Helmut Wechselberger (born February 12, 1953 in Jerzens ) is a former Austrian cyclist .
Career
As a late entry into cycling , he was able to celebrate many successes among amateurs as well as professionals and was able to enter himself into the winners' lists of numerous cycling races. In 1987 he drove with the Austrians Johann Lienhart , Bernhard Rassinger and Mario Traxl to third place overall in the 100 km team time trial at the UCI Road World Championships in Villach , in the road race he finished 61st place. In 1988 he won the Tour de Suisse with a lead of 1:25 minutes over Canadian Steve Bauer . At the time of this victory, Wechselberger was over 35 years old and thus the oldest winner of the Tour de Suisse (as of 2013).
As a professional, Wechselberger drove in the same era as the Swiss racing cyclists Urs Zimmermann and Tony Rominger . The multiple winner of the Tour of Austria has been working as a banker since the end of his career .
1982
Overall ranking of the Rhineland-Palatinate Tour
Overall ranking of the Tour of Austria
1983
Overall ranking Giro delle Regioni
1984
Austrian road champion
1986
Overall ranking of the Tour of Austria
1987
World Championships 100 km team time trial
Firenze – Pistoia
1988
Overall ranking Tour de Suisse
European GP Innsbruck
Web links
Individual evidence
^ German Cycling Association of the GDR (ed.): The cyclist . No. 12/1988 . Berlin 1988, p. 4 .
1947 Robert Renonce | 1948 Raymond Colliot | 1949, 1950 Richard Menapace | 1951, 1952 Franz Deutsch | 1953 François Gelhausen | 1954 Adolf Christian | 1955 Lars Nordvall | 1956 Roland Ströhm | 1957 Gunnar Wilhelm Göransson | 1958 Richard Durlacher | 1959, 1961 Stefan Mascha | 1960, 1962 René Lotz | 1963 Jan Pieterse | 1964 Edy Schütz | 1965, 1966 Hans Furian | 1967 Rini Wagtmans | 1968 Jan Krekels | 1969 Matthijs de Koning | 1970, 1974, 1977 Rudolf Mitteregger | 1971 Roman Humenberger | 1972, 1973, 1975, 1976 Wolfgang Steinmayr | 1978 Jostein Wilmann | 1979 Herbert Spindler | 1980 Geir Digerud | 1981 Gerhard Zadrobilek | 1982, 1986 Helmut Wechselberger | 1983 Kurt Zellhofer | 1984 Stefan Maurer | 1985 Olaf Jentzsch | 1987 Dmitri Konyshev | 1988, 1990 Dietmar Hauer | 1989, 1992 Valter Bonča | 1991 Roman Kreuziger | 1993, 2000 Georg Totschnig | 1994 Harald Morscher | 1995 Steffen Kjærgaard | 1996 Frank Vandenbroucke | 1997 Daniele Nardello | 1998 Beat Zberg | 1999 Maurizio Vandelli | 2001, 2004 Cadel Evans | 2002, 2003 Gerrit Glomser | 2005 Juan Miguel Mercado | 2006 - | 2007 Stijn Devolder | 2008 Thomas Rohrgger | 2009 Michael Albasini | 2010 Riccardo Riccò | 2011 Fredrik Kessiakoff | 2012 Jakob Fuglsang | 2013 Riccardo Zoidl | 2014 Peter Kennaugh | 2015 Víctor de la Parte | 2016 Jan Hirt | 2017 - | 2018, 2019 Ben Hermans
The 2006 winner, Tom Danielson , was subsequently disqualified for doping.
The 2017 winner, Stefan Denifl , was subsequently disqualified for doping.
1923 Paul Költl | 1924 Otto Cap | 1925 A. Schalander | 1926, 1927 Max Bulla (B) / F. Bösch | 1934 Richard Zumpe | 1935 Ferdinand Gatternig | 1936 Eugen Sehnalek | 1937 Karl Schmaderer | 1938 Josef Bösch | 1939 not held
1940 Karl Wölffl | 1941-45 not held
1946 Ernst Ciganek | 1947 Heinrich Schiebl | 1948 Richard Menapace | 1949, 1952 Rudolf Lauscha | 1950 Rudi Valenta (B) | 1950-51 Alfred Sitzwohl | 1951 Hermann Konsulic (B) | 1952 Alfred Kain (B) | 1953 Franz Wukitsevits | 1954, 1956 Adolf Christian | 1955 Heinz Klöckl | 1957 Richard Durlacher | 1958 Leopold Friedbacher | 1959, 1960 Kurt Postl | 1961 Walter Müller | 1962 Arnold Ruiner | 1963 Franz Weiss | 1964, 1967 Robert Csenar | 1965 Hans Furian | 1966 Christian Frisch | 1968 Franz Inthaler | 1969, 1970 Georg Postl | 1971, 1974 Siegfried Denk | 1972 Herbert Füzi | 1973 Kurt Schattelbauer | 1975 Ludwig Kretz | 1976, 1978 Herbert Spindler | 1977 Hans Summer | 1979 Manfred Horvath | 1980, 1982 Peter Muckenhuber | 1983 Johann Lienhart | 1984 Helmut Wechselberger | 1985 Bernhard Rassinger | 1986 Paul Popp | 1987 Arno Wohlfahrter | 1988 Albert Hainz | 1989, 1994 Mario Traxl | 1990 Heinz Hechenberger | 1991 Armin Purner | 1992 Richard Schmied | 1993 Peter Luttenberger | 1995, 1998 Josef Lontscharitsch | 1996 Heinz Marchel | 1997, 2003 Georg Totschnig | 1999 Hannes Hempel | 2000 Werner Riebenbauer | 2001 Jürgen Pauritsch | 2002 René Haselbacher | 2004 Harald Morscher | 2005 Gerrit Glomser | 2006 Bernhard Kohl | 2007, 2008 Christian Pfannberger | 2009 Markus Eibegger | 2010 Harald Starzengruber | 2011 Matthias Krizek | 2012, 2018 Lukas Pöstlberger | 2013, 2014 Riccardo Zoidl | 2015 Marco Haller | 2016 Matthias Brändle | 2017 Gregor Mühlberger | 2019 Patrick Konrad | 2020 Valentin Götzinger
(B) = professional driver
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