1942 Tour De Suisse
The 1942 Tour de Suisse was the ninth edition of the Tour de Suisse cycle race and was held from 29 July to 2 August 1942. The race started and finished in Zürich. The race was won by Ferdinand Kübler. General classification References 1942 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 ...

Ferdinand Kübler
Ferdinand Kübler (; 24 July 1919 – 29 December 2016) was a Swiss cyclist with 71 professional victories, including the 1950 Tour de France and the 1951 World Road Race Championship. Biography Kübler was born in Marthalen. He began racing professionally in 1940 but his early career was limited to Switzerland by the Nazi occupation elsewhere. He was multiple Swiss national champion and a three time winner of the Tour de Suisse. Kübler's most successful years in international racing were 1950–1952, when the classics had resumed after the Second World War. He won the La Flèche Wallonne and Liège–Bastogne–Liège, both in 1951 and 1952, in a time where these races were still contested in the same weekend. He was also World Road Race Champion in 1951, having placed second in 1949 and third in 1950. Kübler rode the Giro d'Italia from 1950–1952, placing fourth once, and third twice. Kübler abandoned the 1947 and 1949 Tours de France, despite an early stage win in ...
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1941 Tour De Suisse
The 1941 Tour de Suisse was the eighth edition of the Tour de Suisse cycle race and was held from 23 August to 24 August 1941. The race started and finished in Zürich. The race was won by Josef Wagner. General classification References 1941 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 ...

1946 Tour De Suisse
The 1946 Tour de Suisse was the 10th edition of the Tour de Suisse cycle race and was held from 13 July to 20 July 1946. The race started and finished in Zürich. The race was won by Gino Bartali. General classification References 1946 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 ...

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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Zürich
, neighboring_municipalities = Adliswil, Dübendorf, Fällanden, Kilchberg, Maur, Oberengstringen, Opfikon, Regensdorf, Rümlang, Schlieren, Stallikon, Uitikon, Urdorf, Wallisellen, Zollikon , twintowns = Kunming, San Francisco Zürich () is the largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zürich. It is located in north-central Switzerland, at the northwestern tip of Lake Zürich. As of January 2020, the municipality has 434,335 inhabitants, the urban area 1.315 million (2009), and the Zürich metropolitan area 1.83 million (2011). Zürich is a hub for railways, roads, and air traffic. Both Zurich Airport and Zürich's main railway station are the largest and busiest in the country. Permanently settled for over 2,000 years, Zürich was founded by the Romans, who called it '. However, early settlements have been found dating back more than 6,400 years (although this only indicates human presence in the area and not the presence of a town that early). During ...
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Pierre Brambilla
Pierre Brambilla (12 May 1919 at Villarbeney in Switzerland – 13 February 1984 at Grenoble, France) was a French professional road cyclist. He was of Italian origin but adopted French nationality on 9 September 1949. He was known as "la Brambille" and he won the King of the Mountains competition in the 1947 Tour de France where he also finished third overall and wore the yellow jersey as leader of the general classification for two days. In that 1947 Tour, Brambilla was leading the race at the penultimate day, with Aldo Ronconi at 53 seconds and Jean Robic at 2'58". At the last stage, Caen-Paris, Robic and Édouard Fachleitner attacked, and finished more than 13 minutes before Brambilla, taking the first two places. Brambilla was the first cyclist to lose the lead in the Tour de France on the last stage. Brambilla is pictured in the short story "Brambilla" by Julian Barnes, published in his collection of short stories '' Cross Channel'' (1996). Major results ;1939 :Lyon–Gren ...
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Hans Knecht
Hans Knecht (26 September 1913 in Albisrieden – 8 March 1986 in Zürich) was a Swiss professional road racing cyclist. The highlight of his career was winning the World Cycling Championship The UCI world championships are annual competitions promoted by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) to determine world champion cyclists. They are held in several different styles of racing, in a different country each year. Championship winne ... in 1946. He was the Swiss National Road Race champion in 1943, 1946 and 1947. He was a professional cyclist from 1939 to 1949. References External links * 1913 births 1985 deaths Swiss male cyclists UCI Road World Champions (elite men) Cyclists from Zürich {{switzerland-cycling-bio-stub ...
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Pierre Cogan
Pierre Cogan (10 January 1914 – 5 January 2013) was a French professional cyclist who competed between the 1930s and the 1950s. Biography A professional from 1935 to 1951, Cogan notably won the Grand Prix de Plouay in 1936 and the Grand Prix des Nations (the unofficial World Time Trail Championship) in 1937. He has the distinction of being among the best of the Tour de France riders both before and after the Second World War. He was the 11th in the 1935 Tour de France and still 7th in 1950. He rode his last Tour de France in 1951 where he finished 19th. Towards the end of his life, Cogan was the oldest Tour de France The Tour de France () is an annual men's multiple-stage bicycle race primarily held in France, while also occasionally passing through nearby countries. Like the other Grand Tours (the Giro d'Italia and the Vuelta a España), it consist ... rider still alive. His brother Joseph was also a professional road bicycle racer between 1936 and 1942. Pierre ...
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Walter Diggelmann
Walter Diggelmann (Zürich, 11 August 1915 – Guntalingen, 5 March 1999) was a Swiss professional road bicycle racer. Diggelmann won one stage in the 1952 Tour de France. Major results ;1938 :Giro del Mendrisiotto ;1940 :Bern - Geneva ;1941 :Züri-Metzgete ;1943 :Tour des 3 lacs ;1948 :Six days of Chicago (with Hugo Koblet) ;1949 :Six days of New York (with Hugo Koblet) ;1952 :Tour de France The Tour de France () is an annual men's multiple-stage bicycle race primarily held in France, while also occasionally passing through nearby countries. Like the other Grand Tours (the Giro d'Italia and the Vuelta a España), it consist ...: ::Winner stage 9 External links *Official Tour de France results for Walter Diggelmann Swiss male cyclists 1915 births 1999 deaths Swiss Tour de France stage winners Cyclists from Zürich Tour de Suisse stage winners 20th-century Swiss people {{Switzerland-cycling-bio-stub ...
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Karl Wyss (cyclist)
Karl Wyss (9 April 1912 – 6 December 2009) was a Swiss racing cyclist. He rode in the 1939 Tour de France The 1939 Tour de France was the 33rd edition of the Tour de France, taking place from 10 to 30 July. The total distance was . Taking place on the eve of World War II, there was already much animosity in Europe. Italy, Germany and Spain all decli .... References 1912 births 2009 deaths Swiss male cyclists Place of birth missing {{Switzerland-cycling-bio-stub ...
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Christophe Didier
Christophe Didier (born 4 February 1915 in Bour – 24 July 1978 in Strasbourg) was a Luxembourgish cyclist. Professional from 1938 to 1946, he won the Volta a Catalunya in 1940 and the Tour de Luxembourg in 1941. Major results ;1935 : 1st Amateur National Road Race Championships ;1937 : 2nd Grand Prix François-Faber ;1938 : 1st Amateur National Road Race Championships ;1939 : 3rd Overall Tour de Suisse ;1940 : 1st Overall Volta a Catalunya ::1st Stage 4 ;1941 : 1st Overall Tour de Luxembourg ;1942 : 2nd Overall Tour de Luxembourg The Tour de Luxembourg is an annual stage race in professional road bicycle racing held in Luxembourg. The Tour de Luxembourg is classified as a 2.Pro race, the highest rating below the World Tour, by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI), the ... References 1915 births 1978 deaths Luxembourgian male cyclists {{Luxembourg-cycling-bio-stub ...
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