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1938 Tour De Suisse
The 1938 Tour de Suisse was the sixth edition of the Tour de Suisse cycle race and was held from 6 August to 14 August 1938. The race started and finished in Bern. The race was won by Giovanni Valetti. General classification References 1938 Tour de Suisse The Tour de Suisse ( en, Tour of Switzerland) is an annual road cycling stage race. Raced over eight days, the event covers two weekends in June, and along with the Critérium du Dauphiné, it is considered a proving ground for the Tour de France ...
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Giovanni Valetti
Giovanni Valetti (22 September 1913 – 28 May 1998) was an Italian professional road racing cyclist. The highlights of his career were his two overall wins in the 1938 and 1939 Giro d'Italia. He also won the 1938 Tour de Suisse. Major results ;1933 : 1st Overall Giro del Lazio ::1st Stage 3 : 5th Overall Gran Piemonte ;1936 : 5th Overall Giro d'Italia ;1937 : 2nd Overall Giro d'Italia ::1st Stage 3 : 3rd Giro di Toscana ;1938 : 1st Overall Giro d'Italia ::1st Mountains classification ::1st Stages 4a, 7a (ITT) & 15 : 1st Overall Tour de Suisse ::1st Stages 3 & 4 : 5th Grand Prix des Nations ;1939 : 1st Overall Giro d'Italia ::1st Stages 6b (ITT), 13 (ITT) & 16 : 2nd Giro della Provincia Milano ;1940 : 10th Giro di Lombardia ;1941 : 8th Giro di Toscana ;1942 : 10th Giro del Veneto ;1943 : 3rd Giro della Provincia Milano Giro or GIRO may refer to: Banking and Investments * Giro (banking), a direct payment from one bank account to another instigated by the payer * ...
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Arsène Mersch
Arsène Mersch (14 December 1913, in Koerich – 11 July 1980, in Koerich) was a Luxembourgian professional road bicycle racer and cyclo-cross racer, who became national champion in both categories twice. He also won one Tour de France stage, and wore the yellow jersey for one day. Major results ;1934 :GP Faber Gp or GP may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Gaming * Gameplanet (New Zealand), a New Zealand video game community * GamePolitics.com, a blog about the politics of computer and video games * ''GamePro'', a monthly video game magazine * ... ;1935 : national road race champion :Stage 2 Volta Ciclista a Catalunya ;1936 : 1936 Tour de France: ::Winner stage 21 ::5th place overall classification ::Wearing yellow jersey for one day : national cyclo-cross champion :Stage 5 Tour of Belgium ;1938 : national cyclo-cross champion :Stage 1 Tour de Suisse ;1939 :Stage 8 Tour de Suisse : national cyclo-cross champion : national road race champion External links ...
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Severino Canavesi
Severino Canavesi (27 January 1911 in Gorla Maggiore – 30 January 1990 in Gorla Maggiore) was an Italian cyclist. Major results ;1929 :1st Coppa San Geo ;1934 :1st National Cyclo-cross Championships :1st Tre Valli Varesine :3rd Coppa Bernocchi ;1936 :3rd Overall Giro d'Italia ;1937 :3rd Giro del Piemonte :4th Overall Giro d'Italia ;1938 :2nd Coppa Bernocchi :2nd Giro del Piemonte :2nd Tre Valli Varesine :3rd Overall Giro d'Italia :3rd Overall Tour de Suisse ;1939 :4th Overall Giro d'Italia ;1941 :1st Coppa Bernocchi :3rd Giro di Lombardia :3rd Giro della Provincia Milano ;1945 :1st National Road Race Championships ;1948 :2nd Giro dell'Appennino :3rd Giro di Campania The Giro di Campania was a one-day road cycling race held annually in the region of Campania (man), it, Campana (woman) , population_note = , population_blank1_title = , population_blank1 = , demographics_type1 = , d ... References External links * 1911 births 1990 dea ...
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1937 Tour De Suisse
The 1937 Tour de Suisse was the fifth edition of the Tour de Suisse cycle race and was held from 31 July to 7 August 1937. The race started and finished in Zürich. The race was won by Karl Litschi. General classification References 1937 Tour de Suisse The Tour de Suisse ( en, Tour of Switzerland) is an annual road cycling stage race. Raced over eight days, the event covers two weekends in June, and along with the Critérium du Dauphiné, it is considered a proving ground for the Tour de France ...
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1939 Tour De Suisse
The 1939 Tour de Suisse was the seventh edition of the Tour de Suisse cycle race and was held from 5 August to 12 August 1939. The race started and finished in Zürich. The race was won by Robert Zimmermann. General classification References 1939 Tour de Suisse The Tour de Suisse ( en, Tour of Switzerland) is an annual road cycling stage race. Raced over eight days, the event covers two weekends in June, and along with the Critérium du Dauphiné, it is considered a proving ground for the Tour de France ...
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Tour De Suisse
The Tour de Suisse ( en, Tour of Switzerland) is an annual road cycling stage race. Raced over eight days, the event covers two weekends in June, and along with the Critérium du Dauphiné, it is considered a proving ground for the Tour de France, which is on the calendar approximately two weeks after the end of the Tour de Suisse. Since 2011 the event is part of the UCI World Tour, cycling's highest level of professional races. History The race was first held in 1933 and has evolved in timing, duration and sponsorship. Like the Tour de France and the Dauphiné, the Tour de Suisse has several stages with significant mountain climbs in the Swiss Alps and at least one individual time trial. Several winners of the Tour de Suisse have also won the Tour de France, including Eddy Merckx and Jan Ullrich. In 2005 the Tour de Suisse was included in the inaugural UCI Pro Tour and organizers moved the race to earlier in June. The first winner of the race was Austrian Max Bulla in the 1 ...
