UCI code | CCC |
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Registered | Poland |
Founded | 2000 |
Discipline | Road |
Status | UCI Professional Continental |
Bicycles | Guerciotti |
Website | Team home page |
General manager | Marek Leśniewski |
2000 2001 2002–2003 2004 2006 2007–2011 2012 2013–2014 2015– |
Mat–Ceresit–CCC CCC–Mat–Ceresit CCC–Polsat Hoop–CCC–Polsat CCC–Polsat CCC–Polsat–Polkowice CCC–Polkowice CCC–Polsat–Polkowice CCC–Sprandi–Polkowice |
CCC–Sprandi–Polkowice (UCI team code: CCC) is a UCI Professional Continental cycling team based in Poland. Formerly CCC-Mat, the team became known as CCC-Polsat in 2002. In 2004 and 2005, the team was known as Hoop CCC-Polsat (UCI team code: HOP), reverting to CCC-Polsat in 2006. From 2007 to 2011, the team was known as CCC-Polsat-Polkowice (abbreviated to CCC-Polsat), and team kit colours are orange and black.
In UCI rankings as of 13 November 2002, CCC Polsat was placed in division 2, in 5th place. The team comprised Cezary Zamana, Artur Krzeszowiec, Jarosław Rębiewski, Radosław Romanik, Krzysztof Szafrański, Quentino Rodrigues (Portugal), Andrei Tietieruk (Kazakhstan), Piotr Przydział, Ondřej Sosenka (Czech Republic), Dawid Krupa, Tomasz Kłoczko, Jarosław Zarębski, Dariusz Skoczylas, Felice Puttini (Switzerland), Sergiy Uszakov (Russia), and Jacek Mickiewicz. In 2002, Ondřej Sosenka won the Czech Championship (25 June 2002), the Course de la Paix (Peace Race) (10–18 May 2002), and the ASY Fiata AutoPoland (25–28 September 2002),
In 2003, team member, Ondřej Sosenka, won the Okolo Slovenska (27–31 August 2003) (overall win and stages 4 and 5).
In this year, CCC-Polsat was the first Polish team to ride a Grand Tour, the Giro d'Italia. The 2003 team was headed by Pavel Tonkov, who finished in 5th place in the same race in the previous year for Lampre–Daikin. The Giro team also included Piotr Chmielewski, Seweryn Kohut, Piotr Przydzial, Radosław Romanik, Dariusz Baranowski, Tomasz Brożyna, Andris Naudužs, and Bogdan Bondariew. CCC Polsat's team manager was Andrzej Sypythowski. The colours of the team kit at this time were orange, yellow, and red, with black lettering.