTour race – the Santos Tour Down Under in Australia.

Katusha will take part in both the stage race of the Tour Down Under, which will be held on January 19th to 24th and the traditional one-day 51 km race-criterium People’s Choice Classic in Adelaide, which will be held on January 17th.

Team Katusha brings the following roster to Australia: Maxim Belkov, Vladimir Isaychev, Sergey Lagutin, Tiago Machado, Egor Silin, Rein Taaramäe and Alexey Tsatevich, all directed by Dmitry Konyshev.

Taaramae, Machado, Silin and Lagutin can all go for GC on the hilly course. Tsatevich is likely to test himself in the sprints.