Danilo Wyss

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Danilo Wyss
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Personal information
Full nameDanilo Wyss
Born (1985-08-26) 26 August 1985 (age 39)
Orbe, Switzerland
Height1.76 m (5 ft 9+12 in)
Weight65 kg (143 lb)
Team information
Current teamRetired
DisciplineRoad
RoleRider
Rider typeSprinter
Classics rider
Amateur teams
2007 Atlas–Romer's Hausbäckerei
2007 Saunier Duval–Prodir (stagiaire)
Professional teams
2008–2018 BMC Racing Team
2019–2020 Team Dimension Data [1] [2]
Major wins
Grand Tours
Tour de France
1 TTT stage (2015)

One-day races and Classics

National Road Race Championships (2015)

Danilo Wyss (born 26 August 1985) is a Swiss former road racing cyclist, [3] who rode professionally between 2008 and 2020 for the BMC Racing Team and NTT Pro Cycling. [4] He is no relation to fellow Swiss cyclist Daniel Wyss who won the Race Across America in 2006 and 2009.

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Career

He competed in twelve Grand Tours during his career, finishing each one, including the Giro d'Italia for five successive years between 2010 and 2014. He won the Swiss National Road Race Championships in 2015. He was named in the start list for the 2015 Tour de France. [5]

Major results

2003
2nd Road race, National Junior Road Championships
2006
10th Road race, UCI Under-23 Road World Championships
2007
1st Stage 3 Les 3 Jours de Vaucluse
2nd Grand Prix de Waregem
3rd Paris–Roubaix Espoirs
5th Road race, UCI Under-23 Road World Championships
9th GP Herning
2008
6th Grand Prix Pino Cerami
2009
1st Stage 1 Tour de Beauce
2010
9th Nokere Koerse
2012
1st Stage 1 (TTT) Giro del Trentino
2013
7th Grand Prix Impanis-Van Petegem
10th Overall Ster ZLM Toer
10th Trofeo Laigueglia
2015
1st MaillotSuiza.PNG Road race, National Road Championships
1st Stage 9 (TTT) Tour de France
8th Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race
10th Grand Prix of Aargau Canton
2017
9th Japan Cup
2018
4th Overall Arctic Race of Norway
2020
2nd Road race, National Road Championships

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Grand Tour 20102011201220132014201520162017201820192020
Jersey pink.svg Giro d'Italia 97 126 82 84 84 83 84
Jersey yellow.svg Tour de France 63 81
Jersey red.svg Vuelta a España 72 36 44
Legend
Did not compete
DNF Did not finish

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References

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