Both German ProTour teams have reason to be satisfied with their performances in the Rothaus Regio Tour, which ended Sunday. They each won two stages, and T-Mobile took first and second overall, with ꦿGerolsteiner claiming fourth.

Andreas Klöden finished second in the , in the same time as breakaway partner and teammate Michael Rogers, to take over the leader's jersey. He cemented his placing by dominating the , where he finisꦜhed 26 seconds ahead of who else but a Gerolsteiner rider, Marcus Fothen, and 45 seconds ahead of world time trial champion Rogers.

, which included a Cat. 1 climb that was tackled four times, Klöden and Rogers finished safely in the middle of the first large following group. "The whole team worked really well today," said Valerio Piva. "They controlled he race on the last difficult climb and so insured that Andreas and Michael could take the top two podium places."

Torsten Hiekmann, who won the final stage, is in his first year with Gerolsteiner - having been previously, of course, wit🌜h T-Mobile. His win Sunday was his first for the sp🎐arkling-water team, and the team's 30th on the season.

"Torsten rode a great race. He was at the front for a lౠong time and then was able to drop those with him," noted directeur sportif Reimund Dietzen, who added that it was 💫"a perfect finale, which we had hoped for."

Gerolsteiner also won the ♒second stage of the race, in the person of youngster Mattias Russ, who also won the young rider competition. "That was a great p❀erformance by Mattias, who did exceptionally well for such a youngster," said Dietzen.