Markus Zberg (born June 27, 1974 in Altdorf, Uri) is a retired

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; he is the younger brother of Beat Zberg. Zberg retired after a severe fall in the Tour de l'Ain. He was the Swiss National Road Race champion in 2000 and 2008.

Career

Zberg became a professional bicycle racer in 1996. After one season each with the Italian teams Carrera and Mercatone Uno–Scanavino and the Post Swiss Team, Zberg joined the

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team in 1999. He took second place at the Road World Championships in

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in 1999. A year later, he won the title at the Swiss Road Championships. He also won two stages of the 1998 Tour of Spain as well as the one-day races Milan-Turin 1998 and Rund um den Henninger-Turm 2001, stages of the Tour de Suisse, at Tirreno-Adriatico and the Tour of Austria.

Major results

;1996 : 1st Stage 5 Grand Prix Guillaume Tell ;1997 : 1st Stage 7 Tour de Pologne ;1998 :

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::1st Stages 1 & 22 : 1st Stausee-Rundfahrt Klingnau : 1st Stage 3 Tour de Suisse : 1st Stage 6 Settimana Ciclistica Lombarda ;1999 : 1st Milano–Torino : 2nd Silver medal blank

Road race,

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: 2nd Overall Paris–Nice : 2nd GP Ouest–France ;2000 : 1st MaillotSuiza

Road race, National Road Championships : 3rd Amstel Gold Race ;2001 : 1st Rund um den Henninger Turm : 1st Stage 3 Tirreno–Adriatico : 4th Amstel Gold Race ;2002 : 3rd

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;2003 : 3rd Tre Valli Varesine ;2004 : 2nd

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;2005 : 3rd Rund um den Henninger Turm ;2006 : 1st Stage 7 Paris–Nice ;2008 : 1st MaillotSuiza

Road race, National Road Championships

References

External links

Team profileOfficial Website
* 1974 births Living people Swiss male cyclists Olympic cyclists for Switzerland Cyclists at the 2000 Summer Olympics Cyclists at the 2004 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from the canton of Uri Tour de Suisse stage winners {{switzerland-cycling-bio-stub