Robert Dill-Bundi

Robert Dill-Bundi medal table
Cyclist
Switzerland
Olympic Summer Games
gold	1980 Moscow	One's pursuit
Track cycling world championships
bronze	1977 San Cristóbal	Team pursuit
bronze	1978 Munich	Team pursuit
silver	1983 Zurich	One's pursuit
gold	1984 Barcelona	Keirin

Robert Dill-Bundi (born November 18, 1958 in Chippis ) is a former Swiss cyclist who was mainly successful in track cycling . He was once Olympic champion in the singles pursuit and world champion in keirin . He is the only Swiss track cyclist to date to become an Olympic champion.

biography

Internationally, Dill-Bundi first drew attention to himself in 1975 when he was the junior world champion in the singles pursuit at the UCI Junior World Championships, which were held for the first time in Lausanne . He repeated this success the following year. In the team pursuit , he won a bronze medal at the 1977 and 1978 world championships. He celebrated his greatest success at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow by winning the single pursuit. He caused a sensation in particular with the world's first tailor-made racing suit in one piece and with an aerodynamically shaped bicycle helmet that he had borrowed from a Czech driver. Because of this achievement, he was voted Swiss Sportsman of the Year . From 1978 to 1983 he won the national championship in the singles pursuit every year. In addition, there were further titles in the 1000-meter time trial in 1982 and in the points race in 1983. He was also successful on the road, winning the national title in the team time trial with VC Binningen in 1979 .

After the Olympic victory, Dill-Bundi switched to the professionals . He continued to mainly contest track races, but was also able to celebrate individual successes as a road driver. He won a stage of the Giro d'Italia in 1982 and the prologue of the Tour de Romandie in 1983. At the 1983 World Cup, he was second in the single pursuit, a year later world champion in the Keirin discipline .

Professional

Due to a lack of success, he resigned from top-class sport in 1988 and worked as a representative for various sponsors. Since 2002 he has been responsible for the public relations of the cycling hall at the headquarters of the World Cycling Association UCI in Aigle . In 2006 he was diagnosed with a brain tumor after an epileptic attack . In May 2010 he was successfully operated on.

Trivia

In the summer of 2013 he caused a pile- up in Aigle , in which seven people were injured, some seriously. He is said to have driven at a speed of 220 km / h . Dill-Bundi claimed to have passed out. In mid-December 2015 he was sentenced to a conditional fine for grossly negligent bodily harm and gross violation of traffic rules. Shortly before the procedure, he had had a heart attack.

successes

• 1975 and 1976 junior world champion single pursuit
• Olympic Games 1976: 14th place single pursuit
• Track Cycling World Championships 1977: bronze medal team pursuit
• Track Cycling World Championship 1978: bronze medal team pursuit
• Olympic Games 1980: Gold medal single pursuit, 8th place team pursuit
• Track Cycling World Championships 1983: Silver medal single pursuit
• Six-day race Zurich: Winner 1982 (with Urs Freuler )
• Winner 20th stage Giro d'Italia 1982
• Winner of the prologue Tour de Romandie 1983
• Track Cycling World Championships 1984: Keirin gold medal

Honors

In 1980 Robert Dill-Bundi was voted Swiss Sportsman of the Year .

Web links

• Robert Dill-Bundi in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Robert Dill-Bundi in the Radsportseiten.net database

Individual evidence

1. ^ German Cycling Association of the GDR (ed.): The cyclist . No. 33/1979 . Berlin 1979, p. 3 .
2. ↑ "The pensais à l'adversaire, pas au titre olympique" - Le Nouvelliste , 29. July 2008
3. ↑ In the claws of the brain tumor - Blick , September 19, 2006
4. ↑ Radsportseiten.net
5. ↑ ^{a b In court} because of a blackout accident: Ex-professional cyclist Dill-Bundi crashed at 220 km / h. In: look. December 10, 2015, accessed January 17, 2016 . 
6. ↑ Www.rro.ch, Rro, Radio Rottu Oberwallis: Vevey: Verdict for Robert Dill-Bundi. In: rro.ch. Retrieved January 17, 2016 .