Team Vorarlberg Santic

Team Vorarlberg Santic (UCI team code: VOL) is a cycling team based in Austria. The team was founded in 1999 by the twin brothers Thomas and Johannes Kofler and previously known as Team Volksbank. In 2009, the Austrian federal state of Vorarlberg replaced Volksbank as title sponsor. In 2006 it became the first ever Austrian professional cycling team and was registered as a UCI Professional Continental team until June 2010, when their UCI license was suspended due to financial insecurity.^[1] The team was later re-registered as a UCI Continental team, and retained that status in 2011.^[2]

In 2007, the team received international attention when former German Tour de France-winner Jan Ullrich announced to join the team in an official function after having been suspended by his T-Mobile Team due to his involvement in the Operación Puerto doping case.^[3] After pressure from the team's sponsors, the plan was discarded. Team Vorarlberg was the first Austrian cycling team to participate in events of the UCI ProTour, the top tier racing league in professional cycling. It did so by receiving a wild card for the 2007 Deutschland Tour, also returning in 2008 with Daniel Musiol winning the mountains classification. From 2007 to 2009 it also raced three times at the Tour de Suisse (winning the sprint classification both with Florian Stalder in 2007 and with René Weissinger in 2008) as well as joining the 2009 Tour of Flanders. Other notable results besides several national champion titles include the overall victory at the 2015 Tour of Austria by Victor de la Parte.

Team roster 2018

The team at the 2015 Grand Prix des Marbriers.

Rider Date of birth  Dominik Amann (AUT) (1999-02-12) 12 February 1999  Matteo Badilatti (SWI) (1992-07-30) 30 July 1992  Manuel Bosch (AUT) (1989-04-28) 28 April 1989  Gian Friesecke (SUI) (1994-11-26) 26 November 1994  Daniel Geismayr (AUT) Unknown  Maximilian Hammerle (AUT) (1993-06-25) 25 June 1993  Johannes Hirschbichler (AUT) (1993-02-27) 27 February 1993  Patrick Jäger (AUT) (1994-02-03) 3 February 1994

Rider Date of birth  Lukas Meiler (GER) (1995-02-14) 14 February 1995  Martin Meiler (GER) (1998-03-19) 19 March 1998  Davide Orrico (ITA) (1990-02-17) 17 February 1990  Lukas Ruegg (SWI) (1996-09-09) 9 September 1996  Patrick Schelling (SUI) (1990-05-01) 1 May 1990  Joeri Stallaert (BEL) (1991-01-25) 25 January 1991  Jannik Steimle (GER) (1996-04-04) 4 April 1996  Roland Thalmann (SWI) (1993-08-05) 5 August 1993

Major wins

National Champions

2002

Ireland Time Trial Championship, David McCann

2004

Greece Road Race Championship, Vasilis Anastopoulos

Austria Road Race Championship, Harald Morscher

2005

Greece Road Race Championship, Vasilis Anastopoulos

2012

Slovenia Time Trial Championship, Robert Vrečer

Known former riders

• Michael Rasmussen (1999)
• Stefan Denifl (2006)
• Harald Morscher (2006–2009)
• Gerrit Glomser (2006–2008)
• Sven Teutenberg (2006–2007)
• Olaf Pollack (2008)
• Reto Hollenstein (2009-2011)
• René Haselbacher (2009–2010)
• Sebastian Siedler (2009–2010)
• Silvan Dillier (2011)
• René Weissinger (2004–2005 and 2007–2012)
• Robert Vrečer (2012 and 2014)
• Victor de la Parte (2015)

References

External links

• Official website