Alfred Achermann

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Alfred Achermann Road cycling
To person
Date of birth 17th July 1959
nation SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
discipline Road / train
End of career 1991
Most important successes
Olympic games
1984 silver - team time trial
UCI Road World Championships
1982 silver - team time trial
Last updated: July 17, 2019

Alfred Achermann (born July 17, 1959 in Römerswil ) is a former Swiss cyclist .

Athletic career

Alfred Achermann grew up in a family with two brothers and three sisters, none of whom did sport. He attended school in Hochdorf and made the way to school by bike, which brought him to cycling. He trained as a butcher and worked daily from six to twelve o'clock in a large butcher's shop; his employer supported his sporting ambitions.

In 1982 Alfred Achermann finished second in the championship of Zurich for amateurs . In the same year he started at the road world championships at the British Goodwood Circuit with Daniel Heggli , Richard Trinkler and Urs Zimmermann in the team time trial and became vice world champion. In 1984 Achermann took part in the Olympic Games in Los Angeles and won the silver medal together with Benno Wiss , Laurent Vial and Richard Trinkler.

Achermann then switched to the professionals . In the following years he drove seven Grand Tours . In 1987 he was third in the 23rd stage of the Tour de France . In the same year he finished third at the Grand Prix Pino Cerami . In 1988 he finished second in the seventh stage of the Tour de Suisse . Several times he took places in the top ten in stages of tours. He started five times in classics and finished eighth on the Lombardy Tour in 1986 . In 1988 he had a serious crash near Paris-Roubaix in the Arenberg forest . The pictures of the bloodied Achermann went around the world. He also contested (not very successfully) races on the track ; so he competed in the Zurich six-day race .

In 1991 Alfred Achermann ended his cycling career.

Grand Tour placements

Grand Tour 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991
Golden jersey Vuelta a España - - DNF - - - -
Maglia Rosa Giro d'Italia 126 - - - - - -
Yellow jersey Tour de France - - 86 125 80 DNF 145
Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout.

Teams

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alfred Achermann -. In: Munzinger biography. Retrieved July 17, 2019 .
  2. ^ Graham Healy: The Evil Stones of Arenberg - The 1988 Paris-Roubaix. In: thebikecomesfirst.com. December 31, 2015, accessed July 17, 2019 (English, with video with Phil Liggett ).
  3. ^ M. Özgür Nevres: Alfred Achermann crashes on Paris-Roubaix cobbles. In: Cycling Passion. October 25, 2014, accessed July 17, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Achermann, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH 17th July 1959