WorldTour Team Katusha starts this week in two stage races, the 2.HC Baloise Belgium Tour (Belgium) and the 2.1 Tour des Fjords (Norway). Both races will be held from May 27th to 31st. Last year Alexander Kristoff won the Overall Classification as well as three stages in the Norwegian stage race.

Kristoff will again lead the team in Norway. In Belgium, the team will go for sprint success with Rudiger Selig and Alexey Tsatevich. Anton Vorbyev will try to win the prologue while Angel Vicioso, Tsatevich, Egor Silin and Viacheslav Kuznetsov will test themselves in the harder stages.

Baloise Belgium Tour line-up: 

Viatcheslav Kuznetsov, Rudi Selig, Egor Silin, Gatis Smukulis, Alexey Tsatevich, Angel Vcioso, Eduard Vorganov & Anton Vorobyev.

Tour des Fjords line-up: 

Alexander Kristoff, Sven Erik Bystrøm, Jacopo Guarnieri, Marco Haller, Dmitriy Kozonchuk, and Simon Špilak.