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1949 Tour De Romandie
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The 1949 Tour de Romandie was the third edition of the Tour de Romandie cycle race and was held from 12 May to 15 May 1949. The race started and finished in Geneva. The race was won by Gino Bartali. General classification References 1949 Tour de Romandie The Tour de Romandie is a stage race which is part of the UCI World Tour. It runs through the Romandie region, or French-speaking part of Switzerland. The competition began in 1947, to coincide with the 50-year anniversary of Swiss Cycling. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gino Bartali
Gino Bartali (; 18 July 1914 – 5 May 2000), nicknamed Gino the Pious and (in Italy) Ginettaccio, was a champion road cyclist. He was the most renowned Italian cyclist before the Second World War, having won the Giro d'Italia twice, in 1936 and 1937, and the Tour de France in 1938. After the war, he added one more victory in each event: the Giro d'Italia in 1946 and the Tour de France in 1948. His second and last Tour de France victory in 1948 gave him the largest gap between victories in the race.Eurosport, Tour De France, 2008, Legends, Gino Bartali Eurosport.fr (4 July 2008). Retrieved on 6 August 2014. In September 2013, 13 years after his death, Bartali was recognised as a " |
Ferdinand Kübler
Ferdinand Kübler (; 24 July 1919 – 29 December 2016) was a Swiss cyclist with 71 professional victories, including the 1950 Tour de France and the 1951 World Road Race Championship. Biography Kübler was born in Marthalen. He began racing professionally in 1940 but his early career was limited to Switzerland by the Nazi occupation elsewhere. He was multiple Swiss national champion and a three time winner of the Tour de Suisse. Kübler's most successful years in international racing were 1950–1952, when the classics had resumed after the Second World War. He won the La Flèche Wallonne and Liège–Bastogne–Liège, both in 1951 and 1952, in a time where these races were still contested in the same weekend. He was also World Road Race Champion in 1951, having placed second in 1949 and third in 1950. Kübler rode the Giro d'Italia from 1950–1952, placing fourth once, and third twice. Kübler abandoned the 1947 and 1949 Tours de France, despite an early stage win in each ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Settimio Simonini
Settimio Simonini (8 July 1913 – 14 June 1986) was an Italian racing cyclist. He rode in the 1937 Tour de France. He also won the Giro dell'Appennino in 1936 and 1948, and finished in the top 10 overall in the Giro d'Italia three times. Major results ;1936 : 1st Giro dell'Appennino : 3rd Piccolo Giro di Lombardia : 7th Giro di Lombardia ;1938 : 4th Overall Giro d'Italia ;1939 : 5th Overall Giro d'Italia : 8th Overall Tour de Suisse ;1940 : 10th Overall Giro d'Italia ;1947 : 4th Giro dell'Appennino ;1948 : 1st Giro dell'Appennino : 3rd Giro dell'Emilia : 10th Giro di Lombardia ;1949 : 3rd Overall Tour de Romandie : 6th Overall Volta a Catalunya The Volta a Catalunya (; en, Tour of Catalonia, es, Vuelta a Cataluña, link=no) is a road bicycle race held annually in Catalonia, Spain. It is one of three World Tour stage races in Spain, together with the Vuelta a España and the Tour of ... ;1950 : 9th Milan–San Remo References External links * 1913 birth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1948 Tour De Romandie
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The 1948 Tour de Romandie was the second edition of the Tour de Romandie cycle race and was held from 6 June to 9 June 1948. The race started and finished in Geneva. The race was won by Ferdinand Kübler. General classification References 1948 Tour de Romandie The Tour de Romandie is a stage race which is part of the UCI World Tour. It runs through the Romandie region, or French-speaking part of Switzerland. The competition began in 1947, to coincide with the 50-year anniversary of Swiss Cycling. It ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1950 Tour De Romandie
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The 1950 Tour de Romandie was the fourth edition of the Tour de Romandie cycle race and was held from 18 May to 21 May 1950. The race started and finished in Geneva. The race was won by Édouard Fachleitner. General classification References 1950 Tour de Romandie The Tour de Romandie is a stage race which is part of the UCI World Tour. It runs through the Romandie region, or French-speaking part of Switzerland. The competition began in 1947, to coincide with the 50-year anniversary of Swiss Cycling. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tour De Romandie
The Tour de Romandie is a stage race which is part of the UCI World Tour. It runs through the Romandie region, or French-speaking part of Switzerland. The competition began in 1947, to coincide with the 50-year anniversary of Swiss Cycling. It was held without interruption until the COVID-19 pandemic caused the cancellation of the 2020 edition. The course of the race usually heads northwards towards the Jura mountains and Alpine mountain ranges of western Switzerland. The race traditionally starts with an individual time trial prologue and ends with an individual time-trial in hilly terrains, often in Lausanne. The final time-trial traditionally starts in the stadium north of Lausanne, goes downhill southwards to Lake Léman (Lake Geneva), and makes its way back uphill to the stadium again. The winner and several of the top-ten finishers are usually excellent time trialists. Four winners of the Tour de Romandie had gone on to win the Tour de France in the same year; Stephen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geneva
