Gottfried Weilenmann

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Gottfried Weilenmann Road cycling
To person
Nickname Göpf
Date of birth March 29, 1920
date of death November 8, 2018
nation SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
discipline Street
End of career 1953
Most important successes
UCI Road World Championships
1952 silver - road racing
Last updated: November 16, 2018
Weilenmann's winning bike of the Tour de Suisse 1949 in the Swiss Museum of Transport

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
  • MaillotSuiza.svg Swiss road racing champions (amateurs)
1944
1952

Grand Tour placements

Grand Tour 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952
White jersey with an orange stripe on the chest Vuelta a España
Maglia Rosa Giro d'Italia - - - 45 - 39
Yellow jersey Tour de France 17th - 40 50 50 12

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b Gottfried Weilenmann has died. In: Swiss Cycling. November 14, 2018, accessed November 15, 2018 .
  2. Benjamin Steffen: A piece of homeland love. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . June 18, 2011, accessed November 16, 2018 .
  3. ^ Association of German cyclists (ed.): Radsport . No. 4/1953 . German sports publisher Kurt Stoof, Cologne, p. 10 .