Daniel Gisiger

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Daniel Gisiger Road cycling
Daniel Gisiger (2011)
Daniel Gisiger (2011)
To person
Date of birth October 9, 1954
nation SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
discipline Train / street
To the team
Current team End of career
Societies)
-1977 Olympia Biel
Most important successes
UCI track world championships
1977 bronze - Individual pursuit, team pursuit
Giro d'Italia
1985 - one stage
1981 - one stage
Last updated: December 14, 2019

Daniel Gisiger (born October 9, 1954 in Baccarat , France ) is a Swiss cycling trainer and former racing cyclist .

Athletic career

At the UCI Track World Championships in 1977 in San Cristóbal , Daniel Gisiger won two third places, in the single and team pursuit of the amateurs (with Walter Baumgartner , Hans Känel and Robert Dill-Bundi ). As an amateur he started for the Olympia Biel club.

In the same year he became a professional, started in the six-day race in Zurich and finished second with René Pijnen . Four times - in 1975, 1976, 1977 and 1987 - he was Swiss champion in the points race . In 1977 he set the hour record for amateurs in the Zurich Hallenstadion with 46.745 km / h .

Gisiger was an excellent time trial. As such, he won mainly time trial competitions, such as the Trofeo Baracchi three times in a row , 1981 with Serge Demierre , 1982 with Roberto Visentini and 1983 with Silvano Contini ; 1981 and 1983 the Grand Prix des Nations and numerous other small races. He won two stages of the Giro d'Italia and once each of the Tour de Suisse and the Tour de Romandie , and in 1981 the Trofeo Masferrer . At the Tour of Germany in 1981 he won the mountain classification, in 1987 at the Giro del Lago Maggiore .

Daniel Gisiger started in a total of 40 six-day races, six of which he won. He won four times in Zurich alone (1983, 1984 and 1986 with Urs Freuler and 1988 with Jörg Müller ).

After the end of his career, Gisiger confessed to doping with anabolic steroids and cortisone .

Professional

After finishing his active cycling career, Gisiger, who speaks four languages ​​fluently, completed a trainer training in France and worked as an association trainer in New Caledonia , the country of his wife's birth. He then worked as a trainer in the Center Mondial du Cyclisme of the World Cycling Association Union Cycliste Internationale in Aigle , but the collaboration ended in a dispute. Gisiger has been the national trainer for the Swiss rail team since 2007. Under his aegis, the Swiss track four won the silver medal at the UEC Track European Championships in 2015 , and in the same year the driver Stefan Küng became world champion in the single pursuit .

successes

train

1975
  • MaillotSuiza.svg Swiss champions - points race
  • MaillotSuiza.svg Swiss champions - team pursuit
1976
  • MaillotSuiza.svg Swiss champions - points race
1977
1982
1983
1984
1986
1987
  • MaillotSuiza.svg Swiss champions - points race
1988

Street

1977
1978
1981
1982
1983
1985
1987

Grand Tour placements

Grand Tour 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988
Golden jersey Vuelta a España - - - - - - - - - - -
Maglia Rosa Giro d'Italia - - - 74 61 74 84 66 102 - 92
Yellow jersey Tour de France 75 - - - - - - - - - -

Web links

Commons : Daniel Gisiger  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ German Cycling Association of the GDR (ed.): The cyclist . No. 34/1974 . Berlin, S. 3 .
  2. ↑ a b Elmar Wagner: figure of light against the downfall. September 24, 2006, accessed January 18, 2017 .
  3. ↑ a b view: Gisig's new bicycle national trainer. In: blick.ch. January 3, 2012, accessed January 18, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Gisiger, Daniel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH October 9, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Baccarat , France