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1957 Tour De Suisse
The 1957 Tour de Suisse was the 21st edition of the Tour de Suisse cycle race and was held from 12 June to 20 June 1957. The race started and finished in Zürich. The race was won by Pasquale Fornara. General classification References 1957 1957 ( MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1957th year of the Common Era (CE) and ''Anno Domini'' (AD) designations, the 957th year of the 2nd millennium, the 57th year of the 20th century, and the 8th y ... 1957 in Swiss sport 1957 Challenge Desgrange-Colombo {{Tour de Suisse-race-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pasquale Fornara
Pasquale Fornara (29 March 1925 – 24 July 1990) was a professional Italian road bicycle racer who gained fame in the 1950s by winning the Tour de Suisse stage race four times, a record that still stands to this day. In addition to his Tour de Suisse achievements, Fornara won the 1956 Tour de Romandie and finished on the podium in two Grand Tours: a third place behind the legendary Fausto Coppi at the 1953 Giro d'Italia and a second place at the 1958 Vuelta a España behind Frenchman Jean Stablinski. Major achievements ;1952 : 1st, Overall, Tour de Suisse (and 2 stage wins) : 1st, Stage, Giro d'Italia ;1953 : 3rd, Overall, Giro d’Italia (and 1 stage win) :: 1st, King of the Mountains ;1954 : 1st, Overall, Tour de Suisse ;1955 : 4th, Overall, Tour de France : 1st, Stage, Giro d’Italia ;1956 : 1st, Overall, Tour de Romandie : 1st, Stage, Giro d'Italia : 24th, Overall, Tour de France ;1957 : 1st, Overall, Tour de Suisse (and 1 stage win) :: 1st, King of the Mountains ;1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edgard Sorgeloos
Edgard Sorgeloos (14 December 1930 – 12 November 2016) was a Belgian professional road bicycle racer. Sorgeloos' biggest success came at the end of his career, when he won a stage in the 1965 Tour de France. Major results ;1951 :GP Maurice Depauw ;1952 :Welle :Circuit de la Dendre ;1954 :Wervik :Halse Pijl ;1955 :Erembodegem-Terjoden :Steenhuize-Wijnhuize :Ninove :Halse Pijl ;1956 :Halse Pijl :Nederbrakel :Gooik ;1957 :GP de la Famenne :Sint-Lievens-Esse ;1958 :Aachen :Zeebrugge :GP des Ardennes :Wingene ;1959 :Sassari – Cagliari :Ronse ;1960 :Sint-Lievens-Esse ;1961 :Erembodegem-Terjoden ;1962 :Düsseldorf :Denderhoutem :Omloop der Vlaamse Gewesten :Grand Prix du Parisien (with Rik Van Looy, Guillaume van Tongerloo, Huub Zilverberg, Joseph Planckaert and Peter Post) ;1964 :Ronde van Brabant :Sassari – Cagliari :Mol :Zingem ;1965 :Aalst :Tour de France The Tour de France () is an annual men's multiple-stage bicycle race primarily held in France, while also occasio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Attilio Moresi
Attilio Moresi (26 July 1933 – 25 April 1995) was a Swiss cyclist. He was the Swiss National Road Race champion in 1963. Major results ;1957 : 2nd Tour de Quatre-Cantons : 3rd Overall Tour de Suisse : 5th Overall Tour de Romandie ;1958 : 2nd Tour de Quatre-Cantons ;1960 : 3rd Tour du Nord-Ouest : 4th Overall Tour de Suisse : 5th Overall Tour de Romandie ;1961 : 1st Overall Tour de Suisse ;1962 : 6th Züri-Metzgete ;1963 : 1st Road race, National Road Championships : 3rd Overall Tour de Suisse ::1st Stage 4 : 8th Overall Paris–Luxembourg ;1964 : 7th GP du canton d'Argovie ;1965 : 6th Züri-Metzgete Züri-Metzgete (Zürich German; en, Championship of Zürich; german: Meisterschaft von Zürich) was a European Classic cycle race held annually in Zürich, Switzerland, and continued as a non-professional mass participation event from 2007 until ... References External links 1937 births 1995 deaths Sportspeople from Lugano Swiss male cyclists Tour de Suisse st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1956 Tour De Suisse
The 1956 Tour de Suisse was the 20th edition of the Tour de Suisse cycle race and was held from 16 June to 23 June 1956. The race started and finished in Zürich. The race was won by Rolf Graf. General classification References 1956 Events January * January 1 – The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Anglo-Egyptian Condominium ends in Sudan. * January 8 – Operation Auca: Five U.S. evangelical Christian Missionary, missionaries, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, Ed McCully, Jim ... 1956 in Swiss sport 1956 Challenge Desgrange-Colombo {{Tour de Suisse-race-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1958 Tour De Suisse
