Jasha Sütterlin (22) is exciting many at the prospect of his first season in the elite after impressing in the junior and Under 23 categories.
"When I knew I was going to sign for Team Movistar, it made me very excited, it is an opportunity and I will make the most of it. The objectives for 2014 are to work on everything I can for the team and exploit my skills as rider” he says.
For the new rider of the blue team, "cycling for me means facing your limits, trying to improve yourself, achieve your goals and make the best of yourself. Mostly I want to help keep our sport clean. "
The German is defined as a time trial specialist who would like to ride the Tour de France and Paris -Roubaix "someday”, and is very active on social networks.
Reared throughout their amateur stage in the best young German squad, Thüringer Energie, the rider accumulated a great track record in recent seasons, in which he won two consecutive national titles in 2012 and 2013 time trial, the general classification of the prestigious U23 Tour of Berlin in 2011 - just months after he moved up from junior- or two stages of the recent Giro della Valle d' Aosta- the prologue and the last - stage sprint and bronze in the U23 European Championships held in mid-July in the Czech Republic.
German Sütterlin is the third German in the history of the squad led by Eusebio Unzué. The other two are Steffen Radochla and Daniel Becke.
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