Niki Aebersold

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Niki Aebersold
Personal information
Full nameNiki Aebersold
Born (1972-07-05) 5 July 1972 (age 51)
Freimettigen, Switzerland
Height1.7 m (5 ft 7 in)
Weight58 kg (128 lb)
Team information
Current teamRetired
DisciplineRoad
RoleRider
Professional teams
1996PMU Romand–Bepsa
1997–1998 Post Swiss Team
1999–2000 Rabobank
2001–2003 Team Coast–Buffalo
2003–2005 Phonak
Major wins
One-day races and Classics
Milano–Torino (1998)
National Road Race Championships (1998)

Niki Aebersold (born 5 July 1972 in Freimettigen) is a Swiss former professional road bicycle racer who rode for UCI ProTeam Phonak Hearing Systems from May 2003 to 2005. He was the Swiss National Road Race champion in 1998. [1]

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Major results

1995
1st Stage 5 Regio-Tour
1st Stage 9 Rheinland-Pfalz-Rundfahrt
1997
1st Overall Ostschweizer Rundfahrt
1st Mountains classification
1st Points classification
1st Stages 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5
1st Stausee Rundfahrt
1st Stage 9 Tour de Suisse
2nd Overall GP Tell
1st Stage 1
3rd Road race, National Road Championships
6th Overall Tour de l'Avenir
1998
1st MaillotSuiza.PNG Road race, National Road Championships
1st Milano–Torino
1st Overall OBV Classic
1st Points classification
1st Schynberg Rundfahrt
1st Stages 7 & 9 Tour de Suisse
1st Stage 2 Tour of Austria
5th Road race, UCI Road World Championships
5th Japan Cup
7th Overall À travers Lausanne
1999
2nd Tour de Berne
6th Liège–Bastogne–Liège
7th Overall Tour of the Basque Country
10th Overall Setmana Catalana de Ciclisme
2000
4th Trofeo Melinda
6th Road race, UCI Road World Championships
2001
2nd Milano–Torino
2nd Six Days of Zürich
8th Züri-Metzgete
2002
3rd GP Lugano
8th GP du canton d'Argovie
2003
3rd Road race, National Road Championships
2004
Tour de Suisse
1st Jersey red.svg Mountains classification
1st Stage 6

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Grand Tour 1998199920002001200220032004
Jersey pink.svg Giro d'Italia 68 40
Jersey yellow.svg Tour de France
Jersey gold.svg Vuelta a España 27 20 90 144
Legend
Did not compete
DNF Did not finish

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References

  1. "National Championship, Road, Elite, Switzerland (Men)". Cycling Archives. Retrieved 14 March 2015.