Phonak (cycling team)

Phonak

Team information

UCI code

PHO

Based

Switzerland

Founded

2000

Disbanded

2006

Status

ProTour

Key personnel

General manager

Andy Rihs

Team name history

2002–2006

Phonak




Jersey

Phonak (UCI Team Code: PHO) was a Swiss professional cycling team from 2000 until 2006. The team was one of 20 teams in the first UCI ProTour in 2005. It won one race - Santiago Botero's victory in the Tour de Romandie - and came second in the team ranking on the 2005 ProTour circuit.

A sponsor, iShares (subsidiary of Barclays Global Investors) signed a three-year contract in June 2006 to become the team's title sponsor from 2007. The team's name was to be iShares. Andy Rihs, owner of Phonak Hearing Systems, said on 15 August 2006 that the deal had been called off after the team's leader, Floyd Landis, tested positive for high levels of testosterone, and that the team would disband at the end of 2006.^[1]

During 2004 Phonak concentrated on supporting Tyler Hamilton in the Tour de France. He crashed and withdrew and was later suspended for blood doping. Hamilton was not the last rider removed for doping, leading Phonak to stop sponsorship after 2006.

The riders accused of doping in 2004 were Hamilton, Santiago Pérez^[2], Oscar Camenzind, Fabrizio Guidi (who was cleared) and Sascha Urweider. For further information about the doping cases, refer to Velonews.com.^[3].

On 5 August 2006 Phonak dismissed Floyd Landis after confirmation that a urine sample taken after his Stage 17 win twice tested positive for synthetic testosterone as well as a ratio of testosterone to epitestosterone nearly three times the limit allowed by World Anti-Doping Agency rules.^[4] His Tour de France win was disallowed by the Union Cycliste Internationale on September 20, 2007.^[5]

1 Team Rankings
2 Final Roster
3 Major Results
4 References
5 External links

Team Rankings

Phonak won the team classification at:

2006 Giro d'Italia – Trofeo Fast Team and Trofeo Super Team (points)
2006 Volta a Catalunya
2006 Tour of Qatar
Paris-Nice 2006
2006 Tour de Georgia

Final Roster

	Rider	Date of birth
Santiago Botero (COL)		October 27, 1972 (1972-10-27) (age 39)
Aurélien Clerc (SUI)		August 26, 1979 (1979-08-26) (age 32)
Martin Elmiger (SUI)		September 23, 1978 (1978-09-23) (age 33)
Luis Fernández (ESP)		January 19, 1980 (1980-01-19) (age 32)
Bert Grabsch (GER)		June 19, 1975 (1975-06-19) (age 36)
Fabrizio Guidi (ITA)		April 13, 1972 (1972-04-13) (age 39)
Ignacio Gutiérrez (ESP)		December 1, 1977 (1977-12-01) (age 34)
José Enrique Gutiérrez (ESP)		June 18, 1974 (1974-06-18) (age 37)
Ryder Hesjedal (CAN)		December 9, 1980 (1980-12-09) (age 31)
Robert Hunter (RSA)		April 22, 1977 (1977-04-22) (age 34)
Nicolas Jalabert (FRA)		April 13, 1973 (1973-04-13) (age 38)
Floyd Landis (USA)		October 14, 1975 (1975-10-14) (age 36)
Miguel Ángel Martín Perdiguero (ESP)		October 14, 1972 (1972-10-14) (age 39)
Jonathan McCarty (USA)		January 24, 1982 (1982-01-24) (age 30)

	Rider	Date of birth
Axel Merckx (BEL)		August 8, 1972 (1972-08-08) (age 39)
Koos Moerenhout (NED)		November 5, 1973 (1973-11-05) (age 38)
Alexandre Moos (SUI)		December 22, 1972 (1972-12-22) (age 39)
Steve Morabito (SUI)		January 30, 1983 (1983-01-30) (age 29)
Uroš Murn (SLO)		February 9, 1975 (1975-02-09) (age 37)
Victor Hugo Peña (COL)		July 10, 1974 (1974-07-10) (age 37)
Grégory Rast (SUI)		January 17, 1980 (1980-01-17) (age 32)
Michael Schär (SUI)		September 29, 1986 (1986-09-29) (age 25)
Florian Stalder (SUI)		September 13, 1982 (1982-09-13) (age 29)
Johann Tschopp (SUI)		July 1, 1982 (1982-07-01) (age 29)
Sascha Urweider (SUI)		September 18, 1980 (1980-09-18) (age 31)
David Vitoria (SUI)		October 15, 1984 (1984-10-15) (age 27)
Steve Zampieri (SUI)		June 4, 1977 (1977-06-04) (age 34)