Swiss Cycling

Swiss Cycling (SC)
purpose	Sports association
Chair:	Franz Gallati
Establishment date:	1883
Number of members:	approx. 16,000
Seat :	Ittigen , since May 1, 2013 Grenchen
Website:	www.cycling.ch

Swiss Cycling (SC) is the association for cyclists in Switzerland . It is based in Grenchen , is divided into 24 cantonal associations and has around 17,000 members. "Swiss Cycling" is a member of the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI), the Union Européenne de Cyclisme (UEC) and the Swiss Olympic Association .

history

Swiss Cycling office in the Velodrome Suisse in Grenchen

The cycling association was founded in 1883 as the "Swiss Velocipede Association" in Brügg near Biel . In 1908 the association was renamed "Schweizerischer Radfahrer-Bund" (SRB) and in 1913 it was incorporated into the UCI. In 1923 the Swiss federation obtained the admission of the German cycling federation Bund Deutscher Radfahrer to the UCI, from which it had been excluded after the First World War. In 1929 the association was renamed the “Swiss Cyclists and Motorists Association” and organized the first Tour de Suisse under this name in 1933 for the 50th anniversary . The first women became members in 1940, but not until 1966 "officially". In 1967, Oscar Plattner was hired as the first full-time national coach. In 1994 the association merged with the Union "Cycliste Suisse" (UCS), the cycling association of French-speaking Switzerland that organized the Tour de Romandie .

In 1999 the association narrowly escaped bankruptcy with a mountain of debt of almost three million Swiss francs; the number of members in 1994 had fallen from 45,000 to 24,000. The entrepreneur Fritz Bösch , who was elected President in May 2000, renovated and modernized the association, which was renamed “Swiss Cycling”. From 2005, the former President of the Swiss Farmers' Association and former National Councilor Melchior Ehrler was President of the Cycling Association, which continued to struggle with major financial problems. In March 2012 Ehrler resigned from the presidency to move to the board. Former cyclist Richard Chassot , who has been director of the Tour de Romandie and television commentator since 2007, was elected the new president of Swiss Cycling .

In 2012 the association had around 16,000 members, of which around 2,800 are women. Since May 1, 2013, the association has been based in the Velodrome Suisse in Grenchen .

In August 2013, Chassot resigned from the office of President with immediate effect after disagreements had arisen in the association over the renewed nomination of Pat McQuaid as President of the World Cycling Federation Union Cycliste Internationale . After Swiss Cycling had originally proposed its candidacy, this nomination had apparently been withdrawn by the Presidium against the will of Chassot. The tasks of the President were taken over by Vice-President Franz Gallati , who was unanimously elected official President at the 147th Swiss Cycling Delegate Assembly on March 22, 2014.

In the run-up to the board elections on March 22, 2014, it was announced that Swiss Cycling had generated a surplus of CHF 778,000 for 2013. The association was thus debt-free.

On May 12, 2019, national coach Danilo Hondo , who has been working since 2015, admitted to having been treated with blood doping by the German sports doctor Mark Schmidt since 2011, when he was 37-year-old at the time. He was released from Swiss Cycling with immediate effect.

Cantonal associations

As of 2011, 24 cantonal associations were collective members of the Swiss Cycling Association. Swiss Cycling is legally organized as an association under Swiss law and entered in the commercial register of the canton of Bern under CH-020.6.900.418-8 as the Swiss Cyclists Association (SRB).

Swiss Cycling Aargau SRB St. Gallen Swiss Cycling Canton of Bern Swiss Cycling both Basel Liechtenstein Cyclists Association Union Cycliste Fribourgeoise Union Vélocipédique Geneveois Glarus Cycling Association

Bündner Cycling Association Cyclism Jurassic Federation Swiss Cycling Lucerne Union cycliste neuchateloise Swiss Cycling Lucerne SRB St. Gallen SRB Schaffhausen SRB Solothurn

SRB Schwyz SRB Thurgau Ticino Cycling SRB Uri Association Cycliste Cantonale Vaudoise Féderation cycliste Valaisanne SRB train SRB Zurich and RMVZOL

