MILRAM allrounder Fabian Wegmann leads German ProTour team in Italian end-of-season race

Dortmund, 14 October 2010. Lead by Fabian Wegmann, the German ProTour racing team MILRAM is tackling the 104th edition of the Tour of Lombardy (UCI category HIS) this coming Saturday. The rider from Münster will be joined by his training companion Johannes Fröhlinger and his German team mates Markus Eichler, Dominik Roels, Björn Schröder, Markus Fothen and Paul Voß on the 242 kilometers from Varese to Como.The sextett will be accompanied by Belgian classics specialist Wim De Vocht.

„The Tour of Lombardy is one of the most difficult one-day-races, but it is also one of my favorites,“ MILRAM allrounder Wegmann is looking forward to Saturday. „I was on the podium in 2006, and I’m hoping to be able to repeat the success.“

In 2005, Fabian Wegmann came sixth wearing the Gerolsteiner jersey. The following year, he was the first German to ever reach a place on the podium of the autumn classic. Back then, the 29-year-old came third after an exciting sprint with Spaniard Samuel Sanchez ahead of him and Italian Paolo Bettini in first position.

The „Race of the Falling Leaves“ takes place every year in mid-October. It is one of the five monuments of the racing sport, together with Milan-San Remo, the Tour of Flanders, Paris-Roubaix and Liège-Bastogne-Liège. The 104th edition of the Giro di Lombardia starts in Varese, the World Championship city of the year 2008. After 242 kilometers, the traditional last race of the season finishes in Como on the water front of the north Italian lake of the same name.

The Team MILRAM line-up in Lombardy:
Markus Eichler (GER/Jülich), Markus Fothen (GER/Büttgen), Johannes Fröhlinger (GER/Freiburg im Breisgau), Wim De Vocht (BEL/Turnhout), Dominik Roels (GER/Köln), Björn Schröder (GER/Berlin), Paul Voß (GER/Bielefeld)
Directeur sportif: Vittorio Algeri (ITA)