Movistar Team
Movistar Team
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Team information |
UCI code |
MOV |
Based |
Spain |
Founded |
1980 (1980) |
Status |
UCI ProTeam |
Bicycles |
Pinarello |
Key personnel |
General manager |
Eusebio Unzue |
Team name history |
1980–1989
1990–2000
2001–2003
2004–2005
2005
2006
2007–2010
2011– |
Reynolds
Banesto
iBanesto.com
Illes Balears-Banesto
Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne
Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears
Caisse d'Epargne
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Movistar Team (UCI team code: MOV) is a professional road bicycle racing team which participates in the UCI ProTour and has achieved twelve General Classification (GC) victories in Grand Tours. The title sponsor is the Spanish mobile telephone company Telefónica, with the team riding under the name of the company's brand Movistar.[1]
The team was formed as Reynolds, led by Ángel Arroyo and later by Pedro Delgado, who won a Tour de France and a Vuelta a España, and was subsequently sponsored by Banesto, under which title the team included 5-time Tour de France winner Miguel Indurain and Alex Zülle, twice winner of the Vuelta a España. The team offices are in Egüés, a municipality of Navarre, Spain, in the metropolitan area of Pamplona.[2] A later sponsor was Caisse d'Epargne, a French semi-cooperative banking group.
The team uses Pinarello bikes with Campagnolo parts. Since 2008 Eusebio Unzue has been the manager of the team after the long running manager, José Miguel Echavarri, retired from the sport. Directeurs sportifs of the team include Neil Stephens, Alfonso Galilea and José Luis Jaimerena.
History
Reynolds team
The team began in 1980 as the Reynolds team which José Miguel Echavarri as the directeur sportif.[3] In 1982 signed a young Pedro Delgado who acted as a domestique for team leader Ángel Arroyo during the 1982 Vuelta a España.[4] Arroyo won the Vuelta after his team controlled the race after he took the lead. But 48 hours after his Vuelta win, the results of a positive test were made known for Methylphenidate (Ritalin). Arroyo and the Reynolds team denied that Arroyo doped and asked for a B-analysis which confirmed the positive A-sample. Arroyo became the first winner of the Vuelta a España to be disqualified.[5] Delgado changed teams in 1985 but returned to Reynolds in 1988 where he won the 1988 Tour de France and then the 1989 Vuelta a España with the team. In 1984, Miguel Indurain made his professional debut with the team.
Major victories
- 1981
- 1st Vuelta a España Mountains Classification, José Luis Laguía
- 1st Overall Vuelta a Burgos, José Luis Laguía
- 1982
- 1st Overall Vuelta a Burgos, José Luis Laguía
- 1st Overall Vuelta al País Vasco, José Luis Laguía
- 1st Spain Road Race Championships, José Luis Laguía
- 1st Stages 6, 9 & 11 Vuelta a España, José Luis Laguía
- 1st Stage 8 Vuelta a España, Jesús Hernández
- 1st Stage 15 Vuelta a España, Ángel Arroyo
- 1st Vuelta a España Mountains Classification, José Luis Laguía
- 1983
- 1st Overall Vuelta al País Vasco, Julián Gorospe
- 1st Spain Road Race Championships, Carlos Hernández
- 1st Stage 15 Tour de France, Ángel Arroyo
- 1st Stage 14 Vuelta a España, Carlos Hernández
- 1st Stage 16 Vuelta a España, José Luis Laguía
- 1st Stage 18 Vuelta a España, Jesús Hernández
- 1st Vuelta a España Mountains Classification, José Luis Laguía
- 1984
- 1985
- 1986
- 1988
- Tour de France GC – Pedro Delgado
- Stage 13 – Pedro Delgado
- 1989
Banesto
In 1990 Spanish bank Banesto took over as the main sponsor of the team from Reynolds. Delgado was the team leader for the Tour de France while Miguel Indurain and Julián Gorospe were the leaders for the week long stage races. When Gorospe took the lead in that year's Vuelta, the team went behind him in a bid to win the race. However Gorospe lost the leader's jersey and Delgado took over the leadership but could not regain the time that Italian Marco Giovannetti had gained and ended the race second overall behind Giovannetti. Over the following years, Indurain rose to become a dominator of stage races winning five editions of the Tour de France and two editions of the Giro d'Italia. Delgado was the team leader for the Vuelta. The team also achieved success with Jean-François Bernard who won the 1992 edition of Paris–Nice with the team. The team won the Vuelta again in 1998 with Abraham Olano. During this time Alex Zülle joined the team and finished the 1999 Tour de France second overall while legendary climber José María Jiménez performed in the Vuelta a España. The team became known as iBanesto.com in the final years of the sponsorship of the Banesto bank.
