Mercury Cycling Team

The Mercury Cycling Team was an American professional cycling team. It was founded in 1992 and disbanded in 2002. Was named Velo News North American Team of the Year from 1996 – 2002 and won 535 races from 1998–2002.

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
Team name history
1992 1994 1996 1997 1998–1999 2000 2001 2002	Miller Lite Nutra Fig Nutra Fig-Colorado Cyclist Comptel Data Systems-Colorado Cyclist Mercury Mercury-Mannheim Auctions Mercury-Viatel Mercury

Main riders

• Léon van Bon (2001)
• Baden Cooke (2000–2001)
• Tom Danielson (2002)
• Julian Dean (1998)
• Fabrizio Guidi (2001)
• Chris Horner (1992–1996, 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 (1994–2000)
• David Clinger (1993–1999)
• Will Frischkorn (2000–2002)
• Rahsaan Bahati (2000–2002)
• Scott Moninger (1999–2002)
• Chris Wherry (2001–2002)

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.