# 2010 Team Milram season

2010 Team Milram season :
| Manager | Gerry van Gerwen |
| One-day victories | 4 |
| Stage race overall victories | – |
| Stage race stage victories | 4 |
| Previous season ||
The 2010 season for Team Milram, its last, began in January with the Tour Down Under and ended in October at the Giro di Lombardia. As a UCI ProTour team, they were automatically invited and obliged to attend every event in the ProTour. The team's ridership was largely unchanged from the 2009 season.

## 2010 roster

Ages as of 1 January 2010.
| | Rider | Date of birth |
| Gerald Ciolek (GER) | Gerald Ciolek (GER) | (1986-09-19)19 September 1986 (aged 23) |
| Wim De Vocht (BEL) | Wim De Vocht (BEL) | (1982-04-29)29 April 1982 (aged 27) |
| Markus Eichler (GER) | Markus Eichler (GER) | (1982-02-18)18 February 1982 (aged 27) |
| Robert Förster (GER) | Robert Förster (GER) | (1978-01-27)27 January 1978 (aged 31) |
| Markus Fothen (GER) | Markus Fothen (GER) | (1981-09-09)9 September 1981 (aged 28) |
| Thomas Fothen (GER) | Thomas Fothen (GER) | (1983-04-16)16 April 1983 (aged 26) |
| Johannes Fröhlinger (GER) | Johannes Fröhlinger (GER) | (1985-06-09)9 June 1985 (aged 24) |
| Artur Gajek (GER) | Artur Gajek (GER) | (1985-04-18)18 April 1985 (aged 24) |
| Linus Gerdemann (GER) | Linus Gerdemann (GER) | (1982-09-16)16 September 1982 (aged 27) |
| Roger Kluge (GER) | Roger Kluge (GER) | (1986-02-05)5 February 1986 (aged 23) |
| Servais Knaven (NED) | Servais Knaven (NED) | (1971-03-06)6 March 1971 (aged 38) |
| Christian Knees (GER) | Christian Knees (GER) | (1981-03-05)5 March 1981 (aged 28) |
| | Rider | Date of birth |
| Dominik Nerz (GER) | Dominik Nerz (GER) | (1989-08-25)25 August 1989 (aged 20) |
| Luke Roberts (AUS) | Luke Roberts (AUS) | (1977-01-25)25 January 1977 (aged 32) |
| Dominik Roels (GER) | Dominik Roels (GER) | (1987-01-21)21 January 1987 (aged 22) |
| Thomas Rohregger (AUT) | Thomas Rohregger (AUT) | (1982-12-23)23 December 1982 (aged 27) |
| Matthias Russ (GER) | Matthias Russ (GER) | (1983-11-14)14 November 1983 (aged 26) |
| Björn Schröder (GER) | Björn Schröder (GER) | (1980-10-27)27 October 1980 (aged 29) |
| Roy Sentjens (BEL) | Roy Sentjens (BEL) | (1980-12-15)15 December 1980 (aged 29) |
| Wim Stroetinga (NED) | Wim Stroetinga (NED) | (1985-05-23)23 May 1985 (aged 24) |
| Niki Terpstra (NED) | Niki Terpstra (NED) | (1984-05-18)18 May 1984 (aged 25) |
| Paul Voss (GER) | Paul Voss (GER) | (1986-03-26)26 March 1986 (aged 23) |
| Fabian Wegmann (GER) | Fabian Wegmann (GER) | (1980-06-20)20 June 1980 (aged 29) |
| Peter Wrolich (AUT) | Peter Wrolich (AUT) | (1974-05-20)20 May 1974 (aged 35) |
| Rider | 2009 team |
| Wim De Vocht | Vacansoleil |
| Roger Kluge | LKT Team Brandenburg |
| Dominik Nerz | Continental Team Milram |
| Luke Roberts | ex-pro (Team CSC, 2007) |
| Roy Sentjens | Silence–Lotto |
| Rider | 2010 team |
| Luca Barla | Free agent |
| Christian Kux | Free agent |
| Martin Müller | Retired |
| Ronny Scholz | Retired |
| Martin Velits | Team HTC–Columbia |
| Peter Velits | Team HTC–Columbia |

## Stage races

Rohregger won the mountains classification at the first ProTour event of the season, the Tour Down Under.

