Personal information | |
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Full name | Danilo Wyss |
Born | Orbe, Switzerland | 26 August 1985
Height | 1.76 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in) |
Weight | 65 kg (143 lb) |
Team information | |
Current team | Retired |
Discipline | Road |
Role | Rider |
Rider type | Sprinter 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
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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.
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]
Grand Tour | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 |
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Giro d'Italia | 97 | 126 | 82 | 84 | 84 | — | — | — | — | 83 | 84 |
Tour de France | — | — | — | — | — | 63 | — | 81 | — | — | — |
Vuelta a España | — | — | — | 72 | 36 | — | 44 | — | — | — | — |
— | Did not compete |
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DNF | Did not finish |
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