Championship of Zurich

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Logo of the race

The championship of Zurich (meanwhile GP Suisse ), also called Züri Metzgete , was a Swiss one-day race in road cycling . The popular name Züri-Metzgete (for example: Zurich slaughter festival) is an allusion to the harsh conditions that the cyclists initially had to struggle with, as well as the serious mass falls with numerous open wounds.

history

The origins of the championship go back to 1910. The start and finish of the first race over 50 kilometers was in Schwamendingen . The first winner was Paul Suter . The competition was held regularly from 1917 after the RC Westfalen Zürich merged with the Cycling Union Zürich and the Racing Club to form the Cycling Club Zürich (RVZ).

The race first took place in Zurich in early May and then annually in August until 2004 , but due to the redesign of the UCI's racing calendar , it was held in early October since 2005. Until 2004, the race was part of the ten races in the Cycling World Cup . After its end, in 2005 and 2006 it belonged to the newly introduced UCI ProTour , a series of the most important cycling races of the year organized by the UCI until 2010.

In April 2007 it became known that the organizers could not win enough sponsors to cover the budget of 1.2 million Swiss francs, which is why the race did not take place in October 2007. The race has been held as an amateur and popular event since 2008 and is called EKZ Züri Metzgete resp. EKZ Volksmetzgete . On September 5, 2014, the race took place for the last time under the motto “100 years of Züri-Metzgete”.

The record winner is the Swiss Heiri Suter , who won the Metzgete six times between 1919 and 1929.

route

The Zurich championship was held on different routes during the various events. Initially, the Sihlquai was the start and finish area. At the end of the 1950s, the start and finish line moved to Hardturmstrasse at the GC football stadium. The finish line was later in Neu-Affoltern. The routes initially led through the Zurich Oberland with additional laps. Later, a 48 km loop ran in the Zurich Unterland. After 1999, a circuit of 72.5 kilometers and subsequent four laps of 42 kilometers in the Zurich area with a total of 3318 meters of altitude was driven.

After a year of interruption and a new start in 2008 as EKZ Züri Metzgete , the race with start / finish in Buchs / ZH will be held on a 49 km long course in the Zürcher Unterland, with the «Siglistorfer» and the «Regensberger» the two during Contains gradients traveled over decades. The handicap race of the amateurs / elite leads over three laps , the EKZ Volksmetzgete over two laps.

winner

2014 Fabian Lienhard 2013 Costa Seibeb 2012 Sébastien Reichenbach 2011 Bernhard Oberholzer 2010 Pirmin Lang 2009 Stefan Trafelet 2008 Nico Keinath 2007 canceled 2006 Samuel Sánchez 2005 Paolo Bettini 2004 Juan Antonio Flecha 2003 Daniele Nardello 2002 Dario Frigo 2001 Paolo Bettini 2000 Laurent Dufaux 1999 Grzegorz Gwiazdowski 1998 Michele Bartoli 1997 Davide rebel 1996 Andrea Ferrigato 1995 Johan Museeuw 1994 Gianluca Bortolami 1993 Maurizio Fondriest 1992 W. Ekimov  1991 Johan Museeuw 1990 Charly Mottet 1989 Steve Bauer 1988 Steven Rooks 1987 Rolf Gölz  1986 Acácio da Silva 1985 Ludo Peeters 1984 Phil Anderson 1983 Johan van der Velde

1982 Adrie van der Poel 1981 Beat Breu 1980 Gery Verlinden 1979 Giuseppe Saronni 1978 Dietrich Thurau  1977 Francesco Moser 1976 Freddy Maertens 1975 Roger De Vlaeminck 1974 Walter Godefroot 1973 André Dierickx 1972 Willy Van Neste 1971 Herman Van Springel 1970 Walter Godefroot 1969 Roger Swerts 1968 Franco Bitossi 1967 Robert Hagmann 1966 Italo Ziloli 1965 Franco Bitossi 1964 Guido Reybrouck 1963 Franco Balmamion 1962 Jan Janssen 1961 Rolf Maurer 1960 Fredy Rüegg 1959 Angelo Conterno 1958 Giuseppe Cainero 1957 Hennes Junkermann  1956 Carlo Clerici 1955 Max Schellenberg 1954 Hugo Koblet 1953 Eugen Kamber 1952 Hugo Koblet 1951 Jean Brun 1950 Fritz Schär 1949 Fritz Schär

1948 Gino Bartali 1947 Charles Guyot 1946 Gino Bartali 1945 Leo Weilenmann 1944 Ernst Näf 1943 Paul Egli 1942 Walter Diggelmann 1941 Walter Diggelmann 1940 Robert Zimmermann 1939 Karl Litschi 1938 Hans Martin 1937 Leo Amberg 1936 Werner Buchwalder 1935 Paul Egli 1934 Paul Egli 1933 Walter Blattmann 1932 August Erne 1931 Max Bulla 1930 Omer tavern 1929 Heiri Suter 1928 Heiri Suter 1927 Castor Notter 1926 Albert Blattmann 1925 Hans Kaspar 1924 Heiri Suter 1923 Adolf Huschke  1922 Heiri Suter 1921 Ricardo Maffeo 1920 Heiri Suter 1919 Heiri Suter 1918 Anton Winner 1917 Charles Martinet 1915-1916 not held 1914 Henri Rheinwald

See also

• Classic (cycling)

Web links

• Official website
• Championship of Zurich in the database of ProCyclingStats.com
• The elite race in the Radsportseiten.net database
• The women's race in the Radsportseiten.net database
• The amateur race in the database of Radsportseiten.net

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} The history of the Züri Metzgete. zueri-metzgete.ch, accessed on April 30, 2017 . 
2. ↑ Rejection: «Züri Metzgete» is canceled. rad-net.de, April 4, 2015, accessed April 4, 2015 .