Cofidis (cycling team)
Cofidis, Solutions Crédits | |
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UCI code | COF |
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License | UCI WorldTeam |
operator | Cofidis Compétition EUSRL |
First season | 1997 |
discipline | Street |
Wheel manufacturer | De Rosa |
General manager |
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Years | Surname |
1997–2008 2009–2012 2013–2019 2020 |
Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone Cofidis, le Crédit en Ligne Cofidis, Solutions Crédits Cofidis |
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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 |
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January 20th |
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21st of February |
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team
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Surname | Date of birth | country | Previous team |
Piet Allegaert | January 20, 1995 |
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Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise (2019) |
Fernando Barceló | January 6, 1996 |
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Euskadi Basque Country-Murias (2019) |
Natnael Berhane | 5th January 1991 |
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Dimension Data (2018) |
Dimitri Claeys | June 18, 1987 |
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Wanty-Groupe Gobert (2016) |
Simone Consonni | September 12, 1994 |
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UAE Team Emirates (2019) |
Nicolas Edet | 2nd December 1987 |
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Véranda Rideau Sarthe 72 (2010) |
Eddy Finé | November 20, 1997 |
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VC Villefranche Beaujolais (2019) |
Nathan Haas | March 12, 1989 |
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Katusha-Alpecin (2019) |
Jesper Hansen | October 23, 1990 |
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Astana (2018) |
Jesús Herrada | July 26, 1990 |
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Movistar (2017) |
José Herrada | October 1, 1985 |
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Movistar (2017) |
Victor Lafay | January 17, 1996 |
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Christophe Laporte | December 11, 1992 |
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AVC Aix-en-Provence (2013) |
Mathias Le tournament | March 14, 1995 |
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Océane Top 16 (2016) |
Cyril Lemoine | March 3, 1983 |
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Soy Sun (2013) |
Guillaume Martin | June 9, 1993 |
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Wanty-Gobert (2019) |
Luis Ángel Maté | March 23, 1984 |
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Androni Giocattoli - Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni (2010) |
Marco Mathis | April 7, 1994 |
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Katusha-Alpecin (2018) |
Emmanuel Morin | March 13, 1995 |
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Anthony Perez | April 22, 1991 |
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AVC Aix-en-Provence (2015) |
Pierre-Luc Périchon | 4th January 1987 |
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Fortuneo-Samsic (2018) |
Stéphane Rossetto | April 6, 1987 |
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BigMat-Auber 93 (2014) |
Fabio Sabatini | February 18, 1985 |
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Deceuninck-Quick-Step (2019) |
Damien Touzé | July 7, 1996 |
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Saint Michel-Auber 93 (2018) |
Kenneth Vanbilsen | June 1, 1990 |
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Topsport Vlaanderen-Baloise (2014) |
Julien Vermote | July 26, 1989 |
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Dimension Data (2019) |
Attilio Viviani | October 18, 1996 |
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Sangemini-Trevigiani-MG.K Vis (2019) |
Elia Viviani | February 7, 1989 |
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Deceuninck-Quick-Step (2019) |
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Placements in UCI rankings
UCI world rankings
season | Team evaluation | Driver ranking |
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World ranking 1997 | 22nd |
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World ranking 1998 | 11. |
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World ranking 1999 | 16. |
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World ranking 2000 | 15th |
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World ranking 2001 | 7th |
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World ranking 2002 | 8th. |
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World ranking 2003 | 7th |
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World ranking 2004 | 10. |
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UCI ProTour 2005 | 11. |
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UCI ProTour 2006 | 12. |
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UCI ProTour 2007 | 12. |
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UCI ProTour 2008 | 16. |
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World Calendar 2009 | 20th |
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World calendar 2010 | 20th |
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2011-2018 | - | - |
World ranking 2019 | 21st |
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UCI Africa Tour
season | Team evaluation | Driver ranking |
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2010 | 4th |
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2011 - 2012 | - | - |
2013 | 11. |
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2014 | 13. |
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2015 - 2018 | - | - |
UCI America Tour
season | Team evaluation | Driver ranking |
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2010 - 2014 | - | - |
2015 | 29 |
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2016 - 2018 | - | - |
UCI Asia Tour
season | Team evaluation | Driver ranking |
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2010 - 2014 | - | - |
2015 | 57. |
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2016 | 80. |
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2017 | - | - |
2018 | 29 |
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UCI Europe Tour
season | Team evaluation | Driver ranking |
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2010 | 4th |
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2011 | 5. |
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2012 | 7th |
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2013 | 11. |
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2014 | 3. |
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2015 | 2. |
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2016 | 3. |
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2017 | 2. |
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2018 | 2. |
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UCI Oceania Tour
season | Team evaluation | Driver ranking |
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2005 | 9. |
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2010 - 2018 | - | - |
Track bike team
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 |
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Quentin Lafargue | 17th November 1990 |
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Maximilian Levy | June 26, 1987 |
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Teun Mulder | June 18, 1981 |
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François Pervis | October 16, 1984 |
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Kévin Sireau | April 18, 1987 |
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Individual evidence
- ↑ radsport-news.com: Cofidis gets out of the ProTour from accessed on July 3, 2008
- ↑ velonation.com of March 8, 2012: GreenEdge joins MPCC, movement wants international sanctioning body introduced
- ↑ Ralf Meutgens: Doping in cycling , Bielefeld 2007, pp. 301f. ISBN 9783768852456
- ↑ rad-net.de: Doping: Italian Moreni tested positive on tour, accessed on July 3, 2008
- ↑ rad-net.de: Police interrogate doping offender Moreni, accessed on July 3, 2008
- ↑ rad-net.de: Remy Di Gregorio interrogated on suspicion of doping, accessed on July 10, 2012
- ↑ Sudpresse.be: "Cofidis recrute le cycliste allemand Levy" accessed on January 6, 2010
- ↑ L'équipe Cofidis se retire à la fin de l'année on cyclismactu.net (French)
Web links
- Official website (French, English, Italian, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese)
- Cofidis in the ProCyclingStats.com database
- Cofidis in the UCI database