Armin Von Büren (cyclist)
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Armin von Büren (20 April 1928 – 10 February 2018) was a Swiss cyclist. A professional from 1948 to 1962 and a specialist in six-day races, he competed in 58 and won 13. He also won the European Madison Championships in 1953 and 1954 and the European Omnium Championships in 1956. He also occasionally competed on the road and won the
Tour du Lac Léman Tour or Tours may refer to: Travel * Tourism, travel for pleasure * Tour of duty, a period of time spent in military service * Campus tour, a journey through a college or university's campus * Guided tour, a journey through a location, directed ...
in 1951 and 1953. His brothers Oskar and Émile were also professional cyclists.


Major results


Track

;1950 : 1st Six Days of Hanover (with
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) : 3rd
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;1951 : 1st (with
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) : 3rd
Six Days of Saint-Étienne The Six Days of Saint-Étienne was a six-day track cycling race held annually in the ''Vélodrome de Saint-Étienne Saint-Étienne (; Franco-Provençal: ''Sant-Etiève''), also written St. Etienne, is a city and the prefecture of the Loire ...
: 3rd
Six Days of Berlin The Six Days of Berlin is a six-day track cycling race held annually in Berlin, Germany. The event was first held in 1909. In its first edition, 15 teams of two cyclists each competed in the exhibition hall at Berlin Zoo for glory and, not leas ...
;1952 : 1st
Six Days of Dortmund The Six Days of Dortmund is a six-day track cycling race held annually in Dortmund, Germany Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea to the north ...
(with Hugo Koblet) : 1st
Six Days of Frankfurt The Six Days of Frankfurt was a six-day track cycling race held annually in Frankfurt, Germany Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea to the n ...
(with Hugo Koblet) : 1st
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(with Walter Bucher) : 1st Six Days of Kiel (with
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) : 3rd
Six Days of London 6 (six) is the natural number following 5 and preceding 7. It is a composite number and the smallest perfect number. In mathematics A six-sided polygon is a hexagon, one of the three regular polygons capable of tiling the plane. A hexagon a ...
;1953 : 1st
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(with Hugo Koblet) : 1st
Six Days of Brussels The Six Days of Brussels was a Six-day racing, six-day track cycling race held annually in Brussels, Belgium. Rik Van Steenbergen holds the record of victories, winning 8 times. Winners References External links

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(with Hugo Koblet) : 1st
Six Days of Frankfurt The Six Days of Frankfurt was a six-day track cycling race held annually in Frankfurt, Germany Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea to the n ...
(with Hugo Koblet) : 2nd
Six Days of Dortmund The Six Days of Dortmund is a six-day track cycling race held annually in Dortmund, Germany Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea to the north ...
: 3rd Six Days of Hanover ;1954 : 1st
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(with Hugo Koblet) : 1st Six Days of Zurich (with Hugo Koblet) : 2nd
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: 3rd
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;1955 : 1st
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(with Hugo Koblet) ;1956 : 1st
Omnium An omnium (from Latin ''omnium'': of all, belonging to all) is a multiple race event in track cycling. Historically the omnium has had a variety of formats. In recent years, road racing has also adopted the term to describe multi-day races that f ...
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European Track Championships The European Track Cycling Championships are a set of elite level competition events held annually for the various disciplines and distances in track cycling, exclusively for European cyclists, and regulated by the European Cycling Union (UEC) ...
: 1st (with Hugo Koblet) ;1957 : 1st Sprint, National Championships : 1st Six Days of Zurich (with
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) : 1st
Six Days of Münster The Six Days of Münster was a six-day track cycling race held annually in Münster, Germany from 1950 to 1988. Gustav Kilian, who had become renowned for his successes at other six-day races, entered as favourite and ended up winning the 1950 r ...
(with Jean Roth) : 2nd
Six Days of Antwerp The Six Days of Antwerp was a six-day track cycling race held annually in Antwerp, Belgium. The Six Days has seen 55 editions, was organized from 1934 with interruptions during World War II and the years 1984 to 1986 and last held in 1994. The ...
: 2nd
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;1959 : 1st Sprint, National Championships ;1961 : 1st
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(with
Oscar Plattner Oscar Plattner (17 February 1922 – 21 August 2002) was a Swiss cyclist. National and International Wins Every year between and including 1944 and 1946, Plattner won the Swiss National Amateur Sprint Championships. In 1946, he additionally won t ...
) : 1st
Six Days of New York The Six Days of New York was a former six-day cycling event, held in New York City, in Madison Square Garden's velodrome. Between 1899 and 1961, a total of 73 editions were held, sometimes three per year.Gabriele, Michael C. (2011), The Golden Ag ...
(with Oscar Plattner)


Road

;1951 : 1st
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;1952 : 1st Rund um Altdorf ;1953 : 1st
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: 10th
Züri-Metzgete Züri-Metzgete (Zürich German; ; ) was a European Classic cycle races, Classic cycle race held annually in Zürich, Switzerland, and continued as a non-professional mass participation event from 2007 until 2014. It was a race with a long history ...


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* {{DEFAULTSORT:von Buren, Armin 1928 births 2018 deaths Swiss male cyclists Swiss track cyclists Cyclists from Zurich 20th-century Swiss sportsmen