Liquigas

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Liquigas

Team information

UCI code

LIQ

Based

Italy

Founded

1999

Discipline(s)

Road

Status

ProTour

Key personnel

General Manager

Roberto Amadio




Team kit

Team Liquigas (UCI Team Code: LIQ) is an Italian professional road bicycle racing team in the UCI ProTour. The star is the Italian Danilo di Luca, who won the 2005 UCI ProTour. The current title sponsor is Liquigas. In 2005 the team was co-title sponsored by Liquigas and Bianchi and was named Liquigas-Bianchi.

The team was founded under the name Liquigas in 1999, and was long in the second division team, slowly making a name of itself. From 2005 the team was combined with Team Bianchi for the Pro Tour.

For 2007 Cannondale replaces Bianchi as the bicycle sponsor. This marks Cannondale's return to the ProTour after discontinuing sponsorship of the Lampre-Caffita team at the end of the 2005 season.

1 Status
2 2007 ProTeam
- 2.1 Major results
- 2.2 Team roster
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Status

2005 was a very exciting year for the team. Danilo di Luca won Vuelta al País Vasco, and the one day classics Amstel Gold Race and La Flèche Wallonne. Also there has been stage wins in Giro d'Italia (2 x Danilo di Luca), the Vuelta al País Vasco (Danilo di Luca), the Volta a Catalunya (Enrico Gasparotto) and the Tour de Suisse (Michael Albasini). In 2006, the team won the Team Classification in the Eneco Tour of Benelux.

[edit] 2007 ProTeam

[edit] Major results

1st, Stage 2, Paris-Nice : Franco Pellizotti
1st, Points classification, Paris-Nice : Franco Pellizotti

[edit] Team roster

As of January 2, 2007^[1]

	Rider	Date of Birth
	Michael Albasini	December 20, 1980 (age 26)
	Magnus Bäckstedt	January 30, 1975 (age 32)
	Manuel Beltrán	May 28, 1971 (age 35)
	Leonardo Bertagnolli	January 8, 1978 (age 29)
	Patrick Calcagni	July 5, 1977 (age 29)
	Eros Capecchi	June 13, 1986 (age 20)
	Kjell Carlström	October 18, 1976 (age 30)
	Dario Cataldo	March 17, 1985 (age 22)
	Francesco Chicchi	November 27, 1980 (age 26)
	Mauro Da Dalto	April 8, 1981 (age 26)
	Danilo di Luca	January 2, 1976 (age 31)
	Francesco Failli	December 16, 1983 (age 23)
	Antonio Murilo Fisher	June 16, 1979 (age 27)
	Enrico Gasparotto	March 22, 1982 (age 25)
	Roman Kreuziger	May 6, 1986 (age 20)

	Rider	Date of Birth
	Aleksandr Kuschynski	October 27, 1979 (age 27)
	Vladimir Miholjevic	January 18, 1974 (age 33)
	Matej Mugerli	June 17, 1981 (age 25)
	Vincenzo Nibali	November 14, 1984 (age 22)
	Andrea Noè	January 15, 1969 (age 38)
	Luca Paolini	January 17, 1977 (age 30)
	Franco Pellizotti	January 15, 1978 (age 29)
	Roberto Petito	February 1, 1971 (age 36)
	Filippo Pozzato	September 10, 1981 (age 25)
	Manuel Quinziato	October 30, 1979 (age 27)
	Alessandro Spezialetti	January 14, 1975 (age 32)
	Guido Trenti	December 27, 1972 (age 34)
	Alessandro Vanotti	September 16, 1980 (age 26)
	Charlie Wegelius	April 26, 1978 (age 28)
	Frederik Willems	September 8, 1979 (age 27)