Uwe Straumann

Uwe Straumann

To person
Date of birth	October 26, 1977
nation	Switzerland
discipline	Street
Driver type	helper
To the team
Current team	End of career
function	driver
Team (s)
2000-2001	Phonak Hearing Systems
Most important successes
Third Swiss junior championships in 1999
Last updated: January 4, 2012

Uwe Straumann (born October 26, 1977 in Giebenach ) is a former Swiss cyclist .

Athletic career

He started as an amateur for the VC Wädenswil club. As a young driver, Straumann won the bronze medal in the road race of the Swiss championships in 1999. In the same year he won the Lancy criterion and then received a professional contract with the newly founded Swiss team Phonak Hearing Systems . In his first season as a professional cyclist, he achieved his first result in the top ten in eighth place on the second day of the Portuguese Grand Prix in mid-March. He then led the team at the Circuit des Mines in France at the end of April and just barely missed his first professional victory as second in the third stage. He had already finished seventh on the first part of the day. Finally he finished sixth in the overall classification of the short tour .

Straumann was also able to achieve a podium position in the following 2001 season, namely as third in the Tour of Bern behind Danilo Hondo and Roman Peter . He was also 19th in the overall ranking of the Tour de Langkawi in Malaysia and 17th on the first stage of the Tour of Denmark . Other good results did not want to set, so his contract was not renewed at the end of the year when the team strengthened with former world champion Oscar Camenzind . Straumann then ended his career as a professional cyclist.

successes

1999

• Third in the Swiss junior championships (road races)

Web links

• Uwe Straumann in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Profile of Uwe Straumann on the-sports.org

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Phonak Cycling Team (ed.): Phonak Team 2001 . Murten, S. 16 .