Team Gerolsteiner

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Rund um den Henninger-Turm (2005)

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 Gerolsteiner riders having a chat with CSC rider Jens Voigt during the 2006 Tour de France

1 Team honors
2 2007 ProTeam
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Team honors

1st, Team classification, 2006 Deutschland Tour

[edit] 2007 ProTeam

As of January 1, 2007^[1]

	Rider	Date of Birth
	Robert Förster	January 27, 1978 (age 29)
	Markus Fothen	September 9, 1981 (age 25)
	Thomas Fothen	April 6, 1983 (age 23)
	Johannes Frohlinger	June 9, 1985 (age 21)
	Oscar Gatto	January 1, 1985 (age 22)
	Heinrich Haussler	February 25, 1984 (age 23)
	Torsten Hiekmann	March 17, 1980 (age 27)
	Tim Klinger	September 22, 1984 (age 22)
	Bernhard Kohl	January 4, 1982 (age 25)
	David Kopp	January 5, 1979 (age 28)
	Sven Krauss	January 6, 1983 (age 24)
	Sebastian Lang	September 15, 1979 (age 27)
	Andrea Moletta	February 23, 1979 (age 28)

	Rider	Date of Birth
	Volker Ordowski	November 9, 1973 (age 33)
	Davide Rebellin	August 9, 1971 (age 35)
	Matthias Russ	November 14, 1983 (age 23)
	Ronny Scholz	April 24, 1978 (age 28)
	Stefan Schumacher	July 21, 1981 (age 25)
	Tom Stamsnijder	May 15, 1985 (age 21)
	Marcel Strauss	August 15, 1976 (age 30)
	Fabian Wegmann	June 20, 1980 (age 26)
	Carlo Westphal	November 25, 1985 (age 21)
	Peter Wrolich	May 30, 1974 (age 32)
	Oliver Zaugg	May 9, 1981 (age 25)
	Beat Zberg	May 10, 1971 (age 35)
	Markus Zberg	June 27, 1974 (age 32)