Heiri Suter
Personal information | |
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Born |
Gränichen, Switzerland | 10 July 1899
Died |
6 November 1978 79) Bülach, Switzerland | (aged
Team information | |
Role | Rider |
Heinrich 'Heiri' Suter (10 July 1899 – 6 November 1978) was a professional road racing cyclist from Switzerland. In 1923, he was first to win Paris–Roubaix and the Tour of Flanders in the same year.[1]
Suter had 58 professional wins, including:
- Grand Prix Wolber (unofficial world championship) (1922, 1925)
- Road champion of Switzerland: (1920, 1921, 1922, 1926, 1929)[2]
- motor-paced champion of Switzerland: (1932, 1933)
- Züri-Metzgete: (1919, 1920, 1922, 1924, 1928, 1929)
- Paris–Tours: (1926, 1927)
- Paris–Roubaix (1923)
- Tour of Flanders (1923)
- Bordeaux–Paris (1925)
Career
- 1919
- 1st - Züri-Metzgete
- 1st — Grand Prix Aurore
- 1st — Tour de Zürich
- 1920
- Switzerland National road champion
- 1st - Züri-Metzgete
- 1st — Tour du Nord-Ouest
- 1921
- Switzerland 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
- Switzerland National road champion
- 1st - Züri-Metzgete
- 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
- 1st - Paris–Roubaix
- 1st — Tour du Nord-Ouest
- 1st — Zürich-Munich
- 1st — Prix de Génève
- 1924
- 1st - Züri-Metzgete
- 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
- 1st — Circuit de Champagne
- 1st — Circuit du Vaudois
- 1926
- Switzerland 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 - Züri-Metzgete
- 1929
- Switzerland National road champion
- 1st - Züri-Metzgete
- 1st — Tour du Nord-Ouest
- 1st — Tour du Lac Léman
- 1st — Circuit Franco-Suisse
- 1929
- 1st — Tour du Lac Léman
- 1932
- Switzerland National motor-paced champion
- 1933
- Switzerland National motor-paced champion
References
- ↑ "24th Paris – Roubaix, 1923". bikeraceinfo. Retrieved 2 April 2015.
- ↑ "National Championship, Road, Elite, Switzerland (Men)". Cycling Archives. Retrieved 11 March 2015.
External links
- Heiri Suter profile at Cycling Archives
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