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Hugo Koblet (; 21 March 1925 – 6 November 1964) was a
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champion
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. He won the
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and the Giro d'Italia as well as competing in six-day and pursuit races on the track. He won 70 races as a professional. He died in a car accident amid speculation that he had committed suicide.


Origins

Hugo Koblet was the son of Adolf and Héléna Koblet (pronounced Kob-lettLES GRANDS DUELS DU TOUR (3) Koblet-Kubler : le seigneur et le pirate
''Le Monde''. 2 July 2003.), bakers in
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. He lived with his mother, a widow, and with an elder brother. His brother baked bread and cakes and Hugo was restricted to sweeping the floor and making deliveries by bicycle.Sporting Cyclist, UK, 1965 He left the bakery at 17 and worked as a trainee mechanic at the Oerlikon velodrome in the city. His first race was a 10 km hill-climb, which he won. That caught the attention of
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, a former Tour de France rider who had come second in the Tour of Switzerland. Amberg insisted he ride the track and Koblet became national amateur pursuit champion in 1945. He turned professional in 1946 and won the New York and Chicago six-day races. It was after the races that he developed a love of the United States, driving to California and Florida. He had learned English by watching American and British films. He won the Swiss pursuit championship every year from 1947 to 1954. In 1947 he finished third and in 1951 and 1954 second in the world championship.


Professional success

Koblet won the 1950 Swiss road championship and then became the first non-
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to win the Giro d'Italia.Cycling Plus, UK, September 1999 In 1951 he defeated
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to win the
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, an
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with the status of unofficial world championship. The most important victory came that year at the
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. He won overall and took five stages – two time-trials, two conventional stages and another in the mountains.Le Monde, France, 29 July 1951 In 1951 he "rode the best off his wheel" between
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and
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, said ''Cycling Plus'', "just 20 miles into the stage, then covered 88 miles on his own to win by three minutes. This was despite a frantic chase by such greats as triple Tour winner
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, double winner
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and
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." The time differences when the Tour ended at the
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meant he had beaten
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by 12 km,
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by 18, Bartali by 18 and Coppi by 27.


1951 Tour de France

The 1951 Tour de France started in
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, the second time outside Paris. The main riders were Louison Bobet for France, Fausto Coppi and an ageing Gino Bartali for Italy. Coppi was hindered by grief at the death of his brother, Serse. Both Coppi and Bobet were pushed out of the running when Koblet won the time-trial from La Guerche to Angers. Their position was confirmed four days later when Koblet attacked on a gentle descent after two hours of the stage from Brive to Agen, a day expected to be a quiet journey towards the Pyrenees. He won again at Luchon, Montpellier and Geneva.


Decline and death

Hugo Koblet was a handsome man whose fame brought beautiful women and a lifestyle that affected his career. He was "the most charming of men to talk to," said
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.Sporting Cyclist, UK, December 1964
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wrote in
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: "Koblet had not an enemy at all. His ready and kindly smile came from deep down inside, and one knows from the start that this was a man without rancour, a rare thing to say of anybody who has raced in top competition on the road where the intense physical struggle often leads to jealousy and dispute." He never rode again at the same level as the 1951 Tour de France.Dazat, Olivier (1987), Seigneurs et Forçats du Vélo, Calmann-Lévy, France, , p84 Jean Bobet said Koblet began to suffer in the mountains at 2,000m, then 1,500, then at 1,000 until "we saw him unable to ride over the smallest hill.". The author Olivier Dazat said photographs showed not the handsome man he had been but a rider suddenly aged, worried and preoccupied. René de Latour wrote: "There is a question mark about Hugo Koblet's life, the mystery of why he was never as good again as in the 1951 Tour. After this year, his pedalling had less power. Soon after that magnificent win, Koblet was invited to Mexico to follow the national amateur tour. When he came back he was still, it seemed, the same incredibly easy pedaller. But the efficiency was partly gone. He visited specialists and took courses of treatment, but without any real success. He went to Mexico in 1951 ndnever came back from the land of guitars and sombreros. And nobody knows why!" He came second in the Giro d'Italia in 1951 and 1952 and retired in 1958. Six years after his retirement, Koblet died at 39, four days after a car crash, with speculation that his death may have been
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. He had been profligate with his moneyL'Équipe, France, 24 June 2003 and was in debt. He was being pursued for unpaid tax and his marriage had broken up. A witness, Émile Isler, saw Koblet driving his white
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at 120–140 kmh. between Zürich and Esslingen. He drove past a pear tree, turned then drove back. He passed it again finally turned a third time and drove into it.


Personal life

Koblet married a 22-year-old model, Sonja Buhl, in 1953. They spent their honeymoon in Spain and bought a villa at Forch, overlooking the lake at Zürich.
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and
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employed him in South America but the couple returned, Koblet disappointed and confused. The marriage began to break up. His confusion included forgetting that he had signed a contract for 7 million lire for a comb to be made in his name in Italy. He and Sonja parted and Koblet moved alone into a studio apartment alongside a garage he opened near the Oerlikon velodrome. He asked Sonja for a reconciliation in 1964 but she refused. It was later that year that he died. Sonja refused her husband's inheritance rather than take on his debts.


Nickname

Koblet always carried a comb and a bottle of
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when he raced, sometimes combing his hair before the finish, always cleaning his face before meeting photographers.Cycling Plus, UK, July 1999 Philippe Brunel wrote in L'Equipe that at the end of his long ride to Agen in 1951, "followers were astonished to see him sit up, blow kisses to girls and take out of his pocket a sponge soaked in water. He was barely across the line when he rinsed his face in
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, combed his hair, then started his stopwatch." The music hall artist Jacques Grello nicknamed him the ''Pédaleur de Charme'' in ''Parisien Libéré'' in 1951.


Film

Koblet's life was the subject of a cinema film, ''Hugo Koblet: Pédaleur de Charme'', in 2010. It starred Manuel Löwensberg as Koblet, Sarah Bühlmann as his wife Sonja, Chantal Le Moign and Dominique Müller. It attributed his decline to "doping abuse."Synopsis
hugokoblet.ch It was directed by Daniel von Aarburg, who included archive film and interviews with Koblet's contemporaries.


Anecdote

:In 1951, I was 18. One evening after the race ended, I was hanging about outside a hotel hoping to see the riders when the boss asked me to carry Koblet's suitcases to his room. I was so proud! For me, he was the greatest of them all. Well, when I went back downstairs again, I met him. He thanked me very politely and gave me two Swiss francs, an enormous amount at the time. I kept the coin for a long time, like a good-luck charm, swearing I would never spend it. And I only did, three years later, to buy a copy of ''Miroir Sprint'' which had
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, my other idol, on the cover. :'' – Willy Schweizer, former president of the Swiss cycling union, 52 years later.''


Career achievements


Major results


Road

;1947 :1st Baden Criterium :1st Le Locle :1st Nyon Criterium :1st Oftringen Criterium :1st Stage 1a (TTT)
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:1st Stage 1a
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:3rd Zürich–Lausanne ;1948 :1st Genève Criterium :1st GP Lausanne :1st Stage 4b
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:1st Stage 5
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;1949 :1st Stage 3
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;1950 :1st Overall Giro d'Italia ::1st Mountains classification ::1st Stages 6 & 8 :1st Overall
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::1st Stages 4a, 4b & 6 :1st
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:1st Aarau Criterium :1st
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:1st Payerne Criterium :2nd Overall
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:6th
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;1951 :1st Overall
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::1st Stages 7, 11, 14, 16 & 22 :1st
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:1st
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:1st Azencriterium :1st Genève Criterium :1st Genève (TTT) :1st Neuchâtel–Genève :1st Vallorbe Criterium :1st Brussel Criterium :2nd Overall
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::1st Stages 2 & 7 :2nd Overall
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:6th Overall Giro d'Italia) ::1st Stage 19 ;1952 :1st Meisterschaft von Zürich :2nd Overall
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::1st Stage 4 :8th Overall Giro d'Italia ;1953 :1st Overall
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::1st Stages 1, 2 & 3a :1st Overall
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::1st Stages 3, 6 & 8 :1st Neuhausem :Alvalade Track Race ::1st Individual Pursuit ::1st Omnium :1st Stages 2b & 3
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:2nd Overall Giro d'Italia ::1st Stage 8 ;1954 :1st
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:1st Meisterschaft von Zürich :1st Cagliari–Sassari :1st Winterthur :1st
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:1st Stage 3a
Roma–Napoli–Roma Roma–Napoli–Roma (English: Rome–Naples–Rome) was a road cycle race held from 1902 until 1961. The race had different names during its history: ''Corsa del XX Settembre'' (''Race of 20 September'') from 1919 to 1927, as it was raced in S ...
:1st Stage 4a
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:2nd Overall Giro d'Italia ::1st Stages 15 & 21 :3rd Overall
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::1st Stages 1a & 3b :4th
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;1955 :1st Road Race, National Road Championships :1st Overall
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::1st Stage 2 :1st
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:1st Sète :1st Ussel :1st Winterthur :2nd Overall
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::1st Stage 3b :2nd
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:10th Overall Giro d'Italia ::1st Stage 21 ;1956 :1st Stage 9
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;1957 :1st Cagliari :3rd Overall
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;1958 :1st Stage 1 Clasico El Colombiano


Track

;1945 :1st Individual Pursuit, National Amateur Track Championships ;1946 :2nd Individual Pursuit, National Track Championships ;1947 :1st Individual Pursuit, National Track Championships :3rd Individual Pursuit,
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;1948 :1st Individual Pursuit, National Track Championships :1st Chicago Six Days ;1949 :1st Individual Pursuit, National Track Championships :1st New York City Six Days ;1950 :1st Individual Pursuit, National Track Championships :1st Hannover Six Days ;1951 :1st Individual Pursuit, National Track Championships ;1952 :1st Individual Pursuit, National Track Championships :1st Dortmund Six Days I :1st Dortmund Six Days II :1st Frankfurt am Main Six Days ;1953 :1st Individual Pursuit, European Track Cycling Championships :1st Individual Pursuit, National Track Championships :1st Brussel Six Days :1st Frankfurt am Main Six Days ;1954 :1st Madison, European Track Cycling Championships :1st Individual Pursuit, National Track Championships :1st Zürich Six Days ;1955 :1st Dortmund Six Days ;1957 :1st Madison, Prix Houlier-Comès


Grand Tour results timeline


References


External links

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Official Tour de France results for Hugo Koblet
{{DEFAULTSORT:Koblet, Hugo Swiss male cyclists Tour de France winners Swiss Tour de France stage winners Giro d'Italia winners Swiss Giro d'Italia stage winners Road incident deaths in Switzerland Cyclists from Zürich 1925 births 1964 deaths Tour de Suisse stage winners