Heiri Suter

Heiri Suter
	Heiri Suter in 1926
Personal information
Born	10 July 1899; Gränichen, Switzerland
Died	6 November 1978 (aged 79); Bülach, Switzerland
Team information
Role	Rider

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.^[1] 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)^[2]
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)

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 Genève
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 - Tour of Flanders; 1st - Paris–Roubaix; 1st — Tour du Nord-Ouest; 1st — Zürich-Munich; 1st — Prix de Genève
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 Genève
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
1932: Switzerland National motor-paced champion
1933: Switzerland National motor-paced champion

References

^ "24th Paris – Roubaix, 1923". bikeraceinfo. Retrieved 2 April 2015.
^ "National Championship, Road, Elite, Switzerland (Men)". Cycling Archives. Retrieved 11 March 2015.

External links

Heiri Suter at Cycling Archives (archived)

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[bikeraceinfo-1] "24th Paris – Roubaix, 1923". bikeraceinfo. Retrieved 2 April 2015.

[SwissChamp-2] "National Championship, Road, Elite, Switzerland (Men)". Cycling Archives. Retrieved 11 March 2015.

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v t e Swiss National Road Race Champions (men)
1880–1899	Edouard Wicky (1892–1893) Henri Favre (1894–1895) Jean Viarret (1896–1897) Albert Furrer (1898) Fritz Ryser (1899)
1900–1919	Charles Lugon (1900) Ernst Dubach (1902) Alexandre Castellino (1904) Henri Rheinwald (1908) Charles Guyot (1909–1910) Marcel Perrière (1911) Henri Rheinwald (1912) Otto Wiedmer (1913) Oscar Egg (1914) Marcel Perrière (1915–1916) Ernst Kaufmann (1917–1918) Henri Rheinwald (1919)
1920–1939	Heiri Suter (1920–1922) Henri Guillod (1923) Kastor Notter (1924–1925) Heiri Suter (1926) Kastor Notter (1927) Albert Blattmann (1928) Heiri Suter (1929) Georges Antenen (1930) Albert Büchi (1931) August Erne (1932) Georges Antenen (1933) Hans Gilgen (1934) Paul Egli (1935–1936) Leo Amberg (1937–1938) Karl Litschi (1939)
1940–1959	Edgar Buchwalder (1940) Karl Litschi (1941) Edgar Buchwalder (1942) Hans Knecht (1943) Ernst Näf (1944) Ernst Wüthrich (1945) Hans Knecht (1946–1947) Ferdinand Kübler (1948–1951) Gottfried Weilenmann (1952) Fritz Schär (1953) Ferdinand Kübler (1954) Hugo Koblet (1955) Rolf Graf (1956) Hans Hollenstein (1957) Jean-Claude Grèt (1958) Rolf Graf (1959)
1960–1979	René Strehler (1960) Ernst Fuchs (1961) Rolf Graf (1962) Attilio Moresi (1963) Rudolf Hauser (1964) Robert Hagmann (1965) Paul Zollinger (1966) Alfred Rüegg (1967) Karl Brand (1968) Bernard Vifian (1969) Kurt Rub (1970) Louis Pfenninger (1971) Josef Fuchs (1972–1973) Roland Salm (1974–1977) Gottfried Schmutz (1978) Hansjörg Aemisegger (1979)
1980–1999	Gottfried Schmutz (1980) Stefan Mutter (1981) Gilbert Glaus (1982) Serge Demierre (1983) Erich Maechler (1984) Gottfried Schmutz (1985) Urs Zimmermann (1986) Jörg Müller (1987) Hubert Seiz (1988) Pascal Richard (1989) Rolf Järmann (1990) Laurent Dufaux (1991) Thomas Wegmüller (1992) Pascal Richard (1993) Felice Puttini (1994–1995) Armin Meier (1996) Oscar Camenzind (1997) Niki Aebersold (1998) Armin Meier (1999)
2000–2019	Markus Zberg (2000) Martin Elmiger (2001) Alexandre Moos (2002) Daniel Schnider (2003) Grégory Rast (2004) Martin Elmiger (2005) Grégory Rast (2006) Beat Zberg (2007) Markus Zberg (2008) Fabian Cancellara (2009) Martin Elmiger (2010) Fabian Cancellara (2011) Martin Kohler (2012) Michael Schär (2013) Martin Elmiger (2014) Danilo Wyss (2015) Jonathan Fumeaux (2016) Silvan Dillier (2017) Steve Morabito (2018) Sébastien Reichenbach (2019)
2020–2039	Stefan Küng (2020) Silvan Dillier (2021) Robin Froidevaux (2022) Marc Hirschi (2023) Mauro Schmid (2024)

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