Pascal Richard

Pascal Richard
	Richard at the 1998 Paris–Tours
Personal information
Full name	Pascal Richard
Born	16 March 1964 (age 61); Vevey, Switzerland
Team information
Discipline	Cyclo-cross/Road
Role	Rider
Rider type	Climber
Professional teams
1985	Ferraroli–VCF Genève–Denti
1986	Kas
1987	Toshiba–Look
1988–1991	Helvetia–La Suisse
1992	Lotus–Festina
1993	Ariostea
1994–1996	GB-MG Maglificio
1997–1998	Casino
1999	Mobilvetta Design–Northwave
2000	Linda McCartney Foods
Major wins
	Grand Tours Tour de France 2 individual stages (1989, 1996) Giro d'Italia Mountains classification (1994)4 individual stages (1994, 1995, 1996) Stage races Tour de Romandie (1993, 1994) Tour de Suisse (1994) One-day races and Classics World Cyclo-cross Championships (1988) National Road Race Championships (1993) Olympic Road Race (1996) Giro di Lombardia (1993) Liège–Bastogne–Liège (1996)
Medal record
Representing Switzerland
Men's road bicycle racing
Olympic Games
Men's cyclo-cross
World Championships

Last updated October 24, 2025

Pascal Richard (born 16 March 1964) is a Swiss former racing cyclist. He is most notable as a former King of the Mountains winner at the Giro d'Italia and Olympic Games gold medalist. He won the Swiss National Road Race championship in 1989 and 1993.^[1]

Biography

Richard was born in Vevey. At the start of his career, he was a successful cyclo-cross cyclist, becoming world champion in this discipline in 1988. Later on, he switched to road-cycling, and showed a considerable talent for climbing. He won the classics Giro di Lombardia in 1993 and Liège–Bastogne–Liège in 1996. In 1996, he also gained Olympic gold after winning a sprint in a successful three-man breakaway in the men's road race.

He won the "King of the Mountains" jersey in the 1994 Giro d'Italia and Stage 12 of the 1996 Tour de France; he captured the overall titles in the 1994 Tour de Suisse and the 1993 and 1994 Tour de Romandie.

Major results

1985

1st

Overall Grand Prix Guillaume Tell

1st Stage 7b

1986

1st

National Cyclo-cross Championships

1st Stage 5b Vuelta a Asturias

1987

3rd Overall Grand Prix Guillaume Tell

1st Stage 1

1988

1st

UCI World Cyclo-cross Championships

1989

1st

Road race, National Road Championships

1st

National Cyclo-cross Championships

1st Stage 16 Tour de France

6th Grand Prix des Amériques

1990

1st Tre Valli Varesine

2nd Giro di Lombardia

2nd Giro del Veneto

9th Clásica de San Sebastián

1991

1st Trofeo Laigueglia

1st Stage 2 Tirreno–Adriatico

Tour de Romandie

1st Prologue & Stage 6

2nd Overall Tour de Suisse

2nd Tre Valli Varesine

4th Overall Tour Méditerranéen La Méditerranéenne

4th Coppa Bernocchi

1993

1st

Road race, National Road Championships

1st

Overall Tour de Romandie

1st Stage 3

1st Giro di Lombardia

1st Giro del Lazio

1st Giro della Romagna

1st Stage 8 Tour de Suisse

2nd Giro dell'Emilia

4th Overall Tour of the Basque Country

4th Overall Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali

1st Stage 4

4th Grand Prix of Aargau Canton

5th Overall Critérium International

1st Stage 1

8th Giro del Veneto

1994

1st

Overall Tour de Suisse

1st Stage 3

1st

Overall Tour de Romandie

1st Stages 3 & 5 (ITT)