Geneva ( ; french: Genève ) frp, Genèva ; german: link=no, Genf ; it, Ginevra ; rm, Genevra is the List of cities in Switzerland, second-most populous city in Switzerland (after Zürich) and the most populous city of Romandy, the French-speaking part of Switzerland. Situated in the south west of the country, where the Rhône exits Lake Geneva, it is the capital of the Canton of Geneva, Republic and Canton of Geneva. The city of Geneva () had a population 201,818 in 2019 (Jan. estimate) within its small municipal territory of , but the Canton of Geneva (the city and its closest Swiss suburbs and exurbs) had a population of 499,480 (Jan. 2019 estimate) over , and together with the suburbs and exurbs located in the canton of Vaud and in the French Departments of France, departments of Ain and Haute-Savoie the cross-border Geneva metropolitan area as officially defined by Eurostat, which extends over ,As of 2020, the Eurostat-defined Functional Urban Area of Geneva was made up of 9 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fritz Schär
Fritz Schär (13 March 1926 in Kaltenbach – 29 September 1997 in Frauenfeld) was a Swiss cyclist who in 1953 won the first points classification ever in the Tour de France. He also finished third in the general classification in the 1954 Tour de France. He was the Swiss National Road Race champion in 1953. Major results ;1948 : 3rd Giro di Lombardia ;1949 : 1st Züri-Metzgete : 1st Stage 8 Tour de Suisse : 4th Overall Tour de Romandie ;1950 : 1st Züri-Metzgete : 1st Stage 14 Giro d'Italia ;1951 : 3rd Overall Tour de Romandie : 4th Overall Tour de Suisse ;1952 : 1st Stage 19 Giro d'Italia : 5th Overall Tour de Romandie : 7th Overall Tour de Suisse :: 1st Stage 2 ;1953 : 2nd Overall Tour de Suisse :: 1st Stage 1 : 4th Overall Tour de Romandie : 6th Overall Tour de France :: 1st Points classification :: 1st Stages 1 & 2 ;1954 : 2nd Road race, UCI Road World Championships : 3rd Overall Tour de France : 4th Overall Tour de Romandie : 9th Overall Giro d'Italia ;1955 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Brun (cyclist)
Jean Brun (28 September 1926 – 30 September 1993) was a Swiss cyclist. He competed in the individual and team road race events at the 1948 Summer Olympics The 1948 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XIV Olympiad and also known as London 1948) were an international multi-sport event held from 29 July to 14 August 1948 in London, England, United Kingdom. Following a twelve-year hiatus ca .... References External links * 1926 births 1993 deaths Swiss male cyclists Olympic cyclists of Switzerland Cyclists at the 1948 Summer Olympics Cyclists from Geneva {{Switzerland-cycling-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Guyot (cyclist, Born 1925)
Charles Guyot (25 April 1925 – 22 September 1973) was a Swiss racing cyclist. He raced as a professionnel from 1946 to 1952, winning the Züri-Metzgete in 1947 and a stage in the Tour de Suisse and the Giro del Ticino in 1949. His father Charles Charles is a masculine given name predominantly found in English language, English and French language, French speaking countries. It is from the French form ''Charles'' of the Proto-Germanic, Proto-Germanic name (in runic alphabet) or ''*k ... was also a professional racing cyclist. References External links 1925 births 1973 deaths Swiss male cyclists Sportspeople from the canton of Bern Tour de Suisse stage winners {{Switzerland-cycling-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Goldschmit
Jean Goldschmit (20 February 1924 – 14 February 1994) was a professional Luxembourgian road bicycle racer. He was professional from 1946 to 1953 and had 14 victories which included two stage wins and wearing the yellow jersey as leader of the general classification in the Tour de France for three stages. Other wins included cyclo-cross champion of Luxembourg in 1946 and 1947 and road race champion of Luxembourg in 1947 and 1950. Major results ;1945 : Tour de Luxembourg ;1946 : national cyclo-cross championship ;1947 : national cyclo-cross championship : national road race championship ;1948 :Tour de Luxembourg ;1949 :Tour de France: ::8th place overall classification ::Winner stage 14 ;1950 : national road race championship :Tour de France: ::10th place overall classification ::Winner stage 1 ::Wearing yellow jersey The general classification is the most important classification, the one by which the winner of the Tour de France is determined. Since 1919, the leader o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bim Diederich
Jean "Bim" Diederich (20 February 1922 – 6 December 2012) was a professional Luxembourgian road bicycle racer, with an impressive record in the Tour de France. Diederich was born in Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg, and was active in competition from 1946 to 1954. He finished sixth in the road race at the 1947 Road World Championships. He had fourteen wins, including stage wins in the 1950 Tour de France (finishing in Menton), the 1951 Tour de France (from Reims to Ghent, leading the race solo over the Muur van Geraardsbergen before crossing the finish line, earning the nickname "Le Duc de Grammont" or "the Duke of Geraardsbergen"), and the 1952 Tour de France (into Namur). He wore the yellow jersey as leader of the general classification for three days during the 1951 Tour. He was the father-in-law of cyclist Lucien Didier, and the grandfather of cyclist Laurent Didier. Major results ;1947 :2nd Overall Tour de Luxembourg :6th Road race, UCI Road World Championships ; ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
