Catavana-AS Corbeil-Essonnes-Cedico

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Catavana-AS Corbeil-Essonnes-Cedico
Team data
nationality FranceFrance France
First season 1994
Last season 1994
discipline Street
Wheel manufacturer Fondriest (1994)
staff
Team manager Didier Paindavaine
Name story
Years Surname
1994 Catavana-AS Corbeil-Essonnes-Cedico

Catavana-AS Corbeil-Essonnes-Cedico is a former French cycling team that existed for only one season in 1994.

Patrice Esnault
Marc Madiot
Franck Boucanville
Pierrick Gillereau

history

The formation of the team was probably based on an initiative of the President of the French Cycling Federation , Daniel Baal . The initiative was intended to encourage amateur clubs to switch to professional life and thus compensate for the lack of professional French cycling teams . The amateur club AS Corbeil-Essonnes Club complied with the request of the French Cycling Federation , founded a professional team and was able to win a manufacturer of garden tools as the main sponsor. A supermarket chain based in northern France acted as a further sponsor. Didier Paindavaine became the team leader .

Riders like Marc Madiot and Patrice Esnault promised good results from March and thus the hope of being invited to the Tour de France .

Jérôme Chiotti was able to achieve the first victory of the season in a cross-country race. In February, Christian Chaubet took third place at the Etoile de Bessèges . Sean Kelly joined the team in March, increasing the likelihood that the team will receive an invitation to participate at Paris-Nice and Paris-Roubaix . Unfortunately, their hopes were not fulfilled and during Paris-Roubaix the team also lost Marc Madiot for a long time due to a serious fall.

In May the team recorded two victories in national races and in June the Mexican Miguel Arroyo drove a good midi libre , which he finished in eighth place. The team later drove a good Critérium du Dauphiné , including a second stage place for Sean Kelly on the 4th stage. These results gave hope for a last-minute invitation to the Tour de France . In June Kelly was runner-up in Ireland, but they lost Arroyo, who was poached by ag2r La MondialeChazal . Ultimately, the invitation to the Tour de France did not materialize .

Towards the end of the season, the team won the fourth stage of the Tour de l'Ain . Overall, Lars Michaelsen was the hardest-working winner, but mostly in lower-class races such as a stage at the Boland Bank Tour, overall standings and two stages at the Milwaukee Superweek or the Monédières Bol d'or. Lars Michaelsen's victory at Paris-Bourges could not stop the dissolution either. Marc and Yvon Madiot , Sean Kelly and Patrice Esnault ended their careers and the team was disbanded as a professional team after just one season and went back to the amateur class.

doping

While the team was in existence, there was only one steroid abuse at the Etoile de Bessèges by Pierrick Gillereau. Other drivers later admitted to having engaged in doping themselves or were later convicted.

successes

1994

Known former drivers

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ CEDICO SE DONNE DE NOUVEAUX MOYENS MORAL RETROUVE DE JEAN-PIERRE HEYNDERICKX - Le Soir. In: lesoir.be. January 31, 1997, accessed June 11, 2020 (French).
  2. ↑ About us: Remembering Paris-Roubaix: 1994. In: equipecycliste-groupama-fdj.fr. April 12, 2020, accessed on June 12, 2020 .
  3. ^ GP du Midi-Libre 1994 - Results. In: procyclingstats.com. June 18, 1994, accessed June 12, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Gevonden in Delpher-Limburgsch dagblad. In: delpher.nl. Retrieved June 12, 2020 (Dutch).
  5. ↑ Catavana - AS Corbeil-Essonnes - Cedico. Dopeology. In: dopeology.org. Retrieved June 12, 2020 .