Phonak (UCI team code: PHO ) was a Swiss professional cycling team from 2000 until 2006. The team was one of 20 teams in the first UCI ProTour in 2005. It won one race – Santiago Botero 's victory in the Tour de Romandie – and came second in the team ranking on the 2005 ProTour circuit .
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Phonak The team in 2006
UCI code PHO Registered Switzerland Founded 2000 (2000 ) Disbanded 2006 Discipline(s) Road Status ProTour General manager Andy Rihs 2002–2006
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A sponsor, iShares (subsidiary of Barclays Global Investors ) signed a three-year contract in June 2006 to become the team's title sponsor from 2007. The team's name was to be iShares. Andy Rihs , owner of Phonak Hearing Systems , said on 15 August 2006 that the deal had been called off after the team's leader, Floyd Landis , tested positive for high levels of testosterone , and that the team would disband at the end of 2006.[1]
Team Phonak in Paris in the final stage of the 2006 Tour de France .
During 2004 Phonak concentrated on supporting Tyler Hamilton in the Tour de France. He crashed and withdrew and was later suspended for blood doping . Hamilton was not the last rider removed for doping, leading Phonak to stop sponsorship after 2006.
The riders accused of doping in 2004 were Hamilton, Santiago Pérez ,[2] Oscar Camenzind , Fabrizio Guidi (who was cleared) and Sascha Urweider .[3]
On 5 August 2006 Phonak dismissed Floyd Landis after confirmation that a urine sample taken after his Stage 17 win twice tested positive for synthetic testosterone as well as a ratio of testosterone to epitestosterone nearly three times the limit allowed by World Anti-Doping Agency rules.[4] His 2006 Tour de France win was erased from the books by the Union Cycliste Internationale on September 20, 2007.[5]
Phonak won the team classification at:
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Date of birth
Santiago Botero (COL )
(1972-10-27 ) October 27, 1972
Aurélien Clerc (SUI )
(1979-08-26 ) August 26, 1979
Martin Elmiger (SUI )
(1978-09-23 ) September 23, 1978
Luis Fernández (ESP )
(1980-01-19 ) January 19, 1980
Bert Grabsch (GER )
(1975-06-19 ) June 19, 1975
Fabrizio Guidi (ITA )
(1972-04-13 ) April 13, 1972
Ignacio Gutiérrez (ESP )
(1977-12-01 ) December 1, 1977
José Enrique Gutiérrez (ESP )
(1974-06-18 ) June 18, 1974
Ryder Hesjedal (CAN )
(1980-12-09 ) December 9, 1980
Robert Hunter (RSA )
(1977-04-22 ) April 22, 1977
Nicolas Jalabert (FRA )
(1973-04-13 ) April 13, 1973
Floyd Landis (USA )
(1975-10-14 ) October 14, 1975
Miguel Ángel Martín Perdiguero (ESP )
(1972-10-14 ) October 14, 1972
Jonathan McCarty (USA )
(1982-01-24 ) January 24, 1982
Rider
Date of birth
Axel Merckx (BEL )
(1972-08-08 ) August 8, 1972
Koos Moerenhout (NED )
(1973-11-05 ) November 5, 1973
Alexandre Moos (SUI )
(1972-12-22 ) December 22, 1972
Steve Morabito (SUI )
(1983-01-30 ) January 30, 1983
Uroš Murn (SLO )
(1975-02-09 ) February 9, 1975
Víctor Hugo Peña (COL )
(1974-07-10 ) July 10, 1974
Grégory Rast (SUI )
(1980-01-17 ) January 17, 1980
Michael Schär (SUI )
(1986-09-29 ) September 29, 1986
Florian Stalder (SUI )
(1982-09-13 ) September 13, 1982
Johann Tschopp (SUI )
(1982-07-01 ) July 1, 1982
Sascha Urweider (SUI )
(1980-09-18 ) September 18, 1980
David Vitoria (SUI )
(1984-10-15 ) October 15, 1984
Steve Zampieri (SUI )
(1977-06-04 ) June 4, 1977
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