Erwin Schweizer

Erwin Schweizer

To person
Date of birth	July 2, 1935
nation	Switzerland
discipline	Track cycling; Road cycling
Societies)
	Racing Club Seebach
Team (s)
1956–58 1959 1960	Cilo Feru-Sadexan Tigra
Most important successes
1956, 1958 : Swiss champion in the single pursuit 1957 : Swiss champion in two-man team driving, with Oskar von Büren each stage Tour de Suisse 1957 , Tour de Suisse 1959

Erwin Schweizer (born July 2, 1935 in Zurich ) is a former Swiss cyclist who was active on the track and road .

Athletic career

Schweizer began his cycling career in 1952. In 1954, by winning the Brissago road race, he was promoted to what was then the A class of amateurs in Switzerland. In 1956 Erwin became Swiss Swiss champion in the single pursuit of amateurs . Then he went over to the professionals . He competed three times in the Tour de Suisse : in 1957 he was part of the Cilo team, which won the first team time trial of the Tour with Pasquale Fornara and Raphaël Géminiani , and in 1959 he won the seventh stage.

In 1957, Schweizer and Oskar von Büren became national champions in two-man team driving , and in 1958 Swiss champions in single pursuit .

Web links

• Erwin Schweizer in the Radsportseiten.net database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Swiss Cycling Association (ed.): SRB calendar 1961 . Grenchen 1961, p. 83 .