Alex Zülle

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Alex Zülle (born July 5, 1968, Wil) is a Swiss road bicycle racer. During the 1990s he was one of the best cyclists in the world.

During his career, Alex Zülle raced for the following teams: ONCE (1991-1997), Festina (1998), Banesto (1999-2000), Coast (2003), Phonak (2003-2004). Although Zülle has an impressive palmarès, his career unfortunately coincided with the one of Miguel Indurain, five times Tour de France winner and of Lance Armstrong, the seven times Tour de France winner, which meant that he never won the Tour de France, but finished this prestigious race twice as second best. Furthermore, Zülle met with success in the Vuelta, Giro d'Italia, Tour de Suisse, Tour de Romandie and other races. Zülle retired in 2004.

It should be noted that in 1998 Zülle was part of the Festina team which got banned from the Tour de France because of serious doping allegations. This known as the Festina Scandal. See Doping at the Tour de France.

Preceded by:
Laurent Jalabert		 Winner of the Vuelta a España
1996, 1997		 Succeeded by:
Abraham Olano


UCI World Time Trial Champions
1994: Chris Boardman - 1995: Miguel Indurain - 1996: Alex Zülle - 1997: Laurent Jalabert
1998: Abraham Olano - 1999: Jan Ullrich - 2000: Serhiy Honchar - 2001: Jan Ullrich (2) - 2002: Santiago Botero
2003: Michael Rogers - 2004: Michael Rogers (2) - 2005: Michael Rogers (3) - 2006: Fabian Cancellara


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