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Bern
Bern () or Berne; in other Swiss languages, gsw, Bärn ; frp, Bèrna ; it, Berna ; rm, Berna is the ''de facto'' capital of Switzerland, referred to as the " federal city" (in german: Bundesstadt, link=no, french: ville fédérale, link=no, it, città federale, link=no, and rm, citad federala, link=no). According to the Swiss constitution, the Swiss Confederation intentionally has no "capital", but Bern has governmental institutions such as the Federal Assembly and Federal Council. However, the Federal Supreme Court is in Lausanne, the Federal Criminal Court is in Bellinzona and the Federal Administrative Court and the Federal Patent Court are in St. Gallen, exemplifying the federal nature of the Confederation. With a population of about 133,000 (as of 2022), Bern is the fifth-most populous city in Switzerland, behind Zurich, Geneva, Basel and Lausanne. The Bern agglomeration, which includes 36 municipalities, had a population of 406,900 in 2014. The metropolitan ...
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Leo Amberg
Leo Amberg (23 March 1912 – 18 September 1999) was a Swiss professional road bicycle racer. He is most known for his bronze medal in the 1938 UCI Road World Championships. He was the Swiss National Road Race champion in 1937 and 1938. He also rode in the 1947 Tour de France. Major results ;1935 : 1st Mont Faron : 2nd Overall Tour de Suisse : 5th Road race, UCI Road World Championships ;1936 : 3rd Overall Tour de Suisse : 8th Overall Tour de France ;1937 : 1st Road race, National Road Championships : 1st Züri-Metzgete : 2nd Overall Tour de Suisse ::1st Stages 1, 2 & 6 : 3rd Overall Tour de France ::1st Stages 5c & 19b (ITT) ;1938 : 1st Road race, National Road Championships : 3rd Road race, UCI Road World Championships : 1st Stage 18a Giro d'Italia ;1939 : 1st Stage 16 Deutschland Tour : 4th Züri-Metzgete : 10th Overall Tour de Suisse ;1942 : 5th Züri-Metzgete ;1943 : 10th Züri-Metzgete ;1946 : 9th Züri-Metzgete Züri-Metzgete ( Zürich German; en, Champion ...
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Robert Zimmermann (cyclist)
Robert Zimmermann (27 August 1912 in Zurich — 4 April 2006 in Zurich) was a Swiss cyclist. Palmares ;1937 :Annemasse-Bellegarde-Annemasse :2nd Swiss National Road Race Championships ;1938 :5th stage Tour de Suisse :2nd Tour de Berne :6th Tour de Suisse ;1939 :Tour de Suisse :4th stage Tour de Suisse :Grand Prix Le Locle :2nd Deutschland Tour ;1940 :Züri-Metzgete ;1941 :3rd stage Tour de Suisse :8th Tour de Suisse ;1942 :9th Züri-Metzgete ;1944 :9th Züri-Metzgete ;1945 :8th and 11th (TT) stages Volta a Catalunya :3rd Volta a Catalunya :5th Züri-Metzgete Züri-Metzgete ( Zürich German; en, Championship of Zürich; german: Meisterschaft von Zürich) was a European Classic cycle race held annually in Zürich, Switzerland, and continued as a non-professional mass participation event from 2007 unt ... References 1912 births 2006 deaths Swiss male cyclists Cyclists from Zürich Tour de Suisse stage winners {{Switzerland-cycling-bio-stub ...
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Cesare Del Cancia
Cesare Del Cancia (6 May 1915 – 25 April 2011) was an Italian road cyclist. After finishing fifth in the road race at the 1935 World Championships he turned professional and competed until 1945. He won the 1936 Milano–Torino, 1937 Milan–San Remo and 1938 Giro del Lazio races.Cesare Del Cancia
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;1933 : 1st Giro del Casentino ;1936 : 1st Milano–Torino : 1st Tre Valli Varesine ;1937 : 1st

Ezio Cecchi
Ezio Cecchi (11 May 1913 – 19 August 1984) was an Italian professional cyclist. Cecchi twice finished second overall in the Giro d'Italia. He finished second in 1938 to Giovanni Valetti. In 1948 Cecchi finished eleven seconds behind the winner Fiorenzo Magni Fiorenzo Magni (; 7 December 1920 – 19 October 2012) was an Italian professional road racing cyclist. Biography Magni was born to Giuseppe Magni and Giulia Caciolli, and had an elder sister Fiorenza. Bulbarelli, pp. 14–15 He started c ...; this margin of victory is still the slimmest margin of victory in the history of the Giro d'Italia. References Italian male cyclists 1913 births 1984 deaths Sportspeople from the Province of Chieti Cyclists from Abruzzo {{Italy-cycling-bio-1910s-stub ...
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Albert Hendrickx
Albert Hendrickx (19 July 1916 – 13 May 1990) was a Belgian racing cyclist. He rode in the 1936 Tour de France The 1936 Tour de France was the 30th edition of the Tour de France, taking place from 7 July to 2 August. It was composed of 21 stages with a total length of . Because of health problems, Henri Desgrange stopped as Tour director, and was succeede .... References 1916 births 1990 deaths Belgian male cyclists Place of birth missing {{Belgium-cycling-bio-1910s-stub ...
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