The 1958 Tour de Suisse was the 22nd edition of the Tour de Suisse cycle race and was held from 11 June to 18 June 1958. The race started and finished in Zürich. The race was won by Pasquale Fornara. General classification References 1958 Events January * January 1 – The European Economic Community (EEC) comes into being. * January 3 – The West Indies Federation is formed. * January 4 ** Edmund Hillary's Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition completes the third ... Tour de Suisse 1958 Challenge Desgrange-Colombo 1958 in road cycling June 1958 sports events in Europe {{Tour de Suisse-race-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 1933 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zürich
Zürich () is the list of cities in Switzerland, 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 agglomeration, 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 Hauptbahnhof, 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 Roman Empire, 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 the Middle Ages, Zürich gained the independent and privileged status of imperial immediacy and, in 1519, became a primary centre of the Protestant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans Junkermann
Hennes "Hans" Junkermann (6 May 1934 – 11 April 2022) was a German professional racing cyclist who won 35 road races in 18 seasons from 1956 to 1973. He won the German National Road Race in 1959, 1960, and 1961. Biography Junkermann was born in St. Tönis, near Krefeld, Rhine Province. He excelled in mountainous stage races and hard one-day events. He won nine Six Day races and the European Madison championship in 1965. He rode the Tour de France eight times. Junkermann showed class as an amateur and was approached twice in 1954 to defect to the GDR and become a paid amateur, but he wanted to stay in West Germany and be a professional. He turned professional in 1955 season for the small Bauer team. In May 1957 he won Züri-Metzgete, followed by fourth in the Tour de Suisse, the start of his excellent record in the Swiss tour, a hilly stage race. In 1959 he moved to Faema-Molteni under Rik Van Looy, winning the national road championship, a feat he repeated in 1960 and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lothar Friedrich
Lothar Friedrich (11 December 1930 – 19 April 2015) was a German professional racing cyclist. He rode in four editions of the Tour de France. References External links * 1930 births 2015 deaths German male cyclists People from Völklingen Cyclists from Saarland {{Germany-cycling-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hilaire Couvreur
Hilaire Couvreur (22 September 1924 – 17 February 1998) was a Belgian cyclist. Couvreur was winner of the Tour du Maroc in 1953 and the Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana in 1958. He also finished third in the 1958 Vuelta a España. He was born in Sint-Andries near Brugge in Belgium and died in Kortrijk Kortrijk ( , ; vls, Kortryk or ''Kortrik''; french: Courtrai ; la, Cortoriacum), sometimes known in English as Courtrai or Courtray ( ), is a Belgian City status in Belgium, city and Municipalities in Belgium, municipality in the Flemish Regio ..., Belgium. References External links * Belgian male cyclists 1924 births 1998 deaths Sportspeople from Bruges Cyclists from West Flanders 20th-century Belgian people {{Belgium-cycling-bio-1920s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlo Clerici
Carlo Clerici (3 September 1929 – 28 January 2007) was a Swiss professional road bicycle racer. The highlight of his career was his overall win in the 1954 Giro d'Italia. Major results ;1950 : 3rd Stausee-Rundfahrt Klingnau ;1952 : 1st GP de Suisse : 2nd Züri-Metzgete : 2nd GP du Locle : 2nd Rund um Altdorf : 3rd Overall Tour de Suisse : 10th Overall Tour de Romandie ;1953 : 2nd Rund um Altdorf : 3rd Züri-Metzgete : 4th Overall Tour de Suisse : 6th Overall Tour de Romandie : 7th Giro del Ticino ;1954 : 1st Overall Giro d'Italia ::1st Stage 6 : 1st GP du Locle : 3rd Road race, National Road Championships : 3rd Overall Tour de Romandie : 4th Züri-Metzgete ;1955 : 2nd Road race, National Road Championships : 3rd Overall Tour de Suisse : 4th Züri-Metzgete : 4th Genoa–Nice : 5th Overall Tour de Romandie ;1956 : 1st Züri-Metzgete : 1st GP du Locle : 2nd Overall Tour de Romandie : 9th Giro dell'Emilia ;1957 : 7th Overall Tour de Suisse The Tour de Suisse ( en, Tour of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nino Assirelli
Nino Assirelli (23 July 1925 – 30 June 2018) was an Italian racing cyclist. He won stage 15 of the 1953 Giro d'Italia The 1953 Giro d'Italia was the 36th edition of the Giro d'Italia. The Giro started off in Milan on 12 May with a flat stage and concluded back in Milan with a relatively flat mass-start stage on 2 June. Sixteen teams entered the race, which .... References External links * 1925 births 2018 deaths Italian male cyclists Italian Giro d'Italia stage winners Place of birth missing People from Forlì Sportspeople from the Province of Forlì-Cesena Cyclists from Emilia-Romagna {{Italy-cycling-bio-1920s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
