Florian Stalder

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Florian Stalder Road cycling
Florian Stalder at the Tour de l'Ain 2009
Florian Stalder at the Tour de l'Ain 2009
To person
Date of birth September 13, 1982
nation SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
discipline Street
Driver type Mountain riders
Societies)
2002-2003
2004 		Team Hadimec
Team Mendrisio
Team (s)
2005
2006
2007-2008
2009-2010 		Ed 'System ZVVZ
Phonak Cycling Team
Team Volksbank
BMC Racing Team
Last updated: May 28, 2011

Florian Stalder (born September 13, 1982 in Lenk ) is a former Swiss cyclist .

Career

Florian Stalder contested his first bike race, which he won straight away, at the age of 14. In 2001 Stalder became a U23 driver and took part in the World Championships in Hamilton and Verona , among others . At the GP Tell 2004 he won the points classification and was fourth in the overall classification.

In 2005 he received a contract with the Czech Ed 'System ZVVZ team. He finished seventh at the Swiss Road Championships and ninth at the Rhineland-Palatinate Tour

In 2006 Stalder signed a contract with the Swiss Phonak Cycling Team . At the Tour of Austria 2006 , Stalder took the lead in the mountain classification on the first stage , which he had to surrender the following day, and the jersey of the best sprinter, which he won. He was also used on his first three-week tour of the country, the Vuelta a España . He finished the race 73rd.

In 2007, Stalder moved to the Austrian Professional Continental Team Volksbank . When he first took part in the Tour de Suisse in 2007, he immediately won the overall classification of the AXA-Winterthur sprint classification. Stalder celebrated the greatest success in a one-day race in his still young career on September 1, 2007 when he was only thinly beaten by the Italian Alessandro Bertolini in the semi-classic Giro del Veneto and took second place. The year 2007 was the most successful of his career, as there were also ten other top ten placements. He followed up with four more places in the top ten in 2008, including at the Black Forest GP and the Bayern Tour .

In 2009, as in 2006 at Phonak, Stalder was hired again by team principal Andy Rihs , who now led the BMC Racing Team . As Domestike he helped Cadel Evans to fifth place at the Giro d'Italia 2010 .

At the end of the 2010 season he ended his career as he could not get a new contract with BMC or another team. In his last race, a criterion in Montreux , he finished fifth.

successes

2004

2005

2006

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ radsport-news.com of January 4th, 2011: Stalder ends his professional career after six years

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personal data
SURNAME Stalder, Florian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH September 13, 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH Lenk