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