Max Hürzeler

Max Hürzeler (born July 4, 1954 in Dübendorf ) is a former Swiss cyclist who is now a book author and entrepreneur.

Career

In 1975 Max Hürzeler came fourth in the Swiss Amateurs Road Championship.

In 1981 he finished third at the UCI World Championships for amateur stayers , having recently won the national title at the championships for amateurs in standing races (on the role of Ueli Luginbühl ). Hürzeler started as an amateur for the club VC Gippingen . With the four-man he won the Swiss championship in the team pursuit in 1972 , including Xaver Kurmann in the championship team.

Then he became a professional. Three times - in 1983, 1986 and 1987 - he was (unofficial) stayer European champion. At the world championships in 1984 he won the title of vice world champion and at the world championships in 1987 in Vienna that of the world champion.
In total, he won the Swiss championship title eight times.

After the end of his cycling career in 1989, Max Hürzeler founded the company Hürzeler Bicycle Holidays , which established cycle tourism with cycle stations on Mallorca and other stations in Andalusia and the Zillertal . In the meantime he has sold the company, but still lives mainly in Mallorca.

Hürzeler re-initiated the Zurich six-day race by assuming economic responsibility.

Sporting successes

Swiss cycling champion as a stalker, in team time trial and in team pursuit
World champion in standing in 1987 in Vienna

Books

Mallorca - island of cycling - tours - scene - tips , 2007, Verlag Delius Klasing (together with Christoph Elbern), ISBN 3-7688-5250-4

Web links

Max Hürzeler in the Radsportseiten.net database

Individual evidence

^ German Cycling Association of the GDR (ed.): The cyclist . No. 36/1982 . Berlin, S. 3 .
^ German Cycling Association of the GDR (ed.): The cyclist . No. 34/1974 . Berlin, S. 3 .
↑ www.shb.ch Swiss Official Gazette of Commerce ( Memento from January 14, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 761 kB)
↑ Max, Moneten and Mallorca - How Max Hürzeler struggled to the top ( Memento from April 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive )

personal data
SURNAME	Hürzeler, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss cyclist, author and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH	20th century

[1] German Cycling Association of the GDR (ed.): The cyclist . No. 36/1982 . Berlin, S. 3 .

[2] German Cycling Association of the GDR (ed.): The cyclist . No. 34/1974 . Berlin, S. 3 .

[3] www.shb.ch Swiss Official Gazette of Commerce ( Memento from January 14, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 761 kB)

[4] Max, Moneten and Mallorca - How Max Hürzeler struggled to the top ( Memento from April 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive )