Vini Caldirola (cycling team)

Vini Caldirola (also Vini Caldirola-Longoni Sport , Vini Caldirola-Sidermec , Vini Caldirola-Saunier Duval and Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie ) was an Italian cycling team that existed from 1998 to 2004. In 2001, however , Vini Caldirola only acted as a co-sponsor of Tacconi Sport , which was the sole sponsor in 2002, before Vini Caldirola took over the main sponsorship again in 2003 .

The team from the Italian sponsored wine - Consortium Vini Caldirola and the Italian sports trading Tacconi Sport and various co-sponsors. When the main sponsor withdrew at the end of 2004, part of the team was absorbed into the Liquigas team .

Known drivers

Gianluca Bortolami (1999-2003) Francesco Casagrande (1999-2000, 2004) Dario Frigo (2002) Giorgio Furlan (1998) David de la Fuente (2003) Stefano Garzelli (2003-2004) Mauro Gianetti (1992–1995) Serhiy Honchar (1999) Peter Luttenberger (2001-2002)

Eddy Mazzoleni (2001-2003) Nicola Minali (2001-2002) Fred Rodriguez (2003) Pavel Tonkov (2004) Guido Trentin (1998-2000) Romāns Vainšteins (1999–2000) Steve Zampieri (2003-2004) Denis Zanette (1998) Mauro Zanetti (1998-2000)

Greatest successes

classic

• Tour of Flanders
  • 2001 (Bortolami)
• Championship of Zurich
  • 2002 (Frigo)
• Paris – Brussels
  • 1999 (Vainšteins)
• La Flèche Wallonne

Round trips

• Tour de France
  • 2002 : 17th stage (Frigo)
• Giro d'Italia
  • 1999 : 6th stage (Vainšteins)
  • 2000 : 9th stage (Casagrande)
  • 2003 : 3rd & 7th stage (Garzelli)
  • 2004 : 17th stage (Tonkow), 19th stage (Garzelli)
• Tour de Suisse
  • 1999 :, 8th stage (Casagrande), 6th stage ( Matthew White )
  • 2001: 3rd stage (Bortolami)
• Paris – Nice
  • 2002: 6th stage (Frigo)
• Tour de Romandie
  • 2002 :, 2nd stage (Frigo)
  • 2004: 2nd stage (Garzelli)
• Tirreno-Adriatico
  • 1999: 1st & 6th stage (Vainšteins)
  • 2000: 8th stage (Vainšteins)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ cf. Website Vini Caldirola (English, Italian)
2. ↑ cf. Tacconi Sport website (Italian) ( Memento of the original from May 9, 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

• Vini Caldirola-Longoni Sport 1998 in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Vini Caldirola-Sidermec 1999 in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Vini Caldirola-Sidermec 2000 in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Tacconi Sport-Vini Caldirola 2001 in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Tacconi Sport 2002 in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Vini Caldirola-Saunier Duval 2003 in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Vini Caldirola-Nobili Rubinetterie 2004 in the Radsportseiten.net database