What happened to the riders of Team Geox-TMC?
What happened to the 23 riders who were part of Geox-TMC, the procontinental team that would almost certainly have promoted to WorldTour-status in 2012 if Geox hadn’t withdrawn as main sponsor?
WorldTour (5)
Juanjo Cobo (Team Movistar).
Denis Menchov and Xavier Florencio (Katusha).
Daniel Ratto (Liquigas).
Rafael Valls (Vacansoleil-DCM).
Procontinental (8)
Matthias Brändle & Marcel Wyss (NetAPP).
Danielle Colli (Team Type 1).
Fabio Felline (Androni-Venezuela).
David de la Fuente (Caja Rural).
Matteo Pelucchi (Europcar).
Dimitriy Kozontchuk (Rusvelo).
Fabio Duarte (Colombia-Coldeportes).
Continental (5)
Mauricio Ardila (Colombia-Comcel).
Marko Kump (Adria Mobil).
David Blanco (Efapel-Glassdrive).
Noé Gianetti (Team Exergy)
Amateur division, retired or no team (6)
Arkaitz Duran (Telco’m-Conor Azysa)
David Gutierrez-Gutierrez (Gomar-Cantabria Deporte-Ferroatlantica)
Giampaolo Cheula continues on the mountain bike with KTM-Stihl.
Tomas Alberio (Team Idea)
Carlos Sastre retired before the collapse of the team.
I haven’t been able to trace Marco Corti down.
New recruits (6)
Geox-TMC also signed some new riders. They all found a new team:
Gediminas Bagdonas (An Post-Sean Kelly)
Ioannis Tamouridis (SP Tableware).
Blaz Furdi (Radland Tirol).
Venezuela champion Miquel Ubeto (Androni-Venezuela)
Robert Vrecer (Team Vorarlberg.)
Ghader Mizbani (Tabriz Petrochemical Team).
Thanks to CQ ranking and @biarnes72 for helping out.


Hi José,
For me Vrecer doesn’t signed with Adria Mobil. Ubeto is riding for Loteria del Tachira.
Merci!