Heiri Suter
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Heinrich 'Heiri' Suter (10 July 1899 Gränichen – 6 November 1978) was a professional road racing cyclist from Switzerland. In 1923, he was first to win Paris–Roubaix and the Ronde van Vlaanderen in the same year.
Suter had 58 professional wins, 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–Tours: (1926, 1927)
- Paris–Roubaix (1923)
- Ronde van Vlaanderen (1923)
- Bordeaux–Paris (1925)
[edit] Career
- 1919
- 1st - Züri-Metzgete
- 1st - Grand Prix Aurore
- 1st - Tour de Zürich
- 1920
Switzerland National road champion- 1st - Züri-Metzgete
- 1st - Tour du Nord-Ouest
- 1921
- Switzerland National road champion
- 1st - Grand Prix Aurore
- 1st - Tour de Zürich
- 1st - Tour du Nord-Ouest
- 1st - Genève-Zürich
- 1st - Tour de Suisse Orientale
- 1st - Prix de Génève
- 1922
- 1st - Grand Prix Wolber
- Switzerland National road champion
- 1st - Züri-Metzgete
- 1st - Tour du Nord-Ouest
- 1st - Circuit de Neuchâtel
- 1st - Circuit de Fribourg
- 1st - Circuit du Vaudois
- 1st - Munich-Zürich
- 1st, 2 stages - Paris-Saint-Etienne
- 1923
- 1st - Ronde van Vlaanderen
- 1st - Paris–Roubaix
- 1st - Tour du Nord-Ouest
- 1st - Zürich-Munich
- 1st - Prix de Génève
- 1924
- 1st - Züri-Metzgete
- 1st - Circuit de Champagne (1st, 2 Stages)
- 1st - Tour du Lac Léman
- 1st - Grand Prix Griffon
- 1st - Zürich-La Chaux-de-Fonds
- 1st, 3 stages - Bordeaux-Marseille
- 1st - Prix de Génève
- 1925
- 1st - Grand Prix Wolber
- 1st - Bordeaux–Paris
- 1st - Circuit de Champagne
- 1st - Circuit du Vaudois
- 1926
- Switzerland National road champion
- 1st - Paris–Tours
- 1st - Tour de Cologne
- 1st - Circuit de Cologne
- 1st - Tour de Francfort
- 1st - Tour du Württemberg
- 1st - Circuit de la Montagne
- 1st - Grand Prix Yverdon
- 1927
- 1st - Paris–Tours
- 1st - Tour du Lac Léman
- 1st - Grand Prix Yverdon
- 1st - Tour de Francfort
- 1928
- 1st - Züri-Metzgete
- 1929
- Switzerland National road champion
- 1st - Züri-Metzgete
- 1st - Tour du Nord-Ouest
- 1st - Tour du Lac Léman
- 1st - Circuit Franco-Suisse
- 1929
- 1st - Tour du Lac Léman
- 1932
- Switzerland National motor-paced champion
- 1933
- Switzerland National motor-paced champion
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| Preceded by Berten Dejonghe |
Winner of Paris–Roubaix 1923 |
Succeeded by Jules van Hevel |
[edit] External links
- Heiri Suter profile at Cycling Archives
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