Sporting CP (cycling team)

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Sporting Clube de Portugal
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Founded1911 (1911)
Discipline Road
Team name history
1911–1962
1963–1974
1975
1984–1986
1987
2009–2010
Sporting
Sporting–Gazcidla
Sporting–Sottomayor
Sporting–Raposeira
Sporting–Vitalis
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Sporting Clube de Portugal is a Portuguese professional cycling team that existed from 1911 to 2010 and was refounded in 2020. [1] [2] It is part of the Sporting Clube de Portugal sports club based in Lisbon. It participated in the 1978 and 1984 editions of the Tour de France, [3] [4] with Paulo Ferreira's victory in the fifth stage in 1984 the team's sole win of the race. [5]

Between 2016 and 2019, Sporting had a protocol with CC Tavira and the team was called "Sporting-Tavira".

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References

  1. "Sporting presents new project for the cycling section". Sporting CP . Retrieved 3 March 2020.
  2. "Accès équipes Sporting" (in French). Mémoire du cyclisme. Retrieved 3 March 2017.
  3. "The history of the Tour de France – Year 1975 – The starters". Tour de France . Amaury Sport Organisation. Archived from the original on 5 May 2017. Retrieved 3 March 2017.
  4. "The history of the Tour de France – Year 1984 – The starters". Tour de France . Amaury Sport Organisation. Archived from the original on 2 May 2017. Retrieved 3 March 2017.
  5. "The history of the Tour de France – Year 1984 – The stage winners". Tour de France . Amaury Sport Organisation. Archived from the original on 2 September 2016. Retrieved 3 March 2017.