Leo Amberg

Leo Amberg
Personal information
Full name	Leo Amberg
Born	23 March 1912; Ballwil, Switzerland
Died	18 September 1999 (aged 87); Oberriet, Switzerland
Team information
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Major wins
	Grand Tours Tour de France 2 individual stages (1937) Giro d'Italia 1 individual stage (1938) One-day races and Classics National Road Race Championships (1937, 1938)
show Medal record
Men's road bicycle racing
Representing Switzerland
World Championships

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[]

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

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 Road race, National Road Championships; 3rd 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[]

^ "National Championship, Road, Elite, Switzerland (Men)". Cycling Archives. Retrieved 13 March 2015.
^ "34ème Tour de France 1947" (in French). Memoire du cyclisme. Archived from the original on 1 March 2012. Retrieved 4 March 2015.

External links[]

Leo Amberg at Cycling Archives
Official Tour de France results for Leo Amberg

Sporting positions
Preceded by	Winner of the Züri-Metzgete 1937	Succeeded by Hans Martin

[SwissChamp-1] "National Championship, Road, Elite, Switzerland (Men)". Cycling Archives. Retrieved 13 March 2015.

[mdc1947-2] "34ème Tour de France 1947" (in French). Memoire du cyclisme. Archived from the original on 1 March 2012. Retrieved 4 March 2015.

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[2]

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