Pascal Richard

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Medal record
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Olympic Games
Gold 1996 Atlanta Individual road race

Pascal Richard (born March 16, 1964 in Vevey) is a French-speaking Swiss former racing cyclist.

[edit] Biography

In the beginning years 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 stage races, he did his best on mountain stages winning the "King of the Mountains" jersey in the 1994 Giro d'Italia. Also, he won Stage 12 of the 1996 Tour de France and captured the overall titles in the 1994 Tour de Suisse and the 1993 and 1994 Tour de Romandie.

Sporting positions
Preceded by
Klaus-Peter Thaler		 World cyclo-cross champion
1988		 Succeeded by
Danny De Bie
v • d • e
Cycling at the Summer Olympics | Olympic Champions in Men's Individual Road Race
1896: Aristidis Konstantinidis | 1900-1908 | 1912: Rudolph Lewis | 1920: Harry Stenqvist | 1924: Armand Blanchonnet | 1928: Henry Hansen | 1932: Attilio Pavesi | 1936: Robert Charpentier | 1948: José Beyaert | 1952: André Noyelle | 1956: Ercole Baldini | 1960: Viktor Kapitonov | 1964: Mario Zanin | 1968: Pierfranco Vianelli | 1972: Hennie Kuiper | 1976: Bernt Johansson | 1980: Sergei Sukhoruchenkov | 1984: Alexi Grewal | 1988: Olaf Ludwig | 1992: Fabio Casartelli | 1996: Pascal Richard | 2000: Jan Ullrich | 2004: Paolo Bettini


Persondata
NAME Richard, Pascal
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION Racing cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH 1964-03-16
PLACE OF BIRTH Vevey, Switzerland
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH
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