Heinrich 'Heiri' Suter (10 July 1899 – 6 November 1978) was a Swiss road racing cyclist. Excelling mainly in the classics, Suter was the first non-Belgian winner of the

Tour of Flanders The Tour of Flanders ( nl, Ronde van Vlaanderen), also known as ''De Ronde'' (''"The Tour"''), is an annual road cycling race held in Belgium every spring. The most important cycling race in Flanders, it is part of the UCI World Tour and orga ...

in 1923. Two weeks after his win in the Tour of Flanders, he won

Paris–Roubaix Paris–Roubaix is a one-day professional bicycle road race in northern France, starting north of Paris and finishing in Roubaix, at the border with Belgium. It is one of cycling's oldest races, and is one of the ' Monuments' or classics of th ...

, becoming the first cyclist to win both classics in the same year. He also holds a record six victories in

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 ...

, 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) *

: (1919, 1920, 1922, 1924, 1928, 1929) * Paris–Roubaix: (

1923 Events January–February * January 9 – Lithuania begins the Klaipėda Revolt to annex the Klaipėda Region (Memel Territory). * January 11 – Despite strong British protests, troops from France and Belgium occupy the Ruhr area, t ...

) * Tour of Flanders: (

) *

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(1925) * Paris–Tours: (1926, 1927)

Career

;1919 : 1st -

: 1st — Grand Prix Aurore : 1st — Tour de Zürich ;1920 : National road champion : 1st -

: 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 -

: 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 -

: 1st -

: 1st — Tour du Nord-Ouest : 1st — Zürich-Munich : 1st — Prix de Génève ;1924 : 1st -

: 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 -

: 1st — Circuit de Champagne : 1st — Circuit du Vaudois ;1926 : National road champion : 1st - Paris–Tours : 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 : 1st — Tour du Lac Léman : 1st — Grand Prix Yverdon : 1st — Tour de Francfort ;1928 : 1st -

;1929 : National road champion : 1st -

: 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 {{Switzerland-cycling-bio-stub