Mercury Cycling Team

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).

Mercury

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

• 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

• Danny Pate (1996)
• Michael Creed (1996)
• Derek Wilkerson (1996)
• Tyler Farrar (2002)
• Wil Frischkorn (1999)

References

• "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.