Rolf Graf (19 August 1932 - 18 January 2019) was a

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professional

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. Rolf Graf was a protégé of the Swiss cyclist Ferdinand Kübler. He competed in the

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and team road race events at the

1952 Summer Olympics The 1952 Summer Olympics ( fi, Kesäolympialaiset 1952; sv, Olympiska sommarspelen 1952), officially known as the Games of the XV Olympiad ( fi, XV olympiadin kisat; sv, Den XV olympiadens spel) and commonly known as Helsinki 1952 ( sv, Helsin ...

. He was the Swiss National Road Race champion in 1956. In 1963, Graf had car crash in Italy, from which he never really recovered, and in 1964 he had to stop his cycling career.

Major results

;1954 : Gent–Wevelgem ;1955 :Locarno ;1956 : national road race championship : Tour de Suisse : Trofeo Baracchi (with André Darrigade) ;1957 :Basel ;1958 :GP du Locle ;1959 : national road race championship : Giro d'Italia: ::Winner stage 22 : Tour de France: ::Winner stages 12 and 19 ;1960 :Nice : Tour de France: ::Winner stage 19 :Trofeo Longines (with

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, Silvano Ciampi,

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and Alfredo Sabbadin) ;1962 : national road race championship :Berner Rundfahrt

References

External links

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Official Tour de France results for Rolf Graf
1932 births 2019 deaths People from Aarau District Swiss male cyclists Swiss Tour de France stage winners Cyclists at the 1952 Summer Olympics Olympic cyclists of Switzerland Swiss Giro d'Italia stage winners Tour de Suisse stage winners Sportspeople from Aargau 20th-century Swiss people 21st-century Swiss people {{Switzerland-cycling-bio-stub