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Historic Overview Heiri Suter

Rider

Overall Rank279
NameHeiri SUTER
Country
  Switzerland
Date of birth10-Jul-1899 - Gränichen (Aargau)
Date of death06-Nov-1978 - Bulach (Aargau)
ContemporiesView Contemporary Ranking

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
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. 1918 Individual 30 89
2. 1919 Individual 799 31
3. 1920 Stucchi - Dunlop 631 34
4. 1921 Individual 292 81
5. 1922 Gürtner -Hutchinson 1537 9
6. 1923 Gürtner - Hutchinson 1961 7
7. 1924 Gürtner 931 21
8. 1925 Griffon - Dunlop 1600 12
9. 1926 Olympique - Wolber 950 28
10. 1927 Mifa 781 31
11. 1928 Dilecta - Wolber 368 78
12. 1929 Génial Lucifer - Hutchinson 799 43
13. 1930 Génial Lucifer 298 107
14. 1931 Individual 0 1702
15. 1934 Individual 64 390
16. 1935 Individual 0 1238
17. 1936 Individual 23 697
18. 1938 Individual 6 889
19. 1941 Individual 42 312
Overall: 11112 279