Liquigas
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| UCI code | LIQ | |||||||||||||
| Based |  Italy |
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| Founded | 1999 | |||||||||||||
| Discipline(s) | Road | |||||||||||||
| Status | ProTour | |||||||||||||
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| General manager | Roberto Amadio | |||||||||||||
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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 2007 Giro d'Italia and 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 replaced Bianchi as the bicycle sponsor. This marked Cannondale's return to the ProTour after discontinuing sponsorship of the Lampre-Caffita team at the end of the 2005 season.
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[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] Major results
[edit] 2007
- 1st, Stage 2, Paris-Nice : Franco Pellizotti
- 1st, Points classification, Paris-Nice : Franco Pellizotti
- 2nd, Stage 2, Paris-Nice : Roman Kreuziger
- 1st, General Classification, Liège-Bastogne-Liège : Danilo Di Luca
- 1st, Stage 1 Team time trial, Giro d'Italia : Liquigas
- 1st, Stage 4,12 and overall Giro d'Italia: Danilo Di Luca
- 1st Clásica de San Sebastian: Leonardo Bertagnolli
- 1st Stage 5 Tour de France: Filippo Pozzato
[edit] 2008
- 1st stage 1a, Francesco Chicchi,
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- 1st stage 1b (TTT) Franceso Settimana Internazionale Coppi e Bartali
[edit] Team roster
As of February 2, 2008.[1]
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[edit] References
- ^ Liquigas (LIQ) - ITA Riders. uciprotour.com. UCI. Retrieved on 2008-02-02.
[edit] External links
- Official site
- Profile on Daily Peloton [1]
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