Rolf Graf

Swiss cyclist (1932–2019)

Rolf Graf
Personal information

Full name	Rolf Graf
Born	(1932-08-19)19 August 1932 Unterentfelden, Aargau, Switzerland
Died	18 January 2019(2019-01-18) (aged 86) Baden, Aargau, Switzerland
Team information
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Major wins
3 stages Tour de France

Rolf Graf (19 August 1932 - 18 January 2019) was a Swiss professional road bicycle racer. Rolf Graf was a protégé of the Swiss cyclist Ferdinand Kübler.

He competed in the individual and team road race events at the 1952 Summer Olympics.^[1] He was the Swiss National Road Race champion in 1956.^[2] In 1963, Graf had car crash in Italy, from which he never really recovered, and in 1964 he had to stop his cycling career.

Major results

1954

Gent–Wevelgem

1955

Locarno

1956

Switzerland national road race championship

Tour de Suisse

Trofeo Baracchi (with André Darrigade)

1957

Basel

1958

GP du Locle

1959

Switzerland national road race championship

Giro d'Italia:

Winner stage 22

Tour de France:

Winner stages 12 and 19

1960

Nice

Tour de France:

Winner stage 19

Trofeo Longines (with Guido Carlesi, Silvano Ciampi, Emile Daems and Alfredo Sabbadin)

1962

Switzerland national road race championship

Berner Rundfahrt

References

^ "Kobi Scherer Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 2020-04-18. Retrieved 2012-12-30.
^ "National Championship, Road, Elite, Switzerland (Men)". Cycling Archives. Retrieved 13 March 2015.

External links

Rolf Graf at Cycling Archives
Official Tour de France results for Rolf Graf

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Swiss National Road Race Champions (men)

1880–1899

Edouard Wicky (1892–1893)
Henri Favre (1894–1895)
Jean Viarret (1896–1897)
Albert Furrer (1898)
Fritz Ryser (1899)

1900–1919

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)

1920–1939

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)

1940–1959

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)

1960–1979

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)

1980–1999

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)

2000–2019

2020–2039

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