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Burgos Burpellet BH

cycling team (2006-)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 8, 2026
Entity authorityQ1015171 ↗
Source-derived summary

Burgos Burpellet BH (UCI team code: BBH) is a UCI ProTeam cycling team based in Burgos, Spain. The team was founded in 2006 under the name of "Viña Magna-Cropu".

Doping

In December 2017, David Belda was given a four-year ban after testing positive for EPO.

In July 2018, Igor Merino tested positive for growth hormone in a sample taken during June.

In November 2018, Ibai Salas was handed a four-year doping ban for violations of the biological passport programme. As a result of this third anti-doping violation in the past 12 months, the team faces a potential suspension ranging between 15 and 45 days.

Team roster

As of 2 January 2025.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Burgos Burpellet BH” as cycling team (2006-). Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2006, 2017, 2018, 2025—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2006. The account is most persuasive where Burgos, Burpellet and cycling can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as cycling team (2006-). Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 8, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1015171. None of the 2 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2006, 2017, 2018 and 2025.

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This entry incorporates text from “Burgos Burpellet BH” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.