Marco Polo Cycling–Donckers Koffie

Marco Polo Cycling-Donckers Koffie

Team information
UCI code	MPC
Registered	Hong Kong: 2003–2004 China: 2005–2011 Ethiopia: 2012
Founded	2001 (2001)
Discipline(s)	Road
Status	Continental
Key personnel
Team manager(s)	Remko Kramer
Team name history
2003–2006 2007 2008–2009 2010–2011 2012	Marco Polo Cycling Team Discovery Channel-Marco Polo Team Trek-Marco Polo Cycling Team Marco Polo Cycling Team Marco Polo Cycling-Donckers Koffie

Marco Polo Cycling–Donckers Koffie (UCI Code: MPC) was a UCI Continental cycling team, registered in Ethiopia. The team is named after traveller Marco Polo, and has title sponsorship from Belgian coffee company Donckers Koffie.^[1]

History

The idea of the team came in 1998 and in 2001 the team was registered in Hong Kong. In 2003 it became a UCI Continental team^[2] and from 2005 the team was registered in China becoming the first professional cycling team from China.^[3]

Li Fuyu rode with the team for two years from 2005 before joining the Discovery Channel team. This led to a partnership between the teams, resulting in the 2007 Discovery Channel Marco Polo team. In 2008, Trek became the sponsor and the name became Trek-Marco Polo. The team has a house in the Netherlands for riders.^{[citation needed]}

After a ten-year run the team did not have a sponsor for 2013 season.^{[citation needed]}

Major wins

National champions

2003

Mongolia, Road Race Championship, Jamsran Ulzii-Orshikh

Mongolia, Time Trial Championship, Jamsran Ulzii-Orshikh

2005

Mongolia, Road Race Championship, Jamsran Ulzii-Orshikh

Mongolia, Time Trial Championship, Jamsran Ulzii-Orshikh

New Zealand, Time Trial Championship, Robin Reid

2006

Mongolia, Road Race Championship, Jamsran Ulzii-Orshikh

Mongolia, Time Trial Championship, Jamsran Ulzii-Orshikh

2007

Mongolia, Road Race Championship, Jamsran Ulzii-Orshikh

2009

South Africa, Time Trial Championship, Jaco Venter

, Time Trial Championship, Li Fuyu

2012 team

As of 23 February 2012.^[1][4]

Rider Date of birth  Alem Abebe (ETH) (1990-11-15) 15 November 1990 (age 33)  Rubén Abello (ESP) (1976-04-19) 19 April 1976 (age 47)  Daniel Abraham (ERI) (1985-02-11) 11 February 1985 (age 39)  Shane Archbold (NZL) (1989-02-02) 2 February 1989 (age 35)  Chris Bartlett (GBR) (1986-08-12) 12 August 1986 (age 37)  Binyam Bekele (ETH) (1987-09-18) 18 September 1987 (age 36)  Solomon Bitew (ETH) (1987-07-13) 13 July 1987 (age 36)  Sven De Weerdt (BEL) (1978-03-29) 29 March 1978 (age 46)  Estifanos Gebresilassie (ETH) (1988-02-18) 18 February 1988 (age 36)  Matt Green (GBR) (1988-10-02) 2 October 1988 (age 35)

Rider Date of birth  Edward Greene (RSA) (1990-11-26) 26 November 1990 (age 33)  Kbrom Hailay (ETH) (1989-02-19) 19 February 1989 (age 35)  Jan Kuyckx (BEL) (1979-05-20) 20 May 1979 (age 44)  Chris Macic (NZL) (1988-08-01) 1 August 1988 (age 35)  Matthé Pronk (NED) (1974-07-01) 1 July 1974 (age 49)  Marc Ryan (NZL) (1982-10-14) 14 October 1982 (age 41)  Léon van Bon (NED) (1972-01-28) 28 January 1972 (age 52)  Matthias Van Mechelen (BEL) (1988-02-23) 23 February 1988 (age 36)  Yirga Woldemariam (ETH) (1988-02-19) 19 February 1988 (age 36)

References

External links

• Official Website
• Diaries of the team on Cyclingnews

This page was last edited on 1 February 2023, at 18:20