Major victories
- 1990
- 1991
- Tour de France GC – Miguel Indurain
- Team Classification
- Stage 8 – Miguel Indurain
- Stage 21 – Miguel Indurain
- 1992
- Paris–Nice – Jean-François Bernard
- Critérium International – Jean-François Bernard
- Volta a Catalunya – Miguel Indurain
- Giro d'Italia GC – Miguel Indurain
- Tour de France
- Tour de France GC – Miguel Indurain
- Prologue – Miguel Indurain
- Stage 9 – Miguel Indurain
- Stage 19 – Miguel Indurain
- 1993
- Tour de France GC – Miguel Indurain
- Prologue – Miguel Indurain
- Stage 9 – Miguel Indurain
- 1994
- Tour de France GC – Miguel Indurain
- Stage 9 – Miguel Indurain
- 1995
- Tour de France GC – Miguel Indurain
- Stage 8 – Miguel Indurain
- Stage 19 – Miguel Indurain
- 1996
- Dauphiné Libéré – Miguel Indurain
- 1997
- 1998
- Vuelta a España GC – Abraham Olano
- Mountains Classification – José María Jiménez
- Team Classification
- 1999
- Mountains Classification – José María Jiménez
- Team Classification
- 2000
- Young Rider Classification – Francisco Mancebo
- Stage 18 – José Vicente García
- 2001
- Mountains Classification – José María Jiménez
- Points Classification – José María Jiménez
- Team Classification
- 2002
- 2003
- Young Rider Classification – Denis Menchov
- Stage 18 – Pablo Lastras
Illes Balears
In 2004 Illes Balears, the Balearic Island's Tourism Board, became the team's principal sponsor, the team's name was Illes Balears-Banesto until 2005. Caisse d'Epargne took over from Banesto as the second sponsor in the 2005 season, the team was then known as Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne. Caisse d'Epargne then became the main sponsor in 2006 reversing the title sponsor ordering with the name, Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears. The team fielded a number of strong contenders in the 2005 Tour de France including Francisco Mancebo (former National Champion of Spain), Alejandro Valverde, Vladimir Karpets and sprinter Isaac Gálvez. Mancebo produced the best results finishing fourth overall in the General Classification.
Major victories
- 2004
- 1st Stage 1 Vuelta a la Comunitat Valenciana, Antonio Colom
- 1st Stage 2 Vuelta a Murcia, José Iván Gutiérrez
- 1st Stage 6 Paris-Nice, Denis Menchov
- 1st Stage 3 Setmana Catalana, Isaac Gálvez
- 1st Overall Vuelta al País Vasco, Denis Menchov
- 1st Stage 4, Denis Menchov
- 1st Stage 1 Vuelta a Aragon, Denis Menchov
- 1st Overall Vuelta a la Rioja, Vladimir Karpets
- 1st Stage 1 Vuelta a Castilla y Leon, José Iván Gutiérrez
- 1st Stage 2 Vuelta a Castilla y Leon, Team Time Trial
- 1st Stage 6 Deutschland-Tour, Francisco Mancebo
- 1st Stage 1 Volta a Catalunya, Team Time Trial
- 1st Stage 7 Volta a Catalunya, Isaac Gálvez
- 1st Spain Road Race Championships, Francisco Mancebo
- 1st Spain Time Trial Championships, José Iván Gutiérrez
- 1st Tour de France Young Rider Classification, Vladimir Karpets
- 1st Stage 5 Vuelta a España, Denis Menchov
- 3rd Overall Vuelta a España, Francisco Mancebo
- 2005
- 1st Trofeo Manacor, Alejandro Valverde
- 1st Trofeo Soller, Alejandro Valverde
- 1st Trofeo Calvia, Antonio Colom
- 1st Clasica de Almeria, José Iván Gutiérrez
- 1st Stage 3 Paris-Nice, Vicente Reynes
- 1st Stage 7 Paris-Nice, Alejandro Valverde
- 1st Stage 1 Critérium International, Isaac Gálvez
- 1st Stages 3 & 4 Vuelta al Pais Vasco, Alejandro Valverde
- 1st Stage 8 Tour de Suisse, Pablo Lastras
- 1st Spain Time Trial Championships, José Iván Gutiérrez
- 1st Stage 10 Tour de France, Alejandro Valverde
- 1st Clasica a los Puertos, Xabier Zandio
- 1st Stage 10 Vuelta a España, Francisco Mancebo
- 2nd Overall Paris-Nice, Alejandro Valverde
- 2nd Road Race World Championships, Alejandro Valverde
- 2nd Time Trial World Championships, José Iván Gutiérrez
- 3rd Overall Vuelta a España, Francisco Mancebo
Caisse d'Epargne
Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears finished fifth overall (56 minutes, 53 seconds behind Team T-Mobile) in the Team Classification at the 2006 Tour de France. Individually, the team's top rider, Óscar Pereiro, finished in second place. The Tour victory of Phonak rider Floyd Landis was almost immediately called into question, after a urine sample taken after his Stage 17 win twice tested positive for banned synthetic testosterone as well as a ratio of testosterone to epitestosterone nearly three times the limit allowed by World Anti-Doping Agency rules.[6]
After hearing of the positive "A" test, Pereiro stated that it was only an initial, unconfirmed result and he would not yet consider Landis guilty or himself the Tour winner. "I have too much respect for Landis to do otherwise", he said.[7] After hearing that the Landis "B" test also came back positive, Pereiro stated that he now considers himself Tour champion and the Landis scandal should not diminish his own achievement. "Right now I feel like the winner of the Tour de France", Pereiro said. "It's a victory for the whole team."[8] After nearly two years of appeals, Pereiro was officially upgraded to Tour champion for 2006.[9]
Major victories
- 2006
- 1st Trofeo Mallorca, Isaac Gálvez
- 1st Trofeo Alcudia, Isaac Gálvez
- 1st Stage 2 Tour Méditerranéen, José Iván Gutiérrez
- 1st Overall Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana, Antonio Colom
- 1st Stage 4, Antonio Colom
- 1st Clasica de Almeria, Francisco Pérez
- 1st Stage 2 Vuelta a Murcia, Alejandro Valverde
- 1st Stage 3 Vuelta a Murcia, José Iván Gutiérrez
- 1st Stage 5 Paris-Nice, Joaquin Rodriguez
- 1st Stage 3 Vuelta a Castilla y Leon, José Vicente García
- 1st Stage 4 Vuelta a Castilla y Leon, Marco Fertonani
- 1st Stage 1 Vuelta al Pais Vasco, Alejandro Valverde
- 1st Flèche Wallonne, Alejandro Valverde
- 1st Liège-Bastogne-Liège, Alejandro Valverde
- 1st Stage 1 Vuelta a la Rioja, Alexei Markov
- 1st Stage 4 Tour de Romandie, Alejandro Valverde
- 1st Stage 5 4 Jours de Dunkerque, Isaac Gálvez
- 1st Stage 12 Giro d'Italia, Joan Horrach
- 1st Stage 5 Volta a Catalunya, David Arroyo
- 1st France Road Race Championships, Florent Brard
- 1st Overall Tour de France, Oscar Pereiro
- 1st Stages 3 & 5 Vuelta a Burgos, José Iván Gutiérrez
- 1st Stage 7 Vuelta a España, Alejandro Valverde
- 1st UCI ProTour GC, Alejandro Valverde
- 2nd Overall Vuelta al Pais Vasco, Alejandro Valverde
- 2nd Overall Vuelta a España, Alejandro Valverde
- 3rd Overall Paris-Nice, Antonio Colom
- 3rd Overall Tour de Romandie, Alejandro Valverde
- 3rd Road Race World Championships, Alejandro Valverde
- 2007
- Team Classification
- Stage 6 – Luis León Sánchez
- Tour de Suisse Team Classification
- Volta a Catalunya GC – Vladimir Karpets
- Stage 1 – T.T.T.
- 2008
- 1st Trofeo Pollença, José Joaquín Rojas
- 1st Overall Vuelta a Andalucía, Pablo Lastras
- 1st Stage 1 Vuelta a la Comunitat Valenciana, Iván Gutiérrez
- 1st Overall Vuelta a Murcia, Alejandro Valverde
- 1st Stage 4, Alejandro Valverde
- 1st Stage 3 Tirreno–Adriatico, Joaquin Rodríguez
- 1st Stage 7 Paris-Nice, Luis León Sánchez
- 1st Paris-Camembert, Alejandro Valverde
- 1st Liège–Bastogne–Liège, Alejandro Valverde
- 1st Stage 1 Euskal Bizikleta, Daniel Moreno
- 1st Overall Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré, Alejandro Valverde
- 1st Stages 1 & 3, Alejandro Valverde
- 1st Spain Road Race Championships, Alejandro Valverde
- 1st Spain Time Trial Championships, Luis León Sánchez
- 1st Stage 1 Tour de France, Alejandro Valverde
- 1st Stage 7 Tour de France, Luis León Sánchez
- 1st Prueba Villafranca de Ordizia, Vladimir Karpets
- 1st Clásica de San Sebastián, Alejandro Valverde
- 1st Subida Urkiola, David Arroyo
- 1st Overall Eneco Tour, Iván Gutiérrez
- 1st Prologue, Iván Gutiérrez
- 1st Overall Vuelta a Burgos, Xabier Zandio
- 1st Stage 2 Vuelta a España, Alejandro Valverde
- 1st Stage 18 Vuelta a España, Imanol Erviti
- 1st Stage 19 Vuelta a España, David Arroyo
- 2nd Overall Volta a Catalunya, Rigoberto Uran
- 3rd Giro di Lombardia, Rigoberto Uran
- 3rd Amstel Gold Race, Alejandro Valverde
- 1st Overall UCI ProTour, Alejandro Valverde
- 1st Team Classification
- 2009
- 1st Overall Tour Méditerranéen, Luis León Sánchez
- 1st Stage 2, Team Time Trial
- Stage 2 Tour Méditerranéen – T.T.T.
