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Novell (cycling team)
From 1993 until 1995, the Dutch professional cycling team previously known as Buckler and currently still active as Rabobank was sponsored by WordPerfect , a word processing application from the American company Corel , and Novell , an American software corporation which bougth WordPerfect in 1994.
The team's managers were Jan Raas , Hilaire Van der Schueren , and 1980 Tour de France -winner Joop Zoetemelk . Co-sponsors during these three years were Colnago and Decca . In these years, later Rabobank leaders such as Michael Boogerd and Erik Dekker made their professional debut.
1993
Victories
Prologue and 3rd stage, Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré - Raúl Alcalá Gallegos
1st stage, Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré - Frédéric Moncassin)
General classification and 11th stage, Tour Du Pont - Raúl Alcalá Gallegos
5th Stage, Vuelta Ciclista a Burgos - Raúl Alcalá Gallegos
Omloop van het Houtland - Danny Daelman GP Jef Scherens - Frans Maassen 6th stage, Vuelta a Andalucia (Ruta del Sol) - Frans Maassen
General classification, Tour de Picardie - [[Frédéric Moncassin)
Veenendaal-Veenendaal - Rob Mulders 3rd stage part B, Driedaagse van De Panne - Jelle Nijdam
1st & 7th stage, Tour de l'Avenir - Leon van Bon
Brabantse Pijl - Edwig Van Hooydonck 3rd stage part B, Tour de Luxembourg - Edwig Van Hooydonck
2nd stage, Tour de Romandie - Edwig Van Hooydonck
General classification, Driedaagse van De Panne - Eric Vanderaerden
3rd Stage, Etoile de Bessèges - Eric Vanderaerden
1993 Roster Leon van Bon joined the team on September 1st.
1994
Victories
Tour de France The team had a dissapointing Tour de France. The only top ten finish was from Viatcheslav Ekimov , 7th in the final stage to the Champs Elysées . With a 36th place, he was also the best in the Final General Classification. Four riders (Maassen, Van Bon, Van Hooydonck and Van Lancker) did not make to Paris. The others (Dekker, Kvalsvoll, Mulders and Wauters) ended up in the lower regions of the classification.
1994 Roster Michael Blaudzun , John den Braber and Wim Vansevenant joined the team as trainees on September 1st.
1995 Novell WordPerfect , became the title sponsor itself for the 1995 season. This team became the now famous Rabobank -team in 1996.
Victories
Tour de France Viatcheslav Ekimov ended 18th in the General classification of the 1995 Tour de France . With three third places, one second place and the stage win at the Champs Elysées , Djamolidine Abdoujaparov was the most successful rider of the team. He finished second in the Points classifications .
1995 Roster
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