2010 Team Katusha season

The 2010 season for Team Katusha started in January with the Tour de San Luis and ended in October at the Japan Cup.

Notable rider additions for 2010 include Kim Kirchen and Joaquim Rodríguez, who have both finished in the top ten in Grand Tours.

Before the spring season began, Team Katusha scored a victory with McEwen in the Trofeo Palma, part of the Vuelta a Mallorca quasi-stage race, as the veteran Aussie outsprinted Koldo Fernández and Óscar Freire to claim his first win since knee surgery seven months earlier.

[2] Caruso had begun the 2010 season under contract to Ceramica Flaminia, but was allowed to leave the team when they were not selected for the Giro.

[3] McEwen was present for a depleted group sprint finish to the Giro's first road race stage in Netherlands, taking seventh.

[6] Karpets moved up to fifth after stage 6, when sprinters Matthew Goss and André Greipel, who had been ahead of him, were unable to finish with the peloton due to the hilly parcours.

Ten remained together into the stage's final kilometer, when Petrov rode past an early-attacking Dario Cataldo to take the win.

The time gap back to the Giro's overall favorites was still nearly 13 minutes, leading to a massive re-shuffling of the overall standings.

[14] The squad was then quiet for the remainder of the Giro, with Petrov's tenth place in the climbing time trial to Plan de Corones the closest they came to another victory.

[22] After Schleck and Contador engaged in a bizarre trackstand on the Port de Pailhères in stage 14, Rodríguez, who had been trailing them on the climb, caught up and finished together with them and two others, for fifth on the day.

He also lost considerable time to other members of the top ten in the overall standings, and slipped back to eighth, which was his final placing the next day.