Tabriz Petrochemical CCN Team
# Tabriz Petrochemical CCN Team

Tabriz Petrochemical CCN Team (Persian:تیم دوچرخه‌سواری پتروشیمی تبریز) UCI team code: TPT was an Iranian UCI Continental cycling team managed by Ramin Dadgar and Azim Abdolnezhad and main sponsored by Tabriz Petrochemical Company. The Tabriz Petrochemical Team has achieved first place in both the riders' and teams' overall classifications in the UCI Asia Tour in 2007–2008, 2008–2009 and 2009–2010

## History

The Tabriz Petrochemical Team was established in 2002 as a club team in Tabriz, Iran. The team started participating in domestic tours and national leagues, as well as some smaller international tours, including the Presidential Cycling Tour of Turkey, Tour of Perlis, Jelajah Malaysia and Tour de Langkawi. After four years the team registered as a UCI Continental team for the 2007–2008 season.

The team started the 2007–2008 season with a complete roster of domestic riders. In total, the team amassed 909.64 points participating in 5 foreign and 2 domestic international races. As a result, the team won the 2007–2008 UCI Asia Tour. At the end of the season the first three places in the individual ranking were occupied by three Tabriz Petrochemical Cycling Team riders.

For the 2008–2009 season, the team roster remained the same, with the addition of one rider from Kazakhstan. The team again participated in 5 foreign and 2 domestic international UCI tours and in total scored 1015 points, this was approximately double of the second placed team. As in the previous season, the first three places in the individual ranking were occupied by Tabriz riders.

### Doping

On 3 June 2013, Hossein Askari returned an adverse analytical finding for the banned substance Methylhexaneamine at the Tour de Singkarak. He was handed a 1-year ban making him eligible to race again 2 June 2014.

On 20 June 2014 Vahid Ghaffari returned an adverse analytical finding for EPO and has been provisionally suspended from competition.

Ahad Kazemi is also currently serving an eight-year ban for an ADRV for testosterone from a sample taken at the 2016 Tour of Iran.

## Team roster

    As of 2015.

| | Rider | Date of birth |
| - | - | - |
| Ahad Kazemi (IRI) | Ahad Kazemi (IRI) | (1975-05-22) 22 May 1975 (age 48) |
| Ali Khademi (IRI) | Ali Khademi (IRI) | (1992-01-01) 1 January 1992 (age 31) |
| Behnam Khalili (IRI) | Behnam Khalili (IRI) | (1989-02-07) 7 February 1989 (age 34) |
| Karim Khorrami (IRI) | Karim Khorrami (IRI) | (1991-06-04) 4 June 1991 (age 32) |
| Amir Kolahdouz (IRI) | Amir Kolahdouz (IRI) | (1993-01-07) 7 January 1993 (age 30) |
| Behnam Maleki (IRI) | Behnam Maleki (IRI) | (1992-12-02) 2 December 1992 (age 30) |
| Ghader Mizbani (IRI) | Ghader Mizbani (IRI) | (1975-12-06) 6 December 1975 (age 47) |
| | Rider | Date of birth |
| Sahebali Najafi (IRI) | Sahebali Najafi (IRI) | (1992-06-25) 25 June 1992 (age 31) |
| Abolfazl Nazari Daghalian (IRI) | Abolfazl Nazari Daghalian (IRI) | (1991-05-04) 4 May 1991 (age 32) |
| Samad Pourseyedi (IRI) | Samad Pourseyedi (IRI) | (1985-10-15) 15 October 1985 (age 37) |
| Mohammad Pouresmaeil (IRI) | Mohammad Pouresmaeil (IRI) | (1992-03-22) 22 March 1992 (age 31) |
| Hamid Shirisisan (IRI) | Hamid Shirisisan (IRI) | (1982-03-21) 21 March 1982 (age 41) |
| Mehdi Sohrabi (IRI) | Mehdi Sohrabi (IRI) | (1981-10-12) 12 October 1981 (age 41) |

## Major wins

### 2008

    Stage 6 Jelajah Malaysia, Hossein Askari
    Overall Umm Al Quwain Race, Hossein Askari
       Stages 1 & 2, Hossein Nateghi
    Overall Taftan Tour, Hossein Nateghi
       Stages 1 & 2, Hossein Nateghi
       Stage 5, Behnam Khosroshahi
    Overall Tour de East Java, Ghader Mizbani
       Stage 4, Ghader Mizbani
    Overall President Tour of Iran, Ahad Kazemi
       Stage 4, Ahad Kazemi
       Stage 5, Ghader Mizbani
    Overall Azerbaïjan Tour, Hossein Askari
       Prologue & Stage 3, Ghader Mizbani
       Stage 2, Team time trial
       Stage 4, Behnam Khosroshahi
       Stage 7, Hossein Askari
       Stage 8, Hamid Shiri
    Stages 1 & 4 Tour of Thailand, Hossein Nateghi
    Overall Milad De Nour Tour, Ahad Kazemi
       Stage 2, Ahad Kazemi
    Overall Kerman Tour, Ghader Mizbani
       Stage 2, Team time trial
       Stage 4, Hossein Nateghi
    Overall Tour de Indonesia, Ghader Mizbani
       Stage 3, Hossein Jahanbanian
       Stages 5 & 10, Ghader Mizbani

### 2009

    Stage 2 Jelajah Malaysia, Mehdi Sohrabi
    Overall Tour de Singkarak, Ghader Mizbani
       Stage 3a, Ghader Mizbani
    Overall President Tour of Iran, Ghader Mizbani
       Stage 1, Hossein Askari
       Stage 3, Ghader Mizbani
    Overall Tour of Qinghai Lake, Andrey Mizurov
       Prologue, Andrey Mizurov
       Stages 3 & 8, Ghader Mizbani
    Overall Tour de East Java, Andrey Mizurov
       Stage 2, Andrey Mizurov
    Overall Milad De Nour Tour, Mehdi Sohrabi
       Stage 1, Arvin Moazzami
       Stages 2 & 4, Mehdi Sohrabi
       Stage 3, Samad Pourseyedi
    Overall Azerbaijan Tour, Ahad Kazemi
       Stage 2, Ahad Kazemi
       Stage 4, Mehdi Sohrabi
       Stage 5, Ghader Mizbani
    Overall Tour de Indonesia, Mehdi Sohrabi
       Stage 1, Team time trial
       Stage 4, Ghader Mizbani
       Stage 6, Mehdi Sohrabi

### 2010

    Overall Azerbaijan Tour, Ghader Mizbani
       Stages 1, 5 & 6, Ghader Mizbani
       Stage 3, Andrey Mizurov
    Overall President Tour of Iran, Hossein Askari
       Stages 2 & 3, Tobias Erler
       Stage 4, Hossein Askari
    Overall Tour de Kumano, Andrey Mizurov
    Overall Tour de Singkarak, Ghader Mizbani
       Stage 1, Team Time Trial
       Stage 3, Ghader Mizbani
       Stage 6, Mehdi Sohrabi
    Overall Tour de East Java, Hossein Alizadeh
       Stage 1, Hossein Alizadeh
    Stage 3 Milad De Nour Tour, Ebrahim Javani
    Overall Tour of Qinghai Lake, Hossein Askari
       Stage 3, Ghader Mizbani
       Stages 6 & 9, Mehdi Sohrabi

