Gosta Pettersson

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Gosta Pettersson

Gösta Artur Roland Pettersson (born November 23, 1940 in Alingsås ) is a former Swedish cyclist .

Athletic career

The oldest of the Pettersson brothers had been part of the Swedish national team of amateurs since 1960 and was already in the Olympic year at the age of 19 in the road world championship at the Sachsenring in the GDR . In 1961 he came in 13th place in the Peace Tour (Course de la paix) and then contested the Tour de l'Avenir . In 1962 he finished second in the overall classification of the Tour of Tunisia and gave up prematurely on the Peace Tour . In 1964 he took overall victory in the Tour of Tunisia (ahead of later professional stars like Lucien Aimar and Walter Godefroot ), as well as in the Tour of Morocco in 1967.

Gösta Pettersson won together with his brothers Erik , Sture and Tomas at the road cycling world championships from 1967 to 1969 in the team time trial ; the quartet was known as the “ Fåglum Brothers ”, so named after the first club they started for. At the 1964 Summer Olympics , three of the four brothers won bronze together with Sven Hamrin , and Gösta Pettersson won bronze in the team time trial . At the 1968 games , all four brothers won silver together and at the World Track Championships in Montevideo that same year , three of them, together with Jupp Ripfel instead of Sture, came third in the team pursuit on the track . In the period from 1963 to 1968 he won five national titles in the team time trial, which was held in Sweden at that time in teams of three drivers and over a distance of 50 kilometers. He won the Swedish championship in the individual time trial from 1962 to 1964 and 1966, 1967 and 1969. With his three brothers, he became the first team of four in the world to achieve a time of less than two hours over the 100-kilometer route in 1968.

Pettersson's professional career began in 1970 with the Italian cycling team Ferretti , with whose support he was able to finish the Tour de Romandie as a winner. His greatest successes were third place in the 1970 Tour de France and winning the overall ranking of the Giro d'Italia in 1971 . He competed the Tour de France a second time in 1971, but had to give up prematurely. Together with his youngest brother Tomas, he demonstrated his strengths as a time trial specialist when he dominated the Trofeo Baracchi in 1970 - in 1971 they finished second and in 1972 third. In the five years of his professional career, Gösta won six other road races and narrowly missed victory in the Tour de Suisse in 1974 . At the Giro d'Italia he landed in 10th place overall and ended his active career at the age of almost 34 that same year.

Results and teams

Professional teams

1974 - Magniflex
1973 - Scic
1972 - Ferretti
1971 - Ferretti
1970 - Ferretti

amateur

1969
1968
1967
1964

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Maik Märtin: 50 years of Course de la Paix . Agency Construct, Leipzig 1998, p. 252 .
  2. ^ German Cycling Association of the GDR (ed.): The cyclist . No. 2/1970 . Berlin 1970, p. 7 .
personal data
SURNAME Pettersson, Gosta
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pettersson, Gosta Artur Roland
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH November 23, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Alingsås