Heinrich 'Heiri' Suter (10 July 1899 – 6 November 1978) was a
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road racing cyclist
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. Excelling mainly in the
classics
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, Suter was the first non-Belgian winner of the
Tour of Flanders
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in 1923. Two weeks after his win in the Tour of Flanders, he won
Paris–Roubaix
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, becoming the first cyclist to win both classics in the same year.
He also holds a record six victories in
Züri-Metzgete
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, Switzerland's most important one-day race.
Suter won 58 professional races, including:
*
Grand Prix Wolber (unofficial world championship): (1922, 1925)
*
Road champion of Switzerland: (1920, 1921, 1922, 1926, 1929)
* motor-paced champion of Switzerland: (1932, 1933)
*
Züri-Metzgete
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: (1919, 1920, 1922, 1924, 1928, 1929)
* Paris–Roubaix: (
1923)
* Tour of Flanders: (
1923)
*
Bordeaux–Paris
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(1925)
*
Paris–Tours
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: (1926, 1927)
Career
;1919
: 1st -
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 unt ...
: 1st — Grand Prix Aurore
: 1st — Tour de Zürich
;1920
: National road champion
: 1st -
Züri-Metzgete
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: 1st — Tour du Nord-Ouest
;1921
: National road champion
: 1st — Grand Prix Aurore
: 1st — Tour de Zürich
: 1st — Tour du Nord-Ouest
: 1st — Genève-Zürich
: 1st — Tour de Suisse Orientale
: 1st — Prix de Génève
;1922
: 1st -
Grand Prix Wolber
: National road champion
: 1st -
Züri-Metzgete
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: 1st — Tour du Nord-Ouest
: 1st — Circuit de Neuchâtel
: 1st — Circuit de Fribourg
: 1st — Circuit du Vaudois
: 1st — Munich-Zürich
: 1st, 2 stages — Paris-Saint-Etienne
;1923
: 1st -
Tour of Flanders
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: 1st -
Paris–Roubaix
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: 1st — Tour du Nord-Ouest
: 1st — Zürich-Munich
: 1st — Prix de Génève
;1924
: 1st -
Züri-Metzgete
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: 1st — Circuit de Champagne (1st, 2 Stages)
: 1st — Tour du Lac Léman
: 1st — Grand Prix Griffon
: 1st — Zürich-La Chaux-de-Fonds
: 1st, 3 stages — Bordeaux-Marseille
: 1st — Prix de Génève
;1925
: 1st -
Grand Prix Wolber
: 1st -
Bordeaux–Paris
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: 1st — Circuit de Champagne
: 1st — Circuit du Vaudois
;1926
: National road champion
: 1st -
Paris–Tours
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: 1st — Tour de Cologne
: 1st — Circuit de Cologne
: 1st — Tour de Francfort
: 1st — Tour du Württemberg
: 1st — Circuit de la Montagne
: 1st — Grand Prix Yverdon
;1927
: 1st -
Paris–Tours
Paris–Tours is a French one-day classic road cycling race held every October from the outskirts of Paris to the cathedral city of Tours. It is a predominantly flat course through the Chevreuse and Loire valleys; the highest point is 200 m, ...
: 1st — Tour du Lac Léman
: 1st — Grand Prix Yverdon
: 1st — Tour de Francfort
;1928
: 1st -
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 unt ...
;1929
: National road champion
: 1st -
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 unt ...
: 1st — Tour du Nord-Ouest
: 1st — Tour du Lac Léman
: 1st — Circuit Franco-Suisse
;1932
: National motor-paced champion
;1933
: National motor-paced champion
References
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1899 births
1978 deaths
People from Aarau District
Swiss male cyclists
Sportspeople from Aargau
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