Team Gerolsteiner

	Gerolsteiner
Team information
UCI code	GST
Based	Germany
Founded	1997
Disbanded	2008
Discipline(s)	Road
Status	ProTour
Key personnel
General Manager	Reimund Dietzen
Previous team name(s)
1997–1998; 1999–2008	Schauff Oeschelbronn; Gerolsteiner

	Team kit

Team Gerolsteiner (UCI Team Code: GST) is a German road bicycle racing team in the UCI ProTour. It is sponsored by the drinks company Gerolsteiner Brunnen and the bike company "Specialized".

Rund um den Henninger-Turm (2005)

The team was founded in 1998 with manager Hans-Michael Holczer and sports directors Rolf Gölz and Christian Henn. The contract with Georg Totschnig in 2001 helped make the team enter Division I. In 2003 the team participated in the Tour de France for the first time.

The Leader is Georg Totschnig, who has finished in the top 10 in the Tour de France and is an excellent climber. In 2005, Totschnig won stage 14 of the Tour, showing his skill on the 15km long climb up the Port de Pailhères (2000m at 8.2%). He was the first Austrian to win a tour stage since Max Bulla in 1931. In 2007, Georg Totschnig retired and Levi Leipheimer moved to the Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team. The team used youngsters Markus Fothen and Stefan Schumacher to captain the team in the 2007 Tour de France.

In September 2007 Gerolsteiner said it would not renew its sponsorship.^[1]

Team honours

1st, Team classification, Deutschland Tour 2006
1st, 2005 Eindhoven Team Time Trial

2007 ProTeam

As of January 1, 2007^[2]

	Rider	Date of birth
Robert Förster (GER)		27 January 1978 (aged 47)
Markus Fothen (GER)		9 September 1981 (aged 44)
Thomas Fothen (GER)		6 April 1983 (aged 42)
Johannes Frohlinger (GER)		9 June 1985 (aged 40)
Oscar Gatto (ITA)		1 January 1985 (aged 40)
Heinrich Haussler (GER)		25 February 1984 (aged 41)
Torsten Hiekmann (GER)		17 March 1980 (aged 45)
Tim Klinger (GER)		22 September 1984 (aged 41)
Bernhard Kohl (AUT)		4 January 1982 (aged 43)
David Kopp (GER)		5 January 1979 (aged 46)
Sven Krauss (GER)		6 January 1983 (aged 42)
Sebastian Lang (GER)		15 September 1979 (aged 46)
Andrea Moletta (ITA)		23 February 1979 (aged 46)

	Rider	Date of birth
Volker Ordowski (GER)		9 November 1973 (aged 52)
Davide Rebellin (ITA)		9 August 1971 (aged 54)
Matthias Russ (GER)		14 November 1983 (aged 42)
Ronny Scholz (GER)		24 April 1978 (aged 47)
Stefan Schumacher (GER)		21 July 1981 (aged 44)
Tom Stamsnijder (NED)		15 May 1985 (aged 40)
Marcel Strauss (SUI)		15 August 1976 (aged 49)
Fabian Wegmann (GER)		20 June 1980 (aged 45)
Carlo Westphal (GER)		25 November 1985 (aged 40)
Peter Wrolich (AUT)		30 May 1974 (aged 51)
Oliver Zaugg (SUI)		9 May 1981 (aged 44)
Beat Zberg (SUI)		10 May 1971 (aged 54)
Markus Zberg (SUI)		27 June 1974 (aged 51)

Team Gerolsteiner Media

Team Gerolsteiner riders with CSC rider Jens Voigt during the 2006 Tour de France

References

↑ "Gerolsteiner terminates financial support". Archived from the original on 2007-10-17. Retrieved 2007-09-22.
↑ "Gerolsteiner - Riders". UCI ProTour. Retrieved 2007-01-01.^{[dead link]}

Other websites

Official website Archived 2006-02-06 at the Wayback Machine

[1] "Gerolsteiner terminates financial support". Archived from the original on 2007-10-17. Retrieved 2007-09-22.

[2] "Gerolsteiner - Riders". UCI ProTour. Retrieved 2007-01-01.^{[dead link]}

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