Markus Zberg

Markus Zberg (born June 27, 1974 in Altdorf UR ) is a former Swiss cyclist .

Career

Zberg became professional in 1996. After one season each with the Italian teams Carrera Jeans , Mercatone Uno and the Post Swiss team , Zberg joined the Rabobank team in 1999 . One of his greatest successes was his second place at the road world championships in Verona 1999. A year later he won the title at the Swiss road championships. He also won two stages of the Tour of Spain in 1998 as well as the one-day races from Milan to Turin in 1998 and Around the Henninger Tower in 2001, stages of the Tour de Suisse , at Tirreno-Adriatico and the Tour of Austria . From 2003 he drove for the Gerolsteiner team with his older brother Beat Zberg . In 2006, Zberg achieved his first Pro-Tour victory on the last stage of the long-distance Paris – Nice stage race . In 2008 he repeated his success at the Swiss road championships. After a fall at the Tour de l'Ain , Zberg resigned on August 14, 2009.

In the course of the investigation by the SOKO of the Vienna Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) into the case of Bernhard Kohl , who was convicted of doping after the 2008 Tour de France , Zberg was severely incriminated by Kohl, his manager Stefan Matschiner and Gernot Winterauer, Matschiner's handyman. According to their consistent statement, Winterauer handed over 24,000 international units of the EPO derivative DynEpo in spring 2008 in Rosenheim, Germany . In the partial confession made by Matschiner in 2010 in the doping process against him, Zberg was named as a buyer of illegal substances.

Markus Zberg is an athlete ambassador for the development aid organization Right to Play .