Unibet.com Cycling Team

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Unibet.com

Team information

UCI code

UNI

Based

Sweden

Discipline(s)

Road

Status

ProTour

Key personnel

General Manager

Koen Terryn

Team Manager

Jacques Hanegraaf




Team kit

Unibet.com (UCI Team Code: UNI) is a Swedish UCI ProTeam mainly sponsored by the online gambling website Unibet.com as a continuation of the MrBookmaker.com cycling team. The team rode on the European Continental Circuit, until the beginning of the 2007 season, when they were granted a ProTour licence.^[1]

Unibet.com cycling team training for the 2007 season

The team leaders are Hilaire van der Schueren, Lucien Van Impe and Willy Geukens, and noted cyclists on the team are Tour de France green jersey winner Baden Cooke, Italian sprinter Mario Zanotti and Spanish rider Luis Pasamontes.

Unibet.com has also been drawn into the Operación Puerto doping investigation. The cyclist Carlos Quesada was named by the Spanish authorities as a patient of Dr. Eufemiano Fuentes and was suspended by the team ^[2]. Although Quesada had been named, he has not yet been formally charged with doping, which led to the management of Unibet.com to lift its suspension of Quesada two weeks after it was imposed ^[3]. Nevertheless, the team did not pay the Spanish cyclist his salary, which led to a lawsuit, finally resolved with Quesada leaving the team in exchange for a compensation.

1 2007 ProTeam
- 1.1 Major results
- 1.2 Team roster
2 External links
3 References

[edit] 2007 ProTeam

[edit] Major results

1st, Nationale Sluitingprijs, (Gorik Gardeyn)
1st, GP d'Ouverture La Marseillaise, (Jeremy Hunt)
1st, Stage 3, Tour Down Under, (Baden Cooke)
1st, Le Samyn, (Jimmy Casper)
1st, General classification, Record Driedaagse van West-Vlaanderen, (Jimmy Casper)
1st, Points classification, Record Driedaagse van West-Vlaanderen, (Jimmy Casper)
1st, Stage 1, Record Driedaagse van West-Vlaanderen, (Jimmy Casper)

[edit] Team roster

As of February 2, 2007.^[4]

	Rider	Date of Birth
	Matteo Carrara	March 25, 1979 (age 28)
	Jimmy Casper	May 28, 1978 (age 28)
	Baden Cooke	October 12, 1978 (age 28)
	Arnaud Coyot	October 06, 1980 (age 26)
	Markus Eichler	February 18, 1982 (age 25)
	Gorik Gardeyn	March 17, 1980 (age 27)
	Michal Golas	April 29, 1984 (age 22)
	Jeremy Hunt	March 12, 1974 (age 33)
	Pieter Jacobs	June 6, 1986 (age 20)
	Alexander Khatuntsev	February 11, 1985 (age 22)
	Sergey Kolesnikov	March 10, 1986 (age 21)
	Gustav Erik Larsson	September 20, 1980 (age 26)
	Jonas Ljungblad	January 15, 1979 (age 28)

	Rider	Date of Birth
	Luis Pasamontes	October 2, 1979 (age 27)
	Víctor Hugo Peña	July 10, 1974 (age 32)
	Matheus Pronk	July 1, 1974 (age 32)
	José Rujano	February 18, 1982 (age 25)
	Niels Scheuneman	December 21, 1983 (age 23)
	Gil Suray	August 29, 1984 (age 22)
	Laurens Ten Dam	November 13, 1980 (age 26)
	Erwin Thijs	August 6, 1970 (age 36)
	Rigoberto Uran	January 26, 1987 (age 20)
	Stijn Vandenbergh	April 25, 1984 (age 22)
	Troels Ronning Vinther	February 24, 1987 (age 20)
	Matthew Wilson	October 1, 1977 (age 29)
	Marco Zanotti	January 21, 1974 (age 33)