08-10-2008 19:45:45

Peter Wrolich is Team MILRAM's tenth new signing for the coming season.  The 34 year-old Austrian is coming over from Team Gerolsteiner and has signed a two-year contract with the German ProTour team.

Peter Wrolich has ridden for Team Gerolsteiner since 1999.  In his10 years as a pro, the resident of Latschach, Austria, has ridden the Tour de France four times and the Giro d'Italia once.  The 1999 Austrian national champion runner-up has won, among other things, the classic Rund um Köln in 2001 and Rund um die Hainleite (2004).

At Team MILRAM, three riders have extended their contracts through the end of 2010:  Tour captain Christian Knees, Markus Eichler and Dutch rider Niki Terpstra.  Björn Schröder, 27, signed a new one-year contract for the coming season.  In addition, Team MILRAM has signed for the coming two years Germans Paul Voss (Team 3C-Gruppe), Johannes Fröhlinger, Matthias Russ, Thomas and Markus Fothen, and Fabian Wegmann of Team Gerolstiner, the two Dutch riders Wim Stroetinga (Ubbink-Syntec) and Austrian Thomas Rohregger (Elk Haus-Simplon).