- 1st Stage 1 Tour du Haut Var, Luis León Sánchez
- 1st Overall Paris–Nice, Luis León Sánchez
- 1st Stage 7, Luis León Sánchez
- 1st Stage 4 Tirreno–Adriatico, Joaquim Rodríguez
- 1st Stages 3 & 5 Vuelta a Castilla y León, Alejandro Valverde
- 1st Stage 1 Vuelta al País Vasco, Luis León Sánchez
- 1st Klasika Primavera, Alejandro Valverde
- 1st Overall 4 Jours de Dunkerque, Rui Costa
- 1st Overall Volta a Catalunya, Alejandro Valverde
- 1st Stage 3, Alejandro Valverde
- 1st Overall Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré, Alejandro Valverde
- 1st Stage 8 Tour de France, Luis León Sánchez
- 1st Overall Vuelta a Burgos, Alejandro Valverde
- 1st Stage 2, Joaquim Rodríguez
- 1st Stage 2 Tour de l'Ain, José Joaquin Rojas
- 1st Overall Tour du Limousin, Mathieu Perget
- 1st Stage 3, David Arroyo
- 1st Overall Vuelta a España, Alejandro Valverde
- 1st Stage 3 Vuelta Chihuahua Internacional, Rui Costa
- 1st Stage 4 Vuelta Chihuahua Internacional, Daniel Moreno
- 2nd Liège-Bastogne-Liège, Joaquim Rodríguez
- 3rd UCI Road World Championships, Joaquim Rodríguez
- 2010
- 1st Stage 5 Tour Down Under, Luis León Sánchez
- 1st Trofeo Deia, Rui Costa
- 1st Stage 5 Volta ao Algarve, Luis León Sánchez
- 1st Overall Circuit de la Sarthe, Luis León Sánchez
- 1st Stage 1, Luis León Sánchez
- 1st Stage 8 Tour de Suisse, Rui Costa
- 1st Spain Road Race Championships, José Ivan Gutierrez
- 1st Spain Time Trial Championships, Luis León Sánchez
- 1st Portugal Time Trial Championships, Rui Costa
- 1st Clásica de San Sebastián, Luis León Sánchez
- 1st Stage 9 Vuelta a España, David López García
- 1st Stage 10 Vuelta a España, Imanol Erviti
- 2nd Overall Tour Down Under, Luis León Sánchez
- 2nd Overall Paris-Nice, Luis León Sánchez
- 2nd Overall Giro d'Italia, David Arroyo
- 3rd Giro di Lombardia, Pablo Lastras
Movistar Team
Telefónica took over as a team sponsor and the team was named as Movistar Team.
Major victories
- 2011
- 1st Stage 5 Tour Down Under, Francisco Jose Ventoso
- 1st Stage 6 Volta a Catalunya, José Joaquin Rojas
- 1st Stage 2 Vuelta al País Vasco, Vasil Kiryienka
- 1st Stage 6 Giro d'Italia, José Joaquin Rojas
- 1st Stage 20 Giro d'Italia, Vasil Kiryienka
- 1st Stage 2 Tour de Suisse, Mauricio Soler
- 1st Spanish Championships Road Race, José Joaquin Rojas
- 1st Stage 8 Tour de France, Rui Costa
- 1st Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal, Rui Costa
National Championships
- 2006
- France Road Race Florent Brard
- 2007
- Spain Road Race Joaquim Rodríguez
- Spain Time Trial Jose Ivan Gutierrez
- 2008
- Spain Road Race Alejandro Valverde
- Spain Time Trial Luis León Sanchez
- 2010
- Spain Road Race Jose Ivan Gutierrez
- Spain Time Trial Luis León Sanchez
- Portugal Time Trial Rui Costa
- 2011
- Spain Road Race Jose Joaquin Rojas
Team roster
As of 3 January 2012.
See also
References
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