Marcel Wyss (cyclist)

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Marcel Wyss Road cycling
Marcel Wyss 2010
Marcel Wyss 2010
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Date of birth June 25, 1986
nation SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
discipline Street
End of career 2016
Last updated: December 28, 2016

Marcel Wyss (born June 25, 1986 in Langnau im Emmental ) is a former Swiss cyclist .

Marcel Wyss became Swiss junior champion in road racing in 2004 and took second place in the time trial. In the 2006 season he won a stage in the Vuelta al Goierri . He was also the Swiss runner-up in the U23 class at the mountain championship. In 2007 and 2008 he drove for the Continental Team Atlas Romer's in-house bakery . In his first season there he finished fifth in the one-day race around the Henninger tower . In 2008 he became Swiss U23 champion in the individual time trial and on the mountain. He also finished fourth in the U23 individual time trial at the World Road Championships .

In 2012, Wyss had a benign but aggressive tumor surgically removed from behind his ribs. Two years later there was another operation for the same reason. According to his own statement, the athlete had finished competitive sport at this point, but was back on his bike after a month and a half and competed in the Tour de France .

From 2013 Wyss drove for the IAM Cycling team. When this was dissolved at the end of 2016, he ended his cycling career.

successes

2004
  • SwitzerlandSwitzerland Swiss champions - road races (juniors)
2008
  • Overall classification and prologue Flèche du Sud
  • SwitzerlandSwitzerland Swiss Champion - Individual Time Trial (U23)
  • SwitzerlandSwitzerland Swiss Champion - Mountain (U23)
2012

Grand Tour placements

Grand Tour 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016
Maglia Rosa Giro d'Italia 38 34 - - - - 40
Yellow jersey Tour de France - - - - 32 60 -
Red jersey Vuelta a España - - - - - - 21st

Teams

Web links

Commons : Marcel Wyss  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. «I don't know how many times I've fallen». In: Berner Zeitung . December 1, 2016, accessed December 28, 2016 .