Giro d'Italia

1st

Mountains classification

1st Stage 21

1st Grand Prix of Aargau Canton

1st Tour du Lac Léman

2nd Giro di Toscana

2nd Tour de Berne

3rd Giro di Lombardia

4th Trofeo Pantalica

5th Milano–Torino

7th Overall Paris–Nice

1st Stage 5

7th Züri-Metzgete

1995

Giro d'Italia

1st Stages 13 & 19

1st Giro del Lazio

1st Giro della Provincia di Reggio Calabria

1st Grand Prix of Aargau Canton

1st Trofeo Melinda

1st Stage 7 Paris–Nice

5th Road race, UCI Road World Championships

8th Giro di Lombardia

1996

1st

Road race, Olympic Games

1st Liège–Bastogne–Liège

1st Stage 12 Tour de France

1st Stage 14 Giro d'Italia

2nd Klasika Primavera

6th Tour de Berne

1998

3rd Overall À travers Lausanne

5th Giro di Lombardia

8th Coppa Ugo Agostoni

10th Giro del Trentino

1st Stage 4

1999

1st Criterium d'Abruzzo

1st Stage 1 Tour de Suisse

5th Overall Giro della Provincia di Lucca

6th Tour de Berne

7th Coppa Sabatini

2000

4th Overall Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Grand Tour	1988	1989	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000
Giro d'Italia	—	—	—	—	56	—	15	13	DNF	—	DNF	55	DNF
Tour de France	DNF	23	DNF	49	DNF	—	—	—	47	—	—	—	—
Vuelta a España	—	—	—	—	DNF	—	—	—	—	34	—	—	—

Legend
—	Did not compete
DNF	Did not finish

References

↑ "National Championship, Road, Elite, Switzerland (Men)". Cycling Archives. Archived from the original on 10 March 2015. Retrieved 14 March 2015.

External links

Pascal Richard at Cycling Archives

Pascal Richard at ProCyclingStats

Pascal Richard at CycleBase

Pascal Richard at Olympedia

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[SwissChamp-1] "National Championship, Road, Elite, Switzerland (Men)". Cycling Archives. Archived from the original on 10 March 2015. Retrieved 14 March 2015.

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v t e UCI Cyclo-cross World Champions – Men's elite race
1950–1959	1950: Jean Robic (FRA) 1951: Roger Rondeaux (FRA) 1952: Roger Rondeaux (FRA) 1953: Roger Rondeaux (FRA) 1954: André Dufraisse (FRA) 1955: André Dufraisse (FRA) 1956: André Dufraisse (FRA) 1957: André Dufraisse (FRA) 1958: André Dufraisse (FRA) 1959: Renato Longo (ITA)
1960–1979	1960: Rolf Wolfshohl (GER) 1961: Rolf Wolfshohl (GER) 1962: Renato Longo (ITA) 1963: Rolf Wolfshohl (GER) 1964: Renato Longo (ITA) 1965: Renato Longo (ITA) 1966: Erik De Vlaeminck (BEL) 1967: Renato Longo (ITA) 1968: Erik De Vlaeminck (BEL) 1969: Erik De Vlaeminck (BEL) 1970: Erik De Vlaeminck (BEL) 1971: Erik De Vlaeminck (BEL) 1972: Erik De Vlaeminck (BEL) 1973: Erik De Vlaeminck (BEL) 1974: Albert Van Damme (BEL) 1975: Roger De Vlaeminck (BEL) 1976: Albert Zweifel (SUI) 1977: Albert Zweifel (SUI) 1978: Albert Zweifel (SUI) 1979: Albert Zweifel (SUI)
1980–1999	1980: Roland Liboton (BEL) 1981: Hennie Stamsnijder (NED) 1982: Roland Liboton (BEL) 1983: Roland Liboton (BEL) 1984: Roland Liboton (BEL) 1985: Klaus-Peter Thaler (GER) 1986: Albert Zweifel (SUI) 1987: Klaus-Peter Thaler (GER) 1988: Pascal Richard (SUI) 1989: Danny De Bie (BEL) 1990: Henk Baars (NED) 1991: Radomír Šimůnek (CZE) 1992: Mike Kluge (GER) 1993: Dominique Arnould (FRA) 1994: Paul Herygers (BEL) 1995: Dieter Runkel (SUI) 1996: Adri van der Poel (NED) 1997: Daniele Pontoni (ITA) 1998: Mario De Clercq (BEL) 1999: Mario De Clercq (BEL)
2000–2019	2000: Richard Groenendaal (NED) 2001: Erwin Vervecken (BEL) 2002: Mario De Clercq (BEL) 2003: Bart Wellens (BEL) 2004: Bart Wellens (BEL) 2005: Sven Nys (BEL) 2006: Erwin Vervecken (BEL) 2007: Erwin Vervecken (BEL) 2008: Lars Boom (NED) 2009: Niels Albert (BEL) 2010: Zdeněk Štybar (CZE) 2011: Zdeněk Štybar (CZE) 2012: Niels Albert (BEL) 2013: Sven Nys (BEL) 2014: Zdeněk Štybar (CZE) 2015: Mathieu van der Poel (NED) 2016: Wout van Aert (BEL) 2017: Wout van Aert (BEL) 2018: Wout van Aert (BEL) 2019: Mathieu van der Poel (NED)
2020–2039	2020: Mathieu van der Poel (NED) 2021: Mathieu van der Poel (NED) 2022: Tom Pidcock (GBR) 2023: Mathieu van der Poel (NED) 2024: Mathieu van der Poel (NED) 2025: Mathieu van der Poel (NED)

