Team Gerolsteiner

Team Gerolsteiner (UCI Team Code: GST) is a German road bicycle racing team in the UCI ProTour. It is sponsored by the drinks company Gerolsteiner Brunnen and the bike company "Specialized".

Gerolsteiner

Team information
UCI code	GST
Registered	Germany
Founded	1997 (1997)
Disbanded	2008
Discipline(s)	Road
Status	ProTour
Key personnel
General manager	Reimund Dietzen
Team name history
1997–1998 1999–2008	Schauff Oeschelbronn Gerolsteiner

Rund um den Henninger-Turm (2005)

The team was founded in 1998 with manager Hans-Michael Holczer and sports directors Rolf Gölz and Christian Henn. The contract with Georg Totschnig in 2001 helped make the team enter Division I. In 2003 the team participated in the Tour de France for the first time.

The Leader is Georg Totschnig, who has finished in the top 10 in the Tour de France and is an excellent climber. In 2005, Totschnig won stage 14 of the Tour, showing his skill on the 15km long climb up the Port de Pailhères (2000m at 8.2%). He was the first Austrian to win a tour stage since Max Bulla in 1931. In 2007, Georg Totschnig retired and Levi Leipheimer moved to the Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team. The team used youngsters Markus Fothen and Stefan Schumacher to captain the team in the 2007 Tour de France.

In September 2007 Gerolsteiner said it would not renew its sponsorship.^[1]

Team honours

• 1st, Team classification, Deutschland Tour 2006
• 1st, 2005 Eindhoven Team Time Trial

2007 ProTeam

As of January 1, 2007^[2]

Rider Date of birth  Robert Förster (GER) (1978-01-27) January 27, 1978 (age 47)  Markus Fothen (GER) (1981-09-09) September 9, 1981 (age 43)  Thomas Fothen (GER) (1983-04-06) April 6, 1983 (age 42)  Johannes Frohlinger (GER) (1985-06-09) June 9, 1985 (age 39)  Oscar Gatto (ITA) (1985-01-01) January 1, 1985 (age 40)  Heinrich Haussler (GER) (1984-02-25) February 25, 1984 (age 41)  Torsten Hiekmann (GER) (1980-03-17) March 17, 1980 (age 45)  Tim Klinger (GER) (1984-09-22) September 22, 1984 (age 40)  Bernhard Kohl (AUT) (1982-01-04) January 4, 1982 (age 43)  David Kopp (GER) (1979-01-05) January 5, 1979 (age 46)  Sven Krauss (GER) (1983-01-06) January 6, 1983 (age 42)  Sebastian Lang (GER) (1979-09-15) September 15, 1979 (age 45)  Andrea Moletta (ITA) (1979-02-23) February 23, 1979 (age 46)

Rider Date of birth  Volker Ordowski (GER) (1973-11-09) November 9, 1973 (age 51)  Davide Rebellin (ITA) (1971-08-09) August 9, 1971 (age 53)  Matthias Russ (GER) (1983-11-14) November 14, 1983 (age 41)  Ronny Scholz (GER) (1978-04-24) April 24, 1978 (age 46)  Stefan Schumacher (GER) (1981-07-21) July 21, 1981 (age 43)  Tom Stamsnijder (NED) (1985-05-15) May 15, 1985 (age 39)  Marcel Strauss (SUI) (1976-08-15) August 15, 1976 (age 48)  Fabian Wegmann (GER) (1980-06-20) June 20, 1980 (age 44)  Carlo Westphal (GER) (1985-11-25) November 25, 1985 (age 39)  Peter Wrolich (AUT) (1974-05-30) May 30, 1974 (age 50)  Oliver Zaugg (SUI) (1981-05-09) May 9, 1981 (age 43)  Beat Zberg (SUI) (1971-05-10) May 10, 1971 (age 53)  Markus Zberg (SUI) (1974-06-27) June 27, 1974 (age 50)