Rolf Graf (19 August 1932 - 18 January 2019) was a Swiss professional road bicycle racer. Rolf Graf was a protégé of the Swiss cyclist Ferdinand Kübler.
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Personal information | |
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Full name | Rolf Graf |
Born | Unterentfelden, Aargau, Switzerland | 19 August 1932
Died | 18 January 2019 Baden, Aargau, Switzerland | (aged 86)
Team information | |
Discipline | Road |
Role | Rider |
Major wins | |
3 stages Tour de France |
He competed in the individual and team road race events at the 1952 Summer Olympics.[1] He was the Swiss National Road Race champion in 1956.[2] In 1963, Graf had car crash in Italy, from which he never really recovered, and in 1964 he had to stop his cycling career.
Major results
edit- 1954
- Gent–Wevelgem
- 1955
- Locarno
- 1956
- Switzerland national road race championship
- Tour de Suisse
- Trofeo Baracchi (with André Darrigade)
- 1957
- Basel
- 1958
- GP du Locle
- 1959
- Switzerland national road race championship
- Giro d'Italia:
- Winner stage 22
- Tour de France:
- Winner stages 12 and 19
- 1960
- Nice
- Tour de France:
- Winner stage 19
- Trofeo Longines (with Guido Carlesi, Silvano Ciampi, Emile Daems and Alfredo Sabbadin)
- 1962
- Switzerland national road race championship
- Berner Rundfahrt
References
edit- ^ "Kobi Scherer Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 2020-04-18. Retrieved 2012-12-30.
- ^ "National Championship, Road, Elite, Switzerland (Men)". Cycling Archives. Retrieved 13 March 2015.
External links
edit- Rolf Graf at Cycling Archives
- Official Tour de France results for Rolf Graf