Roland (cycling team)

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Roland
Team data
nationality BelgiumBelgium Belgium
First season 1978
Last season 1988
discipline Street
Wheel manufacturer Ludo (1978–1981)
Concorde (1982)
Cicli Moser (1983)
Colnago (1984–1988)
staff
Team manager Florent Vanvaerenbergh
Leo Wouters
Roger Swerts
Name story
Years Surname
1978
1979
1980
1981
1982
1983–1985
1986
1987
1988
Safir-Beyers-Ludo
Safir-Geuze-Saint-Louis-Ludo
Safir-Ludo
Safir-Ludo-Galli
Safir-Marc
Safir-Van de Ven
Roland-Van de Ven
Roland-Skala
Roland

Roland was a Belgian cycling team that existed from 1978 to 1988.

history

The team was founded in 1978 under the direction of Florent Vanvaerenbergh. In the very first year, the team was able to achieve a stage win at the Vuelta a España 1978 and a second place at Nationale Sluitingprijs and a third place at Schaal Sels Merksem . In the next few years some successes were achieved, including the two victories at Bordeaux-Paris in 1980 and 1981. In 1982 the team was able to achieve three stages as well as second place in the overall standings at the 1982 Vuelta a España . In 1984 three stages in the Vuelta a España 1984 and the Meta Volantes rating were won again. During the Tour of Flanders in 1987, Jesper Skibby , who was in the lead, fell on the Koppenberg and his bike was run over by the jury's car . The team was able to win a stage in their only participation in the Tour de France . In 1988 good results were achieved with Omloop Het Nieuwsblad , Tour des Alpes-Maritimes et du Var and a stage win in the Tour de Suisse , but at the end of the season the team broke up.

doping

Dietrich Thurau was tested positive for prohibited stimulants after the eighth stage of the Tour de France 1987 and received a 10-minute time penalty, was banned for a month and had to pay a fine of 5,000 francs. When the positive result became known, Thurau had already canceled the Tour de France .

successes

1978

1980

1981

1982

1983

1984

1985

1986

1987

1988

Grand Tour placements

Grand Tour 1978 1981 1982 1984 1985 1987
Yellow jersey Vuelta a España 2 13 74
Maglia Rosa Giro d'Italia 46 44
Yellow jersey Tour de France 29

Monuments-of-cycling placements

Monument to cycling 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988
Milan – Sanremo - 13 - 22nd - 10 63 18th -
Tour of Flanders 27 15th 4th 7th 8th 16 23 26th -
Paris – Roubaix 11 21st 34 18th 13 16 49 11 -
Liège – Bastogne – Liège 7th 24 21st 31 - 84 42 51 -
Lombardy tour - - - - - - - - -

Known former drivers

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Safir-Beyers-Ludo 1978. In: memoire-du-cyclisme.eu. Retrieved August 9, 2020 (French).
  2. Jesper Skibby - Flandern Rundt 1987. YouTube, August 12, 2011, accessed April 9, 2015 .
  3. The Koppenberg spares no one. cyclinginflanders.cc, accessed on August 9, 2020 .
  4. Jeff Connor: Wide Eyed & Legless - Inside the Tour de France . 1988, ISBN 0-671-69937-7 .
  5. ^ Thurau positive 3rd In: dopeology.org. Accessed August 9, 2020 (English).