Lucille Hunkeler

Lucille Hunkeler

To person
Date of birth	November 21, 1974
nation	Switzerland
discipline	Railway (endurance) / road
End of career	2002
Societies)
	VC Pfaffnau Bic
Last updated: September 17, 2018

Lucille Hunkeler (born November 21, 1974 in Lucerne ) is a former Italian - Swiss cyclist .

Athletic career

Lucille Hunkeler was active as a cyclist from 1991 to 2002. After finishing third at the Swiss Omnium Championship in 1991 , she became national runner-up in 1992, 1993 and 2001. In 2002 she won the championship title.

Private

From 2003, Hunkeler made headlines after abducting her son Ruben, whose father, an Italian doctor who had custody, from Italy to Switzerland and went into hiding in the summer of 2004. She then stayed with her three children in Mozambique , from where she was extradited to Italy in 2007 on the basis of an international arrest warrant. She was detained there for two months until she was released.

Successes (track cycling)

2002

• Swiss Champion - Omnium

Web links

• Lucille Hunkeler in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Lucille Hunkeler in the ProCyclingStats.com database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Lucille Hunkeler: I acted for the benefit of the child. In: news.ch. January 3, 2017, accessed September 17, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Two arrests in the Ruben case. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . November 5, 2007, accessed September 17, 2018 . 
3. ↑ Lucille Hunkeler is free. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . November 21, 2007, accessed September 17, 2018 .