Gerolsteiner (cycling team)
The Team Gerolsteiner was a German from 1997 to 2008 existing cycling team, which held last UCI ProTeam status. The team was sponsored by drinks manufacturer Gerolsteiner Brunnen.
- 4.1 Achievements in the ProTour
- 4.2 Achievements in the Europe Tour
- 5.1 Achievements in the ProTour
- 5.2 Achievements in the UCI Europe Tour
- 5.3 Team
History
The team was founded in 1997 as a professional cycling team Schauff Oeschelbronn team manager Hans -Michael Holczer. Since 1999 it was called the team Gerolsteiner after Gerolsteiner led the sponsorship of the same name by Dieter Koslar and 1998 teams founded ceased.
With the commitment of Georg Totschnig in 2001, the team was able to jump into the GS -I category. For 2003, we qualified for the first time for the Tour de France and ex-pro Reimund Dietzen took over the task of the sporty conductor Rolf Golz. On 4 September 2007 Gerolsteiner announced not to extend the current contract until the end of 2008. A successor sponsor was not found, so that team boss Holczer was forced on 28 August 2008, to announce the dissolution of the racing team at the end of the 2008 season.
On 14 October 2008 the team Gerolsteiner told not to withdraw only at the end of the season, but with immediate effect from cycling due to the positive doping samples (A - samples) by Stefan Schumacher and Bernhard Kohl at the Tour de France.
Achievements
The first notable success after the founding of the team was winning the team classification at the Tour of Austria in 1999.
As a result, the drivers of the team Gerolsteiner also get a number of international successes and numerous national individual time trial championship and road championships by Michael Rich, Uwe Peschel and Georg Totschnig. For example, Uwe Peschel won (2002) and Michael Rich (2003 and 2004) at the Grand Prix des Nations. In the years 2000, 2002 and 2004 was Michael Rich and Uwe Peschel in 2003 vice world champion in the time trial.
At the Giro d' Italia Team Leader Georg Totschnig could reach a seventh (2002 ) and a fifth place overall ( 2003). A year later won the Maglia Verde Fabian Wegmann at the Giro d' Italia. In 2003 Davide Rebellin was new to the team Gerolsteiner and won equal a stage win and a third place overall in Paris-Nice. Further victories followed in 2004, inter alia, at the Amstel Gold Race, La Flèche Wallonne and Liège -Bastogne -Liège in by Davide Rebellin, the World Cup was second.
In the 2005 Tour de France, the newcomer Levi Leipheimer won the sixth place overall. Moreover, George Totschnig won on the 14.Etappe in the Pyrenees, which means the first Gerolsteiner victory on a Tour stage at all. When the queen stage of the Tour of Germany in 2005 with arrival in Sölden there was a double victory ( Levi Leipheimer before Georg Totschnig ) for the team Gerolsteiner. Levi Leipheimer finally won the championship. Georg Totschnig finished in third place overall. More stage wins in Tours there was Heinrich Haussler ( Vuelta a España) and Fabian Wegmann ( Tour of Poland ). Michael Rich also won the Rhineland -Palatinate Tour and the Tour of Bavaria and Fabian Wegmann GP San Francisco and the Grand Prix Black Forest. Gerolsteiner team also won the first team time trial Eindhoven.
The year 2008 seemed at first to be the most successful year of the team. On the 8th and the 20th stage of the Tour de France 2008 Stefan Schumacher won two individual time trial of the Tour and wore the yellow jersey for 2 days. Bernhard Kohl won the first Austrian to the mountain classification, and thus the maillot à pois rouges with 128 mountain points ( 48 points ahead of the runner-up ). In the overall standings, he could occupy the 3rd place. Both racers were, however, tested for CERA in October 2008 later in the A sample is positive. Team boss Holzcer then gave his exit from cycling known. For the Tour of Lombardy, the team announced his resignation.
Season 2006
The first win of the season could retract Challenge in February at the Mallorca David Kopp. The first ProTour win of the year brought a month later, the Swiss Markus Zberg with a stage win in Paris-Nice. Fabian Wegmann was next to his victory in the GP Miguel Indurain get some top ten finishes in the spring classics the ProTour and David Kopp was second in Gent- Wevelgem. There were also victories for smaller tours.
In May, the team competed in the Giro d' Italia. Without a proper captain started, you could make the tour very successful. Stefan Schumacher won two stages and wore a few days the pink jersey of overall leader, Robert Förster was able to win the final stage.
