Mercatone Uno (cycling team)

This article deals with the cycling team Mercatone Uno , which existed from 1997 to 2003 , to be distinguished from the team Mercatone Uno-Zucchini , which existed from 1992 to 1995 .

Mercatone Uno was an Italian cycling team that existed from 1997 to 2003.

The team of the Italian sponsored hypermarket chain Mercatone Uno and several co-sponsors. It emerged from the Carrera Jeans team . Only in 1997 and 2002 was the team exclusively called Mercatone Uno . In its senior year, it was downgraded to UCI GS-2 status.

Team managers were u. a. Luciano Pezzi (until 1998), Franco Cornacchia (1999), Manuela Ronchi and Roberta Gasperoni . Sports leaders were u. a. Giuseppe Martinelli , Alessandro Giannelli , Orlando Maini and Marino Amadori .

The team's greatest success was Marco Pantani's tour double , who won both the Giro d'Italia and the Tour de France in 1998. Stefano Garzelli also won the Giro and the Tour de Suisse .

Known drivers

Igor Astarloa (2000-2001) Fabiano Fontanelli (1998-2003) Stefano Garzelli (1997-2000) Dimitri Konyschw (1998–1999) Christian Moreni (2001)

Marco Pantani (1997-2003) Marco Velo (1998-2001) Beat Zberg (1997) Markus Zberg (1997)

Greatest successes

• Tour de France
  • 1997 : 13th & 15th stage (Pantani)
  • 1998: Overall victory , 11th & 15th stage (Pantani)
  • 1999 : 14th stage (Konyschw)
  • 2000 : 12th & 15th stage (Pantani)
• Giro d'Italia
  • 1998: Overall victory , mountain classification , 14th & 19th stage (Pantani)
  • 1999 : 8th, 15th, 19th & 20th stage (Pantani)
  • 2000 : Overall victory , 18th stage (Garzelli)
• Tour de Suisse
  • 1998: Overall victory 4th & 5th stage (Garzelli)
  • 2000: 8th stage (Garzelli)
• Tirreno-Adriatico
  • 1997: 7th stage ( Mario Traversoni )
• Tour of Catalonia
  • 2001: 7th stage ( Daniele De Paoli )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Mercatone Uno website (Italian) ( Memento of the original from October 5, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 

Web links

• The team 1997 , 1998 , 1999 , 2000 , 2001 , 2002 and 2003 in the database of radsportseiten.net