Markus Zberg

Markus Zberg
Personal information
Full name	Markus Zberg
Born	June 27, 1974 (age 47); Switzerland
Height	1.79 m (5 ft 10+1⁄2 in)
Weight	69 kg (152 lb; 10 st 12 lb)
Team information
Discipline	Road
Role	Retired
Rider type	Sprinter
Professional teams
1996	Carrera Jeans–Tassoni
1997	Mercatone Uno
1998	Post Swiss Team
1999–2002	Rabobank
2003–2008	Gerolsteiner
2009	BMC Racing Team
Major wins
	Grand Tours Vuelta a España 2 individual stages (1998) One-day races and Classics National Road Race Championships; (2000, 2008) Rund um den Henninger Turm (2001) Milano–Torino (1999)
Medal record
Representing Switzerland
Men's road bicycle racing
World Championships

Markus Zberg (born June 27, 1974 in Altdorf, Uri) is a retired Swiss professional road bicycle racer; he is the younger brother of Beat Zberg. Zberg retired after a severe fall in the Tour de l'Ain.^[1] He was the Swiss National Road Race champion in 2000 and 2008.^[2]

Major results[]

1996

1st Stage 5 Grand Prix Guillaume Tell

1998

Vuelta a España

1st Stages 1 & 22

1st Stausee-Rundfahrt Klingnau

1st Stage 3 Tour de Suisse

1st Stage 6 Settimana Ciclistica Lombarda

1999

1st Milano–Torino

2nd

Road race, UCI Road World Championships

2nd Overall Paris–Nice

2nd GP Ouest–France

2000

1st

Road race, National Road Championships

3rd Amstel Gold Race

2001

1st Rund um den Henninger Turm

1st Stage 3 Tirreno–Adriatico

4th Amstel Gold Race

2002

3rd Milan–San Remo

2003

3rd Tre Valli Varesine

2004

2nd Grand Prix of Aargau Canton

2005

3rd Rund um den Henninger Turm

2006

1st Stage 7 Paris–Nice

2008

1st

Road race, National Road Championships

References[]

^ "Markus Zberg ein Doping-Kunde? Der ehemalige Schweizer Radprofi in Österreich schwer beschuldigt". Neue Zürcher Zeitung (in German). 8 October 2009. Retrieved 27 February 2013.
^ "National Championship, Road, Elite, Switzerland (Men)". Cycling Archives. Retrieved 14 March 2015.

External links[]

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[1] "Markus Zberg ein Doping-Kunde? Der ehemalige Schweizer Radprofi in Österreich schwer beschuldigt". Neue Zürcher Zeitung (in German). 8 October 2009. Retrieved 27 February 2013.

[SwissChamp-2] "National Championship, Road, Elite, Switzerland (Men)". Cycling Archives. Retrieved 14 March 2015.

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v t 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)