René Savary (cyclist)

René Savary (born October 12, 1949 in Oberriet ) is a former Swiss cyclist and today's cycling trainer.

As an amateur , he won one of the most renowned German road races in 1970, the Ernst Sachs Memorial Race in Schweinfurt . René Savary was Swiss champion six times between 1971 and 1978: 1971 and 1972 in the points race , 1975 in the Omnium and in 1976, 1977 and 1978 in the stand-up race . In 1976 and 1977 he was runner-up European champion of the stayers. In 1972 he won the Klingnau Reservoir Tour , and in 1976 the Tour of Northern Switzerland . He competed twice in the Tour de Suisse , winning the fifth stage in 1976 and the second in 1979 . At the International Vitamalz Tour 1979 , a predecessor of the Germany Tour, he won the second stage as a guest rider on the German Kondor cycling team . Savary started as a professional driver from November 1972 until the end of his career .

Savary started in 89 six-day races ; In 1978 he won that from Zurich , together with René Pijnen .

In 1982 René Savary ended his active cycling career and has been working as a trainer ever since, initially as the Swiss national trainer and head of delegation at the UCI road world championships and the Olympic Games . He then built up various fitness and training centers and worked in sports consulting. From 2001 to 2006 he was sporting director with the Phonak Cycling Team and in 2010 with the BMC Racing Team . From 2005 to 2011 he was again the national coach of the Swiss professional cyclists and has been the national coach of hand bikers since 2011 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Association of German cyclists (ed.): Radsport . No. 26/1970 . Deutscher Sportverlag Kurt Stoof, Cologne 1970, p. 3 .
2. ↑ Roger de Maertelaere: Mannen van de night , Eeklo, 2000, p 242
3. ↑ Swiss Cycling and René Savary split up on live-radsport.ch
4. ↑ René Savary is the new national coach at spv.ch

Web links

• René Savary in the Radsportseiten.net database