v t e Swiss National Road Race Champions (men)
1880–1899	Edouard Wicky (1892–1893) Henri Favre (1894–1895) Jean Viarret (1896–1897) Albert Furrer (1898) Fritz Ryser (1899)
1900–1919	Charles Lugon (1900) Ernst Dubach (1902) Alexandre Castellino (1904) Henri Rheinwald (1908) Charles Guyot (1909–1910) Marcel Perrière / Robert Chopard (1911) Henri Rheinwald (1912) Otto Wiedmer (1913) Oscar Egg (1914) Marcel Perrière (1915–1916) Ernst Kaufmann (1917–1918) Henri Rheinwald (1919)
1920–1939	Heiri Suter (1920–1922) Henri Guillod (1923) Kastor Notter (1924–1925) Heiri Suter (1926) Kastor Notter (1927) Albert Blattmann (1928) Heiri Suter (1929) Georges Antenen (1930) Albert Büchi (1931) August Erne (1932) Georges Antenen (1933) Hans Gilgen (1934) Paul Egli (1935–1936) Leo Amberg (1937–1938) Karl Litschi (1939)
1940–1959	Edgar Buchwalder (1940) Karl Litschi (1941) Edgar Buchwalder (1942) Hans Knecht (1943) Ernst Näf (1944) Ernst Wüthrich (1945) Hans Knecht (1946–1947) Ferdinand Kübler (1948–1951) Gottfried Weilenmann (1952) Fritz Schär (1953) Ferdinand Kübler (1954) Hugo Koblet (1955) Rolf Graf (1956) Hans Hollenstein (1957) Jean-Claude Grèt (1958) Rolf Graf (1959)
1960–1979	René Strehler (1960) Ernst Fuchs (1961) Rolf Graf (1962) Attilio Moresi (1963) Rudolf Hauser (1964) Robert Hagmann (1965) Paul Zollinger (1966) Alfred Rüegg (1967) Karl Brand (1968) Bernard Vifian (1969) Kurt Rub (1970) Louis Pfenninger (1971) Josef Fuchs (1972–1973) Roland Salm (1974–1977) Gottfried Schmutz (1978) Hansjörg Aemisegger (1979)
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)
2000–2019	Markus Zberg (2000) Martin Elmiger (2001) Alexandre Moos (2002) Daniel Schnider (2003) Grégory Rast (2004) Martin Elmiger (2005) Grégory Rast (2006) Beat Zberg (2007) Markus Zberg (2008) Fabian Cancellara (2009) Martin Elmiger (2010) Fabian Cancellara (2011) Martin Kohler (2012) Michael Schär (2013) Martin Elmiger (2014) Danilo Wyss (2015) Jonathan Fumeaux (2016) Silvan Dillier (2017) Steve Morabito (2018) Sébastien Reichenbach (2019)
2020–2039	Stefan Küng (2020) Silvan Dillier (2021) Robin Froidevaux (2022) Marc Hirschi (2023) Mauro Schmid (2024–2025)

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National	United States France BnF data
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