Saeco (cycling team)

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Saeco Macchine per Caffè
Team data
nationality San MarinoSan Marino/ItalyItaly
operator AS Juvenes San Marino
First season 1989
Last season 2004
discipline Street
Wheel manufacturer Cannondale
Name story
Years Surname
1989
1990
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996–1997
1998–1999
2000
2001
2002
2003–2004
Verynet-FNT-Juvenes San Marino
GIS Gelati-Juvenes San Marino
GIS Gelati-Ballan
Mercatone Uno-Zucchini-Medeghini
Mercatone Uno-Medeghini-Zucchini
Mercatone Uno-Medeghini
Mercatone Uno-Saeco-Magniflex
Saeco-AS Juvenes San Marino
per Caffè Macchine Cannondale
Saeco Macchine per Caffè-Valli & Valli
Saeco Macchine per Caffè
Saeco Macchine per Caffè-Longoni Sport
Saeco Macchine per Caffè

Saeco was the Italian - San Marinese maltese pro - cycling team Marino's san-the sports club AS Juvenes San Marino .

Main sponsor of the team was from 1990, the ice maker Gis Gelati and from 1992 to 1995, the consumer market chain Mercatone Uno , the 1997 to 2003 under their name another team sponsored (→ Mercatone Uno (cycling team) ).

Since 1996, the team has taken part in all important cycling races under the name of the new main sponsor, the coffee machine manufacturer Saeco . During this time, cyclists such as Salvatore Commesso , Mario Cipollini , Damiano Cunego , Danilo di Luca , Gilberto Simoni and the German Jörg Ludewig drove for this racing team. One of the trademarks of the team were the bright red jerseys and the Cannondale bikes.

The greatest successes include two overall victories at the Giro d'Italia in 2004 (Damiano Cunego) and 2003 (Gilberto Simoni) as well as the sprint victories of Mario Cipollini. Characteristic for the sprint design around Cipollini was a so-called train in which the drivers stretched in front of the captain and drove him close to the destination at high speed, thus guaranteeing him an optimal starting position for the mass sprint and, because of the red team jerseys, as "treno rosso" (" red train ") was known.

In 2005 Saeco was merged with the Lampre team under the new name Lampre-Caffita .

Known drivers

Greatest successes

classic

Round trips

  • Tour de France
    • 1997 : 1st & 2nd stage (Cipollini)
    • 1998 : 6th & 7th stage (Cipollini)
    • 1999 : 4th - 7th Stage (Cipollini), 13th stage (Commesso)
    • 2000 : 18th stage (Commesso)
    • 2003 : 14th stage (Simoni)
  • Giro d'Italia
    • 1993 : Scoring2nd, 8th & 18th stage (Baffi)
    • 1997 : Overall rating14 stage (Gotti)
    • 2000 : 4th stage (Cipollini)
    • 2001 : 6th, 9th, 19th & 21st stage (Cipollini)
    • 2002 : 11th stage (Simoni)
    • 2003 : Overall rating, Scoring, 12th, 14th & 19th stage (Simoni)
    • 2004 :, Overall rating2nd, 7th, 16th & 18th stage (Cunego); 3rd stage (Simoni)
  • Vuelta a España
  • Tour de Suisse
  • Tour of Catalonia
    • 1994: 2nd & 3rd stage ( Simone Biasci ), 6th stage ( Massimo Donati )
    • 1995: 2nd, 3rd & 5th stage (Cipollini)
    • 1996: 2nd & 5th stage (Cipollini)
    • 1998: 1st - 4th Stage (Cipollini)
    • 1999: 1st & 2nd stage (Cipollini)
  • Germany tour
  • Tour de Romandie
    • 1996: 3rd, 5th (part 1) & 6th stage (Cipollini)
    • 1997: 2nd, 3rd & 5th (part 1) stage (Cipollini)
    • 1999: 5th stage (Cipollini)
    • 2000 Overall winner:, Prologue (Savoldelli); 1st & 5th stage (Cipollini); 2nd stage (Dufaux)
    • 2001: Prologue, 2nd stage (Savoldelli); 5th stage (Cipollini)
  • Tirreno-Adriatico
    • 1994: 1st stage (Baffi)
    • 1996: Overall winner(Casagrande)
    • 1999: 3rd stage (Cipollini)
    • 2001: 1st stage ( Biagio Conte )
    • 2002: 3rd & 5th stage (Di Luca)
    • 2003: 6th stage (Di Luca)
  • Paris – Nice
    • 1994: 1st stage, 6th stage (Cipollini)
  • Tour de Romandie
    • 1995: 2nd & 5th stage (Cipollini)

Individual evidence

  1. cf. 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mercatoneuno.com
  2. Storia di Mario Cipollini on museociclismo.it accessed on September 7, 2013
  3. radsport-news.com from November 1st, 2004: Lampre and Saeco merge to Lampre-Caffita

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