# Vini Caldirola

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Italian bike racing team

**Casa Vini Caldirola** (or the Caldirola Wine House) sponsored an [Italian](/source/Italy) professional [road bicycle racing](/source/Road_bicycle_racing) team between 1998 and 2004, with a gap in 2002, where the main sponsor was [Tacconi Sport](/source/Tacconi_Sport). In 2005 the team was formally disbanded, but many riders continued in the new [Liquigas-Bianchi](/source/Liquigas-Bianchi) [UCI ProTour](/source/UCI_ProTour) team.

## Team name

As professional racing teams change name with their sponsors, the name of the team has varied in its lifetime.

Year Name 2004 Vini Caldirola–Nobili Rubinetterie 2003 Vini Caldirola–So.di 2002 Tacconi Sport–Emmegi 2001 Tacconi Sport–Vini Caldirola 2000 Vini Caldirola–Sidermec 1999 Vini Caldirola 1998 Vini Caldirola

## Notable riders

[Francesco Casagrande](/source/Francesco_Casagrande) was one of Vini Caldirola's best riders.

[Stefano Garzelli](/source/Stefano_Garzelli) won several stages of the [Giro d'Italia](/source/Giro_d'Italia) while riding for Vini Caldirola.

Name Nationality Years Francesco Casagrande Italy 1999-2000, 2004 Romāns Vainšteins Latvia 1999–2000, 2003 Stefano Garzelli Italy 2003-2004 Pavel Tonkov Russia 2004 Serhiy Honchar Ukraine 1999 Guido Trentin Italy 1998–2000 Eddy Mazzoleni Italy 2001–2003 Matthew White Australia 1999–2000 Andrej Hauptman Slovenia 1999–2003 Gabriele Balducci Italy 2001–2003 David George South Africa 2001 Nicola Minali Italy 2001-2002 Dario Frigo Italy 2002 Sylwester Szmyd Poland 2001–2002 David de la Fuente Spain 2003 Fred Rodriguez United States 2003 Marco Zanotti Italy 2004 Dario Andriotto Italy 2003–2004

## External links

- [Official site](http://www.caldirola.it/)

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