## Grand Tours
### Giro d'Italia

Gerdemann was the leader of Team Milram's squad at the Giro d'Italia, in his first participation in the event. Förster, a three-time Giro stage winner, was brought along with the sprints in mind. In stage 3 in the Netherlands, Förster, Gerdemann, and Rohregger all avoided the many crashes that took place on the day and finished with the leading group, taking third, seventh, and ninth respectively in the sprint. Gerdemann was in eighth overall, 12 seconds back, before the transfer to Italy. In the stage 4 team time trial, the squad was tenth, finishing with five riders 57 seconds off the pace of stage winners Liquigas–Doimo. In stage 6, Gerdemann finished the stage with the peloton and moved into eighth overall, leapfrogging in the overall standings over several sprinters who were left minutes behind. Gerdemann and Rohregger finished together, for 12th and 13th at one minute and 13 seconds back, in the difficult and muddy stage 7 in Tuscany. With this result, both were in the top ten for a day, though both were dropped on Monte Terminillo the next day and fell out of the top ten. Förster took fourth and then fifth in the sprint finishes to stages 9 and 10.
In stage 11, more than 50 riders formed the day's breakaway, with the Giro's favorites conceding nearly 13 minutes to the stage winner. Gerdemann and Russ made the selection, and with sixth on the stage Gerdemann moved into seventh overall. In the first of the Giro's several mountain stages in its last week, Gerdemann rode the Monte Grappa climb with the second group on the road, losing 2'25" to stage winner Vincenzo Nibali but moving up to fifth in the overall classification. Gerdemann conceded time in each climbing stage the rest of the way, and the squad did not have any high stage placings from stage 14 on. Gerdemann completed the race in 16th place, at a deficit of 34'49 to Giro champion Ivan Basso. The squad finished 19th in the Trofeo Fast Team standings and 14th in the Trofeo Super Team.

### Tour de France

Gerdemann also led Milram's squad for the Tour de France, with Ciolek their primary sprinter. Gerdemann showed well in the prologue time trial, coming in tenth, 35 seconds off the winning time of Fabian Cancellara. Over the next two days, the team took numerous meaningless high placings, as both of the first two road race stages involved neutralizations following crashes. The squad was largely unaffected by the myriad of crashes that took place on the Col du Stockeu in Spa in stage 2, though Terpstra did crash at one point. In a more straightforward flat stage in stage 5, Ciolek took second behind Mark Cavendish in the field sprint finish. He was sixth the next day in a similar finish. Roberts made a winning breakaway in stage 15, but was left well short of victory on the day, finishing with Alberto Contador's group three minutes behind stage winner Thomas Voeckler, as the new race leader caught the last remnants of that group right at the finish. In the Tour's largely ceremonial final stage, Ciolek again figured into the sprint finish, taking sixth on the day. No member of the squad was ever competitive in the overall standings. Rohregger was their highest-placed rider at the race's conclusion, in 74th place, 2 hours and 12 minutes behind Tour champion Contador. Gerdemann was 84th, a further 24 minutes back. The squad finished in last place in the teams classification.

### Vuelta a España
## Team dissolution
### Riders' 2011 teams

| Rider | 2011 team |
| Gerald Ciolek | Quick-Step |
| Wim De Vocht | Veranda's Willems–Accent |
| Markus Eichler | Team NSP |
| Robert Förster | UnitedHealthcare |
| Markus Fothen | Team NSP |
| Thomas Fothen | Team NSP |
| Johannes Fröhlinger | Skil–Shimano |
| Artur Gajek | None |
| Linus Gerdemann | Leopard Trek |
| Roger Kluge | Skil–Shimano |
| Servais Knaven | Retired |
| Christian Knees | Team Sky |
| Rider | 2011 team |
| Dominik Nerz | Liquigas–Cannondale |
| Luke Roberts | Saxo Bank–SunGard |
| Dominik Roels | Retired |
| Thomas Rohregger | Leopard Trek |
| Matthias Russ | Retired |
| Björn Schröder | Team Nutrixxion Sparkasse |
| Roy Sentjens | Retired after positive doping test |
| Wim Stroetinga | Ubbink-Koba Cycling Team |
| Niki Terpstra | Quick-Step |
| Paul Voss | Endura Racing |
| Fabian Wegmann | Leopard Trek |
| Peter Wrolich | Retired |

## Season victories

| Date | Race | Competition | Rider | Country | Location |
| 24 January | Tour Down Under, Mountains classification | UCI ProTour | Thomas Rohregger (AUT) | Australia | |
| 9 February | Trofeo Inca | UCI Europe Tour | Linus Gerdemann (GER) | Spain | Mallorca |
| 12 February | Tour of Qatar, Youth classification | UCI Asia Tour | Roger Kluge (GER) | Qatar | |
| 5 March | Vuelta a Murcia, Stage 3 | UCI Europe Tour | Luke Roberts (AUS) | Spain | Alhama de Murcia |
| 10 March | Tirreno–Adriatico, Stage 1 | UCI World Ranking | Linus Gerdemann (GER) | Italy | Rosignano Solvay |
| 22 March | Volta a Catalunya, Stage 1 | UCI ProTour | Paul Voss (GER) | Spain | Lloret de Mar |
| 1 May | Eschborn-Frankfurt City Loop | UCI Europe Tour | Fabian Wegmann (GER) | Germany | Frankfurt |
| 23 May | Neuseen Classics | UCI Europe Tour | Roger Kluge (GER) | Germany | Leipzig |
| 28 May | Bayern-Rundfahrt, Stage 3 | UCI Europe Tour | Gerald Ciolek (GER) | Germany | Hersbruck |
| 8 August | Sparkassen Giro Bochum | UCI Europe Tour | Niki Terpstra (NED) | Germany | Bochum |