- Rabobank (cycling team)
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Rabobank The Rabobank team during the 2005 Rund um den Henninger Turm race. Team information UCI code RAB Based Netherlands Founded 1984 Status UCI ProTeam Bicycles Giant Manufacturing Key personnel General manager Erik Breukink Team name history - 1984–1986
- 1987–1989
- 1990–1992
- 1993–1994
- 1995
- 1996–
- Kwantum
- Superconfex
- Buckler
- Wordperfect
- Novell
- Rabobank
Current season Rabobank (UCI Team Code: RAB[1]) is a professional bicycle racing team, sponsored by the Rabobank. The team consists of three sections: ProTeam (the UCI ProTour team), Continental (a talent team racing in the UCI Europe Tour), and Cyclo-cross. The team formerly rode Colnago frames but as of 1 January 2009 began a two year contract riding Giant frames equipped with Shimano components.[2]
The cycling team was founded for the 1984 season under the name Kwantum, with mostly cyclists coming from the TI-Raleigh cycling team.[3] Since 1984, the team has entered every Tour de France[4] and since the introduction of divisions in 1998, the team has always been in the first division.[5]
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History
In road bicycle racing, teams take name from their main sponsors. The Rabobank team has previously had the following sponsors, and thus names.
Kwantum Hallen-Decosol-Yoko (1984–1986)
After the season of 1983, the TI-Raleigh team split up because of tension between former world champion Jan Raas and team leader Peter Post,[6] with seven cyclists following Post to the new Panasonic-team and six cyclists joining Raas to the Kwantum team.[7] The team captains of the Kwantum team were Guillaume Driessens, Jan Gisbers and Walter Godefroot.[8] In their first year, the team managed to win the red jersey for intermediate sprints and one stage in the 1984 Tour de France, the Amstel Gold Race and the Dutch national road championship.[8] After the 1984 season, Jan Raas stopped as an active cyclist and became team manager. In 1985 the Kwantum team had a successful year. Victories included two Tour de France stage, the Tour of Luxembourg, Paris–Tours, Paris–Brussels, the Tirreno–Adriatico, the Tour of Belgium, again the Dutch national road championship, and the World cycling championship (Joop Zoetemelk).[9] 1986 was less successful; the most important victory was Tour of Belgium.[10]
Superconfex-Yoko (1987–1989)
For the 1987 season, the main sponsor became Superconfex. In that year, the team was officially known as Superconfex – Kwantum – Yoko – Colnago. Jan Raas remained the team leader. After a victory in Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne for Ludo Peeters, the new sprinter Jean-Paul van Poppel (coming from the Skala cycling team) gave the team a great year, with three stage wins in the Tour de France (of which two for van Poppel) and the victory in the points classification in the Tour de France for Jean-Paul van Poppel. Joop Zoetemelk ended his career with a victory in the Amstel Gold Race.[11] From 1988 on, the team was known as Superconfex – Yoko – Opel – Colnago. 1988 was also a successful season for the team, with victories in Paris–Brussels, the Tour of Ireland, the Tour of Belgium, the Amstel Gold Race, and six stages in the Tour de France.[12] In the 1989 season, Jean-Paul van Poppel changed to the Panasonic team. In 1989 his sprinting capacities were missed, and the number of victories was reduced. Still, Paris–Brussels, the Tour of Flanders and Paris–Tours were won, together with two stages in the 1989 Tour de France.[13]
Buckler-Colnago-Decca (1990–1992)
After the 1989 season, the main sponsoring was taken over by Buckler. The Tour of Belgium was won again, and the Ronde van Nederland was won as well. That year, the team had the winner of the Dutch national road race championships again, as Peter Winnen won the race.[14] In 1991, the team won the Amstel Gold Race, the Ronde van Nederland and Tour of Flanders. The team had taken over Steven Rooks from the Panasonic team, who immediately became the Dutch national road race champion.[15] The worst year in the team's history was 1992. Only 26 races were won in the season, compared to 64 victories in the successful 1988 season.[16] 1992 also saw a young Erik Dekker entering the team. After that season, Buckler decided to stop sponsoring.
Wordperfect-Colnago-Decca (1993–1994)
A new sponsor was found in WordPerfect. Steven Rooks left the team, Raúl Alcalá joined the team. Still, the 1993 season did not turn out a great season, with only 29 victories, the most important being Three Days of De Panne and the Tour DuPont.[17] In 1993 and 1994, Michael Boogerd and Leon van Bon started their professional career in the team, and Viatcheslav Ekimov also came. The Tour du Pont was won again, together with the Tour of Luxembourg. The year still was disappointing with only 25 victories.
