Vini Caldirola Explained

Casa Vini Caldirola (or the Caldirola Wine House) sponsored an Italian professional road bicycle racing team between 1998 and 2004, with a gap in 2002, where the main sponsor was Tacconi Sport. In 2005 the team was formally disbanded, but many riders continued in the new Liquigas-Bianchi UCI ProTour team.

Team name

As professional racing teams change name with their sponsors, the name of the team has varied in its lifetime.

YearName
2004Vini Caldirola–Nobili Rubinetterie
2003Vini Caldirola–So.di
2002Tacconi Sport–Emmegi
2001Tacconi Sport–Vini Caldirola
2000Vini Caldirola–Sidermec
1999Vini Caldirola
1998Vini Caldirola

Notable riders

NameNationalityYears
Francesco Casagrande1999-2000, 2004
Romāns Vainšteins1999–2000, 2003
Stefano Garzelli2003-2004
Pavel Tonkov2004
Serhiy Honchar1999
Guido Trentin1998–2000
Eddy Mazzoleni2001–2003
Matthew White1999–2000
Andrej Hauptman1999–2003
Gabriele Balducci2001–2003
David George2001
Nicola Minali2001-2002
Dario Frigo2002
Sylwester Szmyd2001–2002
David de la Fuente2003
Fred Rodriguez2003
Marco Zanotti2004
Dario Andriotto2003–2004

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