The Mercury Cycling Team was an American professional cycling team. It was founded in 1992 as an amateur team by John Wordin and Thurlow Rogers, with Mrs. Gooch's Natural Foods Markets as the lead sponsor in 1992 and 1994. Before Mercury took over title sponsorship from 1998 to 1999 and 2001–2002 the team raced under various title sponsors including Miller Lite (1993), Nutra Fig (1995–1996), Comptel Data Systems (1997), and Manheim Auctions (2000).
| Team information | |
|---|---|
| Registered | United States |
| Founded | 1992 |
| Disbanded | 2002 |
| Discipline(s) | Road |
| Status | GSII (1994–2000) GSI (2001) GSIII (2002) |
| Bicycles | Fuji |
| Website | Team home page |
| Key personnel | |
| General manager | John Wordin(1992-2001) Thurlow Rogers (2002) |
| Team name history | |
1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998–1999 2000 2001 2002 | Mrs. Gooch's Miller Lite Mrs. Gooch's Nutra Fig Nutra Fig-Colorado Cyclist Comptel Data Systems-Colorado Cyclist Mercury Manheim Auctions-Mercury Mercury-Viatel Mercury |
The team was named Velo News North American Team of the Year from 1996 to 2002 and won 535 races from 1998 to 2002. The team was disbanded after the 2002 season.
Main riders
edit- Léon van Bon (2001)
- Baden Cooke (2000–2001)
- Tom Danielson (2002)
- Julian Dean (1998)
- Fabrizio Guidi (2001)
- Chris Horner (1993–1996, 1998–2001)
- Jans Koerts (2001)
- Floyd Landis (1999–2001)
- Peter Van Petegem (2001)
- Thurlow Rogers (1992–2002)
- Pavel Tonkov (2001)
- Jonathan Vaughters (1997)
- Henk Vogels (2000–2002)
- Steve Zampieri (2000)
- Gord Fraser (1998–2002)
- Levi Leipheimer (1997)
- Derek Bouchard-Hall (1999–2002)
- Mike Sayers (1998–2002)
- John Peters (1993–2000)
- David Clinger (1993–1999)
- Will Frischkorn (2000–2002)
- Rahsaan Bahati (2000–2002)
- Scott Moninger (1999–2002)
- Chris Wherry (2001–2002)
- Kirk Willet (1993–2000)
- Ernesto Lechuga (1998–2002)
Junior/U23 Development riders
edit- Danny Pate (1996)
- Michael Creed (1996)
- Derek Wilkerson (1996)
- Tyler Farrar (2002)
- Wil Frischkorn (1999)
References
edit- "Mercury Cycling Team 1999". Cycling Archives. Retrieved 9 August 2016.
- Alsedek, John (1999). "Team Mercury". cyclingnews.com. Archived from the original on August 20, 2008. Retrieved 9 August 2016.
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