Team Milram starts in Delta Tour Zeeland


Team MILRAM will have to do without Italian sprinter Eila Rigotto in the Delta Tour Zeeland (UCI 2.1) from Friday, June 13 to Sunday, June 16.  The 26 year old is suffering from stomach problems resulting from a gluten allergy.  Rigotto will be replaced by his landsman Luca Barla in the three-day Dutch race.  In addition to the Italian, Directeur Sportif Raoul Liebregts will direct the three Germans Markus Eichler, Dennis Haueisen and Artur Gajek, as well as Volodymyr Diudia of Ukrania and Barla's landsman, Alberto Ongarato.

The Delta Tour Zeeland is being run this year for the first time.  The three day race starts on Friday in southwestern Netherlands, near the Belgian border. with a prologue time trial, 3 km in the city of Hulst.  On Saturday the peloton will take on 180 kilometers from Middelburg to Goes.  They will cross the North Sea twice on long and windy dikes, from the mainland to Schouwen-Duiveland and then back.  The Delta Tour Zeeland ends on Sunday ends in Terneuzen after a total of 357.8 km.

The Stages 2008:
13.06. Prologue:  Hulst - Hulst (3 km)
14.06. 1. Stage:  Middelburg - Goes (180 km)
15.06. 2. Stage:  Terneuzen - Terneuzen (174,8 km)
Total length:  357,8 km

The MILRAM line-up:  Alberto Ongarato (ITA / Servazzano), Artur Gajek (GER / Bergisch Gladbach), Dennis Haueisen (GER / Gera), Elia Rigotto (ITA / Creazzo), Markus Eichler (GER / Mönchengladbach), Volodymyr Diudia (UKR / Belaia Zerkov)
Directeur Sportif: Raoul Liebgregts (NED / Sint Oudenrode)


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