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Full name | Ferdinand Kübler | ||||||||||||||||||||
Nickname | Ferdi, The Cowboy, The Eagle of Adliswil, Mr 100,000 Volts[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Marthalen, Canton of Zurich, Switzerland | 24 July 1919||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 29 December 2016 Zurich, Switzerland | (aged 97)||||||||||||||||||||
Team information | |||||||||||||||||||||
Discipline | Road | ||||||||||||||||||||
Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||||||||
Rider type | Allround | ||||||||||||||||||||
Professional teams | |||||||||||||||||||||
1945–1947 | Cilo | ||||||||||||||||||||
1948–1957 | Tebag | ||||||||||||||||||||
1948–1949 | Peugeot-Dunlop | ||||||||||||||||||||
1949 | Bartali | ||||||||||||||||||||
1949–1952 | Frejus | ||||||||||||||||||||
1952–1955 | Fiorelli | ||||||||||||||||||||
1953–1955 | La Perle-Hutchinson | ||||||||||||||||||||
1956 | Carpano-Coppi | ||||||||||||||||||||
Major wins | |||||||||||||||||||||
Grand Tours
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Medal record
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Ferdinand "Ferdi" Kübler (pronounced [ˈfɛrdinand ˈkyːblər]; 24 July 1919 – 29 December 2016) was a Swiss cyclist with more than 400 professional victories, including the 1950 Tour de France and the 1951 World Road Race Championship.
Biography
Kübler was born in Marthalen. He began racing professionally in 1940 but his early career was limited to Switzerland by the Nazi occupation elsewhere. He was multiple Swiss national champion and a three time winner of the Tour de Suisse.
Kübler's most successful years in international racing were 1950–1952, when the classics had resumed after the Second World War. He won the La Flèche Wallonne and Liège–Bastogne–Liège, both in 1951 and 1952, in a time where these races were still contested in the same weekend.[2] He was also World Road Race Champion in 1951, having placed second in 1949 and third in 1950.
He rode the Giro d'Italia from 1950–1952, placing fourth once, and third twice. Kübler abandoned the 1947 and 1949 Tours de France, despite an early stage win in each. In the 1950 Tour, he benefited from the absence of Fausto Coppi, sidelined after a crash in the Giro. Overcoming Gino Bartali, Kübler became champion by over nine minutes, also winning three stages. In the 1954 Tour, Kübler won the points jersey and came second behind Louison Bobet.[3] Kübler was the first Swiss winner of the Tour de France.[4]
Kübler was a high-spirited and impulsive rider sometimes given to strategically unwise attacks, out of exuberance and competitive drive. He was known as "the cowboy" because of his penchant for Stetson hats. He retired from racing in 1957 at 38. Kübler died in Zurich on 29 December 2016 at the age of 97.[5] Prior to his death he was the oldest living Tour de France winner.[6]
Career achievements
Major results
Source:[7]
- 1940
national pursuit champion
- 1941
national pursuit champion
national mountain champion
- 1942
national mountain champion
- Tour de Suisse
- 1943
national pursuit champion
- 1945
national cyclo-cross champion
- 1947
- Tour de France:
- Winner stages 1 and 5
- Wearing yellow jersey for one day
- Paris-Lille
- 1948
national road race champion
- Tour de Suisse
- Tour de Romandie
- 1949
- Tour de France:
- Winner stage 5
national road race champion
- 1950
- Challenge Desgrande-Colombo
- Trophée Edmond Gentil
national road race champion
- Tour de France:
- 1951
national road race champion
- World road champion
- Liège–Bastogne–Liège
- Tour de Romandie
- Flèche Wallonne
- Week-end Ardennais
- Tour de Suisse
- Rome-Naples-Rome
- 1952
- Challenge Desgrande-Colombo
- Liège–Bastogne–Liège
- Flèche Wallonne
- Week-end Ardennais
- 1953
- Bordeaux–Paris
- 1954
national road race champion
- Challenge Desgrande-Colombo
- Tour de France:
- 1956
- Milan-Turin
Grand Tour results timeline
1947 | 1948 | 1949 | 1950 | 1951 | 1952 | 1953 | 1954 | 1955 | |
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Giro | DNE | DNE | DNE | 4 | 3 | 3 | DNF | DNE | DNE |
Stages won | — | — | — | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — |
Mountains classification | — | — | — | NR | NR | NR | NR | — | — |
Points classification | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Tour | DNF-7 | DNE | DNF-18 | 1 | DNE | DNE | DNE | 2 | DNF-12 |
Stages won | 2 | — | 1 | 3 | — | — | — | 2 | 0 |
Mountains classification | NR | — | NR | 4 | — | — | — | 6 | 17 |
Points classification | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | NR | 1 | NR |
Vuelta | DNE | DNE | N/A | DNE | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
Stages won | — | — | — | ||||||
Mountains classification | — | — | — | ||||||
Points classification | N/A | N/A | N/A |
1 | Winner |
2–3 | Top three-finish |
4–10 | Top ten-finish |
11– | Other finish |
DNE | Did not enter |
DNF-x | Did not finish (retired on stage x) |
DNS-x | Did not start (not started on stage x) |
HD | Finished outside time limit (occurred on stage x) |
DSQ | Disqualified |
N/A | Race/classification not held |
NR | Not ranked in this classification |
References
- ^ Clarke, Stuart (5 November 2015). "13 of the strangest nicknames in cycling". Cycling Weekly. Retrieved 11 May 2016.
- ^ O'Rourke, Eddy (June 2013). "Six Degrees of Ferdi Kübler". Cycling revealed.
- ^ "Rider Biographies – Ferdi Kübler". Cycling hall of fame.
- ^ http://www.velonews.com/2016/12/news/ferdinand-kubler-first-swiss-winner-tour-dies-age-97_427038
- ^ "Ferdi Kübler est décédé". Le Matin (in French). 30 December 2016. Retrieved 30 December 2016.
- ^ Boyce, Barry (2010). "Tour de France Champions Living and Dead". Cycling revealed. Retrieved 15 February 2010.
- ^ Ferdinand Kübler at Cycling Archives
External links
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