Marco Polo Cycling Donckers Koffie

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Marco Polo Cycling Donckers Koffie
Team data
UCI code MPC
nationality EthiopiaEthiopia Ethiopia
License Continental team
operator Top sport Gelderland
First season 2005
Last season 2012
discipline Street
staff
Team manager NetherlandsNetherlands Gudo Kramer
Sportl. ladder BelgiumBelgium Edward De Weerdt Gilbert De Weerdt Rudi Dubois Remko Kramer
BelgiumBelgium
BelgiumBelgium
NetherlandsNetherlands
Name story
Years Surname
2005–2006
2007
2008–2009
2010–2011
2012
Marco Polo Cycling Team
Discovery Channel-Marco Polo
Trek-Marco Polo
Marco Polo Cycling Team
Marco Polo Cycling Donckers Koffie
Website
www.marcopolocyclingteam.com

The Marco Polo Cycling Donckers Koffie is a former Ethiopian cycling team based in the Netherlands .

The team had been licensed as a Continental Team since 2005 and until the end of the 2011 season mainly participated in races on the UCI Asia Tour . The manager is Gudo Kramer . He is supported by Remko Kramer , Edward De Weerdt, Gilbert De Weerdt and Rudi Dubois as sporting directors. Since November 2006 there has been a cooperation with the US ProTeam Discovery Channel , which however dissolved at the end of the 2007 season. The first driver to switch to the ProTeam was the Chinese Fuyu Li . The Continental Team rode under the name Marco Polo Cycling Team until the end of the 2006 season , in 2007 as Discovery Channel-Marco Polo , from 2008 to 2009 as Trek-Marco Polo and 2010 to 2011 as Marco Polo Cycling Team .

For the 2012 season, the team signed a number of Ethiopian riders with the aim of developing cycling in this country. Due to the majority of Ethiopian drivers, the team was also registered as the first Ethiopian Continental Team. It will mainly compete in races in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Southern Europe, Africa and Asia. The most famous driver was former Tour de France stage winner Léon van Bon . Donckers Koffie was won as the second name sponsor , which means that the team could be expanded to 19 drivers and will now also contest an extensive European racing program.

The team has not had a UCI license since 2013.

2012 season

Disposals - additions

Accesses Team 2011 Departures Team 2012
BelgiumBelgium Matthias Van Mechelen Donckers Koffie-Jelly Belly China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Yandong Xing MAX Success Sports
United KingdomUnited Kingdom Matt Green Cinelli Down Under (2009) MalaysiaMalaysia Sea Keong Loh OCBC Singapore Continental Cycling Team
EthiopiaEthiopia Alem Abebe Neoprofi New ZealandNew Zealand Jason Christie Team Differdange-Magic-SportFood.de
SpainSpain Rubén Abello Neoprofi China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Lijun Bai Unknown
New ZealandNew Zealand Shane Archbold Neoprofi China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Hailong Ma Unknown
United KingdomUnited Kingdom Chris Bartlett Neoprofi SwitzerlandSwitzerland Tristan Marguet Unknown
EthiopiaEthiopia Binyam Bekele Neoprofi AustraliaAustralia Nick Mitchell Unknown
EthiopiaEthiopia Kbrom Giday Neoprofi Czech RepublicCzech Republic Pavel Stuchlik Unknown
South AfricaSouth Africa Edward Greene Neoprofi
EthiopiaEthiopia Yirga Kinfe Neoprofi
New ZealandNew Zealand Christopher Macic Neoprofi

team

Surname birthday nationality Team 2013
Alem Abebe November 15, 1990 EthiopiaEthiopia Ethiopia
Rubén Abello April 19, 1976 SpainSpain Spain
Daniel Abraham February 11, 1985 EritreaEritrea Eritrea CCN Cycling Team
Shane Archbold February 2, 1989 New ZealandNew Zealand New Zealand To Post-ChainReaction
Chris Barlett August 12, 1986 United KingdomUnited Kingdom United Kingdom
Binyam Bekele September 18, 1987 EthiopiaEthiopia Ethiopia
Solomon Bitew July 13, 1987 EthiopiaEthiopia Ethiopia
Léon van Bon January 28, 1972 NetherlandsNetherlands Netherlands
Sven De Weerdt March 29, 1978 BelgiumBelgium Belgium CCN Cycling Team
Estifanos Gebresilassie February 18, 1988 EthiopiaEthiopia Ethiopia
Kbrom Giday February 19, 1989 EthiopiaEthiopia Ethiopia
Matt Grenn October 2nd, 1988 United KingdomUnited Kingdom United Kingdom
Edward Greene November 26, 1990 South AfricaSouth Africa South Africa
Yirga Kinfe 19th February 1988 EthiopiaEthiopia Ethiopia
Jan Kuyckx May 20, 1979 BelgiumBelgium Belgium
Christopher Macic August 1, 1988 New ZealandNew Zealand New Zealand
Matthé Pronk July 1, 1974 NetherlandsNetherlands Netherlands
Marc Ryan October 14, 1982 New ZealandNew Zealand New Zealand
Matthias Van Mechelen February 23, 1988 BelgiumBelgium Belgium
Trainees nationality
Cameron Karwowski New ZealandNew Zealand New Zealand

2009 season

Successes in the Continental Circuits

date run Cat. winner
March 12th South AfricaSouth Africa South African Championship - Individual Time Trial CN South AfricaSouth Africa Jacobus Venter
March 12th South AfricaSouth Africa South African Championship - Individual Time Trial (U23) CN South AfricaSouth Africa Jacobus Venter
April 8th ThailandThailand5th stage Tour of Thailand 2.2 United KingdomUnited Kingdom James Spragg
June 12 Korea SouthSouth Korea8th stage Tour de Korea 2.2 NetherlandsNetherlands Léon van Bon
China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Chinese Championship - Individual Time Trial CN China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Fuyu Li

Former drivers

Placements in UCI rankings

UCI Africa Tour

season Team ranking Driver ranking
2005
2006 7th
2007
2008
2009 14th South AfricaSouth Africa Jacobus Venter (57.)
2010 - -
2011 20th EthiopiaEthiopia Estifanos Gebresilassie (170.)
2012 - -

UCI Asia Tour

season Team ranking Driver ranking
2005 7th MongoliaMongolia Jamsrangiin Öldsii-Orschich (21.)
2006 4th China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Fuyu Li (23rd)
2007 8th. MongoliaMongolia Jamsrangiin Öldsii-Orschich (35.)
2008 5. RussiaRussia Sergei Kudenzow (20th)
2009 27. South AfricaSouth Africa Jacques Janse van Rensburg (101st)
2010 36. AustraliaAustralia Brad Hall (95th)
2011 57. EthiopiaEthiopia Estifanos Gebresilassie (240.)
2012 - -

UCI Europe Tour

season Team ranking Driver ranking
2009 110. South AfricaSouth Africa Jacobus Venter (546.)
2010 - -
2011 106. New ZealandNew Zealand Jason Christie (878.)
2012 122. New ZealandNew Zealand Marc Ryan (1031.)

UCI Oceania Tour

season Team ranking Driver ranking
2005
2006 9.
2007 19th
2008 - -
2009 - -
2010 - -
2011 12. New ZealandNew Zealand Jason Christie (36th)
2012 - -

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. cyclingnews.com of November 21, 2011: Marco Polo forms first Ethiopian pro team
  2. cyclingnews.com of February 23, 2012: New sponsor, new direction for 2012 Marco Polo Cycling Team