Emil Beeler

Emil Beeler (born November 7, 1937 in Schänis ) is a former cyclist from Switzerland and Swiss champion in cycling .

Athletic career

Beeler began cycling in 1956. With the victory at the Habsburg Tour in 1957, he qualified for what was then the A-class for amateurs in Switzerland. In 1958 he was able to win the Lake Zurich Tour. A year later he became national champion among the amateurs. This earned him the nomination for the UCI Road World Championship , but he gave up the race. In autumn he won the Limmental Tour. He was able to repeat this victory in 1960 and also won the first time trial in Zurich . He took part in the Summer Olympics in Rome and finished 32nd in the road race. He then obtained a license as an independent in order to be able to take part in the professional drivers' races. In 1961 he interrupted his career for a year, drove a few more races in early 1962 and then retired from cycling.

Professional

Beeler completed an apprenticeship as a hairdresser.

Familiar

His son Karl was also a cyclist.

Web links

• Emil Beeler in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Emil Beeler in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Swiss Cycling Association (ed.): SRB calendar 1961 . Grenchen 1961, p. 71 .
2. ↑ Swiss Cycling Association (ed.): SRB calendar 1965 . Grenchen 1965, p. 147 .
3. ^ German Cycling Association of the GDR (ed.): The cyclist . No. 19/1987 . Berlin 1987, p. 4 .