Paul Egli (18 August 1911 – 23 January 1997) was a

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professional

road bicycle racer Road bicycle racing is the cycle sport discipline of road cycling, held primarily on paved roads. Road racing is the most popular professional form of bicycle racing, in terms of numbers of competitors, events and spectators. The two most com ...

. He is most known for his silver and bronze medals in respectively the

1938 Events January * January 1 – state-owned enterprise, State-owned railway networks are created by merger, in France (SNCF) and the Netherlands (Nederlandse Spoorwegen – NS). * January 20 – King Farouk of Egypt marries Saf ...

and the

1937 UCI Road World Championships The 1937 UCI Road World Championships was the seventeenth edition of the UCI Road World Championships. The championships took place in Copenhagen, Denmark. The race for the professionals was the longest to date: 297.5 kilometers over a flat cour ...

. He was also the Swiss National Road Race champion in 1935 and 1936.

Major results

;1932 : Amateur Cyclo-Cross Champion : World Amateur Road Race Championship ;1933 : World Amateur Road Race Champion ;1934 :

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 ...

: Stage 3,

Tour de Suisse The Tour de Suisse () 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 calend ...

: Stage 1, Critérium du Midi ;1935 : Road Race Champion :

: Stage 1, Tour of Nord-East-Spain ;1936 : Road Race Champion :

Tour de France The Tour de France () is an annual men's multiple-stage cycle sport, bicycle race held primarily in France. It is the oldest and most prestigious of the three Grand Tour (cycling), Grand Tours, which include the Giro d'Italia and the Vuelta a ...

::Winner stage 1 ::Wearing

yellow jersey The general classification of the Tour de France is the most important classification of the race and determines the winner of the race. Since 1919, the leader of the general classification has worn the yellow jersey ( ). History For the first t ...

for one day :

: :: Winner Stages 4a & 4b ;1937 : World Road Race Championship :

: :: Winner Stage 3 ;1938 : World Road Race Championship ;1941 :

Berner Rundfahrt Tour de Berne is an elite professional road bicycle racing event held in Bern, Switzerland with races for men and women. Men's event The men's event began in 1920 and has previously been a UCI 1.2 rated event on the UCI Europe Tour. Women's ...

;1942 :

References

External links

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Official Tour de France results for Paul Egli
1911 births 1997 deaths Swiss male cyclists Swiss Tour de France stage winners Sportspeople from Hinwil District Tour de Suisse stage winners Cyclists from the canton of Zürich 20th-century Swiss sportsmen {{Switzerland-cycling-bio-stub