title: Postobón (cycling team)
text: # Postobón (cycling team)
  
  Postobón was a Colombian based professional road bicycle racing cycling team active from 1986 to 1996. The team was sponsored by the Colombian beverage manufacturers Postobón. The team name was sometimes Manzana–Postobón after one of the most popular drinks that the beverage manufacturer produced.
  
  The team came into existence the year after the creation of the Café de Colombia-Pilas Varta-Mavic. The first manager of the Café de Colombia team was José Raúl Meza Orozco but he joined Postóbon. Asdrubal Salazar, Elkin Dario Rendón Rojas, José Alfonso López Lemus and Narsutis Dumbauskas would be involved in the managing of the team of the ten years of its existence.
  
  Luis Herrera rode the last two years of his career with the team. Chepe González, a stage winner in the Tour de France and Giro d'Italia began his career with the team. The team obtained success and challenged the dominance of Café de Colombia in the Vuelta a Colombia with Pablo Wilches, Gustavo Wilches and José González. On February 22, 1995, three cyclists of the team - Néstor Mora, Hernán Patiño and Augusto Triana were killed while training on a highway in Colombia when they were hit by a truck.
  
  ## Major wins
  
  ### 1986
  
      Stage Vuelta a Colombia
  
  ### 1987
  
      General classification and one stage Vuelta a Colombia
      Stage Clásico RCN
  
  ### 1988
  
      General classification Clásica Ciudad de Girardot
      General classification Vuelta a Boyacà
      Two stages Clásico RCN
  
  ### 1989
  
      Mountains classification and one stage Vuelta a España
      Stage Clásico RCN
  
  ### 1990
  
      Stage Vuelta a España
      Stage 7 Dauphiné Libéré
      Stage 2 Vuelta a Venezuela
      General classification Vuelta a El Salvador
      General classification Clásico RCN
  
  ### 1991
  
      General classification and one stage Dauphiné Libéré
      Stage 6 Volta a Catalunya
      Mountains classification and Stage 16 Vuelta a España
  
  ### 1992
  
      General classification Clásico RCN
      General classification Vuelta a los valles Mineros
      General classification Vuelta a Costa Rica
      General classification Vuelta Ciclista an Aragón
      General classification and one stage Route du Sud
      General classification Vuelta Ciclista a Murcia
      Stage 7 Dauphiné Libéré
  
  1994
  
      Stage Clásico RCN
  
  ### 1995
  
      National Colombia road race championships (Efraín Rico)
      General classification and one stage Ruta Mexico
      Stage Clásico RCN
  
  ### 1996
  
      Stage wins Vuelta a Colombia
  