Gottlieb Wanzenried

Gottlieb Wanzenried as a member of the Swiss team in the Tour de France 1932 (4th from right)

Gottlieb "Türel" Wanzenried (born September 2, 1906 in Bern , † June 24, 1993 in Zurich ) was a Swiss cyclist .

In 1928 Wanzenried started the road race at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam , finished 33rd in the individual ranking and sixth in the team ranking with Gottlieb Amstein and Jakob Caironi . In the same year he was an amateur tenth in the road world championships and third in the championship of Zurich ; In 1931 he won this race.

In 1932 Wanzenried went over to the professionals and took second place on the Northwestern Switzerland Tour . In 1932 he started for the first and only time in the Tour de France . He fell badly during the fourth stage, so that he could only spend the night sitting. On the next stage, he fell again because he collided with a pedestrian, and later again in a tunnel. Nevertheless, he finished the stage, but then gave up after the 19th stage.

During training on the cycling track at the Buffalo Stadium in Paris the following year, Wanzenried met the successful Belgian stayer and four-time world champion Victor Linart . This introduced him to pacemaker Ernest Pasquier , with whom Wanzenried trained for stalker races in the coming period. In 1934 (behind Georges Grolimund ) and 1937 (behind Maurice Jubi ) he became Swiss champion in the stalker race . In 1939 he took part in the Tour de Suisse , but did not finish.

After retiring from cycling, Wanzenried opened a bicycle shop in Zurich-Oerlikon and for a short time tried himself as a pacemaker.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Peter Schnyder (Ed.): 100 years of fascination with cycling - Oerlikon race track. AS Verlag, Zurich 2012, ISBN 978-3-909111-95-4 , p. 83

Web links

• Gottlieb Wanzenried in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Gottlieb Wanzenried in the Tour de France database(French / English )
• Gottlieb Wanzenried in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )