Rolf Graf (19 August 1932 - 18 January 2019) was a Swiss professional road bicycle racer. Rolf Graf was a protégé of the Swiss cyclist

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 ...

. He competed in the individual and team road race events at the

1952 Summer Olympics The 1952 Summer Olympics ( fi, Kesäolympialaiset 1952; sv, Olympiska sommarspelen 1952), officially known as the Games of the XV Olympiad ( fi, XV olympiadin kisat; sv, Den XV olympiadens spel) and commonly known as Helsinki 1952 ( sv, Helsin ...

. He was the Swiss National Road Race champion in 1956. In 1963, Graf had car crash in Italy, from which he never really recovered, and in 1964 he had to stop his cycling career.

Major results

;1954 :

Gent–Wevelgem Gent–Wevelgem, officially Gent–Wevelgem – In Flanders Fields, is a road cycling race in Belgium, held annually since 1934. It is one of the classic races part of the Flemish Cycling Week, run in late March on the last Sunday before the To ...

;1955 :Locarno ;1956 : national road race championship :

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 ...

Trofeo Baracchi The Trofeo Baracchi was a major Italian cycling race that ran for 50 years. It was created by Mino Baracchi, in memory of his father Angelo who was a great cycle racing fan. Originally (from 1941) an amateur individual time trial, from 1944 it w ...

(with

André Darrigade André Darrigade (born 24 April 1929 in Narrosse) is a retired French professional road bicycle racer between 1951 and 1966. Darrigade, a road sprinter won the 1959 World Championship and 22 stages of the Tour de France. Five of those Tour vict ...

) ;1957 :Basel ;1958 :GP du Locle ;1959 : national road race championship : Giro d'Italia: ::Winner stage 22 :

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: ::Winner stages 12 and 19 ;1960 :Nice :

: ::Winner stage 19 :Trofeo Longines (with Guido Carlesi, Silvano Ciampi,

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and Alfredo Sabbadin) ;1962 : national road race championship :Berner Rundfahrt

References

External links

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Official Tour de France results for Rolf Graf
1932 births 2019 deaths People from Aarau District Swiss male cyclists Swiss Tour de France stage winners Cyclists at the 1952 Summer Olympics Olympic cyclists of Switzerland Swiss Giro d'Italia stage winners Tour de Suisse stage winners Sportspeople from Aargau 20th-century Swiss people 21st-century Swiss people {{Switzerland-cycling-bio-stub