President

Franz Gallati, President of Swiss Cycling since 2013

1883–1885: F. Reymond, Biel 1886–1887: Karl Hofstetter, Bern 1888–1889: F. Mühlemann, Interlaken 1890-1893: Ed. Burckhardt, Basel 1894–1895: J. Bindschedler, Zurich 1896–1896: Ms. Gut, Zurich 1897: A. Gloor, Zurich 1898: Karl Krebs, Bern 1899: Franz Hermann, Bern 1900–1901: Dr. Ed. Hagenbach, Basel 1902–1903: AG Kunz, Zofingen 1904–1905: G. Pfister-Senn, Solothurn

1906–1907: A. Steiner-Siedler, Zurich 1908–1909: J. Bindschedler, Zurich 1910–1934: Willy Wichmann 1935–1938: Ernst Flury, Solothurn 1939–1954: Carl Senn, Zurich 1855–1963: Ernst Lüthi, Zurich 1964–1966: Alfred Fischer, Wohlen 1967–1971: Walter Stampfli, Zuchwil 1972–1978: Karl Graf, Zurich 1979: Walter Stampfli (interim) 1980–1989: Bruno Walliser senior, Volketswil 1990–1994: Herbert Notter, Baden

1995: Alex Frei, Fischingen (interim) 1996–1999: Hugo Steinegger, Bern 2002: Fritz Bösch, Lyss 2002–2003: Andreas Wild, Basel (interim) 2003–2005: Frank Hofer, Thun 2005–2006: Michel Savary, St. Silvester 2005–2012: Melchior Ehrler, Riniken 2012–2013: Richard Chassot, Freiburg im Üechtland from August 2013: Franz Gallati (interim), Arth since March 2014: Franz Gallati

See also

• List of Swiss records in track cycling

Web links

• Official website of Swiss Cycling

literature

• Sepp Renggli : Swiss cycling yesterday, today, tomorrow . Velo - Velo, history and stories. Silva-Verlag, Zurich 1998, ISBN 3-908487-36-6 , p. 126 (Swiss Standard German).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Peter Schnyder (Ed.): Tour de Suisse: 75 years; 1933-2008 . AS Verlag, Zurich 2008, ISBN 978-3-909111-53-4 , p. 16 .
2. ↑ Staff: Ehrler Melchior. (Short) biography. In: Official website of the Swiss Parliament. Parliamentary Services of the Swiss Federal Assembly, 2011, p. 1 , accessed on September 16, 2011 . 
3. ↑ Thomas Giger: Melchior Ehrler announces conversion of Swiss Cycling. In: website ride.ch. Swiss Sports Publishing GmbH, March 8, 2010, p. 1 , archived from the original on March 18, 2010 ; Retrieved September 16, 2011 . 
4. ↑ Richard Chassot new President of Swiss Cycling ( Memento from March 7, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) on swiss-cycling.ch v. March 3, 2012
5. ↑ Swiss Cycling Association: President Chassot resigns due to McQuaid affair on spiegel.de v. 22nd August 2013.
6. ↑ Gallati: «Together we will continue on the path we have chosen so far» on swiss-cycling.ch v. 2. September 2013
7. ↑ Franz Gallati is the new President of Swiss Cycling. Retrieved October 31, 2014 . 
8. ↑ Swiss Cycling is debt free. Swiss Cycling, March 6, 2014, accessed March 6, 2014 . 
9. ↑ Doping in Erfurt - Hondo is the next German customer (May 12, 2019)
10. ↑ After confession of doping - Swiss Cycling releases national coach Hondo with immediate effect (May 12, 2019)
11. ↑ Members: Art. 9 - Types of Membership. (PDF) Art. 9 ² - collective members. In: Statutes Swiss Cycling - SRB Swiss Cyclists Association. Swiss Cycling, April 27, 2002, p. 17 , archived from the original on August 8, 2012 ; Retrieved September 18, 2011 (182 KB). 
12. ↑ Employees: Excerpt from the Commercial Register of the Swiss Cyclists' Federation (SRB). Internet extract (not certified). (No longer available online.) In: Commercial Register of the Canton of Bern. Commercial Register Office of the Canton of Bern, September 22, 2010, p. 1 , formerly the original ; Retrieved September 18, 2011 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.