Paul Köchli

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Paul Köchli (born April 22, 1947 in Basel ) is a former Swiss cyclist and sports director of road cycling teams . He then became known as a training scientist.

Life

Paul Köchli achieved his greatest success as an amateur . In 1966 he became Swiss road racing champion . At the UCI Road World Championships in 1966 at the Nürburgring , he finished 11th in the amateur road race.

A year later he turned professional . After his active career, he became the sporting director of various professional cycling teams.

In 1985 and 1986 , Köchli led the entrepreneur Bernard Tapie La Vie Claire's team to victory in the Tour de France . With Bernard Hinault and Greg LeMond , La Vie Claire was able to place first and second place finishers on the tour.

Köchli made a name for himself internationally as a renowned training scientist, which is why he is also called a bike professor . He wrote the Y + S leader manual (Y + S = youth and sport) for cycling supervisors in Switzerland and developed the PowerCoach software for cyclists.

Honors

In 1986 Paul Köchli was voted Swiss Trainer of the Year .

successes

1966
  • Swiss amateur champions - road races

Teams

  • Tigra - Grammont, 1967
  • Frimatic - Wolber - De Gribaldy (France), 1968
  • Tigra - Enicar (Switzerland), 1968
  • Tigra (Switzerland), 1969
  • Frimatic - Viva - De Gribaldy (France), 1969
  • Ovaphil - Bonanza (Switzerland), 1970
  • Frimatic - De Gribaldy (France), 1970

literature

Paul Köchli: Training planning . prov. course documents LHB Magglingen , 1980

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Association of German cyclists (ed.): Radsport . No. 35/1966 . Deutscher Sportverlag Kurt Stoof, Cologne 1966, p. 10 .
  2. ↑ Cycling4Fans.de: La Vie Claire 1985/1986: Money rules the cycling world, viewed on March 27, 2012
  3. ↑ msporting.com
personal data
SURNAME Kochli, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss cyclist, cycling trainer and sports director
DATE OF BIRTH April 22, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel