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Delko

French cycling team

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

01Doping

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.

02Team roster

As of 5 January 2021.

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

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

03National 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

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Delko–Marseille Provence KTM logo.png by Unknown author, Fair use
Dunkerque - Quatre jours de Dunkerque, étape 1, 6 mai 2015, départ (B018).JPG by Jérémy-Günther-Heinz Jähnick, CC BY-SA 3.0

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