Gottfried Weilenmann
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Nickname | Göpf |
Date of birth | March 29, 1920 |
date of death | November 8, 2018 |
nation | Switzerland |
discipline | Street |
End of career | 1953 |
Most important successes | |
Last updated: November 16, 2018 |
Gottfried (Göpf) Weilenmann (born March 29, 1920 in Amriswil ; † November 8, 2018 in Lugano ) was a Swiss cyclist .
Athletic career
As an amateur , Gottfried Weilenmann became the Swiss road racing champion in his class. He won the championship in team pursuit on the track three times in 1942–1944. In 1945 he became a professional. In 1949 he decided to take part in the Tour de Suisse after it became known that the two Swiss stars Hugo Koblet and Ferdy Kübler would not take part. He finished the tour nine seconds ahead of the winner, although he hadn't won a single stage. In 1952 he won the silver medal at the road world championships in Luxembourg and became national road racing champion.
Weilenmann started seven times in the Tour de France and Giro d'Italia ; his best finish was twelfth on the Tour in 1952 . He competed seven times in the Tour de Suisse. In 1953 he ended his sporting career.
Gottfried Weilenmann was the older brother of the racing cyclist Leo Weilenmann . He died in 2018 at the age of 98 in a retirement home in Lugano.
Professional
After finishing his sporting career, Weilenmann moved to Lugano and took over the general agency for a bicycle and motorcycle company in Switzerland.
successes
- 1942
- 1944
- Championship of Zurich (amateurs)
- 1952
- Swiss champion in road racing
- World championship in road racing
Grand Tour placements
Grand Tour | 1947 | 1948 | 1949 | 1950 | 1951 | 1952 |
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Vuelta a España | ||||||
Giro d'Italia | - | - | - | 45 | - | 39 |
Tour de France | 17th | - | 40 | 50 | 50 | 12 |
literature
- Tour de Suisse. 75 years 1933-2008 . AS Verlag, Zurich 2008. ISBN 978-3-909111-53-4
Web links
- Gottfried Weilenmann in the ProCyclingStats.com database
- Gottfried Weilenmann in the Radsportseiten.net database
- Gottfried Weilenmann in the Tour de France database(French / English )
- Obituary in the NZZ on Sunday 25 November 2018, p. 25.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Gottfried Weilenmann has died. In: Swiss Cycling. November 14, 2018, accessed November 15, 2018 .
- ↑ Benjamin Steffen: A piece of homeland love. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . June 18, 2011, accessed November 16, 2018 .
- ^ Association of German cyclists (ed.): Radsport . No. 4/1953 . German sports publisher Kurt Stoof, Cologne, p. 10 .
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SURNAME | Weilenmann, Gottfried |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Weilenmann, Göpf (nickname) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss cyclist |
DATE OF BIRTH | March 29, 1920 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Amriswil |
DATE OF DEATH | November 8, 2018 |
Place of death | Lugano |