Leo Amberg
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| Full name | Leo Amberg | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 23 March 1912 Ballwil, Switzerland | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 18 September 1999 (aged 87) Oberriet, Switzerland | ||||||||||||||
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| Discipline | Road | ||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||
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Leo Amberg (23 March 1912 – 18 September 1999) was a Swiss professional road bicycle racer. He is most known for his bronze medal in the 1938 UCI Road World Championships. He was the Swiss National Road Race champion in 1937 and 1938.[1] He also rode in the 1947 Tour de France.[2]
Major results
[edit | edit source]- 1935
- 1st Mont Faron
- 2nd Overall Tour de Suisse
- 5th Road race, UCI Road World Championships
- 1936
- 3rd Overall Tour de Suisse
- 8th Overall Tour de France
- 1937
- 1st File:MaillotSuiza.svg Road race, National Road Championships
- 1st Züri-Metzgete
- 2nd Overall Tour de Suisse
- 1st Stages 1, 2 & 6
- 3rd Overall Tour de France
- 1st Stages 5c & 19b (ITT)
- 1938
- 1st File:MaillotSuiza.svg Road race, National Road Championships
- 3rd File:Bronze medal blank.svg Road race, UCI Road World Championships
- 1st Stage 18a Giro d'Italia
- 1939
- 1st Stage 16 Deutschland Tour
- 4th Züri-Metzgete
- 10th Overall Tour de Suisse
- 1942
- 5th Züri-Metzgete
- 1943
- 10th Züri-Metzgete
- 1946
- 9th Züri-Metzgete
References
[edit | edit source]External links
[edit | edit source]- Leo Amberg at Cycling Archives (archive)Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- Official Tour de France results for Leo Amberg