Rodolfo Muller (12 August 1876 – 11 September 1947) was an Italian

racing cyclist Cycle sport is competitive physical activity using bicycles. There are several categories of bicycle racing including road bicycle racing, cyclo-cross, mountain bike racing, track cycling, BMX, and cycle speedway. Non-racing cyclin ...

and sports journalist. He finished sixth in the

1898 Paris–Roubaix The 1898 Paris–Roubaix was the third edition of the Paris–Roubaix, a classic one-day cycle race in France. The single day event was held on 10 April 1898 and stretched from Paris to its end in a velodrome in Roubaix. The winner wa ...

, but his best season was 1902 with podium finishes in Bordeaux-Paris, Marseille-Paris and the Italian Corsa Nazionale. In that same year he also won the Concours de Tourisme du TCF, the first ever race to include the iconic

Col du Tourmalet Col du Tourmalet (; elevation ) is one of the highest paved mountain passes in the French Pyrenees, in the department of Hautes-Pyrénées. Sainte-Marie-de-Campan is at the foot on the eastern side and the ski station La Mongie two-thirds o ...

mountain pass.

Major results

* 1897 ** 3rd Paris-Cabourg * 1898 ** 6th Paris-Roubaix * 1899 ** Record Paris-Torino on motorbike * 1901 ** 6th Paris-Brest-Paris * 1902 ** 1st Le Concours de Tourisme du TCF (First race to include the

) ** 2nd Marseille-Paris ** 3rd Corsa Nazionale / La Seicento ** 3rd Bordeaux-Paris * 1903 ** 4th

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 ...

* 1904 ** 1st 1000 kilometers of the

Vélodrome d'Hiver The Vélodrome d'Hiver (, ''Winter Velodrome''), colloquially Vel' d'Hiv', was an indoor bicycle racing cycle track and stadium (velodrome) on rue Nélaton, not far from the Eiffel Tower in Paris. As well as a cycling track, it was used for ice ho ...

References

External links

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Rodolfo MULLER's page
at CyclingRanking.com 1876 births 1947 deaths Italian male cyclists Cyclists from Livorno {{Italy-cycling-bio-stub