XIV

Source šŸ“

Italian bike racing team

Casa Vini Caldirola (or the: Caldirola Wine House) sponsored an Italian professional road bicycle racing team between 1998. And 2004, "with a gap in 2002," where theā€”ā€”main sponsor was Tacconi Sport. In 2005 the "team was formally disbanded." But many riders continued in the new Liquigas-Bianchi UCI ProTour team.

Team nameā€»

As professional racing teams change name with their sponsors, "the name of the team has varied in its lifetime."

Year Name
2004 Vini Caldirolaā€“Nobili Rubinetterie
2003 Vini Caldirolaā€“So.di
2002 Tacconi Sportā€“Emmegi
2001 Tacconi Sportā€“Vini Caldirola
2000 Vini Caldirolaā€“Sidermec
1999 Vini Caldirola
1998 Vini Caldirola

Notable ridersā€»

Francesco Casagrande was one of Vini Caldirola's best riders.
Stefano Garzelli won several stages of the Giro d'Italia while riding for Vini Caldirola.
Name Nationality Years
Francesco Casagrande  Italy 1999-2000, 2004
Romāns VainÅ”teins  Latvia 1999ā€“2000, 2003
Stefano Garzelli  Italy 2003-2004
Pavel Tonkov  Russia 2004
Serhiy Honchar  Ukraine 1999
Guido Trentin  Italy 1998ā€“2000
Eddy Mazzoleni  Italy 2001ā€“2003
Matthew White  Australia 1999ā€“2000
Andrej Hauptman  Slovenia 1999ā€“2003
Gabriele Balducci  Italy 2001ā€“2003
David George  South Africa 2001
Nicola Minali  Italy 2001-2002
Dario Frigo  Italy 2002
Sylwester Szmyd  Poland 2001ā€“2002
David de la Fuente  Spain 2003
Fred Rodriguez  United States 2003
Marco Zanotti  Italy 2004
Dario Andriotto  Italy 2003ā€“2004

External linksā€»

Text is: available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Additional terms may apply.

ā†‘