Gerolsteiner (cycling team)
Team Gerolsteiner (UCI Team Code: GST) is a German road bicycle racing team in the UCI ProTour. It is sponsored by the mineral water company Gerolsteiner Brunnen and Specialized.
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.
Leaders include Levi Leipheimer and Georg Totschnig, who have both recorded top 10 finishes in the Tour de France and are both excellent climbers. 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 overfilled with emotion, after becoming the first Austrian to win a tour stage since Max Bulla in 1931, who won 3 stages.
Team honors
- 1st, Team classification, 2006 Deutschland Tour
Provisional Team 2006
| Name | Born | Nationality |
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| Robert Förster | 27.01.1978 |  Germany
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| Markus Fothen | 09.09.1981 | Germany
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| René Haselbacher | 15.09.1977 |  Austria
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| Heinrich Haussler | 25.02.1984 | Germany
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| Frank Høj | 04.01.1973 |  Denmark
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| Sven Krauss | 06.01.1983 | Germany
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| Sebastian Lang | 15.09.1979 | Germany
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| Levi Leipheimer | 24.10.1973 |  United States
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| Andrea Moletta | 23.02.1979 |  Italy
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| Sven Montgomery | 10.05.1976 |  Switzerland
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| Volker Ordowski | 09.11.1973 | Germany
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| Davide Rebellin | 09.08.1971 | Italy
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| Michael Rich | 23.09.1969 | Germany
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| Matthias Russ | 14.11.1983 | Germany
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| Ronny Scholz | 24.04.1978 | Germany
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| Stefan Schumacher | 21.07.1981 | Germany
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| Marcel Strauss | 15.08.1976 | Switzerland
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| Georg Totschnig | 25.05.1971 | Austria
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| Fabian Wegmann | 20.06.1980 | Germany
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| Peter Wrolich | 30.05.1974 | Austria
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| Beat Zberg | 10.05.1971 | Switzerland
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| Marcus Zberg | 27.06.1974 | Switzerland
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