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Mirjam Gysling (born 2 May 1987) is a Swiss racing cyclist. She was the Swiss National Road Race champion in 2014. [1]
The Swiss National Road Race Championships are held annually. They are a cycling race which decides the Swiss cycling champion in the road racing discipline, across several categories of rider. The event was first held in 1892 and was won by Edouard Wicky. Ferdinand Kübler and Heiri Suter share the record of 5 victories. The current champion is Steve Morabito.
Switzerland competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, United States. 129 competitors, 102 men and 27 women, took part in 91 events in 18 sports.
Oscar Camenzind is a former professional road racing cyclist from Switzerland. He is national road champion of 1997. In 1998 he won the World Road Championship and the Giro di Lombardia, in 2000 he won the Tour de Suisse and he won Liège–Bastogne–Liège in 2001. His career came to an abrupt end when he retired from pro cycling after a positive doping test in July 2004 for erythropoietin, leading into the Athens Olympics. After confessing to the use, "I made the stupidest of mistakes", in 2005 he was sued in Swiss court in order to name his supplier, which he refused to do fearing retribution.
Switzerland competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. 102 competitors, 73 men and 29 women, took part in 80 events in 17 sports.
Mirjam Ott is a retired Swiss curler who lives in Laax, Switzerland. She is the 2012 World Curling Champion skip. She is the skip (captain) of the Swiss Olympic Curling Team. She has participated in several Olympic Games contests and has won numerous awards in many other curling events worldwide.
Jean-Paul van Poppel is a former Dutch racing cyclist, who was nicknamed Popeye.
Rolf Järmann is a retired road bicycle racer from Switzerland, who was a professional rider from 1988 to 1999. He twice won the Amstel Gold Race during his career. He was the Swiss National Road Race champion in 1990. He also won the Tour de Pologne 1997.
Hans Knecht was a Swiss professional road racing cyclist. The highlight of his career was winning the World Cycling Championship in 1946. He was the Swiss National Road Race champion in 1943, 1946 and 1947. He was a professional cyclist from 1939 to 1949.
Team Flexpoint was a women's professional cycling team based in Netherlands and is title sponsored by Flexpoint. The team consists of two sections: UCI Women's Tour and the Cyclo-Cross.
Team Specialized Designs for Women was an elite women's professional road bicycle racing team licensed in Switzerland that competed in national events (NE), UCI-rated events and UCI Women's Road World Cup (WC) events. After operating under various names for seven years, it disbanded at the end of the 2008 season.
Karl Litschi was a Swiss professional road bicycle racer. He was both a cyclo-cross cyclist and a road race cyclist, become Swiss national champion in both disciplines. In the 1939 Tour de France, he won one stage. In the same year he was the Swiss National Road Race champion.
Rolf Graf was a Swiss professional road bicycle racer. Rolf Graf was protected by Swiss cyclist Ferdinand Kübler.
Stefan Mutter is a former professional road bicycle racer from Switzerland. He was the Swiss National Road Race champion in 1981.
Serge Demierre was a Swiss professional road bicycle racer. He competed in the individual road race event at the 1976 Summer Olympics. In 1983, Demierre won the Combativity award and the 4th stage of the 1983 Tour de France. He was the Swiss National Road Race champion in 1983.
Gottfried "Gody" Schmutz is a retired Swiss road racing cyclist. He was professional from 1977 to 1987. He was the Swiss National Road Race champion in 1978, 1980 and 1985.
Doris Schweizer is a Swiss racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's Team Bizkaia–Durango. She was the winner of the Swiss National Road Race Championships in 2013 and 2016 and the Swiss National Time Trial Championships in 2015 and 2016.
Thomas Wegmüller is a former Swiss racing cyclist. He rode in the Tour de France and the Vuelta a España. He was the Swiss National Road Race champion in 1992.
Daniel Schnider is a retired Swiss cyclist. He was the Swiss National Road Race champion in 2003.
Ernst Kaufmann was a Swiss racing cyclist. He was the Swiss National Road Race champion in 1917 and 1918.
Eva Gysling is a Swiss swimmer. She competed at the 1984, 1988 and the 1992 Summer Olympics.
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