Beat Zberg
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Full name | Beat Zberg | ||||||||||||||
Born | Altdorf, Uri | 10 May 1971||||||||||||||
Height | 1.79 m (5 ft 10+1⁄2 in) | ||||||||||||||
Weight | 72 kg (159 lb; 11 st 5 lb) | ||||||||||||||
Team information | |||||||||||||||
Current team | Retired | ||||||||||||||
Discipline | Road | ||||||||||||||
Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||
Rider type | All-rounder | ||||||||||||||
Professional teams | |||||||||||||||
1992 | Helvetia–Fichtel & Sachs | ||||||||||||||
1993–1996 | Carrera Jeans–Tassoni | ||||||||||||||
1997 | Mercatone Uno | ||||||||||||||
1998–2003 | Rabobank | ||||||||||||||
2004–2007 | Gerolsteiner | ||||||||||||||
Major wins | |||||||||||||||
Vuelta a España, 1 stage Coppa Placci (1997) Rund um den Henninger Turm (1996) Vuelta a Asturias (1995) | |||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Beat Zberg (born 10 May 1971 in Altdorf, Uri) is a Swiss former professional road bicycle racer for UCI ProTeam Gerolsteiner.
In 2007 he became the Swiss National champion,[1] winning the road race alone and over 2 minutes ahead of 2nd placed Fabian Cancellara. Later that year, he retired from active competition.
Career achievements
[edit]Major results
[edit]- 1989
- 1st Stage 1 Grand Prix Rüebliland
- 1st
Road race, National Junior Road Championships
- 1st
National Junior Mountain Championships
- National Junior Track Championships
- 3rd Overall Tour du Pays de Vaud
- 1990
- 2nd Kaistenberg Rundfahrt
- 1991
- 1st Wartenberg Rundfahrt
- 2nd Overall GP Tell
- 1st Stage 8
- 3rd
Amateur Road race, UCI Road World Championships
- 1992
- 1st
Overall Étoile de Bessèges
- 1st Trofeo Matteotti
- 1st Giro di Romagna
- 1st Wartenberg Rundfahrt
- 5th Overall Tour de Suisse
- 5th Tre Valli Varesine
- 6th Overall Tirreno–Adriatico
- 6th Giro di Lombardia
- 1993
- 1st Gran Piemonte
- 1st Kaistenberg Rundfahrt
- 9th Overall Tour de Suisse
- 9th Subida a Urkiola
- 1994
- 1st Stage 3 Vuelta a Asturias
- 2nd GP Lugano
- 2nd Time trial, National Road Championships
- 1995
- 1st
Overall Vuelta a Asturias
- 1st Stage 6
- 1st Trofeo Calvià
- 3rd Amstel Gold Race
- 3rd Wartenberg Rundfahrt
- 3rd Josef Voegeli Memorial
- 5th Overall Tour de Romandie
- 1st Stage 1
- 5th Overall Tour de Suisse
- 7th La Flèche Wallonne
- 9th Overall Tirreno–Adriatico
- 10th Rund um den Henninger Turm
- 1996
- 1st Rund um den Henninger Turm
- 1st Berner Rundfahrt
- 2nd Grand Prix Pino Cerami
- 3rd Giro della Provincia di Reggio Calabria
- 5th Overall GP Tell
- 7th Overall Tour de Romandie
- 10th Amstel Gold Race
- 1997
- 1st Subida a Urkiola
- 1st Coppa Placci
- 1st Giro del Mendrisiotto
- 1st Josef Voegeli Memorial
- 2nd Wartenberg Rundfahrt
- 3rd Overall Tirreno–Adriatico
- 3rd Overall Tour de Romandie
- 3rd Overall À travers Lausanne
- 3rd Amstel Gold Race
- 4th Trofeo Laigueglia
- 7th Liège–Bastogne–Liège
- 8th La Flèche Wallonne
- 9th Milano–Torino
- 10th Overall Tour de Suisse
- 1998
- 1st
Overall Tour of Austria
- 1st Prologue
- 1st
Road race, National Road Championships
- 1st Josef Voegeli Memorial
- 2nd Overall Tour de Suisse
- 6th Time trial, UCI Road World Championships
- 9th Overall Tour of the Basque Country
- 1999
- 2nd Overall Tour de Romandie
- 2nd Tour du Haut Var
- 2nd Classic Haribo
- 2nd Paris-Brussels
- 3rd Overall Vuelta a Murcia
- 4th Grand Prix des Nations
- 6th Overall Tour Méditerranéen
- 2000
- 4th Giro di Lombardia
- 10th Trofeo Melinda
- 2001
- 1st Stage 13 Vuelta a España
- 1st GP Winterthur
- 2nd GP Lugano
- 4th Overall Tour de Suisse
- 5th Overall Bayern Rundfahrt
- 6th Rund um den Henninger Turm
- 6th Giro di Lombardia
- 7th Overall Tour Méditerranéen
- 7th Coppa Ugo Agostoni
- 8th Overall Tirreno–Adriatico
- 10th GP Ouest–France
- 10th Road race, UCI Road World Championships
- 2002
- 1st Stage 1 Tour of the Basque Country
- 2003
- 1st Stage 2 Setmana Catalana de Ciclisme
- 4th Giro di Lombardia
- 7th Overall Vuelta a Murcia
- 7th Overall Sachsen Tour
- 8th Overall Tour Méditerranéen
- 8th Overall Route du Sud
- 2004
- 1st Stage 2 Setmana Catalana de Ciclisme
- 1st Stage 2 Tour of the Basque Country
- 7th GP Lugano
- 9th GP Chiasso
- 2005
- 7th Overall Tour de Suisse
- 2006
- 1st Grand Prix of Aargau Canton
- 2nd Overall Bayern Rundfahrt
- 1st Stage 4 (ITT)
- 2007
- 1st
Road race, National Road Championships
- 4th Overall Tour de l'Ain
- 7th Overall Rothaus Regio-Tour
Grand Tour general classification results timeline
[edit]Grand Tour | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 |
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— | — | 12 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
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27 | 29 | DNF | 11 | 40 | 109 | — | — | 27 | — | — | 93 | DNF |
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— | — | — | — | — | — | — | 31 | — | 77 | — | — | — |
— | Did not compete |
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DNF | Did not finish |
References
[edit]- ^ "National Championship, Road, Elite, Switzerland (Men)". Cycling Archives. Retrieved 14 March 2015.
External links
[edit]- Team profile at the Wayback Machine (archived 2007-09-27)
- Eurosport profile at the Wayback Machine (archived 2006-06-30)
- Beat Zberg at trap-friis.dk