Novell Software-Decca (1995)
In 1995, the team was joined by Djamolidine Abdoujaparov, the winner of the points classification in the 1994 Tour de France. Abdoujaparov won one stage in the Tour de France, but other than that, the year was still not what the sponsors had hoped, so a new sponsor had to be found. The title sponsor of the previous two years, WordPerfect, was a product of Novell Software, which carried the team's name this one season.
Rabobank (1996–present)
Raas became the team manager of the Rabobank team while Theo de Rooy, Adrie van Houwelingen and Zoetemelk were directeur sportifs.[2] As a Dutch cycling team, the team has signed many of the prominent Dutch cyclists of the 1990s including Adrie van der Poel, Richard Groenendaal and Erik Breukink as well as keeping the prominent Dutch cyclists from the Novell team that included Leon van Bon, Erik Dekker and Michael Boogerd. In addition the team had many successful cyclists in Edwig van Hooydonck, Rolf Sorensen, Johan Bruyneel and the neo-pro for the 1996 season Australian Robbie McEwen.[2]
The Rabobank team has dominated the Dutch National championships over several disciplines in cycling for example Elite and Under 23 time trial championships, Elite and Under 23 Road Race, Elite and Under 23 Cyclo-cross disciplines as well as Mountain Bike championships. The team also has had the World Champion in several categories for example Cyclo-cross; in 1996 Adrie van der Poel, in 2000 Richard Groenendaal and in 2004 Sven Nys. Óscar Freire became UCI Road World Champion in 2004. Sven Nys, Thijs Verhagen and Lars Boom were Under 23 Cyclo-cross World Champions in 1997, 2002 and 2007 respectively while Boom was became Under 23 World Time trial champion in 2007.
In the 2000 Cyclo-cross World championships there was a conflict between the commercial team interests and the national team interests. Groenendaal attacked during the first lap and was chased by defending cyclo-cross world champion Mario De Clercq who was followed by Groenendaal's Rabobank teammate Sven Nys. Team manager Jan Raas allegedly told Nys not to cooperate in the chase of his commercial teammate and as a result De Clercq never caught Groenendaal enabling Groenendaal to become World Champion. As a result, Nys received much criticism from the Belgian team manager Erik De Vlaeminck as well as the Belgian public.[18]
Jan Raas was the team manager for the first eight years of the teams existence. In 2003 Raas was removed rather abruptly which surprised the other members of staff including Theo De Rooy as well as riders Erik Dekker and Michael Boogerd.[19] De Rooy was promoted to team manager and a former Rabobank rider who had been at that time working as a PR man for Rabobank, Erik Breukink, was named as the new directeur sportif to replace De Rooy. In August 2007 in the aftermath of the affair in which Michael Rasmussen was removed during the 2007 Tour de France, De Rooij resigned from his position as team manager.[20]
Road Racing team
The road racing team has won several Classics such as the Ronde van Vlaanderen in 1997, Championship of Hamburg in 1998, the Amstel Gold Race in 1999 and 2001, Paris–Tours in 1999, 2004 and 2010, Clásica de San Sebastián in 2000 and Milan – San Remo in 2004, 2007 and 2010. Erik Dekker won the UCI World Cup in 2001 due to his Classic win and high placings in many of the classics.
Rabobank becoming a Grand Tour team
The team signed American Levi Leipheimer in 2002 as a rider for the Tour de France. Leipheimer finished eighth in his first Tour but crashed out of the race on the first stage of the 2003 Tour de France. Leipheimer finished ninth overall the following year. The team became more of a Grand Tour team as could be seen by Michael Rasmussen's win in the Mountains Classification of the 2005 Tour de France. When Denis Menchov took the lead in the 2005 Vuelta a España, he was not expecting to be competing for the overall classification[21] The Rabobank team at that year's Vuelta were not seen as particularly strong or able to assist Menchov in the mountain stages.[22] Menchov finished second to Roberto Heras which was the highest placing of a Rabobank team rider at a grand tour after Michael Boogerd's fifth place in the 1998 Tour de France. Heras was later disqualified for doping and Menchov was made the winner.[23] The following year Menchov focused on the Tour de France where the team rode strongly with Menchov, Boogerd and Rasmussen.
