Bernard Gavillet (6 March 1960 – 13 June 2024) was a Swiss professional

racing cyclist Cycle sport is Competition, 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 ...

. He rode in four editions of the

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 consists ...

, two editions of the Giro d'Italia and one edition of the

Vuelta a España The Vuelta a España (; en, Tour of Spain) is an annual multi-stage bicycle race primarily held in Spain, while also occasionally making passes through nearby countries. Inspired by the success of the Tour de France and the Giro d'Italia, the r ...

. Gavillet died on 13 June 2024, at the age of 64.«Un coureur de classe et un fort caractère» Le cyclisme valaisan rend hommage à Bernard Gavillet, décédé

Major results

;1977 : 3rd Road race, National Junior Road Championships ;1981 : 5th Overall

Tour de l'Avenir Tour de l'Avenir ( en, Tour of the Future) is a French road bicycle racing stage race, which started in 1961 as a race similar to the Tour de France and over much of the same course but for amateurs and for semi-professionals known as independents ...

: 7th Overall

GP Tell The Grand Prix Guillaume Tell (, "William Tell Grand Prize") was a professional cycling race held annually in Switzerland. It was part of UCI Europe Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing competitions which were in ...

;1983 : 2nd

GP du canton d'Argovie Grand Prix of Aargau Canton (german: Grosser Preis des Kantons Aargau) is a semi classic European bicycle race held in Aargau canton, one of the more northerly cantons of Switzerland. The race consists of fifteen laps around the Swiss town of ...

: 2nd National Hill-climb Championships ;1984 : 1st MaillotSuiza

National Hill-climb Championships ;1986 : 1st Stage 2 ( TTT)

: 3rd National Hill-climb Championships : 7th

Milano–Vignola The Milano–Vignola was a professional road bicycle race held annually in the Province of Modena, Italy Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It is located in t ...

;1987 : 2nd Overall

::1st Stage 5b : 3rd National Hill-climb Championships

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* 1960 births 2024 deaths Swiss male cyclists People from Monthey {{Switzerland-cycling-bio-stub