Team Polti
The Polti team (also Polti-Granarolo-Santini in 1995 ) was an Italian cycling team that existed from 1994 to 2000. The team was sponsored by the Italian household appliance manufacturer Polti . He was previously active as a co-sponsor of Lampre .
Team manager was the Italian Gianluigi Stanga . Sporting directors were Vittorio Algeri , Giosuè Zenoni , Antonio Bevilacqua and Giovanni Fidanza .
The greatest success of the team was the overall Giro d'Italia victory by Ivan Gotti . The team also won stages in numerous tours and celebrated victories in various classics .
Known drivers
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Greatest successes
classic
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Tour of Flanders
- 1994 (Bugno)
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Amstel Gold Race
- 1995 ( Mauro Gianetti )
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Liège – Bastogne – Liège
- 1995 (Gianetti)
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HEW Cyclassics
- 1996 ( Rossano Brasi )
- 1999 (Celestino)
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Lombardy tour
- 1999 (Celestino)
Round trips
- Tour de France
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Giro d'Italia
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1994 : 3rd stage (Bugno), 10th stage,
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(Abduschaparov) - 1995 : 20th stage (Outschakov), 22nd stage (Lombardi)
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1996 : 3rd stage (Lombardi), 7th stage & 6 days
(Rebellin), 22nd stage (Outschakov) - 1997 : 17th stage ( Mirko Gualdi )
- 1998 : 17th stage (Guerini)
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1999 : Overall victory (Gotti), 13th stage (Virusque), 22nd stage & (Guidi)
- 2000 : 12th stage ( Enrico Cassani )
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1994 : 3rd stage (Bugno), 10th stage,
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Tour de Suisse
- 1995: 7th stage (Lombardi)
- 1998: 1st stage (rebel)
- 1999: 2nd stage ( Silvio Martinello )
- 2000: 4th stage ( Pascal Hervé )
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Paris – Nice
- 1994: 3rd stage, 8th stage (part 1) (Abduschaparov)
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Dauphiné Libéré
- 1996: 7th stage (Leblanc)
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Tour de Romandie
- 1995: 4th stage (part 1) (Fidanza)
- 2000: 3rd stage (part 1), 6th stage ( Eddy Mazzoleni )
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Tour of Catalonia
- 1997: 3rd stage, 8th stage (Outschakov)
Web links
- Team Polti in the ProCyclingStats.com database