Urs Zimmermann

Urs Zimmermann
Personal information
Full name	Urs Zimmermann
Born	29 November 1959 (age 61); Mühledorf, Switzerland
Team information
Current team	Retired
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Professional teams
1983–1984	Cilo-Aufina
1985–1989	Carrera Jeans-Vagabond
1990	7 Eleven-Hoonved
1991–1992	Motorola
Major wins
	Stage races Tour de Suisse (1984) Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré (1986) Critérium International (1986) One-day races and Classics National Road Race Championships (1986)

Urs Zimmermann (born 29 November 1959 in Mühledorf) is a Swiss former professional road racing cyclist. He stood on the podium in two of the three Grand Tour events after finishing third in 1986 Tour de France and 1988 Giro d'Italia. He also won several stage races such as the Tour de Suisse, Dauphiné Libéré and Critérium International.

After the eleventh stage of the 1991 Tour de France, there was a rest day, on which the cyclists were transferred from Nantes to Pau, by airplane. Zimmermann had a fear of flying, so he refused to use the airplane. The jury then disqualified him, but after the other cyclists protested, he was allowed to use other means of transportation.^[1]

He was the Swiss National Road Race champion in 1986.^[2]

Career achievements[]

Major results[]

1981

3rd National Hill Climb Championships

10th Overall Grand Prix Guillaume Tell

1982

2nd Overall Grand Prix Guillaume Tell

3rd Overall Tour du Vaucluse

1983

4th GP du Canton d'Argovie

1984

1st

Overall Tour de Suisse

1st Grabs–Voralp

2nd Gran Premio di Lugano

7th La Flèche Wallonne

9th Trofeo Baracchi

1985

1st GP de la Liberté

1st Stage 9a (TTT) Tour de Suisse

2nd Giro del Piemonte

3rd Coppa Agostoni

8th Coppa Sabatini

1986

1st

Road race, National Road Championships

1st

Overall Criterium du Dauphiné Libéré

1st

Overall Critérium International

1st Stage 2

1st Giro del Lazio

1st Profronde van Tiel

2nd Overall Paris–Nice

3rd Overall Tour de France

4th Overall Tour de Suisse

8th Overall Tour de Romandie

10th Giro dell'Emilia

1987

1st Stage 2 (TTT) Tour de France

6th Gran Premio di Lugano

8th Overall Paris–Nice

1st Stage 1 (TTT)

1988

1st

Overall Giro del Trentino

1st Stage 1

3rd Overall Tour de Romandie

1st Stage 4b (ITT)

3rd Overall Giro d'Italia

6th Rund um den Henninger Turm

1989

5th Overall Tour de Romandie

6th Overall Giro d'Italia

1990

2nd Giro del Friuli

4th Overall Giro del Trentino

General classification results timeline[]

Grand Tour	1984	1985	1986	1987	1988	1989	1990	1991	1992
Vuelta a España	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Giro d'Italia	—	50	—	—	3	6	DNF	—	44
Tour de France	58	—	3	DNF	DNF	DNF	—	116	—

Legend
—	Did not compete
DNF	Did not finish

References[]

^ "The Arrival of the Indurain Era". Cycling Revealed. Retrieved 30 April 2013.
^ "National Championship, Road, Elite, Switzerland (Men)". Cycling Archives. Retrieved 14 March 2015.

External links[]

Urs Zimmermann at CycleBase.nl
Urs Zimmermann at Cycling Archives

[1] "The Arrival of the Indurain Era". Cycling Revealed. Retrieved 30 April 2013.

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

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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)
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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)
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2020–2039	Stefan Küng (2020) Silvan Dillier (2021)