During the 2007 Tour de France, Rabobank fired Michael Rasmussen (2005 Tour de France, 2006 Tour de France K.O.M.) for code-violations while he was in the yellow jersey.[24] The remaining riders of the Rabobank team were given the choice to start the 17th stage without Michael Rasmussen, or to withdraw. That evening they decided to withdraw, but the team changed its mind and announced the following morning that the riders would be starting the 17th stage.[25] Although he started with the rest of the team, Denis Menchov (team leader on the road, who deferred to Rasmussen when the latter seemed to have a better chance at winning) abandoned the race in the middle of the stage.[26]
The Rabobank team was invited for the 2008 Tour de France.[27] Denis Menchov had decided to focus on the Tour de France. To do that, he did not defend his Vuelta a España-title, and rode the 2008 Giro d'Italia as preparation for the Tour de France.[28] Menchov finished 4th place in the 2008 Tour de France, and Óscar Freire won the points classification. The team had to wait until 2009 for the first successes in the Giro d'Italia, when Denis Menchov won two stages; a mountain finish and a time trial. This second win earned him the pink leader jersey, which the team defended to the end of the race, earning Menchov, and Rabobank, their third Grand Tour GC win.
Cyclo-Cross team
The Rabobank cyclo-cross team has dominated the sport in the past with Sven Nys and Richard Groenendaal winning the General Classification competitions such as the Superprestige, the World Cup and the Gazet van Anwerpen trophy over the last eight years. Groenendaal dominated the Dutch cyclo-cross championships for many years. Groenendaal left the team after the 2006–2007 season. He was at that time one of the few remaining Rabobank riders from the 1996 team. Lars Boom joined the team in 2002 as a junior cyclo-cross rider and has already achieved success in the Elite cyclo-cross championships as well as showing promise riding in the UCI Europe Tour with the Rabobank Continental team.
Major results (since 1996)
In 2002, the Rabobank cycling team was split into the normal team and the GS3 team, for cyclo-cross and young talents. In 2005 it was renamed to the Continental team. Since 1996, the team won 1796 races,[29] of which 491 were won in the (UCI) ProTour, and 362 in the cyclo-cross protour.
- 1996: 55 UCI Road World Cup, 25 Cyclo-cross
- 1997: 43 UCI Road World Cup, 27 Cyclo-cross
- 1998: 45 UCI Road World Cup, 24 Cyclo-cross
- 1999: 50 UCI Road World Cup, 32 Cyclo-cross
- 2000: 34 UCI Road World Cup, 23 Cyclo-cross
- 2001: 38 UCI Road World Cup, 19 Cyclo-cross
- 2002: 39 UCI Road World Cup, 26 Cyclo-cross
- 2003: 27 UCI Road World Cup, 20 Cyclo-cross
- 2004: 32 UCI Road World Cup, 27 Cyclo-cross
- 2005: 38 UCI ProTour, 47 Cyclo-cross
- 2006: 43 UCI ProTour, 46 Cyclo-cross
- 2007: 47 UCI ProTour, 39 Cyclo-cross
World Championships
- 1996: Adrie van der Poel (cyclo-cross)
- 1998: Sven Nys (cyclo-cross U23)
- 2000: Richard Groenendaal (cyclo-cross)
- 2002: Thijs Verhagen (cyclo-cross U23)
- 2004: Óscar Freire (road race)
- 2005: Sven Nys (cyclo-cross)
- 2007: Lars Boom (cyclo-cross U23)
- 2007: Lars Boom (time trial U23)
- 2008: Lars Boom (cyclo-cross)
Tour de France wins
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- Stage 9 Leon van Bon
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- Stage 20 Robbie McEwen
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- Stage 6 Leon van Bon
- Stage 8 Erik Dekker
- Stage 11 Erik Dekker
- Stage 17 Erik Dekker
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- Stage 2 Marc Wauters
- Stage 8 Erik Dekker
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- Stage 8 Karsten Kroon
- Stage 16 Michael Boogerd
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- Stage 8 Pieter Weening
- Stage 9 Michael Rasmussen
- Mountains Classification: Michael Rasmussen
