Stefan Richner

Stefan Richner

To person
Date of birth	June 15, 1974
nation	Switzerland
discipline	Street
Driver type	climber
To the team
Current team	End of career
function	driver
Societies)
	Kästle Radio Argovia
Team (s)
2000-2001 2002	Phonak Hearing Systems LTA-Quattro Logistics
Most important successes
Swiss mountain champion 1998, 1999
Last updated: January 5, 2012

Stefan Richner (born June 15, 1974 in Hägglingen ) is a former Swiss cyclist .

Career

As an amateur (he was a member of the VMC Wohlen association), Richner was able to celebrate some successes, including the Swiss Mountain Championship in 1998, which he was able to defend the following year. At the race Martigny-Mauvoisin he finished second in 1996 before he could the win three years later here. At Sierre-Loye in 1999 he also celebrated first place two seasons after his second place. In addition to these victories, he reached second place at Chur-Arosa in 1998 and, in his most successful amateur time in 1999, won the mountain championship, Martigny-Mauvoisin and Sierre-Loye as well as the Silenen-Amsteg-Bristen competition . He had already become a mountain champion in Aargau in 1995.

After these successes, Richner received his first professional contract in 2000 with the newly founded Swiss team Phonak Hearing Systems . On March 12th, with his first place in the mountain time trial of the Giro della Svizzera Meridionale , where he was also fourth overall, he ensured the team's first ever victory in Curogna . He was also able to defend his title at Sierre-Loye this season , while he won bronze in the mountain championship behind Daniel Schnider and Steve Zampieri . He achieved another podium finish on the second stage of the A Travers Lausanne race . At the Grand Prix de Lausanne he finished eighth. In 2001 Richner managed only one win of the season, at Chur-Arosa . Again he won the bronze medal behind Zampieri and David Ruckstuhl at the Swiss mountain championship in Haut-de-Caux . He also came third at Niederbipp-Schwengimatt .

For the 2002 season, Richner switched to the German formation LTA-Quattro Logistics . He won the Hasle-Heiligkreuz mountain time trial and repeated his third place from last year at Niederbipp-Schwengimatt . At the end of 2002 he ended his career as a professional cyclist.

successes

1995

• Aargauer Bergmeister

1998

• Swiss mountain champion

1999

• Swiss mountain champion

2000

• Winner mountain time trial Giro della Svizzera Merdidoniale
• Third Swiss mountain championships

2001

• Third Swiss mountain championships

2002

Web links

• Stefan Richner in the Radsportseiten.net database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Phonak Cycling Team (ed.): Phonak Team 2001 . Murten 2001, p. 16 .
2. ↑ Report on velomedia.ch