Tour de Berne

Tour de Berne
Race details
Date	May
Region	Switzerland
Discipline	Road
Competition	UCI Europe Tour
Type	One-day race
Web site	www.tourdeberne.ch
History
First edition	1920
Editions	95 (as of 2023)
First winner	Heiri Suter (SUI)
Most wins	Heiri Suter (SUI) (5 wins)
Most recent	Arnaud Tendon (SUI)
History (women)
First winner	Jolanda Kalt (SUI)
Most wins	Evelyne Müller (SUI); Luzia Zberg (SUI); (3 wins)
Most recent	Elise Chabbey (SUI)

Tour de Berne is an elite professional road bicycle racing event held in Bern, Switzerland with races for men and women.

Men's event

The men's event began in 1920 and has previously been a UCI 1.2 rated event on the UCI Europe Tour.

Year	Winner	Second	Third
1920	Heiri Suter	Hermann Gehrig	Charles Martinet
1921	Heiri Suter	Max Suter	Jean Martinet
1922	Heiri Suter	Jean-Baptiste Mosselmans	Lucien Rich
1923	Heiri Suter	Henry Reymond	Kastor Notter
1924	Charles Guyot	Henry Reymond	Max Suter
1925	Kastor Notter	Heiri Suter	Kaspar Schneider
1926	Albert Blattmann	Alfred Saccomani	Otto Lehner
1927	Hans Kaspar	Otto Lehner	Kaspar Schneider
1928	Georges Antenen	Albert Meyer	Eugen Schlegel
1929	Heiri Suter	Ludwig Geyer	Albert Meyer
1930	Georges Antenen	Heiri Suter	Alfred Rüegg
1931	Ernst Meier	Ernst Hofer	Alfred Bula
1932	Hermann Müller	Turel Wanzenfried	Georges Antenen
1933	Georges Antenen	Albert Büchi	Alfred Büchi
1934	Walter Blattmann	Alfred Bula	Fritz Muller
1935	Alfred Bula	Carlo Romanatti	Hans Martin
1936	Theo Heimann	Werner Buchwalder	Karl Steger
1937	Karl Wyss	Hans Martin	Ernst Nievergelt
1938	Karl Litschi	Robert Zimmermann	Walter Blatmann
1939	Theo Perret	Hans Martin	Edgar Buchwalder
1941	Paul Egli	Hans Maag	Ferdi Kübler
1942	Edgar Buchwalder	Hans Knecht	Werner Jaisli
1943	Ferdi Kübler	Walter Diggelmann	André Hardegger
1945	Hans Maag	Ferdi Kübler	Walter Diggelmann
1946	Osvaldo Bailo	Hans Knecht	Willy Kern
1947	Hans Knecht	Leo Weilenmann	Oscar Plattner
1948	Ernst Stettler	Roger Aeschlimann	Hans Knecht
1949	Ferdi Kübler	Gottfried Weilenmann	Leo Weilenmann
1950	Oscar Plattner	Ernst Stettler	Emilio Croci-Torti
1951	Cesare Zuretti	Walter Reiser	Fritz Schär
1952	Hans Sommer	Hans Notzli	Robert Bintz
1953	Remo Pianezzi	Fritz Schär	Fritz Zbinden
1954	Fritz Schär	Ferdi Kübler	Max Schellenberg
1955	Hans Hollenstein	Ernst Rudolf	Eugen Kamber
1956	Fausto Lurati	Jean-Claude Grèt	Attilio Moresi
1957	Germain Derycke	Ernst Traxel	René Minder
1958	Heinz Müller	Giuseppe Barale	Kurt Gimmi
1959	Hans Hollenstein	Toni Graeser	Walter Favre
1960	René Strehler	Alfred Rüegg	Attilio Moresi
1961	Alfred Rüegg	Raymond Reisser	Gilbert Salvador
1962	Rolf Graf	Rolf Maurer	Robert Lelangue
1963	Rudolf Hauser	Fredy Dubach	Rolf Maurer
1964	Joseph Hoevenaers	René Binggeli	Kurt Gimmi
1965	Robert Lelangue	Luciano Sambi	Giancarlo Ferretti
1966	Horst Oldenburg	Danilo Ferrari	Renato Bongiorni
1967	Peter Abt	Hans Junkermann	Auguste Girard
1968	Peter Hill	Peter Glemser	Jacques Cadiou Fernand Etter Willy Spühler
1969	Louis Pfenninger	Peter Abt	Herbert Wilde
1970	Leo Duyndam	Winfried Bölke	Arie den Hartog
1971	Erich Spahn	Maurice Dury	Willy De Geest
1972	Erich Spahn	Harrie Jansen	Jürgen Tschan
1974	Roland Salm	Fr. Van Beeck	St. Marti
1975	Roland Salm	Marc Meernhout	Gianni Di Lorenzo
1976	René Savary	Geert Malfait	Roland Salm
1977	Simone Fraccaro	Giuseppe Saronni	Giovanni Battaglin
1978	Eddy Verstraeten	Bruno Wolfer	Gody Schmutz
1979	Gody Schmutz	Ennio Vanotti	Erwin Lienhard
1980	Rudy Colman	Serge Parsani	Mario Beccia
1981	Rudy Pevenage	Yvan Lamote	Sigmund Hermann
1982	Erich Mächler	Gilbert Glaus	Erik McKenzie
1984	Sean Kelly	Philippe Leleu	Claude Criquielion
1985	Urs Freuler	Hans Daams	Jürg Bruggmann
1986	Stephan Joho	Jürg Bruggmann	Kim Andersen
1987	Philippe Chevallier	Thomas Wegmüller	Richard Trinkler
1988	Urs Freuler	Michael Wilson	Jean-Philippe Vandenbrande
1989	Mauro Gianetti	Thomas Wegmüller	Niki Rüttimann
1990	Thomas Wegmüller	Rolf Järmann	Frank van den Abbeele
1991	Serge Baguet	Benny Van Brabant	Andrej Čmil
1992	Erich Mächler	Fabian Jeker	Laurent Dufaux
1993	Erik Zabel	Éric Caritoux	Jan Nevens
1994	Andreas Kappes	Pascal Richard	Frank Vandenbroucke
1995	Luca Scinto	Pascal Richard	Michel Lafis
1996	Beat Zberg	Felice Puttini	Michele Coppolillo
1997	Michael Andersson	Christian Henn	Giuseppe Di Grande
1998	Markus Zberg	Oscar Camenzind	Simone Leporatti
1999	Andrea Ferrigato	Niki Aebersold	Oscar Camenzind
2000	Lukas Zumsteg	Marcel Strauss	Christian Weber
2001	Danilo Hondo	Roman Peter	Uwe Straumann
2002	Kim Kirchen	Mauro Gianetti	Laurent Paumier
2003	No race
2004	Alexandre Usov	Roman Peter	Sascha Urweider
2005	René Weissinger	Giampaolo Cheula	Alexandre Moos
2006–2007	No race
2008	Jarosław Marycz	Guillaume Bonnafond	Arnaud Godet
2009	Michael Baer	René Murpf	Bernhard Oberholzer
2010	Choi Ki Ho	Daniel Teklehaimanot	Roger Beuchat
2011	Pirmin Lang	Natnael Berhane	Mirco Saggiorato
2012	Silvan Dillier	Marcel Aregger	Édouard Lauber
2013	Marcel Wyss	Sébastien Reichenbach	Rémi Cusin
2014	Matthias Brändle	Simon Zahner	Pirmin Lang
2015	Tom Bohli	Antonio Parrinello	Andrea Pasqualon
2016	Enrico Salvador	Danilo Celano	Edouard Lauber
2017	Filippo Fortin	Bram Welten	Fabian Lienhard
2018	No race
2019	Stefan Bissegger^[1]	Henok Mulubrhan	Fabian Lienhard
2020–2021	No race due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Switzerland^[2]^[3]
2022	Simon Vitzthum	Lukas Rüegg	Brieuc Rolland
2023	Arnaud Tendon	Marcel Wyss	Lukas Rüegg

