Heiri Suter
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Heinrich 'Heiri' Suter (July 10, 1899 Gränichen – November 6, 1978) was a professional road racing cyclist from Switzerland. In 1923, he became the first of an exclusive group of riders that have won the "monuments" of classic cycle races, Paris-Roubaix and the Ronde van Vlaanderen in the same year.
Suter has 58 professional career wins, which includes becoming a:
- 2-time winner of the Grand Prix Wolber (unofficial world championships) (1922, 1925)
- 5-time national road race champion of Switzerland: (1920, 1921, 1922, 1926, 1929)
- 2-time national middle-distance champion of Switzerland: (1932, 1933)
- 6-time winner of the Züri-Metzgete: (1919, 1920, 1922, 1924, 1928, 1929)
- 2-time winner of Paris-Tours: (1926, 1927)
- Winner of Paris-Roubaix (1923)
- Winner of Ronde van Vlaanderen (1923)
- Winner of Bordeaux-Paris (1925)
[edit] Career accomplishments
- 1919
- 1st - Züri-Metzgete
- 1st - Grand Prix Aurore
- 1st - Tour de Zürich
- 1920
- Switzerland National Road Race Champion
- 1st - Züri-Metzgete
- 1st - Tour du Nord-Ouest
- 1921
- Switzerland National Road Race Champion
- 1st - Grand Prix Aurore
- 1st - Tour de Zürich
- 1st - Tour du Nord-Ouest
- 1st - Genève-Zürich
- 1st - Tour de Suisse Orientale
- 1st - Prix de Génève
- 1922
- 1st - Grand Prix Wolber
- Switzerland National Road Race Champion
- 1st - Züri-Metzgete
- 1st - Tour du Nord-Ouest
- 1st - Circuit de Neuchâtel
- 1st - Circuit de Fribourg
- 1st - Circuit du Vaudois
- 1st - Munich-Zürich
- 1st, 2 stages - Paris-Saint-Etienne
- 1923
- 1st - Ronde van Vlaanderen
- 1st - Paris-Roubaix
- 1st - Tour du Nord-Ouest
- 1st - Zürich-Munich
- 1st - Prix de Génève
- 1924
- 1st - Züri-Metzgete
- 1st - Circuit de Champagne (1st, 2 Stages)
- 1st - Tour du Lac Léman
- 1st - Grand Prix Griffon
- 1st - Zürich-La Chaux-de-Fonds
- 1st, 3 stages - Bordeaux-Marseille
- 1st - Prix de Génève
- 1925
- 1st - Grand Prix Wolber
- 1st - Bordeaux-Paris
- 1st - Circuit de Champagne
- 1st - Circuit du Vaudois
- 1926
- Switzerland National Road Race Champion
- 1st - Paris-Tours
- 1st - Tour de Cologne
- 1st - Circuit de Cologne
- 1st - Tour de Francfort
- 1st - Tour du Württemberg
- 1st - Circuit de la Montagne
- 1st - Grand Prix Yverdon
- 1927
- 1st - Paris-Tours
- 1st - Tour du Lac Léman
- 1st - Grand Prix Yverdon
- 1st - Tour de Francfort
- 1928
- 1st - Züri-Metzgete
- 1929
- Switzerland National Road Race Champion
- 1st - Züri-Metzgete
- 1st - Tour du Nord-Ouest
- 1st - Tour du Lac Léman
- 1st - Circuit Franco-Suisse
- 1929
- 1st - Tour du Lac Léman
- 1932
- Switzerland National Middle-Distance Race Champion
- 1933
- Switzerland National Middle-Distance Race Champion