In the Dauphine Libere first sat Fabian Wegmann with his victory on the first leg accents. Later on the mountain stages it was Levi Leipheimer, who presented the colors of the team. Leipheimer won the Tour and did well for the narrow circle of favorites for the Tour de France.
His chances were even better than the top favorites Jan Ullrich, Ivan Basso and Alexandre Vinokourov due to the doping scandal Fuentes could not attend. Fabian Wegmann was the first winner of the dotted jerseys of the tour, but it had to give up after only one day. For Leipheimer after the first time trial of the dream of a Tour victory was over when he lost more than five minutes. On the second mountain stage he could present itself again by a better side and was narrowly beaten second. Positive Markus Fothen could protrude. He convinced in time trials and in the mountains and was a long time the white jersey of best young rider. Before the final time trial it seemed to be only a formality that he would win it in Paris, but his competitor in this summary, giro 2004 winner Damiano Cunego, showed its probably the best performance in a time trial at all and was able to win the vote for themselves. In the overall classification Leipheimer and Fothen occupied positions 13 and 15
Shortly after the Tour de France, the Germany tour started. Levi Leipheimer went to defend his title at the start and after his stage victory on the fifth stage it looked good too. But a seemingly invincible Jens Voigt made him a spanner in the works. In the end, Leipheimer Second, the German champion in the time trial Sebastian Lang won the mountains classification.
In the Eneco Tour Stefan Schumacher won the prologue. David Kopp won the 6th stage. Before the last stage Schumacher was only slightly behind leader George Hincapie. In the final sprint of the last section Schumacher still tried to win the overall title with a time credit. But Schumacher dodged a hand of a spectator and collided about 50 meters before the finish line with Hincapie. Hincapie came to case, but Schumacher was able to continue and sprinted to third place, which he was given the time needed credit. Hincapie was indeed at this stage at the same time as Schumacher scored, but the bonus are enough for a guide Schumacher of a second. Hincapie 's Discovery Channel team appealed the rating filing an opposition, but the jury decided that Schumacher 's driving behavior that led to the collision, was not against the rules.
The weekend of September 9 to 10 was particularly successful for the team. On September 9, Stefan Schumacher won the 6th stage of severe Tour of Poland ahead of team mate Fabian Wegmann and take the yellow jersey as the leader of the general standings. The next day, Robert Förster won the 15th stage of the Vuelta a Espana. The team had until then been suffered heavy losses, as five of the nine drivers had launched abandoned. A few hours later, Stefan Schumacher won the seventh and last stage of the Tour of Poland, which he defended the lead in the overall standings and after the Eneco Tour now been able to win the second round trip in a row.
In autumn, the Gerolsteiner rider could put some accents. Davide Rebellin won third place in the Championship of Zurich. Fabian Wegmann was the first German who made it to the podium at the Tour of Lombardy. Behind Paolo Bettini and Samuel Sanchez he finished third. This means that the ProTour season was over. Stefan Schumacher came in the overall standings to tenth place.
Success in the ProTour in 2006
Successes in the Continental Circuits 2006
Season 2007
Success in the ProTour
Success in the Europe Tour
Season 2008
Success in the ProTour
Successes in the UCI Europe Tour
Withdrawn 1) results in the Tour of France 2008 the driver Stefan Schumacher and Bernhard Kohl by French Anti- Doping Agency ( ADFL ) subsequently, due to positive doping test on CERA (EPO).
Team
Well-known former driver
- Germany Andreas Kappes (1998)
- Germany Jörg Ludewig (1999)
- Australia Scott McGrory (1999-2000)
- Germany Sven Teutenberg (1999-2000)
- Germany Udo Bölts (2003)
- Germany Olaf Pollack (2000-2004)
- Germany Uwe Peschel (1999-2005)
- Germany Torsten Schmidt (2000-2005)
- Germany Danilo Hondo (2004-2005)
- Italy Marco Serpellini (2004-2005)
- Germany Michael Rich (1999-2006)
- Austria René Haselbacher (2000-2006)
- Switzerland Sven Montgomery (2004-2006)
- United States Levi Leipheimer (2005-2006)
- Switzerland Beat Zberg (2004-2007)
- Germany David Kopp (2006-2007)
Placings in UCI rankings
UCI World Ranking
UCI ProTour