Cofidis (cycling team)

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Team data
UCI code	COF
nationality	France
License	UCI WorldTeam
operator	Cofidis Compétition EUSRL
First season	1997
discipline	Street
Wheel manufacturer	De Rosa
General manager	Cédric Vasseur
Sportl. ladder	Christian Guiberteau
Name story
Years	Surname
1997–2008 2009–2012 2013–2019 2020	Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone Cofidis, le Crédit en Ligne Cofidis, Solutions Crédits Cofidis
shirt
Team photo
Website
www.equipe-cofidis.com

Cofidis is a French cycling team in road cycling . The main sponsor is the French telecommunications company Cofidis .

organization

The team was founded in 1997. The founding squad included drivers such as Tony Rominger and Lance Armstrong . Armstrong never contested a race for Cofidis because of his testicular cancer , which was recognized shortly after the contract was signed, as Cofidis immediately withdrew from the contract when his illness became known. After the restructuring of the categories in road cycling in 2005, Cofidis became a UCI ProTeam (today's name: UCI WorldTeam ). For the 2010 season, Cofidis only appeared as the UCI Professional Continental Team . Team boss Eric Boyer justified this step with the fact that it wants to be flexible in the use of its drivers; However, ProTeams were obliged to take part in all races of the UCI ProTour racing series or the successor series UCI WorldTour . For the 2020 season, the team applied for a license as a UCI WorldTeam and was registered accordingly.

The team is a member of the Mouvement Pour un Cyclisme Crédible (MPCC for short; German: Movement for credible cycling).

Until 2010, this team also included a track cycling team.

doping

After undercover investigations by the French judiciary, house searches of employees and athletes of the Cofidis team took place in July 2002. One supervisor turned out to be the head of a procurement and distribution network for banned substances. Doping agents were found in racing driver Marek Rutkiewicz , track driver Robert Sassone made a partial confession and Philippe Gaumont explained as a key witness that the team management had at least known about the usual doping practice in the team. In April 2004, growth hormones were found in racing driver Médéric Clain .

Cofidis then canceled all races and adopted its own anti-doping rules. Nevertheless, empty EPO vials were discovered at David Millar's house in a house search at the end of June .

Millar was banned for two years; Clain relieved. In January 2007 the criminal sanction followed: Millar and the racing driver Massimiliano Lelli were acquitted because their offenses probably did not take place in France. The team also had to pay Lelli compensation for his immediate dismissal. The former supervisor received a prison sentence, as did Gaumont, Sassone, Rutkiewicz and other drivers, albeit on probation.

This so-called Cofidis affair sparked lively discussions in France and led to a tightening of the rules.

Even after this affair there were further doping cases in the team:

After the 16th stage of the 2007 Tour de France it became known that the driver Christian Moreni had tested positive for testosterone after the 11th stage from Marseille to Montpellier . Cofidis then immediately withdrew his team from the Tour de France.

On the first day of rest of the Tour de France 2012 , the team hotel was searched by the police by Cofidis and Rémy Di Gregorio was brought to Marseille for questioning about possible involvement in a doping affair . The investigation has been running since mid-2011, when Di Gregorio was driving for the Pro Team Astana .

2020 season

Success in the UCI Continental Circuits

date	run	Cat.	driver
January 20th	1st stage La Tropicale Amissa Bongo	2.1	Attilio Viviani
21st of February	1st stage Tour des Alpes-Maritimes et du Var	2.1	Anthony Perez

team

Team roster
Surname	Date of birth	country	Previous team
Piet Allegaert	January 20, 1995	Belgium	Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise (2019)
Fernando Barceló	January 6, 1996	Spain	Euskadi Basque Country-Murias (2019)
Natnael Berhane	5th January 1991	Eritrea	Dimension Data (2018)
Dimitri Claeys	June 18, 1987	Belgium	Wanty-Groupe Gobert (2016)
Simone Consonni	September 12, 1994	Italy	UAE Team Emirates (2019)
Nicolas Edet	2nd December 1987	France	Véranda Rideau Sarthe 72 (2010)
Eddy Finé	November 20, 1997	France	VC Villefranche Beaujolais (2019)
Nathan Haas	March 12, 1989	Australia	Katusha-Alpecin (2019)
Jesper Hansen	October 23, 1990	Denmark	Astana (2018)
Jesús Herrada	July 26, 1990	Spain	Movistar (2017)
José Herrada	October 1, 1985	Spain	Movistar (2017)
Victor Lafay	January 17, 1996	France
Christophe Laporte	December 11, 1992	France	AVC Aix-en-Provence (2013)
Mathias Le tournament	March 14, 1995	France	Océane Top 16 (2016)
Cyril Lemoine	March 3, 1983	France	Soy Sun (2013)
Guillaume Martin	June 9, 1993	France	Wanty-Gobert (2019)
Luis Ángel Maté	March 23, 1984	Spain	Androni Giocattoli - Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni (2010)
Marco Mathis	April 7, 1994	Germany	Katusha-Alpecin (2018)
Emmanuel Morin	March 13, 1995	France
Anthony Perez	April 22, 1991	France	AVC Aix-en-Provence (2015)
Pierre-Luc Périchon	4th January 1987	France	Fortuneo-Samsic (2018)
Stéphane Rossetto	April 6, 1987	France	BigMat-Auber 93 (2014)
Fabio Sabatini	February 18, 1985	Italy	Deceuninck-Quick-Step (2019)
Damien Touzé	July 7, 1996	France	Saint Michel-Auber 93 (2018)
Kenneth Vanbilsen	June 1, 1990	Belgium	Topsport Vlaanderen-Baloise (2014)
Julien Vermote	July 26, 1989	Belgium	Dimension Data (2019)
Attilio Viviani	October 18, 1996	Italy	Sangemini-Trevigiani-MG.K Vis (2019)
Elia Viviani	February 7, 1989	Italy	Deceuninck-Quick-Step (2019)
Source: UCI

