Michael Schär (born 29 September 1986) is a

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professional

road bicycle racer Road bicycle racing is the cycle sport discipline of road cycling, held primarily on paved roads. Road racing is the most popular professional form of bicycle racing, in terms of numbers of competitors, events and spectators. The two most common ...

, who currently rides for

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. Born in

Geuensee Geuensee is a municipality in the district of Sursee in the canton of Lucerne in Switzerland. History Geuensee is first mentioned around 1217-22 as ''de Geînwison''. Geography Geuensee has an area of . Of this area, 70.9% is used for agricult ...

, Schär has competed in thirteen Grand Tours during his career, and was the winner of the

Swiss National Road Race Championships The Swiss National Road Race Championships are held annually. They are a cycling race which decides the Swiss cycling champion in the road racing discipline, across several categories of rider. The event was first held in 1892 and was won by Edou ...

in 2013. He competed at the

2012 Summer Olympics The 2012 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad and also known as London 2012) was an international multi-sport event held from 27 July to 12 August 2012 in London, England, United Kingdom. The first event, the ...

. His father Roland Schär was also an Olympic cyclist.

Major results

;2003 : 3rd Road race, National Junior Road Championships ;2004 : 1st MaillotSuiza

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, National Junior Road Championships : 4th Time trial, UCI Junior Road World Championships ;2005 : 1st MaillotSuiza

, National Under-23 Road Championships : 9th

Giro del Lago Maggiore The Giro del Lago Maggiore, also known as GP Knorr, was a one-day road cycling race held annually near Lake Maggiore in Switzerland. The last two editions of the men's race were part of the UCI Europe Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a series ...

;2006 : 1st MaillotSuiza

, National Under-23 Road Championships : 4th

Paris–Roubaix Espoirs Paris–Roubaix Espoirs is a one-day road cycling race held annually in France. In 2005 the race was integrated into the UCI Europe Tour as a category 1.2U race. Held since 1967, it is the under-23 version of the Monument classic Paris–Roubaix ...

: 5th Road race, UEC European Under-23 Road Championships : 7th Overall

Mainfranken-Tour The Mainfranken-Tour was a cycling race held annually in Germany. It was part of UCI Europe Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing competitions which were introduced in 2005 by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI ...

: 10th

Ronde Van Vlaanderen Beloften Ronde Van Vlaanderen Beloften ( en, Tour of Flanders U23) is a Flanders Classics road bicycle race. It is the version of the Tour of Flanders for under-23 riders and is usually contested a week after the Ronde van Vlaanderen. Ludovic Capelle is t ...

;2007 : 3rd Overall

Sachsen Tour The Sachsen Tour is a multi-stage road bicycle race held in the region of Saxony, Germany. It was first held in 1985 and since 2005 it has been organised as a 2.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicyc ...

::1st

Young rider classification ;2012 : 9th

Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen (Championship of Flanders) or Koolskamp Koerse is a single-day road bicycle race held annually in September in Koolskamp (part-municipality of Ardooie), West Flanders, Belgium. Since 2005, the race is organized as a ...

;2013 : 1st MaillotSuiza

Road race, National Road Championships : 7th Overall

Tour of Qatar The Tour of Qatar was an annual professional cycling stage race held in Qatar. First organized in 2002, the event was part of the UCI Asia Tour until 2016. The 2017 edition was to have seen the event upgraded to the UCI World Tour for the first ...

::1st Stage 2 ( TTT) : 7th Overall

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;2014 : 1st Stage 2

;2015 : 1st Stage 9 ( TTT)

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 ...

: 1st Stage 3 ( TTT)

Critérium du Dauphiné The Critérium du Dauphiné, before 2010 known as the Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré, is an annual cycling road race in the Dauphiné region in the southeast of France. The race is run over eight days during the first half of June. It is part ...

;2016 : 2nd Overall

Tour des Fjords Tour des Fjords (known as the Rogaland Grand Prix until 2012) was a road bicycle race held annually between 2008 and 2018 in the region of western Norway. The race merged with the Tour of Norway The Tour of Norway is a road bicycle race held an ...

: 10th Overall

;2017 : 1st Stage 1 ( TTT)

Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana The Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana (; en, Tour of the Valencian Community or Tour of Valencia) is a road cycling stage race held in the Valencian Community (''Comunitat Valenciana''), Spain. Its position in the cycling calendar means it is often ...

;2018 :

::1st Stage 3 ( TTT) :: Jersey red number

Combativity award The combativity award is a prize given in road bicycle racing Road bicycle racing is the cycle sport discipline of road cycling, held primarily on Road surface, paved roads. Road racing is the most popular professional sport, professional form of ...

Stage 13 : 1st Stage 1 ( TTT)

Tirreno–Adriatico Tirreno–Adriatico, nicknamed the "Race of the Two Seas", is an elite road cycling stage race in Italy, run between the Tyrrhenian and Adriatic coasts. Traditionally held in the early part of the season, it is considered to be an important prep ...

: 1st Stage 1 ( TTT)

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 ...

: 1st Stage 3 ( TTT)

: 3rd Road race, National Road Championships : 9th

Great War Remembrance Race The Great War Remembrance Race was a European single-day cycle race to be held annually from 2018 which passed through the Belgian province of West Flanders, organized by Flanders Classics and the organizers of Gent–Wevelgem as a 1.1 event on t ...

;2019 :

Stage 4

;2020 :

Stage 1

;2021 :

Stage 3

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

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* * * * * * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Schar, Michael 1986 births Living people People from Sursee District Swiss male cyclists Cyclists at the 2012 Summer Olympics Olympic cyclists of Switzerland Cyclists at the 2020 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from the canton of Lucerne