Roland Zoeffel

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Roland Zoeffel Road cycling
To person
Date of birth August 18, 1938
nation Switzerland
discipline Track cycling; Road cycling
Team (s)
1963-65
1966
1967 		Cynar
Tigra-Meltina
Zimba
Most important successes

1961 : Swiss champion in team pursuit with the Zurich cycling club (with Jean Brun , Werner Rezzonico and Fritz Schäppi )
1962 : Swiss champion in single pursuit (amateurs)
1963, 1964 : Swiss champion in single pursuit (professionals)

Roland Zöffel (born August 18, 1938 in St. Margrethen ) is a former Swiss cyclist .

Athletic career

Zöffel began his career in 1955 and in 1958 he qualified for what was then the A-class for amateurs in Switzerland by winning the Yverdon road race . In 1959 he was able to make a name for himself internationally for the first time with two stage wins in the Berlin stage trip . Nationally, he won his first championship title in the team time trial with the RV Zurich club. In 1960 Roland Zöffel started in the 100-kilometer team time trial at the Olympic Games in Rome . The Swiss team with Zöffel, Erwin Jaisli , René Rutschmann and Hubert Bächli finished ninth. He then started at the UCI Road World Championships in the team time trial. In 1961 he became Swiss champion in team pursuit with the team of the Zurich Cyclists' Association ; the following year he won the national title in the amateur singles pursuit . From 1962 to 1967 he was a professional in Italian and Swiss teams and during these years he became Swiss champion in the singles pursuit twice - in 1963 and 1964. In 1965 he started the Tour de France , but gave up. He contested the domestic Tour de Suisse once, in 1966 he finished 18th in the final classification.

Professional

Zöffel completed an apprenticeship as a pastry chef.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Swiss Cycling Association (ed.): SRB calendar 1965 . Grenchen 1965, p. 145 .

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personal data
SURNAME Zöffel, Roland
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH August 18, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Margrethen