### 2011

    Stage 9 Tour de Langkawi, Boris Shpilevsky
    Overall Kerman Tour, Mehdi Sohrabi
       Stages 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5, Mehdi Sohrabi
    Overall Jelajah Malaysia, Mehdi Sohrabi
       Stages 1 & 6, Mehdi Sohrabi
    Overall Tour de Taiwan, Markus Eibegger
       Stage 2, Mehdi Sohrabi
       Stage 3, Markus Eibegger
    Overall Tour of Thailand, Tobias Erler
       Prologue, Tobias Erler
    Stage 1 Tour de Korea, Tobias Erler
    Overall Azerbaijan Tour, Mehdi Sohrabi
       Stage 3, Team Time Trial
    Stage 4 President Tour of Iran, Mehdi Sohrabi
    Stage 7 Tour of Qinghai Lake, Mehdi Sohrabi
    Overall Milad De Nour Tour, Ghader Mizbani
       Stage 1, Ghader Mizbani
    Stage 5 Tour de Brunei, Ramin Maleki
    Stages 4, 5, 6 & 7 Tour of China, Boris Shpilevsky
    Overall Tour de East Java, Hossein Jahanbanian
       Stage 1, Boris Shpilevsky
    Stage 1 Tour of Taihu Lake, Boris Shpilevsky

### 2012

    Overall Tour of Qinghai Lake, Hossein Alizadeh
       Stage 3, Hossein Alizadeh
    Stage 2 Tour de East Java, Hossein Nateghi
    Overall Tour de Brunei, Hossein Askari
       Stage 2, Hossein Askari
    Stage 3, Hossein Nateghi

### 2013

    Overall Tour de Filipinas, Ghader Mizbani
       Stage 3, Mehdi Sohrabi
       Stage 4, Ghader Mizbani
    Overall Tour of Iran, Ghader Mizbani
       Stage 5, Ghader Mizbani
    Overall Tour de Singkarak, Ghader Mizbani
       Stage 1, Hossein Askari
       Stage 5, Amir Kolahdouz
       Stage 7, Mehdi Sohrabi
    Overall Tour of Qinghai Lake, Samad Pourseyedi
       Stage 3, Samad Pourseyedi
    Overall Tour of Borneo, Ghader Mizbani
       Stages 2 & 5, Mehdi Sohrabi
       Stage 4, Ghader Mizbani
    Overall Tour de Ijen, Samad Pourseyedi
       Stage 2, Samad Pourseyedi

### 2014

    Overall Tour de Langkawi, Samad Pourseyedi
       Stage 4, Samad Pourseyedi
    Overall Tour of Japan, Samad Pourseyedi
       Stage 4, Samad Pourseyedi
       Stage 5, Ghader Mizbani
    Overall Tour of Iran, Ghader Mizbani
       Stage 5, Ghader Mizbani
    Overall Tour de East Java, Ghader Mizbani
       Stage 2, Ghader Mizbani
    Stage 4 Tour de Ijen, Mehdi Sohrabi
    Overall Tour of Fuzhou, Samad Pourseyedi
       Stage 2, Samad Pourseyedi

### 2015

    Stage 4 Tour de Filipinas, Samad Pourseyedi
    Overall Tour de Taiwan, Samad Pourseyedi
       Stage 4, Samad Pourseyedi
    Overall Tour of Japan, Samad Pourseyedi
    Overall Tour of Iran, Samad Pourseyedi
       Stage 5, Samad Pourseyedi
    Stage 3 Tour de Singkarak, Mehdi Sohrabi
    Stage 4 Tour de Singkarak, Amir Kolahdouz
    Stage 5 Tour de Singkarak, Behnam Maleki
    Stage 8 Tour de Singkarak, Ahad Kazemi

## National champions

### 2009

    Iran Time Trial Championships, Mehdi Sohrabi
    Kazakhstan Time Trial Championships, Andrey Mizourov

### 2010

    Kazakhstan Time Trial Championships, Andrey Mizourov
    Iran Time Trial Championships, Hossein Askari
    Iran Road Race Championships, Mehdi Sohrabi

### 2011

    Iran Time Trial Championships, Hossein Askari

### 2012

    Iran Road Race Championships, Hossein Alizadeh

### 2013

    Iran Road Race Championships, Ghader Mizbani

### 2014

    Iran Time Trial Championships, Alireza Haghi

### 2015

    Iran Road Race Championships, Behnam Maleki
