Recently turned Swiss rider Steffen Wesemann will lead the T-Mobile team at the 92nd edition of the Championship of Zurich on Sunday. 'Wese' who collected his Swiss passport a fortnight ago, just in time to represent the Alpine nation at last week's World Championships, now races in his new homeland for the first time as a naturalised Swiss citizen.
The Championship of Zurich, also called the Züri Metzgete, is a race with a long history and a tough parcours and is now a round of the UCI ProTour. T-Mobile's directeur sportif Mario Kummer has selected a mix of classics specialists and stage racers. Like Wesemann, Daniele Nardello will start the 241km race full of ambition. The 33 year-old Italian pulled off one of the biggest wins of his career here in 2003, when eight kilometres from the finish he jumped clear of a select leading group to solo home.
