Team Barloworld

Geraint Thomas in the team's jersey (2009)

The Barloworld team was a British cycling team .

The sponsor Barloworld specializes in management and the second sponsor Valsir is a waste disposal company. The team was founded in 2003 by John Robertson as a South African team, drove under an Italian license in 2004 and was British from 2005. The leaders of the team were the two former Italian racing cyclists Alberto Elli and Valerio Tebaldi . Probably the best-known driver in the Professional Continental Team was the 2003 world champion Igor Astarloa , who drove for the team for two years from 2005 to 2006. With the Konica Minolta team , the same operator also had a farm team .

After Moisés Dueñas' positive doping result became known at the 2008 Tour de France , sponsor Barloworld announced its withdrawal at the end of the tour. In October, however, he decided to continue the sponsorship for another year. After the 2009 season, the team was dissolved, the British riders mostly switched to the Sky Professional Cycling Team .

2009 season

Successes in the Continental Circuits

See also : UCI Continental Circuits

date	run	Cat.	driver
13th February	4th stage Mediterranean cruise	2.1	Robert Hunter
4th of March	Giro del Capo Race 1	1.2	Robert Hunter
5. March	Giro del Capo Race 2	1.2	Chris Froome
6th March	Giro del Capo Race 3	1.2	Steve Cummings
April 15th	4th stage Presidential Cycling Tour	2.1	Daryl Impey
12-19 April	Overall ranking Presidential Cycling Tour	2.1	Daryl Impey
April 24th	3rd stage Giro del Trentino	2.1	Robert Hunter
September 19th	8th stage Tour of Britain	2.1	Michele Merlo

Additions Disposals

Accesses	Team 2008	Departures	Team 2009
Michele Merlo	Neoprofi	Enrico Gasparotto	Lampre-NGC
		Christian Pfannberger	Team Katyusha
		Bathing Cooke	Vacansoleil
		Hugo Sabido	Paredes Rota dos Móveis

team

Surname	birthday		Team 2010
John-Lee Augustyn	August 10, 1986	South Africa	Team Sky
Francesco Bellotti	August 6, 1979	Italy	Liquigas
Diego Caccia	July 31, 1981	Italy	ISD Neri
Patrick Calcagni	5th July 1977	Switzerland	End of career
Félix Cárdenas	November 24, 1972	Colombia	GW Shimano
Giampaolo Cheula	May 23, 1979	Italy	Footon Servetto
Marco Corti	June 15, 1985	Italy	Footon Servetto
Steve Cummings	March 19, 1981	United Kingdom	Team Sky
Chris Froome	May 20, 1985	United Kingdom	Team Sky
Robert Hunter	April 22, 1977	South Africa	Garmin slipstream
Daryl Impey	December 6, 1984	South Africa	Team RadioShack
Paolo Longo Borghini	December 10, 1980	Italy	ISD Neri
Michele Merlo	7th August 1984	Italy	Footon Servetto
Carlo Scognamiglio	May 31, 1983	Italy	ISD Neri
Juan Mauricio Soler	January 14, 1983	Colombia	Caisse d'Epargne
Geraint Thomas	May 25, 1986	United Kingdom	Team Sky

Placements in UCI rankings

UCI Africa Tour

season	Team ranking	Driver ranking
2005	1.	Tiaan Kannemeyer (1st)
2006	4th
2007	1.
2008	2.	Robert Hunter (3rd)
2009	1.	Daryl Impey (7th)

UCI Asia Tour

season	Team ranking	Driver ranking
2005	3.	Ryan Cox (2nd)
2006
2007
2008
2009	-	-

UCI Europe Tour

season	Team ranking	Driver ranking
2005	4th	Vladimir Yefimkin (8th)
2006	8th.	Félix Cárdenas (30.)
2007	2.	Robert Hunter (10.)
2008	2.	Enrico Gasparotto (1st)
2009	23.	Daryl Impey (100th)

UCI Oceania Tour

season	Team ranking	Driver ranking
2007	12.
2008	-	-
2009	10.	Chris Froome (13.)

UCI World Calendar

season	Team ranking	Driver ranking
2009	30th	Robert Hunter (159.)

See also

• Team Barloworld / 2007 season
• Team Barloworld / 2008 season

Web links

• Official website (English, Italian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ radsport-news.com sponsor Barloworld withdraws after the tour , accessed on July 22, 2008.
2. ↑ radsport-news.com, Barloworld drops out at the end of the season