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168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Gerald Ciolek and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Linus Gerdemann have both announced their retirements from professional cycling. The two Germans were unable to find new teams after 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Team Stölting folded the end of 2016.

Ciolek, 30, came to prominence when he won the German national road title in 2004 as a 19-year-old. The highlight of his career was 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:winning the snow-shortened Milano-SanRemo in 201🅰3 with Team MTN-Qhu𒈔beka. He had only four other victories after that, and moved to Stölting in 2016.

"Gerald will not be underway in the professional peloton this year. For now a return to professional cycling is not planned," his manager Ken Sommer told Tour magazine.

Ciolek rode for Akud Arnolds Sicherheit and Wiesenhof Akud before joining the ProTour with T-Mobile, Milram and QuickStep. He returned to the Professional Continental level in 2013ꦕ w🎃ith MTN.

Gerdemann, 34, ann𓆉ounced his retirement the end of December in the Mallorca Magazine. Together with his girlfriend he now runs a restaurant on the island.

Once considered the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:“next German Wunderkind”, Gerdemann never lived up ওto the title. In 2007, whilst riding for T-Mobile, moving into the yellow jersey which he wore for one stage. He also won the Deutschland Tour (2008), the Bayern Rundfahrt (2009) and the Tour of Luxembourg (2011 and 2015).

Gerdemann turned pro with CSC in 2005, with the team releasing him from his contract to join T-Mobile in 2006. 168澳洲5最ꦐ新开奖结果:Together with Ciolek he m𝔍oved to Milram in 2009, and then went to Leopard Trek for 2011 and 2012. Unable to find a team,﷽ he sat out the 2013 season before joining MTN-Qhubeka for 2014. In 2015 he rode for Cult Energy Pro Cycling, which became Stölting 𓆏in 2016.