Orbea (cycling team)

Orbea

Team information
Based	Spain
Founded	1932 (1932)
Status	UCI Continental Tour
Key personnel
General manager	Alvaro González de Galdeano
Team name history
1932-1936 1948 1963 1964 1970-1973 1980 1981-1984 1985 1985-1986 1988 1990 1992 1993 1994-1995 2003 2004 2005-2006 2007-2008	Orbea Orbea Orbea Espumosos-Orbea Orbea-OAR Orbea Orbea-Danena (cyclocross team in 1983) Orbea-Gin MG Seat-Orbea Caja Rural-Orbea Orbea-Alimentos de España Orbea Orbea-Gin MG-Seat Orbea Orbea-Etxe-Ondo (Japanese team) Team Orbea (MTB) Orbea Orbea-Oreka SDA
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Orbea is a Spanish cycling team based in Basque Country. It is one of the European teams in UCI Continental Tour.

The team functions as the development team of Euskaltel-Euskadi, the unofficial national squad of Basque Country. Orbea - Oreka's team manager Alvaro González de Galdeano is the older brother of Igor González de Galdeano, the current manager of Euskaltel. Orbea focuses on young riders mainly, of whom the most successful usually make the transfer to the "orange squad".

Main sponsor Orbea is a bicycle manufacturer based in Mallabia. Throughout cycling history, Orbea has sponsored numerous cycling teams.

Major wins

• Mountains classification Vuelta a España 1984 - Felipe Yanez de la Torre
• Vuelta a España 1985 - Pedro Delgado
• Vuelta al País Vasco 1985 - Pello Ruiz Cabestany

2011 team

Rider Date of birth  Jon Aberasturi (ESP) March 28, 1989 (1989-03-28) (age 22)  Aritz Bagües (ESP) August 19, 1989 (1989-08-19) (age 22)  Mikel Bizkarra (ESP) August 21, 1989 (1989-08-21) (age 22)  Andoni Blazquez (ESP) July 10, 1987 (1987-07-10) (age 24)  Victor Cabedo (ESP) June 15, 1989 (1989-06-15) (age 22)  Aritz Etxebarria (ESP) November 3, 1988 (1988-11-03) (age 22)

Rider Date of birth  Ricardo Garcia (ESP) February 26, 1988 (1988-02-26) (age 23)  Joseba Larralde (ESP) April 11, 1986 (1986-04-11) (age 25)  Noel Martin (ESP) November 20, 1989 (1989-11-20) (age 21)  Adrian Saez (ESP) March 17, 1986 (1986-03-17) (age 25)  Beñat Urain (ESP) June 26, 1988 (1988-06-26) (age 23)  Xabier Zabalo (ESP) September 2, 1987 (1987-09-02) (age 24)

Victories

2007

• Circuito Montañés, Stage 2 - Xabat Otxotorena Arraras
• Circuito Montañés, Stage 7 - Ivan Melero Coco

2008

• Vuelta Ciclista a Navarra, Stage 1a: Pitillas-Pitillas (Team Time Trial)