Team MILRAM
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The professional cycling team Team MILRAM exists since the beginning of 2006. Team MILRAM took over the UCI Pro Tour concession of Team Domina Vacance. The team’s main sponsor is MILRAM, a brand of the Bremen-based company Nordmilch. Erik Zabel and Alessandro Petacchi are the Team’s top cyclists. In 2006, the squad is completed by 28 further riders, mainly from Germany and Italy. Team MILRAM is the third team in the UCI ProTour with a German main sponsor.
The racing stable’s management is led by the Italian Gianluigi Stanga, who has been a team manager in professional cycling since 1983. Stanga is supported by the Italians Vittorio Algeri, Antonio Bevilacqua and Oscar Pellicioli, as well as by the former professional cyclist from Germany, Jan Schaffrath, as sport directors. Gerry van Gerwen from the Netherlands is Team MILRAM’s commercial manager.
Since its start into the cycling season 2006, Team MILRAM has been able to achieve considerable results. Up to the middle of August 2006, the Team MILRAM riders were able to attain nearly 60 placings, amongs them 19 victories, 19 second and 30 third ranks. The most important successes are Christian Knees’ victory of the German classic Rund um Köln, Alessandro Petacchi winning all the stages as well as the overall classification of the Niedersachsenrundfahrt, the three stage victories in the Bayern-Rundfahrt by Ralf Grabsch, Björn Schröder and Erik Zabel, the second rank in the Vattenfall Cyclassics and Erik Zabel winning the best sprinter’s red jersey in the Deutschland-Tour.
To grant a professional furtherance of new talents, Team MILRAM established a scouting system in May 2006, which is considered as innovative to professional cycling. Jan Schaffrath is in charge of the scouting. The recruitment of young talented riders for the ProTour team is based on two principles. On the one hand, promising talents are promoted and developed in the MILRAM Continental Team. On the other hand, Schaffrath is also taking a look at U23 riders of other teams. The scouting system makes sure that contact and trust between the new talents and the professional team are established and strengthened early.
[edit] 2006 team
Name | Birthdate | Nationality | 2005 Team |
Daniel Becke | 12-03-1978 | Germany | Illes Balears |
Simone Cadamuro | 28-06-1976 | Italy | Domina Vacanze |
Mirko Celestino | 19-03-1974 | Italy | Domina Vacanze |
Alessandro Cortinovis | 11-10-1977 | Italy | Domina Vacanze |
Maarten den Bakker | 26-01-1969 | Netherlands | Rabobank |
Volodymyr Dyudya | 06-01-1983 | Ukraine | stagiaire |
Sergio Ghisalberti | 10-12-1979 | Italy | Domina Vacanze |
Michele Gobbi | 10-08-1977 | Italy | Domina Vacanze |
Ralf Grabsch | 07-04-1973 | Germany | Team Wiesenhof |
Andriy Grivko | 07-08-1983 | Ukraine | Domina Vacanze |
Maxim Iglinskiy | 18-04-1981 | Kazakhstan | Domina Vacanze |
Matej Jurco | 08-08-1984 | Slovakia | Domina Vacanze |
Christian Knees | 05-03-1981 | Germany | Team Wiesenhof |
Mirco Lorenzetto | 13-07-1981 | Italy | Domina Vacanze |
Martin Müller | 05-04-1974 | Germany | Team Wiesenhof |
Daniel Musiol | 27-03-1983 | Germany | Team Wiesenhof |
Alberto Ongarato | 24.07.1975 | Italy | Fassa Bortolo |
Alessandro Petacchi | 03.01.1974 | Italy | Fassa Bortolo |
Enrico Poitschke | 25-08-1969 | Germany | Team Wiesenhof |
Elia Rigotto | 04-03-1982 | Italy | Domina Vacanze |
Fabio Sabatini | Italy | neo-pro | |
Fabio Sacchi | 22.05.1974 | Italy | Fassa Bortolo |
Björn Schröder | 27-10-1980 | Germany | Team Wiesenhof |
Carlo Scognamiglio | 31-05-1983 | Italy | stagiaire |
Sebastian Siedler | 18-01-1978 | Germany | Team Wiesenhof |
Alessandro Vanotti | 16-09-1980 | Italy | Domina Vacanze |
Marco Velo | 09.03.1974 | Italy | Fassa Bortolo |
Giovanni Visconti | 13-01-1983 | Italy | Domina Vacanze |
Erik Zabel | 07-07-1970 | Germany | T-Mobile |
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