Capri Sonne (cycling team)

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Capri Sun
Team data
nationality BelgiumBelgium Belgium
First season 1973
Last season 1982
discipline Street
Wheel manufacturer Bertin (1973)
Colner (1975–1975)
Colnago (1976–1977)
Gios (1978)
Koga Miyata (1980–1981)
Eddy Merckx (1982)
staff
Team manager Rik Van Looy
Jozef Janssens
Willy Jossart
Walter Godefroot
Patrick Lefevere
Name story
Years Surname
1973
1974–1975
1976–1977
1978
1979–1980
1981
1982 		IJsboerke – Bertin
IJsboerke – Colner IJsboerke
– Colnago
IJsboerke – Gios
IJsboerke – Warncke Ice
Capri Sonne – Koga Miyata
Capri Sonne – Campagnolo – Merckx

Capri Sonne was a Belgian cycling team that existed from 1973 to 1982.

history

The team was founded in 1973 and from 1973 to 1980 the Belgian ice cream manufacturer IJsboerke was the main sponsor. Rik Van Looy was the first team leader and remained so until 1975. His successor was Willy Jossart until 1980. In 1981 a German manufacturer of the fruit juice drink of the same name became the main sponsor and Walter Godefroot was team leader until the team was dissolved in 1982.

doping

As of 1980, there was only one documented incident. Eric Mackenzie tested positive at the Grand Prix of Zurich. There are no other cases, but with Walter Godefroot , Patrick Lefevere and Rudy Pevenage there were other people in the team who were later associated with doping.

successes

1973

1974

1975

1976

1977

1978

1979

1980

1981

1982

Monuments-of-cycling placements

Monument to cycling 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982
Milan – Sanremo - - - - 15th 14th 8th 20th 15th 26th
Tour of Flanders 16 7th 18th 8th 2 1 3 5 10 3
Paris – Roubaix 13 - - - 7th 7th 13 5 5 4th
Liège – Bastogne – Liège - - - - 7th 2 1 3 7th 19th
Lombardy tour 15th - - - - 6th 3 - 15th

Grand Tours placements

Grand Tour 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982
Yellow jersey Vuelta a España - 10 21st - - - - - - -
Maglia Rosa Giro d'Italia - - - - - DNF - - - -
Yellow jersey Tour de France - - 10 8th 5 4th
Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout.

Known former drivers

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ijsboerke: IJsboerke - your Belgian ice cream. In: ijsboerke.be. Accessed on June 7, 2020 (bE_de).
  2. ↑ Cycling Archives: Rik Van Looy. In: radsportseiten.net. Accessed June 7, 2020 (English).
  3. ↑ Home - Capri Sun Group. In: capri-sun.com. August 20, 2019, accessed June 7, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Cycling Archives: Walter Godefroot. In: radsportseiten.net. Accessed June 7, 2020 (English).
  5. ↑ Capri sun. Dopeology. In: dopeology.org. Accessed June 7, 2020 (English).
  6. ↑ ? Gevonden in Delphians Het vr e folk: Democratisch-socialistisch dagblad. In: delpher.nl. Retrieved June 7, 2020 (Dutch).
  7. ↑ Kai Pahl: The ARD sound disturbance called Godefroot (Update 4). In: allesaussersport.de. May 21, 2007, accessed June 7, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Patrick Lefevere - 30 years of doping? -. In: radsport-news.com. Retrieved June 7, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Tom Mustroph: Doping and Jan Ullrich: Pevenage confirms Fuentes contacts. In: tagesspiegel.de . July 8, 2010, accessed June 7, 2020 .