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Historic Overview Heiri Suter

Rider

Overall Rank329
NameHeiri SUTER
Country
  Switzerland
Date of birth10-Jul-1899 - Gränichen (Aargau)
Date of death06-Nov-1978 - Bulach (Aargau)

Biography

Heiri Suter

Heinrich 'Heiri' Suter (10 July 1899  – 6 November 1978) was a Swiss road racing cyclist. Excelling mainly in the classics, Suter was the first non-Belgian winner of the Tour of Flanders in 1923. Two weeks after his win in the Tour of Flanders, he won Paris–Roubaix, becoming the first cyclist to win both classics in the same year. He also holds a record six victories in Züri-Metzgete, Switzerland's most important one-day race.

Suter won 58 professional races, including:

  • Grand Prix Wolber (unofficial world championship): (1922, 1925)
  • Road champion of Switzerland: (1920, 1921, 1922, 1926, 1929)
  • motor-paced champion of Switzerland: (1932, 1933)
  • Züri-Metzgete: (1919, 1920, 1922, 1924, 1928, 1929)
  • Paris–Roubaix: (1923)
  • Tour of Flanders: (1923)
  • Bordeaux–Paris (1925)
  • Paris–Tours: (1926, 1927)
source - Wikipedia

Badges

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Major Victories

Ronde van Vlaanderen 1923
Paris - Roubaix 1923
Rund um den Henninger Turm 1926
Meisterschaft von Zürich 1919, 1920, 1922, 1924, 1928, 1929
Paris - Tours 1926, 1927
Bordeaux - Paris 1925
Grand Prix Wolber 1922, 1925
Zürich - München 1922, 1923
Tour du Lac Léman 1927, 1929, 1930
Nord-West Schweizer Rundfahrt 1920, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1929
Circuit de Champagne 1924, 1925
Rund um Köln 1926
G.P. Aurora 1921
Championnat de Suisse sur route 1920, 1921, 1922, 1926, 1929
Bern - Zürich 1918
Paris - Saint-Etienne - stages 1922 (1)
Circuit de Champagne - stages 1924 (1)
Bordeaux - Marseille - stages 1924 (1)
More results

Seasons

Heiri Suter - Scores by Season

Year Team Score Rank
1. 1917 Individual 0 315
2. 1918 Individual 62 65
3. 1919 Individual 821 33
4. 1920 Stucchi - Dunlop 649 37
5. 1921 Individual 300 83
6. 1922 Gürtner -Hutchinson 1580 16
7. 1923 Gürtner - Hutchinson 1907 10
8. 1924 Gürtner 958 26
9. 1925 Griffon - Dunlop 1497 17
10. 1926 Olympique - Wolber 950 34
11. 1927 Mifa 832 32
12. 1928 Dilecta - Wolber 372 85
13. 1929 Génial Lucifer - Hutchinson 790 48
14. 1930 Génial Lucifer 295 111
15. 1931 Individual 0 1733
16. 1934 Individual 65 396
17. 1935 Individual 0 1298
18. 1936 Individual 21 716
19. 1938 Individual 6 920
20. 1941 Individual 42 314
Overall: 11147 329