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- Stage 5 Óscar Freire
- Stage 9 Óscar Freire
- Stage 11 Denis Menchov
- Stage 16 Michael Rasmussen
- Mountains Classification: Michael Rasmussen
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- Stage 8 Michael Rasmussen
- Stage 16 Michael Rasmussen
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- Stage 14 Óscar Freire
- Sprint Classification: Óscar Freire
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- Stage 20 Juan Manuel Gárate
- 2011:
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- Stage 9 Luis León Sánchez
National road race champions
- 1997: Michael Boogerd (NED)
- 1998: Michael Boogerd (NED)
- 1999: Maarten den Bakker (NED)
- 2000: Leon van Bon (NED)
- 2000: Markus Zberg (SUI)
- 2004: Erik Dekker (NED)
- 2006: Michael Boogerd (NED)
- 2007: Koos Moerenhout (NED)
- 2008: Lars Boom (NED) (officially a rider of Rabobank Continental Team)
- 2009: Koos Moerenhout (NED)
National time trial champions
- 1996: Erik Dekker (NED)
- 1997: Erik Breukink (NED)
- 1998: Patrick Jonker (NED)
- 1998: Beat Zberg (SUI)
- 1998: Peter Luttenberger (AUT)
- 2000: Erik Dekker (NED)
- 2002: Erik Dekker (NED)
- 2002: Marc Wauters (BEL)
- 2003: Maarten den Bakker (NED)
- 2003: Marc Wauters (BEL)
- 2004: Thomas Dekker (NED)
- 2004: Jukka Vastaranta (FIN)
- 2005: Thomas Dekker (NED)
- 2005: Marc Wauters (BEL)
- 2008: Lars Boom (NED) (officially a rider of Rabobank Continental Team)
- 2009: Stef Clement (NED)
- 2010: Jos van Emden (NED)
- 2011: Stef Clement (NED)
- 2011: Luis Leon Sanchez Gil (ESP)
Other notable races
- 1st, UCI Road World Cup (2001): Erik Dekker
- 1st, General Classification, 2005 Vuelta a España : Denis Menchov
- 1st, General Classification, 2007 Vuelta a España : Denis Menchov
- 1st, General Classification, 2009 Giro d'Italia : Denis Menchov
- 1st, General Classification, 2002 Tirreno–Adriatico : Erik Dekker
- 1st, General Classification, 2005 Tirreno–Adriatico : Óscar Freire
- 1st, General Classification, 2006 Tirreno–Adriatico : Thomas Dekker
- 1st, General Classification, 2007 Tour de Romandie : Thomas Dekker
Recent victories
2007
- Trofeo Mallorca
- Trofeo Pollença
- Vuelta a Andalucía
- Óscar Freire – Overall, Stage 2, 5 and points classification
- Max van Heeswijk – Stage 3
- Tour of California
- Graeme Brown – Stage 1
- Vuelta a Murcia
- Graeme Brown – Stage 3
- Nokere-Koerse
- Milan – San Remo
- Brabantse Pijl
- Tour de Romandie
- Thomas Dekker – Overall, Stage 5
- Volta a Catalunya
- Denis Menchov – Stage 5
- Tour de Belgique
- Robert Gesink – Stage 4
- Tour de Suisse
- Thomas Dekker – Stage 5
- Ster Elektrotoer
- Sebastian Langeveld – Overall
- Tour de France
- Michael Rasmussen – Stage 8, 17
- Sachsen-Tour International
- Joost Posthuma – Overall, Stage 4
- Danmark Rundt
- Rick Flens – Stage 5
- Vuelta a España
- Denis Menchov – Overall, Stage 10
- Óscar Freire – Stage 2, 5, 6
- Tour de Pologne
- Graeme Brown – Stage 2
- 3-Länder-Tour
- Thomas Dekker – Overall, Stage 2, 4
2008
- Vuelta a Murcia
- Graeme Brown – Stage 1
- Tirreno–Adriatico
- Óscar Freire – Stage 1, 4, 6 and points classification
- Paris–Nice
- Robert Gesink – Young rider classification & two days overall leader
- Critérium International
- Laurens ten Dam – Stage 1
- Driedaagse van De Panne
- Joost Posthuma – Stage 4; General classification
- Gent–Wevelgem
- Tour de Luxembourg
- Joost Posthuma – General classification
- Tour de Suisse
- Óscar Freire – Stage 1
- Tour de France
- Denis Menchov – 3rd Overall
- Óscar Freire – Stage 14; points classification
- Vuelta a España
- Óscar Freire – Stage 11
- Circuit Franco-Belge
2009
- Tour Down Under
- Graeme Brown – Stage 3
- Vuelta a Andalucía
- Joost Posthuma – General classification
- Vuelta a Murcia
- Graeme Brown – Stage 1 & 5
- Denis Menchov – General classification
- Nokere-Koerse
- Tour of Belgium
- Lars Boom – General classification
- Giro d'Italia
