Lampre Merida has signed Portuguese talent Nelson Oliveira. The Portuguese participated in the World’s TT for Portugal, where he finished 15th.

The 24-year old, who is now riding his 4th season as a pro, is a strong rider, who will be competitive on the light climbs and a helper in the flat terrain too. His record of achievements demonstrate his attitude to time trial: five National titles, starting from junior category (2006), three times Under 23 (2008-2009-2010) and one as pro (2011).

It’s also important to point out that Nelson Oliveira was silver medal in Under 23 time trial Championship in Mendrisio 2009. In his career, he has completed Giro d’Italia twice and Vuelta a Espana once.

General Manager Saronni introduced Oliveira using these words:

“Nelson is part of our project of give trust to young talented cyclists that could have margin of improvement.”

“The young Portuguese rider will for sure be able to give us satisfaction in a discipline, the time trial, in which recently the team recorded huge improvements,” he said to the Lampre-Merida webpage.

“In addition, we’re very happy that Oliveira showed his will to be on the team and that he’s ready to live this new cycling experience as an important formative step of his career”.