Leo Amberg
Swiss cyclist
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Full name | Leo Amberg | ||||||||||||||
Born | (1912-03-23)23 March 1912 Ballwil, Switzerland | ||||||||||||||
Died | 18 September 1999(1999-09-18) (aged 87) Oberriet, Switzerland | ||||||||||||||
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Discipline | Road | ||||||||||||||
Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||
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Grand Tours
One-day races and Classics
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Medal record
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Leo Amberg (23 March 1912 – 18 September 1999) was a Swiss professional road bicycle racer. He is most known for his bronze medal in the 1938 UCI Road World Championships. He was the Swiss National Road Race champion in 1937 and 1938.[1] He also rode in the 1947 Tour de France.[2]
Major results
- 1935
- 1st Mont Faron
- 2nd Overall Tour de Suisse
- 5th Road race, UCI Road World Championships
- 1936
- 3rd Overall Tour de Suisse
- 8th Overall Tour de France
- 1937
- 1st Road race, National Road Championships
- 1st Züri-Metzgete
- 2nd Overall Tour de Suisse
- 1st Stages 1, 2 & 6
- 3rd Overall Tour de France
- 1st Stages 5c & 19b (ITT)
- 1938
- 1st Road race, National Road Championships
- 3rd Road race, UCI Road World Championships
- 1st Stage 18a Giro d'Italia
- 1939
- 1st Stage 16 Deutschland Tour
- 4th Züri-Metzgete
- 10th Overall Tour de Suisse
- 1942
- 5th Züri-Metzgete
- 1943
- 10th Züri-Metzgete
- 1946
- 9th Züri-Metzgete
References
External links
- Leo Amberg at Cycling Archives
- Official Tour de France results for Leo Amberg
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Preceded by Werner Buchwalder | Winner of the Züri-Metzgete 1937 | Succeeded by Hans Martin |
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- Edouard Wicky (1892–1893)
- Henri Favre (1894–1895)
- Jean Viarret (1896–1897)
- Albert Furrer (1898)
- Fritz Ryser (1899)
- Charles Lugon (1900)
- Ernst Dubach (1902)
- Alexandre Castellino (1904)
- Henri Rheinwald (1908)
- Charles Guyot (1909–1910)
- Marcel Perrière (1911)
- Henri Rheinwald (1912)
- Otto Wiedmer (1913)
- Oscar Egg (1914)
- Marcel Perrière (1915–1916)
- Ernst Kaufmann (1917–1918)
- Henri Rheinwald (1919)
- Heiri Suter (1920–1922)
- Henri Guillod (1923)
- Kastor Notter (1924–1925)
- Heiri Suter (1926)
- Kastor Notter (1927)
- Albert Blattmann (1928)
- Heiri Suter (1929)
- Georges Antenen (1930)
- Albert Büchi (1931)
- August Erne (1932)
- Georges Antenen (1933)
- Hans Gilgen (1934)
- Paul Egli (1935–1936)
- Leo Amberg (1937–1938)
- Karl Litschi (1939)
- Edgar Buchwalder (1940)
- Karl Litschi (1941)
- Edgar Buchwalder (1942)
- Hans Knecht (1943)
- Ernst Näf (1944)
- Ernst Wüthrich (1945)
- Hans Knecht (1946–1947)
- Ferdinand Kübler (1948–1951)
- Gottfried Weilenmann (1952)
- Fritz Schär (1953)
- Ferdinand Kübler (1954)
- Hugo Koblet (1955)
- Rolf Graf (1956)
- Hans Hollenstein (1957)
- Jean-Claude Grèt (1958)
- Rolf Graf (1959)
- René Strehler (1960)
- Ernst Fuchs (1961)
- Rolf Graf (1962)
- Attilio Moresi (1963)
- Rudolf Hauser (1964)
- Robert Hagmann (1965)
- Paul Zollinger (1966)
- Alfred Rüegg (1967)
- Karl Brand (1968)
- Bernard Vifian (1969)
- Kurt Rub (1970)
- Louis Pfenninger (1971)
- Josef Fuchs (1972–1973)
- Roland Salm (1974–1977)
- Gottfried Schmutz (1978)
- Hansjörg Aemisegger (1979)
- Gottfried Schmutz (1980)
- Stefan Mutter (1981)
- Gilbert Glaus (1982)
- Serge Demierre (1983)
- Erich Maechler (1984)
- Gottfried Schmutz (1985)
- Urs Zimmermann (1986)
- Jörg Müller (1987)
- Hubert Seiz (1988)
- Pascal Richard (1989)
- Rolf Järmann (1990)
- Laurent Dufaux (1991)
- Thomas Wegmüller (1992)
- Pascal Richard (1993)
- Felice Puttini (1994–1995)
- Armin Meier (1996)
- Oscar Camenzind (1997)
- Niki Aebersold (1998)
- Armin Meier (1999)
- Markus Zberg (2000)
- Martin Elmiger (2001)
- Alexandre Moos (2002)
- Daniel Schnider (2003)
- Grégory Rast (2004)
- Martin Elmiger (2005)
- Grégory Rast (2006)
- Beat Zberg (2007)
- Markus Zberg (2008)
- Fabian Cancellara (2009)
- Martin Elmiger (2010)
- Fabian Cancellara (2011)
- Martin Kohler (2012)
- Michael Schär (2013)
- Martin Elmiger (2014)
- Danilo Wyss (2015)
- Jonathan Fumeaux (2016)
- Silvan Dillier (2017)
- Steve Morabito (2018)
- Sébastien Reichenbach (2019)
- Stefan Küng (2020)
- Silvan Dillier (2021)
- Robin Froidevaux (2022)
- Marc Hirschi (2023)