- Denis Menchov – General classification, Stage 5 & 12
- Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré
- Stef Clement – Stage 8
- Tour de France
- Juan Manuel Gárate – Stage 20
- Vuelta a España
- Lars Boom – Stage 15
- Giro dell'Emilia
2010
- Trofeo Cala Millor
- Vuelta a Andalucía
- Óscar Freire – Stage 2 & 3
- Paris-Nice
- Lars Boom – Prologue
- Milan – San Remo
- Delta Tour Zealand
- Jos van Emden – Stage 1
- Ster Elektrotour
- Jos van Emden – Stage 1
- Tour of Austria
- Nick Nuyens – Stage 5
- Joost Posthuma – Stage 7
- Graeme Brown – Stage 8
- Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal
- Giro dell'Emilia
- Paris-Tours
- Tour de France
- Denis Menchov – 3rd Overall
- Robert Gesink – 6th Overall
2011
- Tour Down Under
- Michael Matthews – Stage 3
- Tour of Qatar
- Lars Boom – Prologue
- Tour of Oman
- Theo Bos – Stage 1 & 3
- Robert Gesink – Stage 4 & 5
- Robert Gesink – Overal and Youth classification
- Ruta del Sol
- Óscar Freire – Stage 4 & 5
- Omloop Het Nieuwsblad
- Vuelta a Murcia
- Michael Matthews – Stage 1
- Tirreno-Adriatico
- Stage 1 – Team Time Trial
- Giro d'Italia
- Pieter Weening – Stage 5
- Steven Kruijswijk – 9th Overal
- Critérium du Dauphiné
- Lars Boom – Prologue
- Tour de Rijke
- Tour de France – Stage 9
- Dutch Food Valley Classic
Teams
ProTour team
As of 1 January 2011
Rider Date of birth Carlos Barredo (ESP) 5 June 1981 Lars Boom* (NED) 30 December 1985 Theo Bos (NED) 22 August 1983 Matti Breschel (DEN) 31 August 1984 Graeme Brown (AUS) 9 April 1979 Stef Clement (NED) 24 September 1982 Rick Flens (NED) 11 April 1983 Óscar Freire (ESP) 15 February 1976 Juan Manuel Gárate (ESP) 24 April 1976 Robert Gesink (NED) 31 May 1986 Steven Kruijswijk (NED) 7 June 1987 Sebastian Langeveld (NED) 17 January 1985 Tom Leezer (NED) 26 December 1985 Paul Martens (GER) 26 October 1983 Rider Date of birth Michael Matthews (AUS) 26 September 1990 Bauke Mollema (NED) 26 November 1986 Grischa Niermann (GER) 3 November 1975 Luis León Sánchez (ESP) 24 November 1983 Tom-Jelte Slagter (NED) 1 July 1989 Bram Tankink (NED) 3 December 1978 Laurens ten Dam (NED) 13 November 1980 Maarten Tjallingii (NED) 5 November 1977 Jos van Emden (NED) 27 June 1987 Dennis van Winden (NED) 2 December 1987 Coen Vermeltfoort (NED) 11 April 1988 Pieter Weening (NED) 5 April 1981 Maarten Wynants (BEL) 13 May 1982 Continental team
As of 19 October 2011.[30]
Rider Date of birth Mats Boeve (NED) 24 March 1990 Jetse Bol (NED) 8 September 1989 Jasper Bovenhuis (NED) 27 July 1991 Remco Broers (NED) 15 May 1988 Brian Bulgac (NED) 7 April 1988 Moreno Hofland (NED) 31 August 1991 Marc Goos (NED) 30 November 1990 Wilco Kelderman (NED) 25 March 1991 Wesley Kreder (NED) 4 November 1990 Rider Date of birth Barry Markus (NED) 17 July 1991 Jasper Ockeloen (NED) 10 May 1990 Ramon Sinkeldam* (NED) 9 February 1989 Nicky Van Der Lijcke (NED) 23 September 1991 Niek Van Geffen (NED) 28 June 1990 Boy Van Poppel* (NED) 18 January 1988 Maurice Vrijmoed (NED) 8 December 1988 Mike Teunissen* (NED) 25 August 1992 Note: (*) are (also) cyclo-cross specialists
Offroad Team
As of 1 Januari 2010.
Rider Date of birth Bart Aernouts (BEL) 23 June 1982 Gert-Jan Bosman (NED) 16 August 1992 Adam Craig (USA) 15 August 1981 Emiel Dolfsma (NED) 11 July 1992 Fabian Giger (SWI) 18 July 1987 Erik Groen (NED) 8 January 1990 Lars van der Haar (NED) 23 July 1991 Michiel van der Heijden (NED) 3 January 1992 Jelmer Jubbega (NED) 4 July 1988 Rider Date of birth Gerben de Knegt (NED) 11 December 1975 Tim Lemmers (NED) 2 June 1989 Emil Lindgren (SWE) 4 May 1985 Marco Minnaard (NED) 11 April 1989 Mike Teunissen (NED) 25 August 1992 References
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External links
- Rabo Sport – Official website (Dutch)
- Rabobank results since 1996 (Dutch)
- Team presentation Rabobank 2010
- Interview Jos van Emden [1]
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