Women's event

The women's Tour de Berne is an elite professional event and since 2005 has been elevated to the UCI Women's Road Cycling World Cup. The race is six laps of a 20.8 km (12.9 mi) city circuit for 124.8 km (77.5 mi) total distance.

Past winners

Year	Country	Rider	Team
2001	Germany	Vera Hohlfeld	Acca Due O Pasta
2002	Switzerland	Priska Doppmann	Mazza Cipret-Schweiz Rot Comp
2003	Australia	Olivia Gollan	Australian National Team
2004	Italy	Fabiana Luperini	Team Let's Go Finland
2005	Lithuania	Edita Pučinskaitė	Nobili Rubinetterie – Menikini Cogeas
2006	Kazakhstan	Zulfiya Zabirova	Team Bigla
2007	Lithuania	Edita Pučinskaitė	Equipe Nürnberger Versicherung
2008	Sweden	Susanne Ljungskog
2009	United States	Kristin Armstrong
2010	Great Britain	Sharon Laws

References

^ "Bissegger gewinnt im Sprint" [Bissegger wins in the sprint]. Swiss-Cycling.ch (in German). Swiss Cycling. 18 May 2019. Retrieved 7 December 2021.
^ "Die Berner Rundfahrt ist abgesagt" [The Tour de Berne has been cancelled]. Bieler Tagblatt (in German). Gassmann AG. 17 March 2020. Retrieved 7 December 2021.
^ "Berner Rundfahrt ist abgesagt" [Tour de Berne has been cancelled]. Bieler Tagblatt (in German). Gassmann AG. 17 February 2021. Retrieved 7 December 2021.

External links

Tour de Berne palmares at Cycling Archives

[1] "Bissegger gewinnt im Sprint" [Bissegger wins in the sprint]. Swiss-Cycling.ch (in German). Swiss Cycling. 18 May 2019. Retrieved 7 December 2021.

[2] "Die Berner Rundfahrt ist abgesagt" [The Tour de Berne has been cancelled]. Bieler Tagblatt (in German). Gassmann AG. 17 March 2020. Retrieved 7 December 2021.

[3] "Berner Rundfahrt ist abgesagt" [Tour de Berne has been cancelled]. Bieler Tagblatt (in German). Gassmann AG. 17 February 2021. Retrieved 7 December 2021.

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