Walter Bucher

Walter Bucher, 1959

Walter Bucher (born June 8, 1926 in Zurich ) is a former Swiss cyclist .

Athletic career

As an amateur , Bucher came out on top with many victories in criteria , in 1949 and 1950 he was the best amateur in the Swiss annual ranking. He started for the RV Höngg club. In the fall of 1950 he made his debut as a professional driver in a track race in Zurich. In 1959, Walter Bucher took second place in the Zurich championship for amateurs. The following year he turned professional and concentrated on track cycling . Five times - in 1955, 1957, 1958, 1959 and 1960 - he was Swiss champion of the stayers . At the UCI Track World Championships in Paris in 1958 , he won the world champion title for professional stayers, having finished second in Milan in 1955 and in 1957 and third place in 1956 . In 1959 he became vice world champion again. After falling on the track in Oerlikon, he ended his career as a stalker.

Bucher was also a successful six-day driver : he started in a total of 66, of which he won eleven, most of them together with Jean Roth .

In 1961, Walter was unable to compete in front of a home crowd at the 1961 UCI Track World Championships in Zurich because he had been seriously injured in a fall shortly before. In the following year he drove a few more track races and ended his racing career.

Professional

His learned profession was a machine fitter . In 1962 he founded a shipping company . Due to a serious accident at work, he had to retire early in 1992. For several years he was active as the sporting director of the cycling team, including the Zimba-GBC team .

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Swiss Cycling Association (ed.): SRB calendar 1965 . Grenchen 1965, p. 159 .
↑ Chronicle. In: rvhoengg.ch. Retrieved January 22, 2020 .
↑ Roger De Maertelaere: De Mannen van de night. 100 years of zesdaagsen . De Eecloonaar, Eeklo 2000, ISBN 90-74128-67-X , p. 195
↑ Peter Schnyder (Ed.): 100 years of fascination with cycling - Oerlikon race track. AS Verlag, Zurich 2012, ISBN 978-3909111954 , p. 96
^ Association of German cyclists (ed.): Radsport . No. 8/1970 . Deutscher Sportverlag Kurt Stoof, Cologne 1970, p. 8 .

Web links

Walter Bucher in the Radsportseiten.net database

personal data
SURNAME	Bucher, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH	June 8, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH	Zurich

[:0-1] Swiss Cycling Association (ed.): SRB calendar 1965 . Grenchen 1965, p. 159 .

[rvhoengg-31000-2] Chronicle. In: rvhoengg.ch. Retrieved January 22, 2020 .

[3] Roger De Maertelaere: De Mannen van de night. 100 years of zesdaagsen . De Eecloonaar, Eeklo 2000, ISBN 90-74128-67-X , p. 195

[4] Peter Schnyder (Ed.): 100 years of fascination with cycling - Oerlikon race track. AS Verlag, Zurich 2012, ISBN 978-3909111954 , p. 96

[5] Association of German cyclists (ed.): Radsport . No. 8/1970 . Deutscher Sportverlag Kurt Stoof, Cologne 1970, p. 8 .