Franco Marvulli

Franco Marvulli

Franco Marvulli (2011)
To person
Date of birth	November 11, 1978
nation	Switzerland
discipline	train
End of career	2014
Most important successes
Olympic games - Two-man team driving 2004 UCI track world championships - Scratch 2002, 2003 - Two-man team driving 2003, 2007
Last updated: January 31, 2018

Franco Marvulli at the six-day race in Zurich (2009)

Franco Marvulli as speaker at the UEC European Rail Championships 2015

Franco Marvulli (born November 11, 1978 in Seebach (City of Zurich) ) is a former Swiss cyclist . In 2014 he ended his sporting career and has been working as a moderator , speaker and organizer since then.

Athletic career

As a child, Franco Marvulli tried out several sports such as judo , water polo , table tennis and football . After a back injury, he had to give up playing football and turned to cycling. He did the first laps on a cycling track on the RV Höngg track and later on the Zurich-Oerlikon open track .

In 1997, Marvulli was on the podium for the first time in Swiss championships, in the points race on the track and in the team time trial on the road, each with a third place . The following year he won a Swiss championship title (in the single pursuit ) in the elite class for the first time and started for the first time in the Berlin six-day race , in a future race. In this discipline he was also European champion in 1998 and 1999. In the following years he established himself mainly in the disciplines of points racing, two-man team driving (Madison) and scratch .

By 2013 Franco Marvulli was four times world champion, five times European champion and at least 29 times Swiss champion.

Marvulli took part in the Olympic Games three times . In 2000 he was 15th in the single pursuit and in 2008 he was eleven in the two-man team race with Bruno Risi . At the 2004 Games in Athens , he and Risi won the silver medal in a two-man team.

In November 2013, Marvulli, who was a “crowd favorite” because of his relaxed manner, announced that the upcoming six-day season 2013/2014 would be his last. The last race he contested was the six-day race in Berlin in January 2014.

Professional

Since the end of his career, Franco Marvulli has worked as a moderator, speaker and organizer. In 2015 he founded his own company Go On Projects .

Marvulli was a co-speaker at the last Sixday Nights in Zurich in 2014. From September 2015 he moderated the program Simply healthy on Sat 1 Switzerland . In October 2015 he was a moderator at the UEC European Rail Championships in Grenchen , and a few weeks later at the Swiss Cycling Awards ceremony . On April 30, 2016, he won the first edition of the "Lipsync Battle" (a karaoke show) Hello Again on the SRF .
On January 1, 2020, he moderated the Zurich New Year's Marathon together with Simone Honegger (radio presenter and runner) and Alain Helfenstein ( Ironman triathlete and speaker) .

In addition, Franco Marvulli is committed to charitable projects such as “Velafrica”, “Schweiz.bewegt” and “Pink Ribbon”.

Honors

In March 2014, Franco Marvulli was made an honorary member of the Swiss Cycling Association.

Most important successes

Track championships

1998

• Swiss Champion - Individual Pursuit

1999

• Swiss champions - single pursuit, points race, 1000 meter time trial

2000

• Swiss Champion - Individual Pursuit

2001

• European Champion - Omnium
• Swiss champions - 1000 meter time trial

2002

• World Champion - Scratch
• European Champion - Omnium
• Swiss Champion - Individual Pursuit
• Swiss Champion - Individual Pursuit

2003

• World Champion - Scratch, two-man team driving (with Bruno Risi )
• Swiss champions - individual pursuit, team pursuit (with Alexander Aeschbach , Marcel Dunkel and Markus Kammermann )
• European Champion - Omnium

2004

• Olympic Games - two-man team driving (with Bruno Risi )
• UCI Track World Championships 2004 - two-man team driving (with Bruno Risi )
• European champions - two-man team driving (with Alexander Aeschbach )
• Swiss Champion - Individual Pursuit

2005

• Swiss champions - single chase, points race, scratch

2006

• European champions - two-man team driving (with Bruno Risi )
• Swiss champions - single pursuit, scratch, two-man team driving (with Bruno Risi )

2007

• World Champion - two-man team driving (with Bruno Risi )
• Swiss champions - two-man team driving (with Bruno Risi )

2008

• Swiss champions - single pursuit, scratch, two-man team driving (with Dominique Stark ), team pursuit (with Alexander Aeschbach , Dominique Stark and Bernhard Oberholzer )

2009

• Swiss champions - individual pursuit, points race, team pursuit (with Alexander Aeschbach , Bernhard Oberholzer and Claudio Imhof )

2010

• Swiss champions - points race, scratch, two-man team race (with Loïc Perizzolo )

2011

• Swiss Champion - Individual Pursuit

2012

• Swiss Champion - Omnium (Sprint)

Six days race

2001 : Grenoble (with Alexander Aeschbach )

2003 : Grenoble, Moscow (with Alexander Aeschbach )

2004 : Grenoble (with Alexander Aeschbach )

2005 : Stuttgart (with Bruno Risi and Kurt Betschart )

2006 : Zurich , Maastricht (with Bruno Risi ), Grenoble with (with Alexander Aeschbach ), Aguascalientes (Mexico) with ( Luis Fernando Macias ), Fiorenzuola d'Arda (with Marco Villa )

2007 : Dortmund , Copenhagen, Munich, Fiorenzuola, Zuidlaren , Zurich , Hasselt (with Bruno Risi ), Stuttgart (with Bruno Risi and Alexander Aeschbach )

2008 : Copenhagen , Berlin , Hasselt, Turin , Fiorenzuola d'Arda, Zurich (with Bruno Risi )

2009 : Zurich and Munich (with Bruno Risi ), Tilburg (with Tristan Marguet ), Fiorenzuola d'Arda (with Alexander Aeschbach ), Grenoble (with Luke Roberts )

2010 : Bremen (with Bruno Risi ), Grenoble (with Alexander Aeschbach )

2011 : Zurich (with Iljo Keisse )

2012 : Fiorenzuola d'Arda (with Tristan Marguet )

2013 : Bremen (with Marcel Kalz )

Street

2005

• Prologue and three stages Vuelta a El Salvador

Web links

Commons : Franco Marvulli  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Franco Marvulli in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Franco Marvulli in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Franco Marvulli's company website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} "Six days is like playing Lego". In: tagesspiegel.de . January 28, 2014, accessed December 18, 2015 . 
2. ↑ Radstar Marvulli has two rooms full of Lego bricks. Berliner Morgenpost, January 25, 2014, accessed on January 25, 2014 . 
3. ↑ goonprojects - Franco Marvulli go on projects. In: goonprojects.com. August 20, 2015, accessed December 17, 2015 . 
4. ↑ News from the Organizing Committee. (No longer available online.) Sixdays Zurich, September 24, 2014, archived from the original on December 17, 2014 ; Retrieved November 28, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ↑ Franco Marvulli knows how to make yourself happy. In: Aargauer Zeitung . May 27, 2015, accessed August 26, 2015 . 
6. ↑ The New Year's half marathon in Zurich is fully booked (December 26, 2019)
7. ↑ Franz Gallati is the new President of Swiss Cycling. (No longer available online.) Swiss Cycling, March 24, 2014, archived from the original on September 24, 2015 ; accessed on March 24, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.