Placements in UCI rankings

UCI world rankings

season	Team evaluation	Driver ranking
World ranking 1997	22nd	Maurizio Fondriest (107.)
World ranking 1998	11.	Francesco Casagrande (16.)
World ranking 1999	16.	Frank Vandenbroucke (3rd)
World ranking 2000	15th	Jo Planckaert (71st)
World ranking 2001	7th	David Millar (16.)
World ranking 2002	8th.	Jo Planckaert (30.)
World ranking 2003	7th	David Millar (20th)
World ranking 2004	10.	Stuart O'Grady (8th)
UCI ProTour 2005	11.	David Moncoutié (30.)
UCI ProTour 2006	12.	Cristian Moreni (30.)
UCI ProTour 2007	12.	Maxime Monfort (72nd)
UCI ProTour 2008	16.	Nick Nuyens (31.)
World Calendar 2009	20th	Pure Taaramäe (49.)
World calendar 2010	20th	Pure Taaramäe (44.)
2011-2018	-	-
World ranking 2019	21st	Jesús Herrada (56.)

UCI Africa Tour

season	Team evaluation	Driver ranking
2010	4th	Samuel Dumoulin (24.)
2011 - 2012	-	-
2013	11.	Adrien Petit (54th)
2014	13.	Egoitz García (29.)
2015 - 2018	-	-

UCI America Tour

season	Team evaluation	Driver ranking
2010 - 2014	-	-
2015	29	Anthony Turgis (77th)
2016 - 2018	-	-

UCI Asia Tour

season	Team evaluation	Driver ranking
2010 - 2014	-	-
2015	57.	Nacer Bouhanni (186.)
2016	80.	Nacer Bouhanni (384.)
2017	-	-
2018	29	Jesús Herrada (72.)

UCI Europe Tour

season	Team evaluation	Driver ranking
2010	4th	Jens Keukeleire (7th)
2011	5.	Tony Gallopin (14.)
2012	7th	Samuel Dumoulin (7th)
2013	11.	Adrien Petit (60th)
2014	3.	Julien Simon (7th)
2015	2.	Nacer Bouhanni (1st)
2016	3.	Nacer Bouhanni (8.)
2017	2.	Nacer Bouhanni (1st)
2018	2.	Hugo Hofstetter (1st)

UCI Oceania Tour

season	Team evaluation	Driver ranking
2005	9.	Christopher Sutton (10th)
2010 - 2018	-	-

Track bike team

The Cofidis Sprint Team at the 2007/2008 Track Cycling World Cup in Los Angeles

The drivers of the UCI Track Team Cofidis were without exception specialists for the short-term disciplines on the track . The sport director was the multiple world and Olympic champion Arnaud Tournant . The contract of multiple world champion Mickaël Bourgain , who twice became world champion in team sprints with Tournant , was not renewed in 2009 after ten years with the team. The newcomers to the team in 2010, Mulder and Levy, were the first non-French to sign for the Cofidis track cycling team. At the end of 2010 the track bike team was dissolved.

Team 2010

Surname	birthday	nationality
Quentin Lafargue	17th November 1990	France
Maximilian Levy	June 26, 1987	Germany
Teun Mulder	June 18, 1981	Netherlands
François Pervis	October 16, 1984	France
Kévin Sireau	April 18, 1987	France

Individual evidence

1. ↑ radsport-news.com: Cofidis gets out of the ProTour from accessed on July 3, 2008
2. ↑ velonation.com of March 8, 2012: GreenEdge joins MPCC, movement wants international sanctioning body introduced
3. ↑ Ralf Meutgens: Doping in cycling , Bielefeld 2007, pp. 301f. ISBN 9783768852456
4. ↑ rad-net.de: Doping: Italian Moreni tested positive on tour, accessed on July 3, 2008
5. ↑ rad-net.de: Police interrogate doping offender Moreni, accessed on July 3, 2008
6. ↑ rad-net.de: Remy Di Gregorio interrogated on suspicion of doping, accessed on July 10, 2012
7. ↑ Sudpresse.be: "Cofidis recrute le cycliste allemand Levy" accessed on January 6, 2010
8. ↑ L'équipe Cofidis se retire à la fin de l'année on cyclismactu.net (French)

Web links

Commons : Cofidis  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website (French, English, Italian, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese)
• Cofidis in the ProCyclingStats.com database
• Cofidis in the UCI database